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If you're following UAV/UCV and similar weapons developments they you might want to check out a newer catagory of naval weapon which is related.

They are generally called Propulsion Disabling Devices and bring major changes to naval warfare and the geopolitical landscape.

The main idea which is discussed in the episode below is to stop a ship rather than sinking it. This offers many advantages and many new tatical and stregic possibilties as well as new nightmares 🤔😕

youtu.be/Az-7fnaRYqA

#UAV#UCV#Mine

#Pentagon snaps up ownership stake in #America's only #rareearths #mine. most of them are mined in #China.
There is only one active rare earth mine in the whole of the United States. As of Friday, the #DepartmentOfDefense (#DoD) has become the largest shareholder in the company that owns and operates it.
theregister.com/2025/07/11/pen

The Register · Pentagon snaps up ownership stake in America's only rare earths mineBy Brandon Vigliarolo

Prolongez nos enquêtes lors de trois rendez-vous organisés ce weekend à Notre-Dame des Landes, dans le cadre des 8es Rencontres intergalactiques. ✨

Avec Celia Izoard, journaliste et philosophe des sciences, qui travaille sur l'extraction minière. Elle donnera une conférence à l'Ambazada, ce vendredi, à 14 h 30. 1/

#splann #nddl #nantes #loireatlantique #journalisme #enquete #investigation pollution #mine #remembrement #agriculture #alimentation #pesticides #empire #imperialisme #colonialisme

The US company #Techmet
is likely to bid in the first pilot project of the Ukraine-US joint Reconstruction Investment Fund

on a #lithium #mine in the centre of the country,

Ukraine’s first deputy prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, writing on Facebook, reported on a meeting between Zelenskyy and US businesses,

with much of the focus on the fund, meant to exploit Ukrainian minerals and rare earths.

Svyrydenko said Ukraine hoped to have three pilot projects up and running in the first 18 months of operation,

including the lithium mine in Kirovohrad region.

theguardian.com/world/2025/jul

The Guardian · Ukraine war briefing: Trump says he ‘didn’t make any progress’ with Putin after callBy Guardian staff reporter

Pre-mix snippet of “Tresses” 🖤 vocals base effects chain; a limiter, de esser, reverb on the stack harmony and only multi taper delay on the main vocal. Limiter, chromaverb, a subtle slow attack chorus on Hope the electric guitar. Need to sculpt out some balance on the levels but thought you all might enjoy. You’re standing or sitting on a cliff, looking at the sea, feeling a soft breeze, in golden hour light. Your mind is calm.

#music#mine#calm
80 meter inside of a volcano of Lemptegy. It was exploited for a pouzzolane but in agreement with the volcanologists that they would conserve certain parts of it. As a result, you can really take a walk inside of it and see how the world evolved. What you can see there on the photo is a volcanic chimney, through which the fresh lava got onto the surface.

#volcano #volcanos #geology #france #auvergne #puydedome #mine #mining #nature #vulcan #volcanoes #lava #history
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Écosystème, épisode 2 : pour fonctionner, l'industrie numérique a besoin de toujours plus de plastique, terres rares, etc. Peut-on améliorer sa consommation de ressources ? On en discute avec l'ingénieur Philippe Bihouix.
Abonnez-vous, partagez-nous, mettez-nous des ⭐ 🌟 ⭐ 🌟 ⭐ !
next.ink/podcast/ecosysteme-2-

Next[Écosystème 2/7] La Terre derrière la tech - NextDans cet épisode d'Écosystème, Mathilde Saliou et Philippe Bihouix détaillent les besoins en ressources de l'industrie numérique.

#US Is Reviewing #ImpossibleMetals Proposal to #Mine the #Seabed
The Interior Department said it would review a new proposal for operations off the coast of #AmericanSamoa.
The move follows an #executiveorder that urged government agencies to expedite permits for #seabedmining in US territorial waters as well as international waters. Most other nations argue US does not have the legal right to mine the seabed beyond its own territorial waters.
nytimes.com/2025/05/21/climate
archive.ph/B5zn4

The New York Times · U.S. Is Reviewing Impossible Metals Proposal to Mine the SeabedBy Max Bearak
#FotoVorschlag: Geh-/#Wanderwege // #Footpaths/#hikingTrails

Ja is denn heut scho #FootpathFriday? Na gut, da hab ich echt mehr als genug Bilder. Hier eins aus #Cornwall, ist ja schließlich auch #MeerMittwoch! Das sind Überreste der #Botallack #Mine, die da über dem #Atlantik thronen. Genauer gesagt die Engine Houses der Crown Mines. Abgebaut wurden hier bis 1895 Zinn, Kupfer und Arsen. // But it isn't #FootpathFriday yet! Oh well, I have more than enough photos of footpaths and #hiking #trails. Here's one from Cornwall, because it's #SeaWednesday too! These are some of the ruins of the #BotallackMine, the Crown #Mines engine houses, to be exact. The mines produced tin, copper, and arsenic until 1895.

#SouthWestCoastPath #SWCP #hike #Wanderweg #wandern #coast #hikingTrail #AtlanticCoast #Küste #scenic #Atlantikküste #NationalTrail #AtlanticOcean #Steilküste #coastline #footpath #ruggedCoastline #steepCliffs #steepCoast #cliffedCoast #landscapePhotography #seascape #landscape #England #UK

CRIIRAD : Des déchets radioactifs non confinés

Sur la commune de Saint-Pierre (Cantal) l’exploitation d’une mine d’uranium (ouverte en 1958) et d’une usine d’extraction de l’uranium (arrêtée en 1985) laisse derrière elle environ 600 000 tonnes de déchets radioactifs, dont une grande partie se trouve sur des terrains accessibles au public. Pire, depuis plusieurs décennies, la municipalité n’a eu de cesse d’en banaliser l’usage. criirad.org/30-04-2025-des-dec