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HardCounter t1_jcx8bpn wrote
Reply to comment by WastefulWatcher in TIL: The Government of Canada has an office that creates coats of arms for Canadian citizens, and that all Canadian Citizens may apply to the Governor General for a coat of arms and even an officially-recognized personal flag by ryguy_1
Sir Patrick Stewart, Knight of the P@!#%%
HardCounter t1_ja1jat3 wrote
Reply to comment by MarblesAreDelicious in TIL there's a rock formation in Saudi Arabia about 6 meters high and 9 meters wide, split curiously in half and balanced on two small, natural pedestals. The origin of the Al Naslaa rock formation is unknown. by OccludedFug
Zero.
Thank you for listening to my speech.
Source: i watched Stargate last week.
HardCounter t1_ja1j5g4 wrote
Reply to comment by timetravel_inc in TIL there's a rock formation in Saudi Arabia about 6 meters high and 9 meters wide, split curiously in half and balanced on two small, natural pedestals. The origin of the Al Naslaa rock formation is unknown. by OccludedFug
Let's just say the Spear of Adun did not care for that rock.
HardCounter t1_ja1j115 wrote
Reply to comment by underthingy in TIL there's a rock formation in Saudi Arabia about 6 meters high and 9 meters wide, split curiously in half and balanced on two small, natural pedestals. The origin of the Al Naslaa rock formation is unknown. by OccludedFug
Since Stonehinge is made up of many monoliths, would that be a Lithomania?
HardCounter t1_j7ml617 wrote
Reply to Writers block by linuxknight
Sir, this is a gifs not a pics.
HardCounter t1_j7k0won wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in I created a Realtime HTML Editor to learn and compile html code within a browser from any device by rbunny111
Oh, so this is an ad.
HardCounter t1_j792evh wrote
Reply to comment by StevenIndieSparkle in Amy Winehouse winning her first Grammy in 2008 by Rainsdrop
She looks like she's surprised and about to cry. Are you sure about her feeling empty?
HardCounter t1_j2qaknq wrote
Reply to comment by giddyeelreturns in [OC] Shrinkflation has hit my Breakfast Burrito last year. This is the last 7 years of Saturday breakfast burrito weight from the same restaurant. I have been tracking them in excel. You can see a covid dip between Jan - Aug 2020. by chiefd59
I still have dreams of my first gyro. I thought i hated lamb. Not this lamb.
I had a serious debate about how sick was too sick to be worth a second meal.
HardCounter t1_j23rmj8 wrote
Reply to comment by nslenders in Lego world map of energy to harvest water from the atmosphere [OC] https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ee01071b by WaterScienceProf
2000W? Is it industrial strength? You'd probably get a lot more water if you put the dehumidifier outside, though.
> Portable dehumidifiers typically consume between 30 and 50 watts while whole-home dehumidifiers can use up to 250 watts per hour.
https://www.perchenergy.com/energy-calculators/dehumidifier-electricity-usage-cost-to-run
I also found this:
> On average, a home dehumidifier collects five gallons of water per day.
That's about 19 liters per day inside an already dehumidified home. That comes out to about 315 watts per liter in a relatively low (30-50%) humidity environment. That's not too bad.
I should get a dehumidifier in case of zombie apocalypse.
HardCounter t1_j23nv2c wrote
Reply to comment by nslenders in Lego world map of energy to harvest water from the atmosphere [OC] https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ee01071b by WaterScienceProf
I guess i don't know what you're trying to achieve.
Pick a number between 1 and 280 and it's on the chart somewhere, no math required. 50kJ/kG is on there somewhere, so is 83.4kJ/kG since it seems to be a continuous scale. 280kJ/kG or so seems to be the maximum for Earth. I'm not sure why 3600kJ/kG entered your mind, or what planet that would apply to.
HardCounter t1_j23jocj wrote
Reply to comment by nslenders in Lego world map of energy to harvest water from the atmosphere [OC] https://doi.org/10.1039/d2ee01071b by WaterScienceProf
How are you going from 1kWh/L to 50Wh/L? You aren't reducing the amount of water harvested, you're just reducing the power for some reason. 50Wh would be 1/20L with a direct conversion.
Am i missing something?
HardCounter t1_j07ai3s wrote
Reply to comment by Eldan985 in [OC] Cost of Carbon Zero - Historical Look At U.S. Funding of Fusion Energy by Metalytiq
Ohgod, so you're saying i'm a cannibal? That's mean.
HardCounter t1_j079gq7 wrote
Reply to comment by Eldan985 in [OC] Cost of Carbon Zero - Historical Look At U.S. Funding of Fusion Energy by Metalytiq
I mean, i guess i can share my stash of Sunlight with a plant. Not sure how the bong would fit. Also, isn't that cannibalism?
HardCounter t1_j078gdv wrote
Reply to comment by Eldan985 in [OC] Cost of Carbon Zero - Historical Look At U.S. Funding of Fusion Energy by Metalytiq
Water... you mean like from the toilet?
HardCounter t1_j078cqo wrote
Reply to comment by agate_ in [OC] Cost of Carbon Zero - Historical Look At U.S. Funding of Fusion Energy by Metalytiq
Liquid batteries also exist now. I know nothing about their volatility or efficiency, but they do exist.
