blamazon

35 ms·

421.
by blamazon 4y ago
On negative externalities - if we don't change our course, practically every facet of our daily lives will continue to be dependent on petrochemical solids for long after we switch completely to electric vehicles and renewable energy.
422.
by blamazon 4y ago
Totally agree on the phone size thing. I can't imagine someone grabbing my small phone out of my hand in a swift move while texting one handed, best case scenario they knock it to the ground. An e-bike already moving at speed on a road
423.
by blamazon 4y ago
So, "about" twice as much then? ;) This whole thread is very funny this morning, I was posting at 3AM and not thinking much. I am happy to be corrected, the more I learn to know here the more I learn I don't know or can'
424.
by blamazon 4y ago
Huh, that is a really important point, and totally changed my perspective on pumped storage projects. Very cool, thanks for sharing.
425.
by blamazon 4y ago
Web search says you're right - negative 162 Celsius / 260 fahrenheit! Wow! About twice as cold as the coldest natural place on earth apparently.
426.
by blamazon 4y ago
Oh, you are right, I should be more specific, I intend to refer to the practice of bulk transport of atmospheric pressure LNG at globalized scale.
427.
by blamazon 4y ago
For anyone unaware, entrepreneurial self-sustainment is a bit of a cornerstone for monastic congregations. It is enshrined in the rule of St Benedict: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_Saint_Benedict
428.
by blamazon 4y ago
LNG is pretty fascinating technology. A real product of our times. Have you ever seen the inside of an LNG tanker pressure vessel? Allow me to show you! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e6&#x2F
429.
by blamazon 4y ago
https://archive.ph/r0j21
430.
by blamazon 4y ago
Even putting costs aside it seems like it could be unlikely that such a thing could be built at all today. Flooding huge swaths of ecosystems is no longer in vogue and dam removal is picking up in pace. When was the last major scale hydroel
431.
by blamazon 4y ago
Be advised, if one travels to witness this place, (Bath County Pumped Storage Facility) one will likely need to be ready to trespass to get a good look unless you have a prearranged tour. The owners have a lot of money for signs and fencing
432.
by blamazon 4y ago
The GDP and other economic statistics of NY and CA (also about 20% of whole country) suggests to me we have not reached that point yet. They are operating on the world stage economically which suggests it continues to make sense to do busin
433.
by blamazon 4y ago
Best not to simplify NY tax code too much, lest ye remove this little ditty: > The Excelsior Jobs Tax Credit: A credit of 6.85 percent of wages per new job. It's 7.5 percent for 'green' companies.
434.
by blamazon 4y ago
So, you think businesses should move away from the largest single-point concentrations of customers and workers? Something like 20% of all the humans in USA are represented by those two little acronyms NY and CA. 'easy to do business&#
435.
by blamazon 4y ago
How about a bicycle inner tube patch? Those are generally resilient to the elements. Or an air mattress patch, or a pool liner patch, or a jetski seat repair patch...
436.
by blamazon 4y ago
That's common for auctions. It allows time for hype to build, the link to be sent around, interested parties to accumulate.
437.
by blamazon 4y ago
The benefits aren't limited to the ground - if we had dramatically upgraded the speed with which Newark airport could be reached from the city, LaGuardia could have been deleted and the airspace could be decongested as well. As it stan
438.
by blamazon 4y ago
To me, the fact that these things are omnipresent for 99 cents is just as much proof that our species can do pretty much anything, as much as it is that we have levitating trains.
439.
by blamazon 4y ago
Meh. Throw a moving blanket over it and bungee it on. Could weld up a cart to roll them all at once sideways. Could use spring casters like for gates as a suspension. Or hold them in place with low durometer rubber. Or both. Probably want t
440.
by blamazon 4y ago
My property is very small and I currently use that back space to park my nice car during the winter so the daily is in the garage and the front driveway is easier to plow. Sounds weird to me typing it out, but I promise this arrangement mak
441.
by blamazon 4y ago
Temporary solar panels are interesting to me - where I live there's a large chunk of the year where weekly solar output plummets. Stacking them in the garage overwinter is appealing, I might try this soon.
442.
by blamazon 4y ago
Unrelated but fun fact: some heavy duty air-brake trucks can also use compressed air to start the engine, but what if your tank is flat? You can hook up one of the tires and use that to start the engine! Really neat. Also, many trucks have
443.
by blamazon 4y ago
One crucial detail in my eyes - e-bikes are almost always going to be cheaper. That is meaningful, to some, and may become meaningful to more. Also, parking and storage. As cost of housing goes up, so too does the cost/size of parking
444.
by blamazon 4y ago
Smaller than The Villages, is Peachtree City outside of Atlanta, which is notable for making off-street micromobility pathways a priority in city planning: (relative to the rest of the suburban US) https://www.peachtree-city.org&
445.
by blamazon 4y ago
My personal recommendation is to just expand such acronyms, for folks who don't recognize it.
446.
by blamazon 4y ago
NU grad here. I consider it a high likelihood that the people that made this decision didn't realize that group resides in this building. Consider this a university administrated by the tour office. The researchers may as well be chuck
447.
by blamazon 4y ago
Many places in USA, you can 'fall back' to magstripe by inserting the chip and having it fail to read 3 or 4 or 5 times. The reader will prompt for a swipe after the threshold of failed attempts is reached. I'm really tough o
448.
by blamazon 4y ago
One difference - cat corpses in the street probably make pretty good rat food. Although, now that I think about it, the elevated risk of hitting cats in the street would probably make most drivers slow down in the city, which is aligned wit
449.
by blamazon 4y ago
After some googling, I was thinking of Switzerland and Austria.
450.
by blamazon 4y ago
They'd be hit by cars, it would be so sad. Speaking of, the cars are the real problem - the rats proliferate on garbage, of course. So, to cut their food source, the garbage must be hidden from the rats until it is collected: This is a

More ›