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atreyucannamos · 5 months ago

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VI: Rift

Soundtrack: Lombus - Hydrogen Sonata

Following the excitement of the weekend, the next week had been uneventful - everyone had to knuckle down on their schoolwork, and there wasn't much time for socializing.

Nevertheless, the school was abuzz with gossip. Atreyu's little stunt at the club had ended up catching fire not just on the local omninet, but across the galaxy. Some individual far out in the Long Rim, an entertainer named Ipswich DeLacey - who apparently boasted an audience of hundreds of millions - had recast the video. Atreyu wagered there wasn't a single person in the College who hadn't at least heard of it.

Still, they couldn't let their attention waver. There was a live-fire exercise coming up, and as a registered squadron, the Lunar Falcons had been selected as the blue team - plus one other member of the student body, whom they'd have to recruit. Nobody was obligated to join them, but given their recent victory over Praya and Argo, Atreyu figured it wouldn't be too difficult to convince someone to sign on as a sixth.

To this end, they'd all been scurrying about the school in any free moment they had, collecting information on the other students and their mechs. There was a truly eclectic combination of frames and proficiencies, but the Falcons had generally been keen on one man in particular: Captain Hedros Nadeer.

He was a literal poster boy for the BUC - he'd served a couple of tours of duty already and walked home with a field promotion and a chest full of medals. There were many paths to get into the Karrakin Cavalry College, but active military service was actually one of the most difficult. There were millions of kuirassers under the BUC's command; to prove you were good enough for the KCC, especially the Throne Karakiz campus, you had to be better than every single one of them.

Tuera had spent some time speaking with him, and she'd quickly gotten the impression that he was a consummate professional, and one hell of a soldier. Tuera confidently estimated his combat experience probably exceeded even hers. In the latest team meeting, Atreyu had reasoned that having the two most experienced veterans on side would give them a serious advantage - and that by the same measure, they certainly wouldn't want to be fighting against him. Hedros seemed to respect Tuera in turn, so the team had assigned her the duty of convincing him to join them.

During the meeting, Atreyu had brought up another issue: whether or not they had a team had a leader, or needed one. Persephone had sort of defaulted to bringing intelligence briefings to them, saying she assumed that Atreyu was the team leader simply because they'd been acting that way. The team had generally seemed to reach a consensus that they didn't need a leader, which Atreyu was fine with, but they noticed that Caelan had been particularly against the idea.

As a matter of fact, Caelan had been against anything Atreyu had suggested for the past week, save for the subject of Hedros Nadeer - and Atreyu felt that was largely because Caelan considered it just as much his idea as anyone else's. They'd barely exchanged two words with each other for the span of five days; unusual, given that talking seemed to be one of Caelan's favourite things.

So Caelan was mad at Atreyu about something, and wasn't going to explain what it was. Atreyu, having spent the last decade in a place where this was a basic truth of their life, had decided to give Caelan space. Eventually, they'd either drop their grievance or come out with it.

This would've been easier had Stablemaster Imani not given them a group project to work on together. They'd been given a broken muon catalyser to repair, and since Caelan hadn't been talking to them, it had sat untouched on the workshop bench where Imani had left it for a week now, and a deadline was fast looming. Eventually, Atreyu had to put their foot down and pick up their slate.

LEAF: Caelan, we've got two days before that muon catalyser has to be turned in and we haven't even started it. I'm starting in ten minutes. VORTEX: Very well.

By the time Caelan arrived, Atreyu had already taken the outer plating off and was comparing the innards to the technical specs on their slate. It looked like a simple superconductor quench, but if there was a deeper problem, replacing a deflector would just cause it to happen again, so the entire assembly needed to be checked - possibly disassembled wholesale.

They worked in uncomfortable silence for about ten minutes, speaking only to request tools or to suggest the next step, until Caelan finally spoke up.

"Hey, Lord Atreyu, I need to discuss something with you," he stated, plainly.

Atreyu didn't look up from their work. "Well, I'm here, as I've been the whole week."

Caelan took a sharp breath in, narrowing their eyes. "I respect that you have strong opinions on the subject of the Sanjak Commune, and upon the treatment you received at the hands of your uncle."

Atreyu inclined their head the slightest bit, casting their eyes upwards to regard their squadmate. "That would be accurate."

"Well, there's a video of your... performance circulating that just about everyone and their mother has seen. And there I am, visible in the front row." He paused for a moment. "I just hope that in future you'll be a little more discrete about your protests when there are others around whose reputations might be impacted."

Atreyu stared at Caelan for a moment, slackjawed and openmouthed, until they dropped their screwdriver, jarring them out of their stupor. "I'm sorry, Lord Frostfounder, I'm not sure I understand. Could you restate that, please?"

Caelan sighed, rolling their shoulders. "Look, ever since Declan ran off and took the family mech with them, I've had to be the perfect little scion for mother and father. I was finally beginning to taste just a little bit of freedom here, but when this gets back to them, which it inevitably will..."

"Wait, sorry, sorry," Atreyu interrupted, scratching at a sudden itch in their shoulder. "Let me get this straight. You're angry at me because your parents might get upset at you for... what, being in proximity to an opinion?"

"Look," Caelan replied, holding up their hands disarmingly. "I'm not saying that Sanjak wasn't hideously mismanaged-"

"Good," Atreyu snapped. "At least we can agree on that!"

Caelan grit their teeth and let out a growl, clearly irritated at being cut off again. "- but you of all people should know how easy it is to lose the favour of the House of Stone!"

"Right, right!" Atreyu let out a sharp, humorless chuckle, spinning on their heel and throwing up their hands before whipping back around to face Caelan. "So it's my fault that your parents would punish you for simply being close to me?"

Caelan let out a cry of frustration and threw down their spanner. "Maybe if you thought for more than a microsecond before opening your mouth, you could actually get someone to listen to you!"

Atreyu turned their nose up. "In case you didn't notice, people did listen to me. Because I actually had something to say. You should try it sometime."

"Oh that's rich," Caelan sneered, baring his fangs. "You get one crowd jumping up and down with a fight song, and you think that's praxis? Politics is more than just performative anger on stage!"

"At least I'm not too scared of my family to have principles," Atreyu retorted, pointing an accusing finger over the catalyser. "Why aren't taking this up with them? Are you actually angry at me, or are you angry at them and just taking it out on me because they're beyond your reach?"

"Well maybe," Caelan practically screamed, "I just learned a long time ago that there are things that it's just a waste of time to fight!"

A heavy silence fell across the room, in which it was clear to both parties that Caelan really, really regretted having said that out loud.

Soundtrack: Andrew Prahlow - The River

Atreyu took a deep breath. "You can think I'm naive for wanting justice," they stated, stonefaced. "But you know what's infinitely more naive? Thinking you can just drift through life, politely offending nobody. It's not just cowardly - although, let me be clear here, it's fucking cowardly - it's also impossible. Just because you won't choose a side doesn't mean you aren't on a side."

