Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
Thomas Hawk posted a photo:
date stamped on slide January 17, 1987 "Florence in Kitchen after Kinne's left -- Pomona"
Al ruim drie jaar geleden werd het aangekondigd, maar nu is de verkoop van een nieuw appartementencomplex in het centrum van Zwijndrecht eindelijk van start. De 51 appartementen in nieuwbouwproject 'Blooming' worden speciaal gemaakt voor senioren. En er blijkt genoeg interesse: al meer dan achthonderd mensen hebben zich aangemeld.
New England's last coal-fired power plant "has ceased operations three years ahead of its planned retirement date," reports the New Hampshire Bulletin.
"The closure of the New Hampshire facility paves the way for its owner to press ahead with an initiative to transform the site into a clean energy complex including solar panels and battery storage systems."
"The end of coal is real, and it is here," said Catherine Corkery, chapter director for Sierra Club New Hampshire. "We're really excited about the next chapter...." The closure in New Hampshire — so far undisputed by the federal government — demonstrates that prolonging operations at some facilities just doesn't make economic sense for their owners. "Coal has been incredibly challenged in the New England market for over adecade," said Dan Dolan, president of the New England Power Generators Association.
Merrimack Station, a 438-megawatt power plant, came online in the1960s and provided baseload power to the New England region for decades. Gradually, though, natural gas — which is cheaper and more efficient — took over the regional market... Additionally, solar power production accelerated from 2010 on, lowering demand on the grid during the day and creating more evening peaks. Coal plants take longer to ramp up production than other sources, and are therefore less economical for these shorter bursts of demand, Dolan said. In recent years, Merrimack operated only a few weeks annually. In 2024, the plant generated just0.22% of the region's electricity. It wasn't making enough money to justify continued operations, observers said.
The closure "is emblematic of the transition that has been occurring in the generation fleet in New England for many years," Dolan said. "The combination of all those factors has meant that coal facilities are no longer economic in this market."
Meanwhile Los Angeles — America's second-largest city — confirmed that the last coal-fired power plant supplying its electricity stopped operations just before Thanksgiving,
reports the Utah News Dispatch:
Advocates from the Sierra Club highlighted in a news release that shutting down the units had no impact on customers, and questioned who should "shoulder the cost of keeping an obsolete coal facility on standby...." Before ceasing operations, the coal units had been working at low capacities for several years because the agency's users hadn't been calling on the power [said John Ward, spokesperson for Intermountain Power Agency].
The coal-powered units "had a combined capacity of around 1,800 megawatts when fully operational," notes Electrek, "and as recently as 2024, they still supplied around 11% of LA's electricity. The plant sits in Utah's Great Basin region and powered Southern California for decades." Now, for the first time, none of California's power comes from coal.
There's a political hiccup with IPP, though: the Republican-controlled Utah Legislature blocked the Intermountain Power Agency from fully retiring the coal units this year, ordering that they can't be disconnected or decommissioned. But despite that mandate, no buyers have stepped forward to keep the outdated coal units online. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is transitioning to newly built, hydrogen-capable generating units at the same IPP location, part of a modernization effort called IPP Renewed. These new units currently run on natural gas, but they're designed to burn a blend of natural gas and up to 30% green hydrogen, and eventually100% green hydrogen. LADWP plans to start adding green hydrogen to the fuel mix in 2026.
"With the plant now idled but legally required to remain connected, serious questions remain about who will shoulder the cost of keeping an obsolete coal facility on standby," says the Sierra Club.
One of the natural gas units started commerical operations last Octoboer, with the second starting later this month, IPP spokesperson John Ward told Agency].
the Utah News Dispatch.
"The closure of the New Hampshire facility paves the way for its owner to press ahead with an initiative to transform the site into a clean energy complex including solar panels and battery storage systems."
"The end of coal is real, and it is here," said Catherine Corkery, chapter director for Sierra Club New Hampshire. "We're really excited about the next chapter...." The closure in New Hampshire — so far undisputed by the federal government — demonstrates that prolonging operations at some facilities just doesn't make economic sense for their owners. "Coal has been incredibly challenged in the New England market for over adecade," said Dan Dolan, president of the New England Power Generators Association.
Merrimack Station, a 438-megawatt power plant, came online in the1960s and provided baseload power to the New England region for decades. Gradually, though, natural gas — which is cheaper and more efficient — took over the regional market... Additionally, solar power production accelerated from 2010 on, lowering demand on the grid during the day and creating more evening peaks. Coal plants take longer to ramp up production than other sources, and are therefore less economical for these shorter bursts of demand, Dolan said. In recent years, Merrimack operated only a few weeks annually. In 2024, the plant generated just0.22% of the region's electricity. It wasn't making enough money to justify continued operations, observers said.
