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Barbara Campbell was walking through a New York City subway station during rush hour when her world abruptly went dark. For four years, Campbell had been using a high-tech implant in her left eye that gave her a crude kind of bionic vision, partially compensating for the genetic disease that had rendered her completely blind in her 30s. “I remember exactly where I was: I was switching from the 6 train to the F train,” Campbell tells IEEE Spectrum. “I was about to go down the stairs, and all of a sudden I heard a little ‘beep, beep, beep’ sound.”

It wasn’t her phone battery running out. It was her Argus II retinal implant system powering down. The patches of light and dark that she’d been able to see with the implant’s help vanished...

The procession moved towards the Ministry of Justice where they then blocked the road for 90 minutes of silence while posters were held up, displaying images of activists who are currently imprisoned. A choir then sang as they marched towards a green where names of political prisoners were read out.

For more info:

• Press release
• Coverage by The Canary (Lefty worker's co-op news outlet)

NBC Politics: "I believe we should follow the law," Kamala Harris says when asked by Hallie Jackson if transgender Americans should have access to gender-affirming care.

I thought y'all were sacrificing millions of Palestinians and migrants and Black people for harm reduction, but your queen won't even commit to the god damn harm reduction.

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/45711203

cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/45710153

https://archive.is/AHetj

An annual assessment by the world body tracks the gulf between what countries have vowed to do and what they’ve actually achieved.

The (paywalled) paper is here

Just Stop Oil cofounder Roger Hallam spoke with Salon about overcoming climate despair and taking action

Americans who want to stop this — there are three things you can do:

• vote
• volunteer
• donate

And yes, Project 2025 is put together by the people around Trump

Cross-posted from "US power grid added battery equivalent of 20 nuclear reactors in past four years" by @MicroWave@lemmy.world in !news@lemmy.world

Pace of growth helps maintain renewable energy when weather conditions interfere with wind and solar

Faced with worsening climate-driven disasters and an electricity grid increasingly supplied by intermittent renewables, the US is rapidly installing huge batteries that are already starting to help prevent power blackouts.

From barely anything just a few years ago, the US is now adding utility-scale batteries at a dizzying pace, having installed more than 20 gigawatts of battery capacity to the electric grid, with 5GW of this occurring just in the first seven months of this year, according to the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA).

This means that battery storage equivalent to the output of 20 nuclear reactors has been bolted on to America’s electric grids in barely four years, with the EIA predicting this capacity could double again to 40GW by 2025 if further planned expansions occur.

I bought a few bulbs two weeks ago and planted most of them into LECA (indoors) or soil (on my balcony), but also one into a Kratky pot.

I don't think I can harvest this year yet, but we'll see.

In this one also grows garlic and strawberries. It's meant to hibernate this winter, and then in the early spring, I'll place it outside.

I have been contemplating to set up a small vertical hydroponic system, but I am struggling a bit to come up with plants I would actually like to eat that would fit well.

Stuff like tomatoes or pepper just seems to grow way too big to function well in a typical vertical setup, and I am not a big fan of leafy salads to eat.

I found a nice small cabbage (Japanese Tatsoi), which is quite ok, but other suggestions would be welcome.

secret powder formula claims to be an air capture breakthrough.

Accelerating significantly this year. If EVs take off in US, it is yet another massive source of battery support for grid, that can drastically reduce net cost of EV.

Images and details of the discovery were published in Nature. Not open access.

Archived copies of the article:

• archive.today
• ghostarchive.org