HardCounter t1_j0780s7 wrote
Reply to comment by gimmickypuppet in [OC] Cost of Carbon Zero - Historical Look At U.S. Funding of Fusion Energy by Metalytiq
You can't patent physics or fundamental forces of the universe. I like how corporate hate is so dominant in some minds it now extends to atomic particles. Neat.
HardCounter t1_iyv3t6m wrote
Reply to comment by SatanLifeProTips in Solar energy in Europe will be 10 times cheaper than gas by 2030 by EnergyTransitionNews
It's really easy. Force a centralized entry point into the system, a single monitor. Electricity does that already and anything attached to the grid must go through that monitor. That portion is already in place.
HardCounter t1_iysyrfc wrote
Reply to comment by SatanLifeProTips in Solar energy in Europe will be 10 times cheaper than gas by 2030 by EnergyTransitionNews
> I could not see a PV energy tax happening. People would lose their shit.
If only that were true. They'd do it incrementally so each step seems reasonable until 'surprise' there's a sudden tax with all the infrastructure in place to monitor it. They'll probably start by saying it's for tracking purposes only so they can see how effective panels are at mitigating costs and snowball from there.
Then suddenly oh my, there's a cost for using those monitors. Then oh my, in order to cover the environmental costs of making them there needs to be a tax. Then oh my, here's a tax 'cuz fuck you that's why, what's 1 cent per kwh? It's nothing, drop in the bucket. Oh my, gas taxes used to cover roads but now everyone is EV so we have to tax your energy.
Just going to boil that frog.
HardCounter t1_iysdu0b wrote
Reply to comment by DragoonXNucleon in Solar energy in Europe will be 10 times cheaper than gas by 2030 by EnergyTransitionNews
You're forgetting a key component: government. Taxes and regulation. You are imagining a free market world where the market decides and are forgetting that the government plays favorites. There are no taxes on sunlight and the government can't charge you to hell and back for it just yet. The reason gas is so expensive now is because of the government.
This headline could very well be true by 2030 even with equipment costs if they just keep raising the taxes on gas. I definitely see the EU installing electric monitors to determine how much energy was harnessed via solar panels and taxing you on that, though.
HardCounter t1_iws3k30 wrote
Reply to comment by Bloodaxe007 in [OC] Goldfishes have longer attention spans than humans online by alison359
Also doesn't account for the degradation of quality and ads. If there's a popup ad in the middle of my screen i close it immediately, and this is typically the case with most newspaper websites. Sometimes it's a straightup paywall and closing is the cheapest option.
HardCounter t1_iws387v wrote
Reply to comment by 1feralengineer in [OC] Goldfishes have longer attention spans than humans online by alison359
I hope you carbed up. You're going to feel that marathon later.
HardCounter t1_ivntsfn wrote
Reply to comment by Pope_Cerebus in TIL: That in 2019, some criminals were caught and 36 BTC was confiscated. The authorities valued the worth at €127,000 at the time and was sold 2 years later for €1.5 million. The criminals were returned €1.3 million due to the fact that the amount was expressed in Swedish Krona, not BTC by Wendals87
Steal 'your' stuff, sell it without permission to whomever they please without shopping around for the best price, then keep you on the hook for an additional costs due to their laziness.
Yep, sounds like government to me.
HardCounter t1_ivgu3y2 wrote
Reply to comment by pichael288 in Dutch pilot project for hydrogen heated homes allowed to begin by alex20_202020
The energy loss in greater temperature differentials is very high. Sure, if it's 40 degrees outside and you set your thermostate to 43 you're going to get a good return, but you probably want it nearer to the 60s or 70s and that's where they get you.
HardCounter t1_ivgtmlp wrote
Reply to comment by The_RealKeyserSoze in Dutch pilot project for hydrogen heated homes allowed to begin by alex20_202020
I guess people saw the link and didn't bother to check it because it doesn't say that at all. This paper relates to direct emissions. It's behind a paywall and says only this in the abstract, portions of which are utter bullshit and relate only to emissions:
> The electrification of passenger road transport and household heating features prominently in current and planned policy frameworks to achieve greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets. However, since electricity generation involves using fossil fuels, it is not established where and when the replacement of fossil-fuel-based technologies by electric cars and heat pumps can effectively reduce overall emissions. Could electrification policies backfire by promoting their diffusion before electricity is decarbonized? Here we analyse current and future emissions trade-offs in 59 world regions with heterogeneous households, by combining forward-looking integrated assessment model simulations with bottom-up life-cycle assessments. We show that already under current carbon intensities of electricity generation, electric cars and heat pumps are less emission intensive than fossil-fuel-based alternatives in 53 world regions, representing 95% of the global transport and heating demand. Even if future end-use electrification is not matched by rapid power-sector decarbonization, it will probably reduce emissions in almost all world regions.
Let me highlight a part
> We show that already under current carbon intensities of electricity generation, electric cars and heat pumps are less emission intensive than fossil-fuel-based alternatives in 53 world regions, representing 95% of the global transport and heating demand.
HardCounter t1_jeeeok1 wrote
Reply to comment by patchinthebox in This conference has bracelets to communicate comfort levels of touching by charlesteacher
Oh, this is about getting sick? Honestly just thought it was a social comfort level thing.