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by poutine 4y ago
Stick and frame is an excellent construction technique. Built to modern code it'll not creak in the wind nor rot away. Further it can be framed by one person if needed with nothing more than a pick up truck and a local hardware store
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by poutine 4y ago
Wait, a GoPro works in vacuum in space? Even one derived from that? That's pretty cool. What did they do to it to make it work in such a crazy environment?
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by poutine 4y ago
With proper winter or all-weather tires you'll actually get better stopping for a heavier vehicle (the tires will have more friction as a function of the weight so less chance of slip even though you have more to stop).
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by poutine 4y ago
The RWD is a bit of a different beast than the AWD. It's much easier to get stuck on that one due to its weight when reversing up a hill.
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by poutine 4y ago
As a former driver of many Audi quattros and a Canadian who lives on top of a hill with a AWD Tesla 3 I can say it's the best handling car in snow that I've driven (given clearance limits of a sedan). The instant reaction speed of
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by poutine 4y ago
This is a great summary. Advocates of renewables really need to focus on the storage issue. Solving this at scale will be key. Until then it’s all about nukes.
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by poutine 4y ago
And this could possibly be overcounting, population could be 1.28B not 1.4B: https://www.reuters.com/world/china/researcher-questions-chi...
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by poutine 4y ago
So given that it's so cheap you've converted your home to be 100% solar with battery storage and went off grid, right? Probably not. As you'd like to have power for those dark winter days where you don't see the sun for
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by poutine 4y ago
This used to be true, while it's hard to quantify it doesn't really seem to be true anymore.
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by poutine 4y ago
Yes. I have a portable induction plate we use for things like hot pot. I don’t have an apples to apples comparison though. The cooking itself doesn’t influence co2 though it does spike pm2.
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by poutine 4y ago
Yup. It’s require by code. They’re usually installed at such low CFM that they don’t help a lot against short term blips from cooking though.
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by poutine 4y ago
My wife and I have allergies and are poor sleepers, as a result I religiously monitor air quality in several points in the home in order to manage the air. I find CO2 ppm over 1000 provides for headaches and poor sleep. Having a modern w
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by poutine 4y ago
Modern houses are far more complex undertakings than houses built a decade or two ago. This translates to cost. Take a look at something like the BC Energy Step Code https://energystepcode.ca/ and its guidelines on thermal
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by poutine 4y ago
Agreed. This used to be a big problem late last year for me (2021 M3 FSD). But I can't remember the last time it happened.
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by poutine 4y ago
All manufacturers can suffer from poor repair times, not only Tesla. Especially these days. I waited six months for a brake booster replacement in my Audi SQ5 as it sat in the service center. They did give me a loaner the whole time thoug
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by poutine 4y ago
And if you like Supreme Commander there's https://www.sanctuary-rts.com/
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by poutine 4y ago
You're in luck https://www.beyondallreason.info/
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by poutine 4y ago
While housing has indeed gotten more expensive you can't compare absolute prices. First you're getting a vastly different product today than in 1946. Consumer demands are far higher too. Also to compare affordability the metric
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by poutine 5y ago
And yet the Navy has a pretty good safety record.
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by poutine 5y ago
100% absolutely ok :) You can blend hydrogen in to existing natural gas infrastructure at up to 10%. There's an Australian dual fuel plant going in to service in a couple years that can do from 5% to up to 100% hydrogen in the future.
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by poutine 5y ago
The neat thing about hydrogen is that in the short term you can supplement natural gas with hydrogen using the same or similar generation plants. In the long term deploying hydrogen infrastructure is pretty similar to managing natural gas
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by poutine 5y ago
The US Navy has built hundreds of nuclear reactors in much shorter timeframes. There's nothing intrinsic about nuclear that demands such long builds. It'd need to be done at a societal level with some sort of standardization and
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by poutine 5y ago
With solar you need to store for use when there's no sun. Relatively doable for overnight with batteries. Outside of niche solutions like pumped hydro it's practically impossible for longer periods such as during the winter or j
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by poutine 5y ago
If you want hours of battery storage sure, not if you want seasonal storage. That makes solar+battery a niche, not something you base your energy economy on. Besides, even if you did there's not enough minerals being mined to do batt
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by poutine 5y ago
This isn't so simple. Solar and wind are not just intermittent on a day to day basis, they are intermittent on a seasonal one -- as we saw last year the wind can not blow as strong for months at a time. Much of Europe could be blankete
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by poutine 5y ago
This isn't true. Costs of housing have spiralled out of control outside of Toronto and Vancouver -- here on Vancouver Island in Nanaimo the house I built in 2018 for $950k is now worth near $1.5M. Up 20% in the past year. It's
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by poutine 5y ago
Not just a problem with Tesla. My Audi SQ5 with the 'Advanced Drivers Assitance Pack' will happily drive in to a stationary car in front of me. It's a problem with radars, they don't detect stationary objects well.
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by poutine 5y ago
The solution is economic, just not via tariff or tax. Clean energy must supplant dirty energy at scale. The only way for this to happen is to make it cheaper so the developing world will use it instead.
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by poutine 5y ago
Carbon taxes and tariffs would work yes. But you're imposing serious costs on people that they haven't shown any desire to support. Further, tariffs would disproportionately impact the poor in the developing world.
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by poutine 5y ago
By and large the CCP shapes the internal narrative with respect to China, and increasingly globally. Social connections be damned. The Chinese will think what the CCP wants them to think. I say this as someone who has lived in China and wi

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