#there are my creds lol

[dreadfutures]

So I saw this on my dash and I had to dig a few articles deep to actually get an explanation of what’s going on.** Solar energy generation, storage, and conversion is something I’ve been studying since about 2015 as a researcher, so I’m always really curious what’s actually new about these articles.

Since even before my time, our field has been pretty adamant that the most important problem we face to a green energy future is how do we store our green energy. We can make tons of it! In fact, TOO MUCH for us to use. We just have no way of storing and delivering it once we’ve made it. People have been working on batteries (solid-state, redox flow...), chemical energy storage (use sunlight to make a chemical reaction that produces a fuel like hydrogen gas, petroleum, methane...), and many other ways to store solar energy for decades and decades.

Besides the fact this is just like, what I do for a job and enjoy thinking about it, figuring out what actual tech is being lauded as Good News was important to me. I (and you) need to know whether this is revolutionary phenomenal more hope for the future kind of good news, or if it was oh hey, this thing we’ve been working on for 20-30 years is finally reaching an almost-market-ready stage (and TLDR: it’s the latter).

So what makes this one newsworthy?

The device developed at Chalmers* is a form of chemical energy storage. Instead of making a fuel to use and burn, the chemical they shine light on purely stores energy, and releases energy. They have recently managed to package it into a neat little chip that takes sunlight, stores it, and then on-demand returns it as electricity that we can use.

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The chemical they’ve used on this chip can exist in two differently shaped forms. And it can change between those forms with a little bit of energy. The researchers determined that the energy requirements for that transformation is small enough that sunlight can perform it.

So they shine light on one form of the molecule and it turns into the other; it takes the solar energy and “stores” it by resting in that new shape. It’s happy to sit there until they tell it to go back.

When it goes back, it “returns” the initial energy by giving away heat.

They’ve been able to turn heat into electricity somewhat efficiently.

The limitations of this kind of device are:

How much energy you can store is dependent on how many molecules you have on your chip (or in your tub, if you’re doing it in liquid form).

How efficiently you can turn that heat into electricity is a developing technology and they have room to go.

This specific set up requires an *additional chemical*, a catalyst (unsung heroes in most of the press) to help turn the transformed molecule BACK into its original form, the important step to deliver energy back to us! Cobalt(II) phthalocyanine is a known catalyst for these kinds of things and has its own drawbacks.

Doing this in liquid form currently requires organic solvents (in everything in life, we want to use water instead of organic solvents, if possible).

What % of the sun’s light is actually DOING this transformation limits how many of your molecules are actually going to change their shape.While yes, these chemicals do perform this transformation under solar light, specifically they require UV-light. There’s not *actually* a lot of UV light *in* sunlight; ideally, you’d want something that works in visible light (about 40% of sunlight is visible; about 5% is UV). (This is also a major limitation of many other solar technologies.)

Why am I explaining all of this?

I think it’s important for non scientists, particularly those who care about the climate crisis, to have this context. This technology is not a one-off moonshot; this technology is not our best hope; this technology is not the Answer to all our problems; this technology is not unique. The concept itself is also not new. It is not even “in its early stages” as far as research goes. This is a fairly well-developed device and system they are publicizing. It IS in its early stages of implementation.

This is the pace of science. And that should actually give you hope.

It means that for every one individual piece of news you hear like this, there are hundreds of different technologies also being developed, also being worked on, also close to implementation, too. People have been working on these problems, caring about these problems, UNDERSTANDING these problems, for decades even before the public ever caught up. There is progress being made and hope to be had, and nihilism about the climate, about whether The Big Feds and Corporations Are Paying Attention, is both inaccurate and counterproductive.

It IS exciting that this one is working to the degree it is. It IS going to be a useful tool in adapting to our energy needs and making a green future possible. And to me, as someone who’s been watching this field, it’s really exciting and satisfying to know that hey, all this hard work we’ve done uncovering the different pieces of this puzzle..? we’re starting to actually PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER in a functioning way now.