The closure "is emblematic of the transition that has been occurring in the generation fleet in New England for many years," Dolan said. "The combination of all those factors has meant that coal facilities are no longer economic in this market."
Meanwhile Los Angeles — America's second-largest city — confirmed that the last coal-fired power plant supplying its electricity stopped operations just before Thanksgiving,
reports the Utah News Dispatch:
Advocates from the Sierra Club highlighted in a news release that shutting down the units had no impact on customers, and questioned who should "shoulder the cost of keeping an obsolete coal facility on standby...." Before ceasing operations, the coal units had been working at low capacities for several years because the agency's users hadn't been calling on the power [said John Ward, spokesperson for Intermountain Power Agency].
The coal-powered units "had a combined capacity of around 1,800 megawatts when fully operational," notes Electrek, "and as recently as 2024, they still supplied around 11% of LA's electricity. The plant sits in Utah's Great Basin region and powered Southern California for decades." Now, for the first time, none of California's power comes from coal.
There's a political hiccup with IPP, though: the Republican-controlled Utah Legislature blocked the Intermountain Power Agency from fully retiring the coal units this year, ordering that they can't be disconnected or decommissioned. But despite that mandate, no buyers have stepped forward to keep the outdated coal units online. The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is transitioning to newly built, hydrogen-capable generating units at the same IPP location, part of a modernization effort called IPP Renewed. These new units currently run on natural gas, but they're designed to burn a blend of natural gas and up to 30% green hydrogen, and eventually100% green hydrogen. LADWP plans to start adding green hydrogen to the fuel mix in 2026.
"With the plant now idled but legally required to remain connected, serious questions remain about who will shoulder the cost of keeping an obsolete coal facility on standby," says the Sierra Club.
One of the natural gas units started commerical operations last Octoboer, with the second starting later this month, IPP spokesperson John Ward told Agency].
the Utah News Dispatch.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols files this report from Tokyo:
At the invitation-only Linux
Kernel Maintainers Summit here, the top Linux maintainers decided, as Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer, put it, "The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust
in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part
of the kernel and is here to stay. So the 'experimental' tag
will be coming off." As Linux kernel maintainer Steven Rosted told
me, "There was zero pushback."
This has been a long time coming. This shift caps five years of
sometimes-fierce debate over whether the memory-safe language belonged alongside C at the heart of the world's most widely deployed open source operating system... It all began when Alex
Gaynor and Geoffrey
Thomas at the 2019 Linux Security Summit said that about
two-thirds of Linux kernel vulnerabilities come from memory safety
issues. Rust, in theory, could avoid these by using Rust's
inherently safer application programming interfaces (API)... In those early days, the plan was not to rewrite Linux in Rust; it still isn't, but to adopt it selectively where it can provide the
most security benefit without destabilizing mature C code. In short,
new drivers, subsystems, and helper libraries would be the first
targets...
Despite the fuss, more and more programs were ported to Rust. By
April 2025, the Linux kernel contained about 34 million lines of C
code, with only 25 thousand lines written in Rust. At the same time,
more and more drivers and higher-level utilities were being written
in Rust. For instance, the Debian Linux distro developers announced
that going forward, Rust
would be a required dependency in its foundational
Advanced Package Tool (APT).
This change doesn't mean everyone will need to use Rust. C is
not going anywhere. Still, as several maintainers told me, they
expect to see many more drivers being written in Rust. In particular,
Rust looks especially attractive for "leaf" drivers (network,
storage, NVMe, etc.), where the Rust-for-Linux
bindings expose safe wrappers over kernel C APIs. Nevertheless, for would-be kernel and systems programmers, Rust's
new status in Linux hints at a career path that blends deep
understanding of C with fluency in Rust's safety guarantees. This
combination may define the next generation of low-level development
work.
At the invitation-only Linux
Kernel Maintainers Summit here, the top Linux maintainers decided, as Jonathan Corbet, Linux kernel developer, put it, "The consensus among the assembled developers is that Rust
in the kernel is no longer experimental — it is now a core part
of the kernel and is here to stay. So the 'experimental' tag
will be coming off." As Linux kernel maintainer Steven Rosted told
me, "There was zero pushback."
This has been a long time coming. This shift caps five years of
sometimes-fierce debate over whether the memory-safe language belonged alongside C at the heart of the world's most widely deployed open source operating system... It all began when Alex
Gaynor and Geoffrey
Thomas at the 2019 Linux Security Summit said that about
two-thirds of Linux kernel vulnerabilities come from memory safety
issues. Rust, in theory, could avoid these by using Rust's
inherently safer application programming interfaces (API)... In those early days, the plan was not to rewrite Linux in Rust; it still isn't, but to adopt it selectively where it can provide the
most security benefit without destabilizing mature C code. In short,
new drivers, subsystems, and helper libraries would be the first
targets...
