Sylvain Miermont @miermont@social.cleverlibre.org
- Topics of interest
- electronics, open hardware, communications, energy, climate, mobility
- Location
- Grenoble, France
- Other account
- @miermont@mastodon.social [mostly fr]
Electronics engineer, PhD in #microelectronics (low-power digital systems architecture).
Significant experience in low-power wide area wireless networks (#LPWAN especially #LoRa and #LoRaWAN), #RF systems, #lowPower and #protocol design.
Joined Oct 2022
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What we don't teach is how science functions as a social institution that allows tens or hundreds of thousands of individuals to work together collectively to undercover the workings of the physical universe. Everything we teach about the process of science involves that which one can do alone at night in an empty laboratory.
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To dispell disinformation about science, we need to teach people why science is trustworthy. Right now, I think we're failing to do that in the K-12 classroom and even at the college level. We teach the settled facts of science: how does photosynthesis work, what is special relativity, what explains the often exquisite fit of organisms to their environments.
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In addition to all of these, I think that there reasons specific to science why people struggle to see through lies like these. I believe that misinformation and disinformation about science spreads because our current system of science education is inadequate. Last year I joined a Moore Foundation working group charged with identifying the ways in which science education needs to change to adapt to our current misinformation environment.
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Switzerland (finally) gets a nice energy dashboard.
Late, but thankfully very nice bonus points for including lake levels for hydropower, gas import/export flows, savings target, EU gas storage levels …
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"12 ways to reduce cars in cities" ranked by effectiveness.
Really interesting combination of carrots and sticks, with the sticks having higher overall effectiveness. Most likely, need to use both in combination. HT @BrentToderian , @giulio_mattioli FYI https://theconversation.com/12-best-ways-to-get-cars-out-of-cities-ranked-by-new-research-180642
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Companies have poured millions of dollars into forest carbon offsets so they can keep emitting greenhouse gases.
It's not working.
Scientists at @nasa and the University of California Irvine looked at 37 forest carbon offset projects across #California. They found the amount of carbon stored isn't increasing and logging isn't slowing down over the past decade
From @TheConversationUS, edited by our #Climate editor @smorford@sciencemastodon
https://theconversation.com/satellites-detect-no-real-climate-benefit-from-10-years-of-forest-carbon-offsets-in-california-193943
#NetZero #ClimateChange #Offsets
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Any conversation about “better” cars HAS to be in the context of real, ambitious strategies to achieve FEWER cars. As I put it recently in my blunt advice to Irish cities, “Your goal SHOULDN’T be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with a million electric vehicles [that was their stated goal]. It should be to replace a million fossil fuel vehicles with 250K electric vehicles. The answer HAS to be FEWER cars and LESS driving.”
#ElectricVehicles #EVs #cars #cities #urbanism #transportation
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Probably part of the reason why the Dutch have high car emissions per capita despite all that cycling
RT @xruiztru@twitter.com
Love this map! 🇳🇱
Map shows the roads Dutch people use for their holidays (every blue dot is one person using a traffic app).
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RT @printablescom@twitter.com
Official 3D printable replacement parts, accessories, and fan models? We're excited to announce that we've partnered with some of the biggest names in various industries to make this a reality!🎉
https://blog.prusa3d.com/starting-a-3d-printing-revolution-introducing-official-brand-profiles-on-printables-com_73408/
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/printablescom/status/1603759400136720386
Three weeks ago, @notjustbikes published an excellent and accessible Youtube video about #ThirdPlaces, what they are, what is they place in #urbanism, and why they matter a lot for #cities.
This is an important topic, so I have edited a transcript to make it easier to read. Sent it to people you know prefer a quick read rather than a 13 minute video.
https://rentry.co/NotJustBikesThirdPlaces
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvdQ381K5xg
#community #walkableCities #suburbia #resilience #Cheers
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Centrist politicians are getting *very excited* at how a low-carbon technology that may be viable in the future will allow them to oppose low-carbon technologies & policies today
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Kids this is a reminder to collect physical copies of your favorite media. Corporations will axe your favorite show/movie/book in front of its family and make it a felony to retrieve it. Have a library.
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The argument about why bother to do anything about our CO₂ emissions "because China" hereby dissolves:
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Given the latest energy news, this seems like an appropriate time to share my favorite meme from a student in my Climate Change 101 class.
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As a security professional, not much scares me. I've seen my personal data stolen numerous times, watched nationstate hackers spray zerodays across the internet, and I'm a shameless user of TikTok. But now you have someone sitting on top of the personal data of several billion users, someone who has a long track record of vindictive harassment, someone who has the ear of the far right, and someone who has just shown us his willingness to weaponize internal company data to score political points. That scares me a lot.
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How to decarbonize aviation? This is assessed in the WGIII #IPCC report chapter 10.
https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg2/downloads/report/IPCC_AR6_WGII_Chapter10.pdf
#moa
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Another much-ballyhooed blockchain based project shuts down: https://www.theblock.co/amp/post/190782/maersk-ibm-shutting-down-blockchain-enabled-supply-chain-project
I'm shocked… shocked.
Does that seems like a workable solution? Has it already be done? Does something better already exists? What do you think @jrsikken @SexyCyborg @arturo182 @blitzcitydiy @timonsku ?
I've made a small schematic of the idea, representing 6 desks, from 'A' to 'F'. Desks B+C and D+E are mobile, guided by high rails, with wheels on the floor, connected to mains + networking from ceiling junction boxes. Desks A and F are fixed, and suitable for plumbing, hoods with extraction, etc.
Assuming 90cm deep and 2m wide desks, a 90cm "alley" to roll through with a desk chair and a 90cm "access" alley on one side of the room, that would result in 10.8m² of usable desk space + many cubic meter of accessible storage in a 18.3m² room.
So, for all those different tasks and tools, having dedicated desk space, or zones, seems really useful. But, unless you live in a large detached house or can rent additional space, it's hard to find room to fit all that. 
Here's my proposal: assuming you're working alone, and nobody but you needs to simultaneously be in front of several of those desk areas, what if you used the principle used by high density shelf storage for your workshop? But instead of shelves, you have desks with storage space on top.
- Topics of interest
- electronics, open hardware, communications, energy, climate, mobility
- Location
- Grenoble, France
- Other account
- @miermont@mastodon.social [mostly fr]
Electronics engineer, PhD in #microelectronics (low-power digital systems architecture).
Significant experience in low-power wide area wireless networks (#LPWAN especially #LoRa and #LoRaWAN), #RF systems, #lowPower and #protocol design.
Joined Oct 2022