Sometimes even as a scientist, even as someone who understands the pace of research, it can be hard to feel like there’s ever going to be the point where things start working. We’ve been pursuing photoisomerization as energy storage for ages and ages, but it’s never been efficient enough, or we’ve never had a way to release the energy once it’s been stored, or all these other problems. But we’re finally at a point where grit, determination, persistence, and hope, have gotten us through the worst of those issues and gotten some solid footing. And that’s really exciting

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*(woo, Gothenberg, they are a hub of green energy development and a bunch of my friends work there. some of them have even worked on related projects as visiting researchers over the years)

**You know what’s really personally annoying about this blurb on tumblr and the euronews article itself??? I had no clue from either of them that I HAVE ACTUALLY REPORTED ON THIS, PROFESSIONALLY. They didn’t link back to a Chalmers press release, or to the researcher’s group websites, or to the papers, in an obvious or accessible way. One of the scripts I worked on last month was literally about this paper and I had to help one of our writers explain what photoisomerization is and thermal electricity generation. It took way too much digging to realize that.

I should have been able to understand from reading this blurb and especially from reading the press release what this actual development WAS.

Good popular-science / general public articles should convey to both non scientists and scientists what the actual technology/research finding is, from the get-go. Anyway, that’s a pet peeve of mine with science communication and with these “hopey fluffy happy science” blogfeeds. You can do better, without descending into the nitty gritty like I did in this longform tumblr post. (And we did, for our show.)

#full shade #the press release that was linked on my dash sucks #basic scicomm principles cmonnnn #climate change #green energy #personal #long post #i am a phd chemist researching photocatalysts #i have worked for esteemed science journalism outlets #i have a chemical engineering and materials science and nanotechnology background #there are my creds lol

[lesbianangeldust]

Husk: *puts cards on the table* Two pair. What you got, legs?

Angel: *slams cards down* Ha! Triple Queens! I win, asshole!

Husk: *squinting at the cards* Angel, that's only two Queens. I beat ya.

Angel: Nah, look! *points with exaggeration at each card* One... Two... and *points to himself* Three Queens, baby!

Husk: *groans* Angel, that isn't-

Angel: *already helping himself to the pot* They hate to see a bad bitch winning...

#also creds to my poker-obsessed girlfriend for coming up with this lol #huskerdust #hazbin hotel #helluva boss #hellaverse #vivzieverse #vivziepop #angel dust #my posts #husk #hazbin hotel angel dust #hazbin hotel husk #hazbin memes #hazbin hotel memes

[thesunwillart]

2 old 2 guard this year?? please? i need to See Her Again

#the old guard #nile freeman #2 old 2 guard #tog fanart #my art #i want to see her!!!!!! #i saw the news that it might premiere this year.... ??? #i dont know whats going on tho. lol #pose cred to cainosis on ig!!

[peevishpants]

Pleinairpril 7/30

Hello? Fisherman Resources?!!!

#pleinairpril #pleinairpril2024 #nopleinnogain #warriorpainters #pleinair #i yannified another friend lol #yan is now my go-to Privacy Censor #weiwei art #fish #photo creds to lyn model creds to luka

[sysig]

*You give him a laptop (Patreon)

#Doodles #UT #Handplates #Gaster #W. D. Ghoster #I don't have the time/energy at the moment but gosh does the idea of turning these into fake screenshots appeal to me so much lol #Maybe at some point >:3 #These are what a lot of my scratch projects look like btw lol - ''I want to finish this but Not Right Now but I need to it at least exist'' #Poof existence lol #Also the fun of this potentially existing someday but not yet: My handwriting keeps some spoilers intact lol #I can't tell how many since I can read my handwriting but there must be some right? #I gave it one go to do the text box over my scribbles and hated it so lol - full version or nothing! Haha #Does make wonder if posting gives it more existence cred? More complacence about not finishing since /a/ version exists? #Thoughts for later lol #Just ike the full version! Lol ♪ #Anyway a lot of this was fun to spiral around the thought of if he could actually have a moment of ''I could do my work?? While here????'' #Vacation-work spot lol #He complains so often it seems like such a nice gift to give him for all of five minutes lol #And he seems so interested in human technology really makes me wonder how much if any electronics survive the trip down #Or if they're all fried - or get fried falling down lol #There's gotta be a Nokia that made it right something that didn't have to be completely gutted and refurbed haha #But right from the source has to be a tempting offer even if it is a bit behind the times hehe

