#video on Australian #PPDS #drones: cardboard, or waxed-paper foamboard sandwich, airplane-shaped, “origami of death”, being used in #Ukraine for #weaponry. 24 shipped flat-packed in a pizza box, front propeller, catapult launch, straight wings attached with rubber bands, 5.3 “pounds” empty, 6.6 “pounds” payload, 37 “miles” per hour, 75 “miles” range. Unit price speculated to be between $670 and $3350, an oddly precise upper bound suggesting wankery around exchange rates. It’s claimed that the MiG-29 and four Su-30s destroyed at the Kursk airbase were destroyed with these drones at well over their nominal range. #slaughterbots
#video on intercepting Russian fiber-optic-driven FPV #drones #weaponry
#clickbait #video about Billy Bob Thornton’s relationship with Connie Angland, who he married in 02014, and his previous relationships
#news #video that tomorrow the ATE is having a nationwide strike in #Argentina against #Milei. #politics
#news #video about infiltrating the Doce Tribus cult here in #Argentina #toread
“Capital Cost and Performance Characteristic Estimates for Utility Scale Electric Power Generating Technologies.” Last month, after wanting it for years, I finally found what looks like a good reference on what makes power plants so expensive. Most fusion-power proposals are based on using the fusion reactor to provide heat for a conventional thermal electrical power plant; this EIA-commissioned #PDF report from 02020 gives a couple hundred pages of details about why those are expensive. #energy