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If you don't have a mini herb and spice garden, definitely get one. It doesn't take much, and the taste is quite different.

amorprincesa:
I love spice...

Don't forget cumin and coriander.

Gonna watch Sherwood (brit series, 2022).

Cobra season 2 was pretty good, looking forward to season 3.

Some classic semba (Angola) music
Some new dancehall artists

Well, considering Wizkid can make music that's still listenable and not still trash years later, and considering he doesn't look like a crackhead... Wizkid won (and I don't even like Wizkid like that).

Burundi, get some protein and rest. You're going to need it.

In the coming years, recyclers will hopefully be able to mine billions of dollars worth of materials from discarded solar panels, according to a new analysis published this week. That should ease bottlenecks in the supply chain for solar panels while also making the panels themselves more sustainable.

Right now, most dead solar panels in the US just get shredded or chucked into a landfill. The economics just don’t shake out in recycling’s favor. The value you can squeeze out of a salvaged panel hasn’t been enough to make up for the cost of transporting and recycling it. That’s on track to change, according to the recent analysis by research firm Rystad Energy.

Rystad expects the value of recyclable materials from solar panels to grow exponentially over the next several years, ballooning to $2.7 billion in 2030 from just $170 million this year. That’s thanks to a growing demand for solar coupled with an anticipated pinch in the materials needed to make panels. Technological advancements are also making it easier to extract more valuable materials from old panels, making recycling a sweeter deal financially.

Currently, solar energy makes up just over 3 percent of the global electricity mix. But the world’s energy systems are at the start of a drastic makeover to bring more renewable energy online. To keep the damaging effects of climate change at a more manageable level, the Paris climate accord commits countries to working together to quit releasing greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels over the next few decades. To hit that goal, solar could account for upwards of 40 percent of the global power supply. It also helps that solar panels have grown super affordable, becoming a cheaper source of electricity than coal or gas in most of the world.

Still, there are some clouds ahead in the otherwise sunny forecast for solar energy. To build more solar panels, you need more materials. Right now, mining and processing those materials are concentrated in a handful of countries. That’s left the solar supply chain vulnerable to disruptions and rife with abuse. The nonprofit Business & Human Rights Resource Centre has documented human rights abuses during the mining of materials used in solar panels. And polysilicon used in solar panels is made through an energy-intensive process that’s been tied to forced labor. Those revelations have led to sanctions on some solar products made in China.

Recycling will play a role in diversifying those supply chains. It might also lessen the toll that mining takes on the environment and on the health of workers and nearby communities.

In the future, more of the materials used to make new solar panels are likely to come from re-hashed panels. Recovered silver, polysilicon, copper, and aluminum can fetch the most cash on the recycling market, according to Rystad. Unfortunately, today, silver and solar-grade silicon usually isn’t separated out with today’s recycling methods. It’s often shredded along with the rest of the panel and sold as crushed glass. Luckily, recycling could soon get more sophisticated, thanks to new research into how to salvage the most valuable stuff inside photovoltaic panels.

Solar started to take off in the 2000s, and with a lifespan of around 25 years — we’re just now approaching the first big wave of discarded solar panels. If it’s treated properly, that trash could become treasure.

https://www.theverge.com/2022/7/8/23200153/solar-panel-value-recycling-renewable-energy

Wild. That region gets a lot of extreme weather.

Focusmind:
The reasons you mentioned here are the more reasons that made me to stay put in this country. The country is bad but there are certain things you cannot get abroad. However, my wife is pushing seriously for this "japa" for her and the kids and I have started to consider her demand. I dont intend to go with them as my job is here in Nigeria. I am working towards their "japa" while I remain put here to "enjoy" the benefits that comes with being in ones country. Though, I will have to visit my family once or twice in a year.

Your family can't work that way though. And if that's what your spouse really wants, I'd say the sacrifice is worth considering. However, don't sell everything you own or take unnecessary risks. And don't put yourself in a situation where you totally sacrifice your career for hers. Create a soft landing for both of you.

You can also do both things. For example, stay in the US until the youngest child finishes high school. Invest in real estate abroad and then leave, so you have strong passive income. Do enough years in a job abroad to collect pension.

Hopefully, wins like this draw even more black players to the sport. It's taking too long for black people to fully dominate tennis. I want Wimbledon to look like Notting Hill Carnival.

What is his end game?

Looks like he made it with Legos.

Meanwhile, this footballer and his queen

lionlee216:
Hmm, ill update too. I just haven't had a lot going on but ill surely update

Congrats. Things will be so much better in the city now that a lot of transplants from the Midwest have left, and hopefully, stopped going.

Him and Lauryn Hill must be cousins.

[sarcasm] Oh. No. What ever will Nigerians do. Now, Nigerians have to go to the US, UK, Canada, other African countries, the Caribbean, New Zealand, Australia, or Spain.

All those tens of millions of Nigerians applying for visas have to change plans. [/sarcasm]

You're asking people why they haven't left their home where they grew up and all their family and ancestral land are?

ETA: You're asking why people haven't left a sunny place with vibrant culture and delicious food?

His...shirt...

Or you could just go outside and run, and do pushups and situps.

If you need a little more, there's plyometrics, more challenging calisthenics, and bar calisthenics.

Yes, ladies. Do your thing.

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/19/67/3e/19673ee94e2a096af916ca892e7bcd5f.gif

As long as it's not a (west, south, east, central) Asian, it's whatever. Asians might be more racist than whites. Especially south and west Asians. The bottom line is that they absolutely don't belong in any leadership position.

What about microwaved or oven roasted?

As long as it's quality, I don't think it really makes that much of a difference. A really good piece of fruit is like

It looks more like lemongrass than leeks or scallion.

Shrimp, crayfish, snails, clams, and lobster are bugs too.

Not a big deal. But invest in one of these.

Their Kenyan girlfriends weep.

They need to sue everyone involved for however long it takes.

Breakfast in Paris, lunch in Frankfurt and dinner in Vienna -- all without the hassle and frustration of flying.

Imagine a network of modern, super-fast and comfortable trains hurtling between every major city in the European Union, providing a reliable, comfortable and sustainable alternative to air travel.

That was the vision outlined by rail industry leaders in Lyon, France, on June 29, amid ambitious European plans to double high-speed rail use by 2030 and triple current levels by 2050.

Only a massive -- and accelerated -- expansion of the high-speed network can achieve these hugely ambitious targets, but are they a realistic and affordable proposition?
Unlike many parts of the world, Europe already has thousands of kilometers of dedicated high-speed railway.

France's world-famous TGVs, Germany's ICE and Spain's AVE have transformed rail travel over the last 40 years, but they remain largely focused on domestic markets.

That's no surprise. When countries are investing billions of euros in new infrastructure, political pressure to squeeze out the maximum benefit for taxpayers is inevitable.

Building lines across international borders, even within the European Union, creates tension over who pays for what, how the contracts are allocated, conflicting national standards and regulations and a host of other obstacles.

For decades it's been too easy to kick difficult projects down the road until they become someone else's problem.

The article is too long to post here. Read the rest here.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/europe-high-speed-rail-network/index.html

LOL

It'll be alright, op. It's just gas.

That's not a mass shooting. Gary, Indiana is a high-crime area.

Mass shootings are planned terrorist attacks. It's not the same as gang and drug related gun violence.

Look, if you're a black man and you choose to lay with racists, create more racists by knocking them up, and commit genocide by not having a child with a black woman -- that's quite possibly the biggest L in existence.

You think it's just so funny, but you're a stain on the global black community. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