[iputthebomp]

Some BNHA boys with a S/O who talks a lot during tv time

May or may not be inspired by my inability to shut up sometimes lol

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(no pronouns mentioned for reader other than “you/your” and etc)

K. Bakugou, I. Midoriya, S. Todoroki, E. Kirishima x gn reader (separate)

Katsuki

Man gets annoyed

He’d probably either tell you to just watch the show

Or pause it and listen (it might not seem like he’s listening tho-)

If you guys were watching a murder mystery then he’s totally going to try and figure out who did it with you

Other than that (and calling you a wuss and warning you before jump scares in thriller/horrors and occasionally yelling at fictional characters who can’t hear him) he’s relatively quiet during your movie time

He wouldn’t be as rude or violent as he is with Deku but he’s still not the most polite

He learns to live with the rambling

Izuku

He rambled and chats with you. Convince me otherwise

He’s yelling at and roasting characters with you, theorizing, talking about the story telling and animation (if there is any), this man will chat about anything

Heck this man is the S/O who talks a lot during tv time

You were pretty much made for each other

Bakugou throws popcorn at you guys and tells you to shut up during class movie nights

Iida just politely tells you to watch the movie in silence

There’s always a lot or rewinding and rewatching

Shoto

Honestly I think this guy’s good at figuring out whatever he missed on the show so he can listen to you

He’d probably realize he can pause it after a while

Gives you all his attention and doesn’t get annoyed

Idk man I just think he’s a patient dude

He would answer your questions (if he can) and theorize with you sometimes

Eijiro

Prolly depends

Like most of the time he’s chatting with you and matching your energy

But if it’s a show he’s really into then he’s gonna silence you

“Shh, babe the governor just died”

I can also see him crying when you guys watch dog movies and sad things together ngl

He’s never gonna be rude about it (unlike a certain hedgehog)

#bnha #katsuki bakugou x reader #kirishima eijirou x gn!reader #gn reader #midoriya izuku x reader #todoroki shoto x reader #kirishima eijirou x reader #bakugou katsuki x reader #my fic #Deku would cry watching sad/dog movies too #but he might be more distracted by chatting lol #idk lol #creds to my sister for helping write Kiri’s lol #we were talking about it and she demanded credit

[spoopdeedoop]

the duality of man

#my art #mcyt #dsmp #dream smp #jack manifold #jack manifold fanart #ranboo #ranboo fanart #tryna improve my understanding of gesticulation lol #(the caption was stolen from one of the comments on the yt vid. cred to that person for being the funniest person on this planet)

[skitskatdacat63]

And when I inevitably draw gunslinger, lone Ranger Fernando, you can all blame DC:

#DC OUT HERE MAKING AUS LMAO #he said gunslinger nando and my brain went “bet.” #idk if anytime soon? idk itd be cool to draw it but also i have a big paper due by sunday 😬 #so we shall see!!! #but he put the idea in my head and i cant just ignore it!!!! #has anyone watched blazing saddles? he would be gene wilder's character LMAO #old washed up man who still has incredible gunslinger speed that cant be defeated #HIM IN A BANDANA ON THE LOWET HALF OF HIS FACE #FERNANDO IN CHAPS #my mind going places dc never intended 😭😭😭😭 #if i do draw it. its gotta be like 'AU cred: David Coulthard' LOL #f1 #formula 1 #david coulthard #fernando alonso #2023 qatar gp #ref

[whereforartthoumisthios]

Absolutely one of my favorite photos I've taken in this game 😍😭

#bruh just look how awesome #shes amazing #i want to be her lmao #i know this game is old by now #but its still very much alive in my heart #sorry for being mushy LOL #ac odyssey #kassandra #odyssey #photo creds #misthios

[hacksawboy]

chainshipping fic idea i came up with when i was trying to fall asleep last night: lawrence asks adam for his last name because theyre gonna get married soon but they struggle because adam has way too many of them

#saw #saw 2004 #chainshipping #this is real because fun fact about me i have 2 last names !!! one from my mom and one form my dad #my birth certificate is like “[deadname] jade [ln] [ln]” #my middle name is jade also lol #nobody steal this i wanna write this #i dont ship them but #i think theyre very cute and neat i wanna write this #or if you do wanna steal it give me the creds ig !!! #if this idea is good even

[lady-harrowhark]

I decided the best way to address being so lonely was to impulsively find a cheap flight at the last minute and go see my friends. So now I’m on the other side of the country, oops.