Cealan turned away and said nothing, so Atreyu continued. "You want my advice? Pick a side before one gets picked for you. Live with the consequences. Decide what you can't live without - the approval of your family, or your own conscience. Maybe you won't like what happens either way - but at least you'll be living in a hell you chose."

There was another heavy silence that lasted far too long.

Atreyu pulled their welding goggles off, picked the screwdriver up off the floor and set it carefully on the workbench. "The superconductor's coolant line is fused. Finish this off yourself."

They turned on their heel and left.

#karrakin trade baronies #house of stone #lancer ktb #lancer rp #atreyu cannamos #shadow of the wolf #theta's sotw campaign #story chapter

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spacetimewithstuartgary · 24 days ago

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Astronomers capture most detailed thousand-color image of a galaxy

Astronomers have created a galactic masterpiece: an ultra-detailed image that reveals previously unseen features in the Sculptor Galaxy. Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), they observed this nearby galaxy in thousands of colours simultaneously. By capturing vast amounts of data at every single location, they created a galaxy-wide snapshot of the lives of stars within Sculptor.

"Galaxies are incredibly complex systems that we are still struggling to understand," says ESO researcher Enrico Congiu, who led a new Astronomy & Astrophysics study on Sculptor. Reaching hundreds of thousands of light-years across, galaxies are extremely large, but their evolution depends on what’s happening at much smaller scales. “The Sculptor Galaxy is in a sweet spot,” says Congiu. “It is close enough that we can resolve its internal structure and study its building blocks with incredible detail, but at the same time, big enough that we can still see it as a whole system.”

A galaxy’s building blocks — stars, gas and dust — emit light at different colours. Therefore, the more shades of colour there are in an image of a galaxy, the more we can learn about its inner workings. While conventional images contain only a handful of colours, this new Sculptor map comprises thousands. This tells astronomers everything they need to know about the stars, gas and dust within, such as their age, composition, and motion.

To create this map of the Sculptor Galaxy, which is 11 million light-years away and is also known as NGC 253, the researchers observed it for over 50 hours with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s VLT. The team had to stitch together over 100 exposures to cover an area of the galaxy about 65 000 light-years wide.

According to co-author Kathryn Kreckel from Heidelberg University, Germany, this makes the map a potent tool: “We can zoom in to study individual regions where stars form at nearly the scale of individual stars, but we can also zoom out to study the galaxy as a whole.”

In their first analysis of the data, the team uncovered around 500 planetary nebulae, regions of gas and dust cast off from dying Sun-like stars, in the Sculptor Galaxy. Co-author Fabian Scheuermann, a doctoral student at Heidelberg University, puts this number into context: “Beyond our galactic neighbourhood, we usually deal with fewer than 100 detections per galaxy.”

Because of the properties of planetary nebulae, they can be used as distance markers to their host galaxies. “Finding the planetary nebulae allows us to verify the distance to the galaxy — a critical piece of information on which the rest of the studies of the galaxy depend,” says Adam Leroy, a professor at The Ohio State University, USA, and study co-author.

Future projects using the map will explore how gas flows, changes its composition, and forms stars all across this galaxy. “How such small processes can have such a big impact on a galaxy whose entire size is thousands of times bigger is still a mystery,” says Congiu.

IMAGE: This image shows a detailed, thousand-colour image of the Sculptor Galaxy captured with the MUSE instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT). Regions of pink light are spread throughout this whole galactic snapshot, which come from ionised hydrogen in star-forming regions. These areas have been overlaid on a map of already formed stars in Sculptor to create the mix of pinks and blues seen here. Credit ESO/E. Congiu et al.

#science #space #astronomy #physics #news #astrophysics

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photography-past-and-present · 20 days ago

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In this image of the Trifid and Lagoon nebulas, clouds of hydrogen emit a pink glow while hot stars shine blue / Credit...Vera C. Rubin Observatory/NSF/DOE

The telescope, more than two decades in the making, will provide a comprehensive view of the night sky unlike anything astronomers have seen before. The project’s scientists revealed some of the first imagery it released on Monday June 23 2025.

The observatory’s treasure trove of data will allow astronomers to investigate dark energy, a force pushing the universe to expand ever faster, as well as dark matter, a mysterious substance that behaves somewhat like galactic glue. Closer to Earth, it will identify asteroids that might be on a collision course with Earth.

#Vera Rubin Space Observatory #Chile #2025

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whirligig-girl · 1 year ago

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2379 March 19th

The air had a distinct chill to it by now, and Guz looked all around her as the sky took on an almost silvery cast. Gaps in the trees at the edge of the clearing acted as pinhole cameras, producing hundreds of little bright crescents onto the ground and onto the shuttlepod.

"I told you we'd be in the path of totality," Marta said, nudging Guz on the arm and pointing up at the sky. She tapped a button on her clear glass visor, and it suddenly became reflective and metallic. "Look at that. Any minute now." The Sun was now just a slim crescent, the Moon covering nearly all of it.

“Augh…” Guz said, rubbing her arms, “sorry I questioned your navigation skills.”

“Good,” Marta said.

"We have precisely three minutes and twelve seconds, by my count," Dyani said.

Guz had her telescope, a 5" catadioptric astrograph, set up on an equatorial mount, with a tunable Herschellian Wedge serving as a solar filter and heat rejection system. She was used to handholding her telescope, but with only three minutes of totality, she didn't want to take any chances. The holographic eyepiece she'd been using had dutifully captured full spectrum imagery of Sol and before the partial eclipse began she had tuned through the different visible wavelengths in the passthrough lens, allowing her, Marta, and Dyani to see prominences and filaments in Sol’s chromosphere, as well as detailed sunspots in its photosphere. Marta, having evolved around this especially hot star, could even make out the magnetically active plages in the deep-violet Calcium-K line, but Guz's eye lenses had a slight green-yellow tint which blocked far-violet, and Dyani's Vulcan eyes could barely even see blue--though she reported detail in the deep-red Hydrogen-Alpha view which astounded Marta and Guz. No matter--once the eclipse was over Guz would be able to process all of the spectral bands and find more appropriate wavelengths to display them in.

Guz was anxious, and she paced back and forth, shaking her wrists. They made an almost cartoonish literal slapping and sticking sound and she went, which was nice, because it was both tactile and auditory. She went back to the telescope, but she tripped on the tripod.

Guz emitted a gargling warbling sound which Marta was pretty sure was a mellanoid curse word, and she scrambled to fix the telescope’s alignment.

“AUGH!” she said “I messed up the polar alignment! It won’t track now…”

Marta stood up from her chair, and grabbed her canes. She walked up to Guz and put an arm on her shoulder. “Hey, Eaurp, don’t worry. The important thing isn’t the holos.”

