Re: Freezers, yeah, I agree with this. Volume to surface area doesn't scale linearly[0], so you can build something like a giant sphere or cylinder and lose a r

Re: Freezers, yeah, I agree with this. Volume to surface area doesn't scale linearly[0], so you can build something like a giant sphere or cylinder and lose a relatively small amount of energy. Commercial freezers are also frequently built with vacuum-insulated panels[1] which have very low thermal conductivity. It's not crazy to build something very large, like a grain silo, to hold dried grain at a low temperature. That seems fairly plausible as a way to reliably "turn off" subsidies over time. It sort of reminds me of the strategic oil reserve[2] in the US. Similar idea (boring holes in the earth cheaply via using water to etch into giant salt deposits) 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-area-to-volume_ratio https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surface-area-to-volume_ratio 1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_insulated_panel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vacuum_insulated_panel 2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(United_States) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_Petroleum_Reserve_(U...