Their son (who is two years old) is talking SO much now, and he can’t quite say Emily so I’m now Emimi, and every time he says it I just completely melt 🥹 Their daughter is four months old and last time I was here she wasn’t quite two weeks old yet, so she is obviously much more interactive and alert and smiley and UGH I love them SO MUCH.

#tonight their son has wanted Emimi to do everything for him lol #bath time? no. Emimi bath. #can mom get you out of the car seat? no! Emimi car seat! #every time turns me into a real life version of the 🥹 emoji #he was apparently annoyed that they didn’t go on a plane after his mom told him they were going to the airport #but he’s brought up several times that ‘Emimi came to airport’ #I think it really upped my street cred with him lmao

[klownmotel]

Ko-Ko the Clown & Pudgy Betty Boop cards

#clowncore #kidcore #clown #web finds #webcore #my picutre #my pics #give cred if used #betty boop #I need more of these cards lol

[divinequo]

POV: you're taller than dee

(og art piece lol)

#Decided to sketch this morning to try and sketch this morning to wake up better #metal family #metal family dee #dee metal family #my art lol #but also traced #creds to the original artist

[37gorditas]

Why was Spamton so much more unsettling than Jevil?!?!

(Deltarune Chapter 2 spoilers under the funny line!)

I thought about this stuff when i was in the shower, so it probably doesn't make much sense but here goes!!!

Alright, I might be having serious brainrot, but i think compared to Jevil, Spamton is unsettling as FUCK. I mean, one of them is a fella in a jail cell somewhere that really likes chaos (and is also probably based on a random LINE sticker pack)...

Spamton, on the other hand, while also having similar thoughts of freedom and is also similarly Kind Of Unhinged, is a bit more disturbing, especially when you're working to fight his NEO form. One event that sticks out to me is when you transfer his data onto the Empty Disk. As the data starts transferring, line by line, the shop turns greyscale, the music lowers in speed, and Spamton disappears.

When playing through the game myself, I immediately left because Crap! I Kinda Liked That Guy! Something about him just Disappearing just got to me. Another pretty unsettling thing that happens is at the end of the Spamton NEO fight, he just. Falls to the ground, motionless. His NEO form lies there on a black background for what seemed like Hours, and the gang appears on a path leading out of the basement (IIRC.)

Now, I don't think everything literally turned Pitch Black for the gang when they were on the tracks there. Seems that the game intentionally has everything else black out to emphasise what happened to US, the player. The same goes for the shop, in a way. While maybe the colour DID get transferred from the room along with Spamton (and the telephone???) it's like the game litters these jarring, quiet moments with Spamton throughout the game. But why?

Maybe it's to show the parallels of Spamton to Kris. Kris is also unsettled by Spamton, especially seen after the fight, when they yell that they're not OK (if that option is picked.) Spamton may have painted a picture to Kris that there's no way out of being puppeted forever. (He talks about not being [Big] enough and that makes new goofy theories spring up in my head which i'll spare you guys from.) Kris is pretty annoyed by us, the players, already, and they DO have times where they just sever our connection to them through the SOUL, but these periods of time are brief. Spamton crushed the hopes that Kris may have had of completely regaining control.

But why show the parallels to US? What do we do, rewrite the game to make things go better for Spamton and Kris? Honestly, there's no way of knowing until at least chapters 3-5 come out. I need more LORE...... more TINY CHUNKS OF PLOT....... more FUNEE CHARACTERS......... to think about and tie back to this.