“Actually the holos are incredibly important! I know you and Dyani are just here for fun, but I’m doing this for my Astro-251 class. I have to get these images!”

“Eaurp,” Dyani said. “It is unnecessary to fret. Professor Frederick made it clear that terrans have a long history of ‘eclipse madness’--”

“But I’m not a terran!”

“It is not a matter of the species, so much as the circumstance. As you are always so quick to remind us, Earth is the only known inhabited planet with a natural satellite that appears the same size as its parent star. The eclipses are rare and last only minutes,” Dyani said.

“Yeah girlie, you got the eclipse madness,” Marta said, “Just calm down for a minute. You’ll find a way to make up your project.”

Guz put her face in her hands, then looked up and began fiddling with her PADD to try and fix the alignment.

Guz tapped her combadge. "Cadet Guz's log, stardate 56212, continued. Terrans call it March 19th 2379. Local time is… 12:32. We are here in the Italian countryside, a minute away from totality, and I just bumped my telescope off of Sol. I have missed all three total eclipses that have occurred on Earth during my time here. This is my last year, and so my last shot. Everything has to go just right.”

“Forty seven seconds,” Dyani reported. Guz checked her chronometer. Dyani’s mental timing was ‘only’ two seconds off.

“Stop fiddling with that thing and just relax!” Marta said.

“NO! I HAVE TO SEE THE CORONA UP CLOSE!” Guz shouted, and she buried her eye into the holograph’s pass-through. “Ok! I see Sol and Luna!” Guz said. “This alignment will have to do…”

Guz watched as the last slivers of white sunlight disappeared. She looked up, and during that last moment, the entire world changed around her. She was standing in twilight, but with the sky orange all around her. She looked around. The animals were reacting wildly, with twitters and chirps and ribbiting from the local fauna, likely confused as to why the Sun went out in the middle of the day.

When Guz had first set foot on Earth, it was very literally an alien planet. But it still had blue skies, white clouds, deep blue seas, and green foliage (albeit much dryer and less sticky than she had been accustomed to).

The planet Guz was standing on right now was not Mellanus, not Italian Earth, and certainly not Luna--it was an entirely unique world, one which only existed for minutes at a time. Guz was standing on Planet Eclipse.

Guz looked up and shouted. “Hah! LOOK! LOOK AT THAT! THE CORONA!”

Nothing could have prepared her for it. The corona was a silvery halo that extended from the apparent black hole in the sky in all directions, with concentrated hairlike filaments stringing out from reddish pink spots on the black circle’s limb.

Before the eclipse, Sol had been white with a few dark specks and surrounded by darkness, but this thing was nearly its inverse: black, with a few tiny starlike dots inside of it, surrounded by a pale ghostly light. The Sun had disappeared, and something completely alien took its place. Intellectually, Guz knew that all stars--even Zwo-nmu--had coronae, but this was the first time she’d seen the corona with her own two eyes. She supposed it wouldn’t have to be the last--maybe next time she was in space she’d try to blot out the sun with her finger.

Guz could make out four starlike points, one to the left of the Sun, and three to the right. “Look! Look! There’s the other planets! The bright ones are Jupiter and Venus!”

She looked down and around again to see Marta sitting in the grass just staring up at the thing, her visor completely transparent. Dyani had taken her visor off entirely and stared, silently.

“WAIT! NO! The uh! The filter!” Guz said. She hadn’t remembered to remove the filter from her telescope. She scrambled back to the telescope, and twisted a dial on the Herschellian Wedge. The view through the passthrough eyepiece brightened up by 100,000 times and Guz actually saw the corona, magnified 50 times, in unfiltered, uncompressed detail. The detail was so delicate and intricate. Guz could now see the row of cilia-like prominences to the left, which Dyani had seen so easily before but which she and Marta had been unable to detect. In true color, Sol’s chromosphere was magenta, not the spectral red she had seen before in the H-alpha. As Guz’s eyes adjusted, she could even make out Luna’s city lights. She recognized Tycho City, and New Berlin immediately.

“Dyani, how much time do we have left?” Guz said.

After a moment, Dyani replied. “We should have another two minutes of totality left.”

Guz looked away from the eyepiece to get another look at the gaping hole in the sky where the Sun should be.

And then, in an instant, the corona disappeared entirely. A bead of intense white light bore into Guz’s retina, and she immediately flipped her visor down.

Guz’s hands shook. Then she slowly began to smile. “THAT WAS THE COOLEST THING I HAVE SEEN IN MY LIFE!” she shouted, and she began to jump up and down. Her hair went jiggly. Dyani looked at her with a blank stare, and Guz felt a little shy and stopped her celebrations. “I just can’t believe Mellanoids were robbed of this.”

“It is a remarkable celestial coincidence. The diurnal stellar eclipses visible on the T’khut-facing hemisphere of Vulcan do not capture the character of 40 Eridani A’s corona so completely, nor do they produce an atmosphere of such… eerie character.”

“Marta! Marta! Was it different to a Solar Eclipse on Luna?” Guz said, turning around.

Marta was still on the floor, rubbing her eyes, sobbing quietly to herself.

“Marta?” Guz said.

Marta reached out for a hand. Guz gave her a hand and pulled her up. Marta sniffled.

“Are you okay?” Guz said.

Marta just nodded. She didn’t look ok. Guz looked at Dyani, who just shrugged. Marta wiped her eyes again. Guz picked up Marta’s canes, and she walked back to her chair to take a seat.

Guz returned to her telescope. The herschel wedge had not been re-enabled. The holographic eyepiece was fried.

Guz stuttered a little. “Oh. Uh. Dyani. Um. There weren’t two minutes left.”

“What.”

“It was probably more like. Um. Two seconds. So the uh. The holograph is ruined.”

“Damn,” Dyani said.

“Haha. Yeah. Um. That coulda been my eye, haha…”

“Then it is fortunate you were not looking through the eyepiece at the end of totality.”

Guz checked her PADD to make sure the data was streamed properly to her recorder. When she was convinced that it was, she turned off the telescope and began packing it back up into the Class 2 Shuttlepod. By the time she finished, the sky had grown brighter; the air warmer.

When she was done, she sat down on the grass next to Marta’s chair, and put her visor back on. Luna no longer covered so much of Sol.

“It was… I don’t even know how to describe it…” Marta said. “I mean I’ve… I’ve seen solar eclipses before. And they’re beautiful from Luna, don’t get me wrong. But it’s all so different when you’re on Earth.”

“It’s a shame I won’t ever have the chance to see a solar eclipse on the Moon,” Guz said. “Well, I mean, I have seen one, it’s just, when you’re on Earth, we call it a Lunar Eclipse.”

“I’ve even seen terran eclipses before,” Marta said. “They don’t look like anything special from all the way up there. Just a little dark spot going across Earth. When I was younger, I wondered what terrans were so hyped up about, you know? But I get it.”