Despite the fuss, more and more programs were ported to Rust. By
April 2025, the Linux kernel contained about 34 million lines of C
code, with only 25 thousand lines written in Rust. At the same time,
more and more drivers and higher-level utilities were being written
in Rust. For instance, the Debian Linux distro developers announced
that going forward, Rust
would be a required dependency in its foundational
Advanced Package Tool (APT).
This change doesn't mean everyone will need to use Rust. C is
not going anywhere. Still, as several maintainers told me, they
expect to see many more drivers being written in Rust. In particular,
Rust looks especially attractive for "leaf" drivers (network,
storage, NVMe, etc.), where the Rust-for-Linux
bindings expose safe wrappers over kernel C APIs. Nevertheless, for would-be kernel and systems programmers, Rust's
new status in Linux hints at a career path that blends deep
understanding of C with fluency in Rust's safety guarantees. This
combination may define the next generation of low-level development
work.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
Kanter Breuker is beneamd as boargemaster fan de gemeente Tytsjerksteradiel. De beneaming giet yn op 14 jannewaris 2026.
Als u vandaag één boomerpiece moet lezen over kerstbomen dan is het dit stukje van Hans Nijenhuis, toch een beetje de Arie Boomsma onder de verslaggevers. Hans Nijenhuis was vroeger een echte ster - de fijnspar op kluit onder de AD-journalisten - maar nu is hij meer een afgezaagde Nordmann. Dus Hans Nijenhuis in zijn verhaal voor dennengeur (krijgt hij opdracht van Rennie Deflatine, of bepaalt hij gewoon zelf?) op zoek naar een of andere Belg die daar iets over kan zeggen - blijkt die Belg ziek, dus moet Hans het maar overschrijven uit z'n Belgische broederkrantjes. Roept die Belgische bomenbobo ook nog iets wat volgens een Nederlandse kweker niet waar is (intensieve bemesting zou slecht zijn voor kerstbomen) en dan komt Hans tot de conclusie dat de huidige woonkamerbikkel, de Nordmann, 'de Arie Boomsma onder de bomen is'. Want: "Zijn naalden vallen niét uit, en ze zijn nog zachter ook." Precies waar wij aan dachten toen de koppeling met Arie Boomsma werd gemaakt! Wij zijn even onze HQ-Nordmann in de vaart pleuren om te zien of het ding ook zo pathetisch kan drijven als Arie Boomsma. En misschien springen we er zelf wel achteraan.
DE BILT (ANP) - In het zuidoosten kan het zaterdagavond en in de nacht naar zondag plaatselijk erg mistig zijn. Het KNMI heeft voor de provincies Overijssel, Gelderland, Noord-Brabant en Limburg code geel afgegeven in verband met de dichte mist. Volgens het weerinstituut kan het verkeer daar last van hebben. Op sommige plekken is het zicht minder dan 200 meter.
WASHINGTON (ANP/RTR) - Een strijder van de radicaalislamitische beweging Islamitische Staat (IS) heeft in Syrië twee Amerikaanse militairen doodgeschoten. Ook een Amerikaanse burgertolk kwam om het leven, aldus het Amerikaanse ministerie van Oorlog. Drie personen raakten gewond bij de aanval in Palmyra, meldt het Pentagon verder.
De aanvaller werd doodgeschoten. De slachtoffers waren betrokken bij de internationale operatie tegen IS en andere antiterrorismeoperaties in de regio. De namen van de soldaten worden 24 uur na de kennisgeving aan de nabestaanden bekendgemaakt.
AMSTERDAM (ANP) - Het Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is zaterdag aan het einde van de middag tijdelijk ontruimd. Volgens een woordvoerster van de veiligheidsregio hadden bezoekers last van een "onprettige, stinkende lucht".
De stank ontstond kort na afloop van een voorstelling in het gebouw. Enkele honderden bezoekers waren op dat moment al onderweg naar de uitgang. "Omdat mensen zich onprettig voelden en misselijk werden door de geur, is toen besloten het gebouw verder te ontruimen", zegt de woordvoerster. Verschillende hulpdiensten kwamen ter plaatse. De brandweer is aanwezig om het gebouw te ventileren en om metingen te doen.
Volgens de woordvoerster is onbekend wat de stank veroorzaakte, maar het zou niet om een gevaarlijke stof gaan.
Een Indiase ondernemer had een driedaagse tour van topvoetballer Lionel Messi door India georganiseerd. Een wel héél kort stadionbezoek maakte fans woedend. „We hadden een kaartje van 12.000 roepies, maar we konden hem niet eens zien.”
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