That's pretty much all I had to say, to be honest. I had a lot more ideas about this in the shower, but they don't make much sense to me now. PLEASE tell me what you guys think because there are probably a lot of pieces i didn't connect that well, and things i would've got wrong. I don't know where I thought I was going with this. Just putting my thoughts here so I can look back when the rest of the chapters come out and laugh.

TL;DR: Spamton's presented as being unsettling because he has pretty similar toils to Kris, who is also probably unsettled by him.

Thanks for reading!

#this is my first time seriously deltaposting #sorry if this shi makes Little To No Cents LOL #also peep the spamton divider i made :-] #YOU CAN USE IT IF YOU WANT. NO CREDS NEEDED... #please i spent like 3 minutes on paint to make it #reminder to Please Reblog With Your Thoughts Thanx #deltarune #spamton #deltarune theory #text

[lttllovely]

NEWSPAPER CRUSH | Zeke Thompson x Reader

Summary: You are the head writer and editor of Summerton High School’s newspaper. Bored with writing the same fluff stories about the school’s glorious football team, you find the sudden appearance of the Minutemen to be a welcome breath of fresh air, writing-wise and life-wise. You find yourself becoming more drawn into investigating just who the guys behind the snowsuits are. And maybe a little too invested in the life of one of your main suspects, Zeke Thompson.

Movie: Minutemen (2008)

Pairing: Zeke Thompson x Reader

Genre: Fluff/Romance

English class was one of your favorite classes, just behind journalism. Of course, this didn’t come as a shock to anyone since you were the head of Summerton High’s very own newspaper. Not like there was much competition for the position, but for what it was worth, you thought of yourself as a pretty damn good writer. Of course, you loved English class because of all the expected reasons. You loved expanding your knowledge of the literary greats, experimenting with your creative writing, and getting into discussions about whatever novel you were currently reading. But those weren’t the only reasons that you loved the class. 

As of recent, another reason you loved English was that you were seated next to Zeke Thompson himself. Or as you liked to call him, much to his chagrin, the tall snowsuit guy. Of course, this happened since Mrs. Zaninovich was one of the few teachers that enforced assigned seating. At the beginning of the year, neither you nor Zeke cared too much about the seating arrangement. Zeke mostly brooded about having to sit near the front and was pretty quiet. Meanwhile, you gladly volunteered to speak in class discussions about novels such as Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein and Homer’s The Odyssey.  

This dynamic changed once the infamous Snowsuit Guys had shown up. Now, you used your time in class to get any information that you could out of him about his being a part of the group. At some point during your investigation, Zeke became one of your main suspects. Despite him either not responding to your questions or outright rejecting your claims, you persisted. Yet, even with your original intentions, the two of you had strangely become friends. Well, in your own way.

You would question him about the snowsuit guys and chastise him over his responses, and if you were lucky, you’d get an actual smile out of him. And if you were being honest, his smile was pretty cute. Now, you were approaching him just after his welding class had finished. It was pretty convenient for you to stop by since lunch was about to start, and his class was right by the cafeteria. You waited expectantly by the door, watching as he packed up his equipment for the day.

Upon seeing you, he perked up, even straightening his back rather than staying in his regular slouch. You were touched by it, but only smiled in response. He joked, “Oh, so you’re waiting for me now?”

You snorted, rolling your eyes. “Oh my god, don’t say it like that,” You protested. This didn’t stop Zeke from forming a small smirk on his face. “Y’know, for such a quiet, mysterious loner-type, you sure are cocky,” You commented. At the comment, Zeke’s smirk disappeared. He replaced it with his usual blank, broody expression, but you could still see a hint of a smirk peeking through.

You laughed. “I saw that. God, you are not good at keeping up that act.” You pointed out.

Zeke tilted his head at you. “Who said it was an act?” He asked.

“Me, Zeke, Me,” You emphasized. “Look, you’re just as bad at keeping up that broody, loner persona as you are at pretending that you aren’t one of Summerton High’s proud knights in shining snowsuits.” You quipped.

He shook his head. “Once again, not one of them.” He declared.

