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Renewable vs. non-renewable power generation across the region (updated every 30 minutes)
Renewables includes biomass(6.4%), nuclear(44.4%), solar(0%) and wind(24.9%). Excludes imports
Living With The Machine: Why I Find AI Both Useful And Unsettling
Artificial intelligence has slipped into my life with remarkable speed. A few years ago not many people had heard of it and those that had viewed it as science fiction. Now it helps draft emails, summarise documents, translate languages, edit images and navigate cities. It assists doctors, farmers and scientists, and it assists me too.
NASA Picture of the Day: Jupiter from the Webb Space Telescope
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This infrared view of Jupiter by Webb is illuminating. High-resolution infrared images of Jupiter from the James Webb Space Telescope (Webb) reveal, for example, differences between high-floating bright clouds -- including the Great Red Spot -- and low-lying dark clouds. Also clearly visible in the featured Webb image are Jupiter's dust ring, bright auroras at the poles, and Jupiter's moons Amalthea and Adrastea. The footprint of large volcanic moon Io's magnetic funneling of charged particles onto Jupiter is also visible in the southern aurora.
Asteroid Flybys Over the next 7 Days
NameDateMin Dia. (m)Max Dia. (m)Rel. Velocity (mph)Miss Distance (miles)
(2018 UY)20th Jan19042622,98425,626,295
509352 (2007 AG)22nd Jan24655224,20611,510,037
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