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1. 2071.▲
   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Are insulated pipes burried 6ft underground going to lose that much heat? What kind of voltages are we talking about? I know that to get 12v from an alternator in a van to a leasure battery in the back with a modest voltage drop you need ca
2. 2072.▲
   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I admit my understanding of these things isn't perfect but I'm not sure the idea of having a generator is as simple as your making it sound. Typically you have an AC alternator (because DC generators have too high a loss in the br
3. 2073.▲
   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I'm surprised there aren't more people on here who moved to chome for the dev tools. That is what moved me over there. Firebug was great in it's day but at some point Chrome's dev tools just became too much better to mak
4. 2074.▲
   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Yes, that's what I was getting at. You can have the windmill located on a high point on the property (or just far away enough to be out of the way) then convey that energy back to near the house and use a brake to generate the heat nea
5. 2075.▲
   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Conveying mechanical energy: reasonably efficient over modest distances. https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/03/the-mechanical-trans...
6. 2076.▲
   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   I've come across this concept before. I think it might have been another post on the same site where they talk about direct mechanical use of hydro-power which made me look further into it. I wonder what the efficiency of using direct
7. 2077.▲
   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   Ha! That's a really good idea. I guess most sunglasses are vertically polarized to avoid reflections off of water / wet ground so as long as the screen is polarized differently that should work.
8. 2078.▲
   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   One thing that had me wondering about is how on earth he deals with reflections on the screen. Any attempt I've ever made to work outside in the sun (usually when it's too nice to be indoors) has resulted in me frustrated and givi
9. 2079.▲
   by VBprogrammer 8y ago

   It was the Strip House. I'm not trying to single out specific places though, more of a general feeling when in the US (and Canada incidentally).
10. 2080.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I can vouch for that. My father used to bring a pack of Cokes back from Florida whenever we went growing up. Good old High Fructose Corn Syrup! Everything in America appeared to be shifted towards an extreme though. Fattier, bigger, saltier
11. 2081.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I understand why you are being downvoted because to label a whole countries cuisine as being bad is a massive generalisation. But I've got to agree that my experience in New York was pretty similar. Even in a fine dinning steak house,
12. 2082.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    A brief read of the tweets included in the article he links to regarding his firing gives me the impression that it's the latter. In fact there is one tweet of his which references exactly your point about the deliberate confusion of a
13. 2083.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Same, or possibly more extreme. I've renovated most of the rooms in my house which were in a bad state of repair. I've installed a new kitchen. Just got to finish the bathrooms. I do find that spending a weekend putting up plaster
14. 2084.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I'm sorry but dropping some "bile" comment about someones life choices doesn't make you Mark Twain. I feel I was perfectly entitled have a pop at you. Perhaps you had some kind of deeper commentary in mind but nothing yo
15. 2085.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I'm sure.
16. 2086.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    That might be really fun for you but for me I'd really be much more excited about being able to see colours well enough to achieve my life long aim of being a pilot. As well as avoiding 1000 tiny annoyances that come with not being col
17. 2087.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    What seems like such a simple question unfortunately is probably quite difficult to answer. At best you could find someone who ran a high quality A-B test where the result showed something interesting. But you still have no idea whether tha
18. 2088.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I'm not sure that's a good argument. It's entirely plausible that plants need CO2 to exist at a particular partial pressure to absorb it. In the same way people wouldn't drag the O2 level in a sealed room down to 0%.
19. 2089.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Putting a lot of shit around the foot of a plant can make it grow faster and better. Not so much humans. I understand your point but your argument is terrible.
20. 2090.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Isn't this totally pointless anyway? Certainly under UK law there is no need to assert copyright in order to claim it.
21. 2091.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Its one of my favourite questions. I imagine it would take a lot of detective work to figure out who first started using it.
22. 2092.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Has anyone encountered the interview question similar to "Tell me what happens when you type www.google.com into a browser." This article reads like the most immense answer to that question might.
23. 2093.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I spent a couple of days playing with antennas and an RTL-SDR dongle. It's quite an interesting subject which I'd love to learn more about one day. I mostly used it for listening in on ATC. It was cool to make an Antenna (in this
24. 2094.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I don't think "we probably won't even starve to death" would have gone over quite so well on the side of the bus. There is also the question of how easy unravelling our membership of the WTO with the rest of Europe will
25. 2095.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    If the pro brexit rallies are anything to go by the number of people who truly feel passionately for it are not bothered enough to take to the streets.
26. 2096.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    > 2. I am not sure how you can claim the majority of the populace is against leaving the EU. A national vote demonstrated the opposite. And it's not clear that another vote now wouldn't yield the same result I'm not genera
27. 2097.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    It's really weird around London to see flocks of parakeets. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feral_parakeets_in_Great_Brita...
28. 2098.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    That's a fair point. If we could come up with battery tech with slightly higher power density and less exotic chemistries all the better.
29. 2099.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    I'm really surprised this was down voted so much. I really don't think it's all that controversial. Like so many websites require registration when you are almost guaranteed never to return.
30. 2100.▲
    by VBprogrammer 8y ago

    Or don't use a Tesla for something it's not really designed for? Cars can be rented pretty cheaply. 99% of the driving I do is within a single charge of say 300 miles. I might have to rent once a year for longer trips. My sister h