Quirking an eyebrow at him, you continued. “Sure, sure.” You mumbled off-handedly. “By the way, I came by to see which of these photos you think is better for the newspaper. Y’know, to see which of these you think makes you more appealing to the ladies?” Shuffled through the papers in your satchel, you pulled out two versions of the newspaper, each having a different cover of the Minutemen on the front page. You handed both to Zeke.

He laughed, his gaze going between the two newspapers. “Wow, how will I ever choose? Now, should I go with the one with the guys in snowsuits or the one with the guys in snowsuits?” He asked, sarcasm oozing from him.

Your eyes narrowed at him. “Hey!” You shouted, grabbing a newspaper out of his hand and swatting at him with it. He let out a yelp and looked around to check that no one else had heard it. It took all the willpower in you to not burst out laughing, but you still let out a few chuckles. “Look, if you end up with a photo in the newspaper that makes you guys look even uglier than you already are, then that is your fault. Not mine.”

Zeke handed you back the newspaper, shaking his head. “Oh, I doubt that you think I’m ugly.” He remarked.

Your walking slowed to a crawl. You returned his comment with a pointed stare, clutching your newspapers a little tighter than necessary. “What does that mean?” You questioned.

The two of you had polar opposite attitudes. While you were rigid and stuck in place, he carried a casual, almost arrogant swagger with him as he entered the cafeteria. “I don’t know. I’m just saying that maybe you made up thinking that I’m one of the snowsuit guys so you could have an excuse to talk to me.” He said, shrugging as he ventured further and further from you.

You gaped. “Oh, you know that’s not what this is about!” You shouted, but you could practically feel the smirk on his face as he headed toward his usual seat with Charlie and Virgil. It almost made you feel sick with embarrassment, especially since there was a hint of truth in it. Your cheeks were flushed red as you headed toward your own table with Jeanette.

Of course, nothing got past Jeanette. You could already tell that you couldn’t escape talking about the ungodly exchange with her when you saw her looking back and forth between you and Zeke. And to add insult to injury, she had definitely caught Zeke’s attention thanks to how unsubtle she was. Great. “Am I going crazy or was Zeke Thompson just flirting with you?” She asked, practically already jumping out of her seat at the exchange.

“What? He wasn’t. We were just talking about the newspaper.” You explained, but Jeanette knew better. Her keen eye for detecting lies and her love for romance couldn’t be deterred by the most effective of liars and aromantics, and you were a terrible liar.

“Oh, come on! You’re blushing hard! You’re totally into him!” She squeaked, squealing from excitement. While you loved Jeanette and her bright, bubbly personality, she made it very, very easy for anyone and everyone to hear what she was saying.

You quickly covered her mouth, gritting out a bitter “Shut up!” as you surveyed the room to check that no one had heard her. Jeanette quickly stopped, but you could tell that her brain was still whirring with ideas about how to set you two up.

Thankfully for you, almost no one had paid attention to Jeanette’s little outburst. Well, except for the one person that mattered the most. Out of the corner of your eye, you saw Zeke staring at you two. You immediately hid behind your hand. But it didn’t exactly help. Zeke chuckled, then began laughing when you decided to flip him off instead. 

God, you were not going to survive this year. You could only hope that by the end of it, you didn’t feel as embarrassed as you did now. And that Zeke would stop messing with you. But you knew that neither would probably come true.

#zeke thompson #minutemen #dcom #nicholas braun #x reader #zeke thompson x reader #gif creds: corrodedcoffins #disney channel #disney channel original movie #ngl some of my worst current writing but uhh f it we ball #also i haven't written one shots in a rly long time but this is still not some of my greatest stuff but i just wanted to at least write som- #-ething so here we are lol #hopefully some of y'all like this tho lmaooo #also gender of the reader doesn’t matter/is never said so anyone can read #also if anyone wants a part 2 lmk plsss

[ringoandolive]

Because skippy deserves all the love and more- he's a quick little edit :)

#audio cred: me #scene credit: also me lol #but im posting the scenepack on my IG soon #edit #video edit #skippy handelman #family ties #80s #family ties edit #marc price #80s sitcom #nostalgia #80s aesthetic #vintage