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Renewable vs. non-renewable power generation across the region (updated every 30 minutes)
Renewables includes biomass(7.7%), nuclear(32.5%), solar(0%) and wind(24.9%). Excludes imports
Possible Science And Technology Breakthroughs In 2025
2024 has been a tumultuous year for developments in Science and Technology across a multitude of different disciplines. Next year looks certain to continue the explosion with huge breakthroughs poised to hit the mainstream in space research, quantum computing and the much-discussed and, I think, under-hyped area of Artificial Intelligence.
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NASA Picture of the Day: IC 2574: Coddington's Nebula
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Grand spiral galaxies often seem to get all the glory, flaunting their young, bright, blue star clusters in beautiful, symmetric spiral arms. But small, irregular galaxies form stars too. In fact dwarf galaxy IC 2574 shows clear evidence of intense star forming activity in its telltale reddish regions of glowing hydrogen gas. Just as in spiral galaxies, the turbulent star-forming regions in IC 2574 are churned by stellar winds and supernova explosions spewing material into the galaxy's interstellar medium and triggering further star formation.
Asteroid Flybys Over the next 7 Days
NameDateMin Dia. (m)Max Dia. (m)Rel. Velocity (mph)Miss Distance (miles)
(2024 YU4)7th Feb42595165,1876,977,878
(2003 GG21)12th Feb10723937,33131,463,304
(2015 DB1)13th Feb11225141,69839,192,503
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