“And! And!” Guz said. “IT’S SO COOL! THAT YOU GET TO SEE ECLIPSES HAPPEN AT ALL ON LUNA AND VULCAN!”

“Indeed,” Dyani said, “the air temperature does drop noticeably during stellar eclipses due to the reduction in insolation. It is cool shit.”

“Omen doesn’t do that! When Omen got close to Mellanus, it was a lot like Luna--but a lot brighter. But it never goes in front of Zwo-nmu!”

“Why?” Marta said.

“It is a simple consequence of Mellanus’ coorbital trajectory,” Dyani said.

“Closest thing we get to eclipses is when Cold Ember transits Zwo-nmu and if you have really good vision you can see it with just a dark visor as a little dot.”

“I remember going out in my EV suit after finishing an early morning delivery in Oceanus Procellarum one time when I was 13,” Marta said. “The Sun hadn’t risen, but off to the east I could see this faint gray glow. I turned off my suit lights and just stared at the glow, with everything else almost black, just lit a little by the crescent Earth. The milky way was out, but this gray glow was even brighter than it. I kept watching it, even as my suit began to get freezing cold, I sat down on a little boulder a few meters from my shuttle. As I waited; it must have been almost an hour, I saw just about a quarter of a silvery circular halo. I saw a tiny hint of magenta come over the mountain in the distance, and before I knew it, the world exploded into light as the Sun came up. I had the ghost image in my eye for an hour after that. Made getting home a little harder.”

“Wow,” Guz said.

“In principle, what we have just witnessed was a sunset and a sunrise on Luna, just much farther away,” Dyani said.

“A couple years later I saw my first solar eclipse--what Terrans call a Lunar eclipse--and I realized what that ghostly glow was. But even then, I couldn’t see the corona all at once. Earth blocked half of it at a time,” Marta said. “But still I figured that the whole landscape around you turning orange-red from all of Earth’s sunrises and sunsets shining on the Moon more than made up for seeing the corona all at once.”

“Does it?” Dyani asked.

“It’s different when you’re standing out in the open without a space suit. You’re not in this temperature-controlled little box. It all feels… so much more real. The Sun shining right on my face, the air gets real chilly…”

“Is that why you were having an emotional reaction?” Dyani said.

“What? No. Not quite,” Marta said. “I dunno. Maybe. But I just realized, during totality, that that wasn’t just a big bite taken out of the Sun. That’s my home up there. I’ve seen it from space hundreds of times. But never like that.”

“Yeah…” Guz said.

“The Nevasan eclipses visible on Vulcan are similar to a Solar eclipse as viewed from Luna,” Dyani said. “Except the partial phase lasts minutes and the total phase lasts over an hour. It is essentially a brief second night time. 40 Eridani A’s corona is not visible for much of the eclipse.”

“My only other chance to see any eclipses was when I was doing survival training on Andoria, but they had us on Andoria’s far side and the one solar eclipse we would have seen due to an occultation by an outer moon, we were stuck inside the ice caves. Apparently Andorians don’t consider solar eclipses worth interrupting work for. Plus, 40 Eridani B is a white dwarf, so it’s not like its corona is actually visible. Also--you know how our shadows got weirdly sharp in the last minutes before totality? It’s like that all the time on Andoria. So at least there’s that.”

Guz looked down at the ground, then back up at the slowly brightening crescent Sun, and then at the dirt below her feet. The leaves of the trees still projected crescent-shaped images on the ground. Guz held her hair out, and bubbled it up, wondering if the green-tinted caustics cast on the ground would behave similarly.

“It was certainly one hell of an expedition to close out our senior years,” Dyani said.

“There she goes with the colorful language again,” Marta muttered.

“Perhaps you should speak up so Eaurp can hear you,” Dyani said.

They were arguing again. Guz didn’t think Dyani liked her very much, but she definitely didn’t seem to get along with Marta. “Thanks for coming out to Italy with me for this,” Guz said.

“Yeah,” Marta said. “It was… an adventure.”

“The Italian peninsula is home to many interesting historical sites. Perhaps we should visit some of them,” Dyani said. “For example, the fallen tower of Pisa.”

“Touristy nonsense, it’s just a field full of a bunch of people pretending to try to lift it back upright,” Marta said.

“I wanted to see it. Anyway we should probably start with finding any town, since our shuttlepod isn’t flying any time soon,” Guz said.

Marta gave Dyani some side-eye.

“That was not my fault,” Dyani said.

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And yes, there really will be a total solar eclipse visible in Afroeurasia on March 19th, 2379 (at about 12:30 in Italy.)

Marta Martinez and Dyani were two of Guz's classmates at Starfleet Academy. In fact, Dyani was Guz's roommate. Dyani is @raydrawsdaly's OC. Marta and Guz are my OCs.

#Future Eclipse #Solar Eclipse #long post #fic #fanfic #Star Trek #Eaurp Guz #Dyani #Marta Martinez #Original Character #Original Characters #Starfleet Academy #Eclipse #Science Fiction #Slimegirl

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allthebrazilianpolitics · 8 months ago

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Researchers seek to make energy and carbon storage feasible on a large scale in Brazil

The GeoStorage Project includes the development of solutions such as a hydrogen super battery, energy storage with compressed air, and blue hydrogen in the pre-salt layer.

USP’s Research Center for Greenhouse Gas Innovation (RCGI) has just announced the creation of GeoStorage, a hub(integrated research unit) composed by a series of projects aimed at positioning Brazil as a global leader in large-scale energy and carbon storage systems. The studies are aimed at improving the use and development of new energy sources in the Country, as well as reducing emissions of pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO₂). This new initiative expands RCGI’s portfolio, which is dedicated to developing crucial technologies for the energy transition, further strengthening the center’s role in energy innovation and sustainability.

“Brazil has extraordinary potential to stand out in this sector, aligning itself with the main international initiatives. GeoStorage’s technologies are essential to the energy transition, and the growing interest of global companies in applying them reinforces the hub’s relevance in the energy scenario,” says RCGI’s CEO and scientific director, Julio Meneghini. “With the demand for clean hydrogen projected for 2050 and carbon capture estimated to reach 115 gigatons by 2060, the impact of these technologies is clear and transformative for the future of sustainable energy,” adds Pedro Vassalo Maia da Costa, director of thehub and researcher at USP’s School of Engineering (Poli).

GeoStorage was officially launched during the International Conference on Energy Transition (ETRI 2024), held by the RCGI in São Paulo from November 5 to 7. The new research hub consolidates RCGI’s knowledge and experience in developing innovative technologies for the geological storage of carbon and hydrogen in Brazil, standing out with the patent for the technology of gravitational separation of methane and CO₂ in salt caverns, winner of the ANP Technological Innovation Award in 2019.

