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coryrc
3y ago
The forests are supposed to burn. They burnt for centuries before 1900. The reaction when houses burn should be "should have built using fireproof materials" or "that happens when you live in a forest" not "here
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coryrc
3y ago
Which conveniently exempted state enforcers.
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coryrc
3y ago
It's a shibboleth.
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coryrc
3y ago
Make riding safe and clean too. No more junkies smoking fentanyl and stabbing people or screaming obscenities.
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coryrc
3y ago
Organic farming is typically done just like "conventional" farming but with pesticides derived from a plant instead of oil. Permaculture, OTOH, would make a difference. With robotics it may even become reasonable in cost.
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coryrc
3y ago
Lighting rarely is using peak rates.
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coryrc
3y ago
Then you can just use a higher share of aggregate and/or partially substitute cement with weaker but more carbon-friendly pozzolans.
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coryrc
3y ago
They must have been doing something with it before.
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coryrc
3y ago
Nope: https://www.ehn.org/pfas-floss-2658203711.html
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coryrc
4y ago
Open up their profile, open cnn.com to check their story, there's probably 1000 API calls right there.
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coryrc
4y ago
I'm not allowed to plug in an electrical strip at a trade show. I'm not allowed to pick up an item sitting twenty feet away on the loading dock. (Both the above personal experience) They make public transit too expensive: https:&
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coryrc
4y ago
https://www.greenbuildingadvisor.com/article/creating-a-cond...
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coryrc
4y ago
What are you thinking will happen that will contaminate it?
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coryrc
4y ago
Those things are all available to the ultra-wealthy. For your last example: https://www.statnews.com/2020/12/03/how-rich-and-privileged-...
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coryrc
4y ago
Slightly warmer attic in winter doesn't reduce heat loss significantly, but in summer the roof temperature increase is much greater than winter, does measurably increase cooling load in insufficiently insulated houses, and, in aggregat
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coryrc
4y ago
I think the Orville has something to say about how that turns out. (S02e11)
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coryrc
4y ago
Re-use is happening all over. Used Nissan Leaf cells sell for almost new prices. I wish it wasn't true because I'd like a few packs myself.
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coryrc
4y ago
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle You seem upset that "reuse" is a different word than "recycle".
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coryrc
4y ago
Which party has voted for consequential spending cuts in the last two decades?
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coryrc
4y ago
It's been 100 years.
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coryrc
4y ago
Wankel is noticeably worse in about every metric, especially pollution and lifetime, so I wouldn't be too excited about it.
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coryrc
4y ago
Water injection is a thing, it gains a little efficiency. Generally not worth the complexity.
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coryrc
4y ago
It's a far wider window than you think.
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coryrc
4y ago
Most of the components don't have a meaningful "maximum load". There's a load with 40-year life, a load with 10-year life, and a load with 160-year life (and obviously this is a continuous curve). It's okay to spend
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coryrc
4y ago
Flax oil had been debunked over and over again. Just use canola.
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coryrc
4y ago
LEDs must be powered by a constant-current supply, and distribution does not work well at constant-current, and is always constant voltage. So no matter what you will need some sort of switching power supply. LEDs are like 15% efficient and
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coryrc
4y ago
> utilities prioritize the welfare of the citizens who reside in an vote Not according to the rate increases in my bills. More like padding their pensions and political apparatus.
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coryrc
4y ago
The allowed slope for a ramp according ADA 1.5-3%. The recommended slope for drainage is 3-6%. Better hope you're really fucking precise. Oh, your road itself is at a slope greater than 3%? Oops, you can't legally do it! It's
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coryrc
4y ago
> because they have to be contracted out to private developers The problem is not the people completing the work; it's not like Aldi's has their own paving machine in the back. It's that the government doesn't have em
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coryrc
4y ago
That's cherry-picked results from a particular subset, also ignoring that many similar people were also released without paying any bail.
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