Energy shocks like the one currently affecting the global economy used to reinforce fossil fuels. Not anymore. This isn’t a temporary shift. It’s a system replacement.

In this interview, Ember Energy’s Daan Walter explains why the shift from combustion to electrification is structural—not cyclical—and why every crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and today’s geopolitical tensions, is accelerating that transition.

We explore how electric technologies like EVs, heat pumps, and renewables are becoming the default response to energy insecurity, why efficiency and economics are driving permanent change, and how global competition—especially with China—is reshaping the energy system.

BAIC has just revealed a sodium-ion battery with an energy density of around 170 Wh/kg — and that’s starting to get uncomfortably close to lithium-based batteries like LFP.

For a long time, sodium was seen as the cheaper, lower-performance alternative. But now we’re seeing real progress. Higher energy density, better cold-weather performance, and potentially much lower cost.

So what does this actually mean in the real world?

Can anyone tell me if "emenger" is safe to use? It's making the rounds as a way to contact loved ones in Iran.

It doesn't require personal info to sign up, but I think the messages are completely open to whoever is providing the service.

There are a few sussy things here, like the Icelandic domain name service.

But the non-Iranian servers are in Georgia. They then bridge the gap over to Iran.

What can we glean from this? US network graph operation?

Parsed domain name: emenger.net Domain name extension: .net Estimated domain age: 55 day(s) Contact email: 09d1bdcd071549a09679c33c537a0897.protect@withheldforprivacy.com Created date: January 30, 2026 16:51:59 UTC Updated date: December 31, 0001 23:59:52 UTC Expires date: January 30, 2027 16:51:59 UTC Registrar name: NAMECHEAP INC Registrar Internet Assigned Numbers Authority ID: 1068 Domain EPP status codes by ICANN list: clientTransferProhibited addPeriod Domain's registrant Name: Redacted for Privacy Organization: Privacy service provided by Withheld for Privacy ehf Street: Kalkofnsvegur 2 City: Reykjavik State: Capital Region Postal Code: 101 Country: ICELAND Country code: IS Email: 09d1bdcd071549a09679c33c537a0897.protect@withheldforprivacy.com Telephone: 3544212434

Ignoring the anti-GPL nature of Rust rewrites, it seems that it has been foolish to roll out rust-coreutils wholesale instead of perhaps an option to be selected while installing from the live image, which would almost certainly have lead to enthusiasts testing these utilities; and after enough data had been collected could then have been put in the main branch.

This bug report is old so it should have been fixed by now, but I wanted to commentate on rust-coreutils.

Hopefully a sign the bubble is bursting

Naturally I expect it to still be used as propaganda generation since it will likely be government-only tech now.

But also, lol, lmao even. Get fucked. Hope you like the

https://x.com/CNSpaceflight/status/1993158707056984359

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/8058924

https://www.reddit.com/r/NewsWithJingjing/comments/1s3ffye/china_unveils_atlas_drone_swarm_operations_system/