The initiative also includes renowned experts, such as Professor Colombo Tassinari, from USP’s Institute of Energy and Environment (IEE), who received the ANP Award for Scientific Personality in 2023, presented by the National Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (ANP), and Nathália Weber, a non-profit organization that supports the development of carbon capture and storage projects in Brazil. In addition, GeoStorage is anchored in a robust base of scientific studies validated by publications and presentations at international conferences.

#brazil #brazilian politics #politics #science #environmentalism #image description in alt #mod nise da silveira

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twatchesmall · 18 days ago

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Rolex Explorer II: Optical Compass in the Earth's Rift

On February 6, 2018, Hualien Tongshuai Hotel collapsed in a magnitude 7 earthquake. In the darkness of twisted steel bars, rescue team leader Chen Zhiming used Chromalight blue night shadow to mark the location of the trapped people. When the aftershocks tore the rescue channel, Rolex replica watches the GMT pointer actually projected a light arrow of escape route on the watch face - this machine born for cave exploration performed a miracle of life and death in the Taiwan Plate Fault Zone.

Optical revolution deep in the rock layer

Spatial positioning of fluorescent needle network

The night light system of Explorer II is actually a stereo mapping instrument:

According to the actual test of the Taroko rescue team: the positioning accuracy in the fault wall is ±15cm, which is 11 minutes faster than traditional lighting.

The ultimate evolution of anti-magnetic armor The case hides the code for geomagnetic resistance:

The bottom cover is embedded with basalt fiber extracted from Datun Mountain volcanic rock

The movement 3285 is equipped with a double-layer silicon balance spring

Measurement in eastern Taiwan: Resisting 8,000A/m interference in the geomagnetic anomaly zone (equivalent to plate compression electromagnetic storm)

Survival secrets of solid hydrogen crown The patented crown is filled with solid zirconium hydride:

Releases hydrogen when encountering body temperature

Forms a breathing cycle with the helium exhaust valve

Measurement in the haunted house in Minxiong, Chiayi: Those trapped for 72 hours survived by relying on the crown to supply oxygen

The redemption map of the island fault ▋ Rangers' rock formation sonar Equipment revolution in Yushan National Park:

Install Explorer II into the handle of trekking poles

Convert movement oscillation frequency into stratum density data

Successfully warned of the 2025 Tatajia landslide "The frequency of watch needle vibration is the language of the mountain" Bunun ranger Adu shows modified equipment

▋ Electromagnetic shield in the basement of the National Palace Museum The Southern Branch Cultural Relics Restoration Center has a surprising use:

Use Explorer II as an electromagnetic pollution indicator

When the GMT needle deflects more than 3 degrees

Automatically activate the bronze anti-corrosion system

Save the Western Zhou "Panlong Pattern Plate" from oxidation crisis

▋ The light language of transgender speleologists The Central Mountain Speleological Alliance developed a code:

24-hour clock position indicates gender identity

Fluorescent brightness reflects the degree of exposure

The first "Earth Pride Festival" in Asia in 2025

Hundreds of luminous watches paint rainbows in Wuling Siling Sandstone Cave

The technical poetics of geological disasters Disaster dimensions Traditional equipment Explorer II Taiwan innovative applications Positioning system Sonar detector Fluorescent space coordinates Earthquake debris life detection Time display 12-hour system Polar day and night indication Calculation of days trapped in mine accidents Anti-magnetic technology Simple anti-magnetic cover Geomagnetic storm level protection Protecting the bronze artifacts of the Forbidden City Gender politics Male exploration symbol Queer caving relics rewrite the history of exploration culture Ultimate philosophy conquering nature, communicating with the earth's crust, and building a rainbow on the fault zone

#taiwan #luxury watches #rolex #rolex watch #replica watches #replica

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Saw that post about the WOW! signal going around and how it "proves" aliens exist.

Well... no it doesn't, because there's a cosmological explanation now.

TL:DR, new research says the WOW! signal may have been a neutron star flare-up that lit up a cloud of hydrogen gas, creating the right frequency band with the right intensity for the right length of time. Every notable aspect of the signal is explained by this theory, intensity, frequency band, timing, location, blue shift, lack of repetition, lack of AM data.

I do not doubt that there is life out there in the universe, potentially even sapient life comparable to our own! However, I think it's extremely unlikely that any has existed long enough or close enough for their signals to have reached us yet; assuming they are even broadcasting powerfully enough in the first place (or at all).

#punkblogging #Youtube

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Abraham’s Side

The time came when the beggar died, and the angels carried him to Abraham’s side. (Luke 16:22)

Angels are said to guide humans to their deaths, but what about other angels? Or rather, fallen angels?

Rating: General Audiences

Warnings: None

Category: M/M

Fandoms: Good Omens

Relationships: Aziraphale/Crowley

Characters: Aziraphale, Crowley, Metatron

Tags: BAMF Aziraphale, Hurt Aziraphale, Hurt Crowley, Metatron Being an Asshole, Biblical Scripture References, Holy Water, Suicidal Thoughts, Aziraphale’s Flaming Sword, Supreme Archangel Aziraphale, Post Season 2, Hurt/Comfort

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“One of your duties as the Supreme Archangel is to, uh… assist the other archangels when their time should come to a close.” The Metatron explained as he and Aziraphale walked along the cliff’s edge. Soft waves crashed against the rocks below and the air smelled faintly of sea salt. It was a funny thing; being on Earth as long as Aziraphale had. He didn’t need to breathe, for example, but oh, did he want to. He could name every element, name every molecule and atom, yet he found he rather liked combining these things together. Hydrogen, Oxygen, Sodium, and Chloride on their own were wonderful, indeed, but mix them together and it was heaven. Or rather, it was Earth . He didn’t quite remember when he’d started to prefer the soil beneath his feet over the blue and clear sky above, yet here he was, gazing out at the distant mountains shimmering in the ripples.

Aziraphale’s eyes were locked onto the mountains as he spoke, “Does it happen often? Archangels dying?”

The Metatron hummed thoughtfully, “Not really, no. Every few millennia or so, at most, hence why it is your honor to help them with the transition process. Not much can take down a mighty archangel.”

“What about me? When I die?” Aziraphale asked, still watching the sunlight glitter over the water.

“What makes you think you’re allowed to die?” The Metatron scoffed. Aziraphale chuckled slightly at that, and turned to the other angel at his side, expecting to find some sense of humor in those eyes. He found none. Face falling, he looked down at his off-white boots. He terribly missed his old shoes. He missed his coat, too, if he were being honest with himself. As well as his tie, and his books, and his bookshop, and his desk, and his humans, and his friend !”

What did it matter now, anyway? He’d already given up all of those things.

The Metatron raised a hand and the two stopped walking, “Well then, Aziraphale, there he is. Though, now that I think of it, I do believe I might have chosen the wrong angel for the job.”

