Daily Shaarli
March 12, 2026
Recorded during 2017, timelapse sequences from the International Space Station are compiled in this serene video of planet Earth at Night. Fans of low Earth orbit can start by enjoying the view as green and red aurora borealis slather up the sky. The night scene tracks from northwest to southeast across North America, toward the Gulf of Mexico and the Florida coast. A second sequence follows European city lights, crosses the Mediterranean Sea, and passes over a bright Nile river in northern Africa.
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Just two weeks ago, dark skies over the desert in northern Iran held this alluring celestial vista. The dramatic digital mosaic finds the Moon and Mars alongside the Milky Way's dusty rifts, stars, and nebulae. Captured through a series of exposures to cover a range in brightness, that night's otherwise Full Moon is immersed in Earth's shadow. It actually appears fainter and redder than the Red Planet itself during the widely watched total lunar eclipse. For cosmic tourists, the skyscape also includes the Lagoon (M8) and Trifid (M20) nebulae and planet Saturn shining against the Milky Way's pale starlight.
Amazon has just changed the encryption used for Kindle books on older e-readers without a software update. Any Kindle with software 5.18.5 or higher is now downloading new e-books using the KFX-ZIP format, which is not compatible with the encryption broken by 3rd-party tools for popular software such as Calibre and the DeDRM plugin.
Prior e-books using old Kindle software were downloaded as KFX files, which were easily backed up to a user’s computer via USB cable, and then had their encryption broken to load the books on other devices or to create a local backup of prior purchases.
The new KFX-Zip files are available on Kindle e-readers from the 7th generation through the 11th generation. Prior Kindles from the 6th generation and below do not yet download e-books using the new book encryption, but it remains to be seen whether Amazon will issue a mandatory software update to plug the loophole that could break digital rights management.
This serene view from the coast of Sweden looks across the Baltic sea and compresses time, presenting the passage of one night in a single photograph. From sunset to sunrise, moonlight illuminates the creative sea and skyscape. Fleeting clouds, fixed stars, and flowing northern lights leave their traces in planet Earth's sky. To construct the timelapse image, 3296 video frames were recorded on the night of a nearly full moon between 7:04pm and 6:35am local time. As time progresses from left to right, a single column of pixels was taken from the corresponding individual frame and combined in sequence into a single digital image 3296 pixels wide.
What's that green streak in front of the Andromeda galaxy? A meteor.
China is indeed churning out solar panels, wind turbines, electric vehicles and batteries that flood global markets — proof, advocates say, of an inevitable green transition.
Yet these supposed marvels are forged amid overwhelming and surging use of fossil fuels, particularly coal.
Its real energy achievements — dramatic energy ramp-ups to fuel prosperity, and advances in nuclear power — remain overlooked. //
Crucially, China’s solar-panel production depends on coal: Every one of its silicon smelters requires its own coal-fired power station. //
While China added unprecedented solar and wind capacity in 2025, it also planned an unprecedented number of new coal power plants.
China remains the world’s top coal consumer, with fossil fuels supplying over 87% of its primary energy.
Renewables’ share was 40% in 1971 when China was poor, but plummeted to 7.5% in 2011 — and has risen slowly over the next 13 years, to just over 10% in 2024. //
Second, China is surging ahead in technologies that could truly decarbonize the planet at scale: nuclear fission and fusion.
In the West, traditional nuclear has grown prohibitively expensive, with US construction costs tripling since the mid-1980s.
The US has built only three new nuclear plants this century, at enormous cost and with 11-year timelines.
Contrast this with China, where reactors are completed in five years and costs have halved since 2000.
China has expanded from three reactors in 2000 to 60 today, with 37 under construction (nearly half the global total), 42 planned and 146 proposed. //
This isn’t renewables redux; it’s a race for abundant energy.
And the West risks awakening to a world powered by Beijing’s reactors, not its own ingenuity.
Green China is a sham — but it’s time for the West to emulate Beijing’s real playbook, by ramping up energy use and investing in nuclear R&D.