iamthemonster

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by iamthemonster 3y ago
This is just an unholy alliance between a posturing politician and the right wing gutter press, to gain outrage, get people to comment angrily, driving ad revenue and getting the politician exposure.
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
I don't think this explanation exhibits a 'dose response'. The UK, industrialized for over a century, have had a very small proportion of their population engaged in wheat farming in the last few generations, yet it is a mor
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Nah it's nuts to mobilise the sand as a working fluid. The more mature design option seems to be refractory brick for heat energy storage, with piping running through it where you can raise steam. Running a steam turbine generator is
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
this tired trope won't die in the face of facts. https://ourworldindata.org/consumption-based-co2 34% of the emissions due to UK economic activity are occurring in other countries - it's not what has driven this
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
This kind of extreme "we may as well tear down civilisation" is an unhelpful and paralysing response to climate change. Even if we did NOTHING until 2050 (which is itself an absurd extreme, given that solar+wind+storage now achie
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Although I think this guy gets a lot wrong on safety, he has a fairly unique perspective on the economics and practicality of ammonia as marine fuel: https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaelbarnard/2024/01/03
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
oh phew that's a relief, I'm glad one of these feedback loops is positive at least
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
My BYD Atto 3 is costing me A$155 a week, with a rebate equivalent to 35 weekly payments, and I'll run it largely for free via solar. My whole car and CTP registration is costing me the same as 83 litres of petrol a week. The novated l
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Wage slaves are an upgrade on slaves because they have reduced rates of escape and revolt.
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Steam is highly economical as a heat transfer medium if you already have a boiler with plenty of capacity. It's versatile and packs an incredible punch - you need very little heat exchanger area if you're condensing steam on one s
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
In industry we don't use bare uncoated stainless steel in marine environments at elevated operating temperatures due to chloride stress corrosion cracking risk. I do wonder what metallurgists think of this bare 301 stainless steel from
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headli... .
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
I thought you couldn't take swabbage on the Circle and District lines, so that excludes South Kensington and Kensington High Street. Kensington Olympia is on the Overground, which is out of bounds, and is only accessible on the Distric
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
It's easy to google this data, see Figure 1 on this link, from official UK statistics: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/uks-carbon-footprin...
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
He attended Holmewood House prep school and attained a scholarship to Westminster School. They are both very prestigious institutions in affluent areas. I think it surprises people to learn he had an excellent education and he came from a m
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
I'm not well versed in security so excuse my ignorance. Before I started using Bitwarden I re-used one single strong password across hundreds and hundreds of sites (only my banking used individual different passwords) and I have entire
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
There are a couple of schools of thought when it comes to how to deal with weaker players in Diplomacy and the main school of thought is that it's actually better to ally with stronger more experienced players against them, as the inex
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Remember that at the home we pay about £300 per MWh - this payment does not have much relation to bills
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Ignore the sibling comment, it is definitely possible, typically via HVDC transmission. With 3% losses per 1000km, HVDC transmission of variable renewable energy is absolutely part of our future energy systems. Wind is especially well suite
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Not bad for the wallet either. My local shop sells potatoes for USD$1.61 for 8.8 lb (that's AUD$2.50 for a 4-kilo bag) which provides bang on 3000 kcal. Looking at a 4 kg bag it would be so hard to eat anywhere near one bag every day,
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
The first time I used an induction stove I set it to maximum, because I set my gas to maximum. I waited a while for the pan to warm, then I poured in some cold water for boiling. I was amazed at how much heat induction could put out. It ins
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Floating wind is very low in novelty, there is just a cost trade-off depending on water depth. If your water is too deep then structures become too expensive and floating is cheaper in deep water. There is some room for improvement in float
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
They already rebranded 22 years ago to remove the word "British" and were only known as "BP" (or bp in lower case in their logo branding). Until 2010, everyone referred to them as BP, but after the Macondo disaster Obama
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Pressurise one side or depressurise another side. If it's truly stuck you have to hot tap the pipeline.
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Wow. You've also just described oil and gas Operator engineering departments perfectly. It's got to the point in oil and gas operating companies, where even the simplest piece of technical work is outsourced, and even if you wan
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Dr Russ Harris: https://www.actmindfully.com.au/free-stuff/ It's not too kooky nowadays, it's a relatively widely practiced approach used by clinical psychologists.
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
American health insurance needs an additional layer of insurance where you pay in monthly and if you get sick a consultant with knowledge of health insurance coverage comes along and works out these things. Clearly you were mentally capable
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Before a policy is announced, we don't want to pre-empt the process of consultation and policy development, and an announcement will be made in due course. After a policy is announced, it's time to move forward with implementation
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
You're almost definitely right and I have an experiment with a sample size of one that confirms your hypothesis. I used to work 4 days a week but there was absolutely no reduction in workload compared to a 5 day role and plenty of meet
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by iamthemonster 3y ago
Yeah that'll be right for a small scale unit, I think it's just that large commercial-scale RO plants have better reject ratios.

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