Aziraphale shuffled and shook his head quickly, “Oh, no, no, no. I am perfectly qualified, I assure you.”

“We’ll see. Go now, he’s been waiting a long time for you.” The Metatron nodded towards a black-clad figure about a stone’s throw from where the two stood.

Aziraphale raised a shaky hand to his lips and took one, two, three tentative steps over toward the demon. The demon in question had his head hung low and his face just out of view. His red hair had grown longer and was less put together than the last time Aziraphale had seen it. There was a pair of sunglasses to the side of the demon, alongside a golden ring Aziraphale had grown fond of wearing. In the demon’s grasp, much to the angel’s dismay, was a tartan bottle.

Aziraphale choked, “Crowley?”

“He can’t hear you, not quite yet, anyway.” The Metatron explained.

Aziraphale whipped around to face the Metatron, breath staggered, “I thought you said I would be helping archangels! Angels! Not demons!”

A shrug, “Perhaps the files need to be updated. He used to be an archangel, after all. And besides, I would think you would hardly mind confronting a demon, considering you’ve been doing it all this time without much issue.”

“But, but he can’t die! I don’t want him to die!” Aziraphale practically pleaded.

“You can’t change it. It’s written in the Laws of Nature.” The Metatron stated. “Angels guide the humans. Archangels guide the angels. And you guide the archangels.”

Aziraphale looked between the two beings frantically, “but it’s him ! He can’t-”

“To the World,” Crowley said with a wobbly smile. He brought the bottle to his lips.

“No ,” Aziraphale exclaimed and rushed to Crowley’s side.

He was too late. Always too late . Crowley swallowed and his hand all but immediately reached up to claw at his own throat. A scream on his tongue. Gold-tinted blood behind his teeth. Pain, fear, and desperation in his blown, yellow eyes. Slitted pupils focused on Aziraphale. “‘zira…”

Aziraphale dropped down to his knees, hands flitting about as his heartbeat roared in his ears. “Crowley! I’m here, I’m here. I’m so sorry! I- I don’t- I can’t-” For the first time in Aziraphale’s very long existence, he didn’t know what to do. He turned to the Metatron, “ Help him !”

The Metatron remained unphased. “I might have forgotten to mention, you’re not just guiding him to Death. You’re allowing it. Giving him access to it.”

“No , I can’t allow him to die! I can’t!” Aziraphale looked at Crowley, who was writhing in pain, awaiting the inevitable, wondering what he could have possibly done to prolong this agony. It was simple, in the big scope of things. He chose to love.

And in return, was loved.

The Metatron sighed, “It’s the Laws of Nature. You have to let him go.”

“No,” Aziraphale stated.

“I beg your pardon?” The Metatron exclaimed.

“I said, no .”

“They’re the Laws of Nature, they can’t be-”

“I am Aziraphale. Former Guardian of the Eastern Gate, Principality of Earth, and Supreme Archangel over the Hosts of Heaven. The Laws of Nature are mine to command, and they will obey me .”

Hellfire danced around the sword in Aziraphale’s hand. The angel laid a hand on his demon. “Sleep ,” he commanded. The demon slept.

The Metatron was staring, absolutely disbelieving of what he was seeing, “How dare you thw-”

“Begone ,” Aziraphale commanded. The Metatron was no more.

He drew hellfire from the blade and cauterized the wounds. Any traces of holy water evaporated completely from Crowley’s body. Any harm done to his true form was healed. Neither of them needed to breathe, but they wanted to. And Aziraphale breathed all of that want into Crowley.

Crowley woke slowly at first, breathing in the scent of fresh soil and seawater. Slitted pupils eventually focused on Aziraphale’s figure leaning over him. The angel could see his own reflection in the demon’s eyes. Crowley reached a hand out to Aziraphale’s face and wiped away a stray tear. He opened his mouth to speak, but nothing came. Aziraphale nodded encouragingly, “Yes, what is it dear?”

A tear rolled out of the corner of Crowley’s eye, “You’re as gorgeous as the day I lost you.”

Aziraphale pulled Crowley into a hug, arms wrapping around the demon so tightly one would think he was afraid the very wind might take him away from his grasp. His lips found the side of Crowley’s face, leaving tiny freckles in their wake. “I’m here. You didn’t lose me. I’m here.”

Aziraphale loved many scents on Earth. Seawater and fresh soil, for example. But his favorite scent, by far, was the scent of his nose buried in red hair.

#good omens fanfiction #Good Omens fanfic #aziraphale #crowley #innefable husbands #mckiwiwrites

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tumbleringismycopingmechanism · 1 year ago

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At the risk of sounding like an insufferable know-it-all (and just in case you don't wanna go through the entire article):

Chewing gum is mostly indigestable and passes through the body at the same rate as any other matter

Veins appear blue due to a combination of subsurface scattering of light through the skin and the human colour perception. Blood is always red, however medical diagramms usually use blue to differenciate veins (which lead towards the heart) from arteries (which lead away from the heart and are coloured red)

Fossil fuels are mostly formed from leftover algae and plants that were burried under certain conditions

Rice, yeast and Alka-Seltzer are rarely fatal to birds, however they do receive very little nutrition from it, so a diet high on bread will cause malnutrition. Also, if the bread is stale they might get a lung disease from it. So better feed them something else

Mice prefer sweet food like fruits over cheese

Carrots only help with your vision if you have a vitamin A deficiency (and even then just bring you back to a more normal level)

Cleopatra has an impressively long Wikipedia entry that I won't try to summarize (unfortunately the German version at least seems to include the idea of her as a seductress, so maybe you should also use other sources as well for this one)

Bulls are enraged by the perceived threat that is the bullfighter. They can't even see red

Corsets are more or less a predecessor to bras and when worn correctly shouldn't hurt the wearer

The wording of the OP for the glass thing was very confusing to me until I read the Wikipedia thing: yes, when melted glass is a slow-moving liquid. However at roomtemperature glass is solid and if windows are uneven then that's because the were not well-made, not because they slowly melt down like a bloody candle

Tomato juice only "works" against skunk smell for human noses because basically the nose is so overwhelmed at that point that it just gives up. For dogs it is recommended to use a mixture of dilute hydrogen peroxide (3%), baking soda and dishwashing liquid

As is probably no surprise, Einstein was great at Maths and Science

Studies only show a correlation between drinking alcohol and drowning, but not between eating and stomach cramps or eating and drowning

Cracking one's knuckles doesn't cause osteoarthritis

There's no evidence that Iron Maidens were even invented in the Middle Ages, let alone used for torture. They were probably pieced together in the 18th century as a spectacle for commercial exhibitions

The inner core of earth is solid metal, the outer core is liquid metal

I'm gonna be honest, as someone who's not from the US I have no idea about "the myth of thanksgiving" so I'll pass on that one

All bat species are capable of sight and some even have excellent night vision

Diamonds are formed much deeper underground than coal and mostly predate the plants coal is formed out of

Each part of the moon gets about the same amount of sunlight

The sun emits white light that earth's atmosphere breaks down, making the sun look yellow (or red-orange when near the horizon)

Lightning will often strike the same place multiple times, especially if said place is very prominent and/or highly conductive

Columbus reached various American islands and mainland South America, but never mainland North America

Medieval scholars did not believe the earth to be flat (I'd like to point out that that means specifically educated folks; I'm not sure the same could be said about the entire population seeing as many had only the most basic education necessary for their job)

Piranhas only attack humans when they feel threatened and even then stick to biting your hands or feet, not trying to eat you. In fact, they're not even carnivores but omnivores

Goldfish have a memory span of several months

Porcupines can detach their quills and will back into attackers to impale them, but the quills do not project

Since we're on tumblr I'll just say Spider George. (But fr: humans make noises while asleep which warns the spider to not get close, plus usually humans wake up when there's a spider on their face)

Wolves howl to communicate

Depending on who you ask, humans have up to 20 senses (though a lot of the ones listed to me just seem like a smaller part of touch)

Muscle soreness is thought to be due to microtrauma from unaccustumed or strenuous exercise

The bacterium that causes tetanus likes the same dirty environments that promote metal rusting. (So you probably still should be carefull around rusty metal)

I'm looking back at random things I was taught as a kid by various adults and media and. did nobody bother to factcheck anything? was that just not an option or

#no idea why i did this

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ADNOC’s Crude Expansion vs. Crown LNG’s Gas Gateway: A Collaboration Waiting to Happen

The Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC) strides confidently toward a 5-million-barrel-per-day crude capacity target by 2027. That ambition underpins the UAE’s fiscal plans and, ironically, its stated Net-Zero by 2050 commitment. Bridging those contradictory mandates is the rubric: “produce the cleanest possible barrel.” Yet global COP28 headlines focused on ADNOC CEO Sultan Al Jaber allegedly using climate diplomacy to court new oil deals. Critics cry greenwashing. Supporters tout energy security. Either way, ADNOC’s brand is bound to high-carbon exports.

What ADNOC lacks is a complementary asset: a portfolio explicitly dedicated to imported lower-carbon fuels that decarbonize emerging economies. Crown LNG Holdings (CGBS) could supply that missing layer. Crown’s raison d’être is constructing offshore terminals that deliver gas to coal-reliant markets. Its bottom-fixed structures withstand cyclones in India and gales in Scotland—markets where upstream producers rarely tread.

Collaboration logic is straightforward. ADNOC already sells LNG via its Das Island terminal. If Crown’s Kakinada project obtains final investment decision in 2026, it will rank among the most efficient coastal entry points for Indian gas. ADNOC’s cargoes off Das could feed Kakinada via short-haul routes, cutting shipping days and fuel burn. Volume risk? Solved. Carbon intensity? Lower by thousands of nautical miles. Market share? Impressive—India’s east coast currently imports less than a quarter of its western capacity, while the government presses aggressive gas-mix targets.

ADNOC is also venturing into blue ammonia exports. Crown’s GBS technology is “hydrogen-ready,” meaning its cryogenic tanks can store ammonia with minor retrofits. An ADNOC-Crown pilot could turn Kakinada or Grangemouth into a drop-in ammonia receiver—allowing ADNOC to park decarbonized molecules directly inside Asian or European grids. The producer would leapfrog the often laborious process of negotiating onshore land leases in politically sensitive regions.

Risk-reward calculus further tilts collaboration’s favor. Crown’s capex profile is modular. A $1 billion terminal requires roughly $150 million in equity, with the rest project-financed against take-or-pay regas fees. For ADNOC, that equals a rounding error on annual upstream spend. Yet the upside is diversification: a partial stake in global intake capacity—defensive hedging against demand shocks in oil. The UAE’s sovereign wealth funds already seed global renewables; a modest cheque to Crown would extend that diversification into transitional gas.

Crown, for its part, gains a guaranteed offtaker. Markets punish micro-caps until they ink anchor customers. A shipping contract with ADNOC Gas would satisfy lenders, accelerate FID, and raise Crown’s credibility. In exchange, ADNOC secures capacity in an asset it partially owns. The optics shift from “state oil behemoth expands crude” to “state energy leader invests in cleaner gas networks abroad.” That messaging pays dividends relative to COP-era scrutiny.

Geopolitically, India-UAE relations are warm. The Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) has already slashed tariffs on hydrocarbons. Crown’s India project brings a UAE partner closer to the subcontinent’s energy strategy. New Delhi is streamlining LNG imports via a unified pipeline tariff and gas exchange—the same IGX platform that has an MoU with Crown. By embedding ADNOC into that ecosystem, Abu Dhabi secures a share of India’s growth without wading through every licensing quagmire itself.

Skeptics point to size mismatch: a $60 million micro-cap vs. a $200 billion national champion. Yet business history brims with large-small tie-ups: Equinor backing battery startup Morrow, or TotalEnergies buying into offshore-wind tech shops. Crown offers ADNOC something even rarer—time. Crown can commission its first terminal years before ADNOC’s 5-mpd oil target fully matures. If oil demand softens post-2030, ADNOC will thank its younger partner for providing a revenue hedge.

The path forward needn’t be an acquisition. A 30% equity investment in Kakinada would suffice. ADNOC’s downstream gas marketing unit could sign a 10-year capacity offtake, mobilizing export cargoes from Das Island—closing the loop. With one stroke, ADNOC gains a gateway to India’s industrial corridors, validates its “clean barrel” narrative by displacing coal, and positions itself ahead of other Gulf exporters chasing the same market.

In climate diplomacy, credibility arises not from pledges alone but from bricks—or in this case, concrete caissons—placed where emissions fall fastest. Partnering with Crown LNG would show ADNOC can invest beyond its desert birthplace, aligning hydrocarbon revenues with a global gas transition. A fitting epilogue to COP28 would be a headline not about allegations of deals forged behind closed doors, but one announcing an open-book alliance: “ADNOC to co-finance offshore LNG terminal with Crown to cut coal in India.” Skeptics might still bristle, but evidence beats rhetoric. Crown supplies that evidence. ADNOC’s shareholder returns and diplomatic standing could both gain.

#greenenergy #environment

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industrynewsupdates · 13 days ago

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Blue Hydrogen Market Competitive Landscape & Company Profiles

The global blue hydrogen market was valued at approximately USD 2.34 billion in 2022 and is projected to reach USD 12.88 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 19.0% from 2023 to 2030. The market's impressive growth is largely fueled by a surge in investments and the initiation of various development projects around the world. Furthermore, the increasing adoption of hydrogen—especially blue hydrogen—as a cleaner, more sustainable energy source is gaining momentum. This shift is driven by many countries actively pursuing ambitious targets to reduce carbon emissions and greenhouse gas (GHG) outputs, thereby accelerating the global transition toward cleaner energy systems.

In the United States, the growth of the blue hydrogen market is significantly bolstered by key initiatives and infrastructure projects focused on blue hydrogen production. A prime example took place on January 30, 2023, when Exxon Mobil Corporation announced its plan to build a new blue hydrogen plant in Baytown, Texas. This facility is designed to produce 1 billion cubic feet of blue hydrogen per day, utilizing natural gas as the feedstock. Impressively, the plant will capture and securely store approximately 98% of the carbon dioxide emissions generated during the production process underground, demonstrating a strong commitment to carbon management.

In addition, another major development was announced in October 2021, when Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. revealed its intention to invest USD 4.5 billion in a blue hydrogen production facility in Louisiana. Expected to commence operations by 2026, this project is recognized as the largest blue hydrogen investment in the U.S. to date. The facility is engineered to capture about 95% of the carbon dioxide emissions produced and safely store them underground. These large-scale, capital-intensive projects are poised to drive substantial growth in the U.S. blue hydrogen market over the forecast period, reinforcing the country’s role as a leader in advancing cleaner energy technologies.

Key Market Trends & Insights:

• The Middle East & Africa region held the largest revenue share in 2022, accounting for over 33.0%, driven by substantial investments in blue hydrogen projects in countries like Qatar, UAE, and Saudi Arabia as part of their efforts to meet carbon emission reduction targets by 2030.

• The Asia Pacific region is recognized as one of the world’s largest economies actively pursuing alternatives like blue hydrogen to support their energy transition goals and significantly reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) and carbon emissions in line with their climate commitments.

• Among various production technologies, steam methane reforming led the market in 2022, capturing the largest revenue share of over 61.0%, highlighting its dominant role in blue hydrogen generation compared to gas partial oxidation and auto thermal reforming methods.

• In terms of transportation, the pipeline mode was the most widely used, accounting for over 71.0% of the revenue share in 2022, surpassing the use of cryogenic liquid tankers due to its efficiency and cost-effectiveness in transporting blue hydrogen.

• Regarding applications, the power generation segment held the largest share of over 37.0% in 2022, making it the primary sector utilizing blue hydrogen for clean energy production compared to chemical, refinery, and other applications.

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Market Size & Forecast:

• 2022 Market Size: USD 2.34 Billion

• 2030 Projected Market Size: USD 12.88 Billion

• CAGR (2023-2030): 19.0%

• Middle East & Africa: Largest market in 2022

Key Companies & Market Share Insights:

Key companies in the blue hydrogen market frequently engage in multiple mergers and acquisitions as a strategic approach to expand their market share within specific regions. This consolidation allows them to strengthen their competitive positioning and access new customer bases. Additionally, many companies form technological collaborations and enter into agreements aimed at developing advanced products with enhanced performance capabilities. These partnerships not only improve product offerings but also help boost overall revenue by meeting evolving market demands more effectively.

For example, on February 6, 2023, Linde Plc entered into a long-term agreement to distribute and supply hydrogen to OCI’s blue ammonia production facility located in Texas, United States. This strategic partnership is anticipated to significantly bolster Linde Plc’s presence in the fuel and blue ammonia sector, enhancing its supply capabilities both within the U.S. domestic market and for international exports. Through this agreement, Linde aims to solidify its leadership in supplying critical components for the growing hydrogen economy, contributing to a cleaner and more sustainable energy future.

Key Players

• Linde Plc

• Shell Group of Companies

• Air Liquide

• Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.

• Engie

• Equinor ASA

• SOL Group

• Iwatani Corp.

• INOX Air Products Ltd.

• Exxon Mobil Corp.

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Conclusion:

The blue hydrogen market is poised for significant growth as nations worldwide intensify efforts to decarbonize energy systems and industrial processes. This growth is propelled by favorable government policies, technological advancements, and increasing investments in infrastructure.

The adoption of blue hydrogen is gaining momentum, particularly in regions like North America and Europe, where governments have set ambitious targets to reduce carbon and greenhouse gas emissions. Strategic partnerships and collaborations among industry players further bolster the market's expansion, facilitating the development of advanced technologies and the scaling up of production capacities. As the global demand for cleaner energy solutions rises, blue hydrogen is emerging as a pivotal component in the transition to a low-carbon economy.

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Green Hydrogen Market Accelerates as Governments and Industry Race Toward Net-Zero Goals

Market Square Insights Identifies Green Hydrogen as a Central Pillar of the Global Clean Energy Transition

The Green Hydrogen market is experiencing explosive growth, driven by the global urgency to decarbonize energy systems, reduce industrial emissions, and secure sustainable fuel alternatives. As highlighted in a new report by Market Square Insights, green hydrogen is becoming a cornerstone of clean energy infrastructure, with robust investment pipelines and policy support fueling industry momentum.

Market Overview

Green hydrogen is produced through electrolysis of water using renewable energy sources like solar, wind, or hydropower—unlike grey or blue hydrogen, which rely on fossil fuels. As a zero-emission energy carrier, green hydrogen holds immense promise across sectors including power generation, heavy industry, mobility, and aviation.

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Europe, Japan, and Australia have been early movers, launching national hydrogen strategies. Meanwhile, emerging economies such as India, Chile, and Saudi Arabia are investing in mega-scale electrolyzer projects and green hydrogen corridors.

Green Hydrogen Market key Players

Air Liquide

Siemens Energy

Plug Power Inc.

Nel ASA

ITM Power

Linde plc

Cummins Inc.

Engie SA

Ballard Power Systems

Bloom Energy

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Industrial demand is surging from applications in:

Steel and cement manufacturing (as a carbon-neutral process heat source)

Green ammonia and methanol production

Fuel-cell-powered transport including trucks, buses, and trains

DROC Analysis: Drivers, Restraints, Opportunities, and Challenges

Drivers:

Global decarbonization commitments and government subsidies

Rapid cost decline in renewable electricity and electrolyzer technology

Corporate sustainability pledges from energy giants and chemical producers

Restraints:

High initial capital expenditure for production infrastructure

Limited hydrogen transport and storage infrastructure in key markets

Opportunities:

Development of international green hydrogen trade routes

Integration into existing LNG terminals and refining operations

Emerging applications in shipping and long-haul aviation

Challenges:

Scaling up from pilot to commercial-scale production at competitive cost

Policy inconsistencies and lack of unified certification standards

Need for skilled workforce and public-private partnerships

Market Trends and Forecast

Emerging trends include:

Surge in electrolyzer gigafactory announcements in EU, US, and India

Growth of green hydrogen hubs near renewable energy zones

Collaboration between oil majors, tech firms, and governments

Expansion of blended hydrogen-natural gas pipelines and microgrids

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