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811.
by s0rce 5y ago
Usually its done with standard hydropower not geothermal, lots of aluminum smelting in Quebec. China produces like 10x more than the next highest producing country.
812.
by s0rce 5y ago
More of a problem is when your water heater is within your conditioned space envelope and in the cold months when you are heating your space the hot water heater takes that heat. Its not a huge issue but you do run the heater extra for the
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by s0rce 5y ago
Virtual battery, there is an interesting project to do a similar thing with aluminum smelters where you heat them and operate at full capacity off-peak and then during peak electricity usage you run slower. Since a smelter consumes so much
814.
by s0rce 5y ago
That surprised me. Not exactly sure what other options there are, maybe impounding them somewhere but they would just accrue fees that couldn't be paid and probably be destroyed or auctioned (if anyone actually wanted them).
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by s0rce 5y ago
Tell that to my 2012 Suzuki SX4 radio LCD, it won't work when its warm out.
816.
by s0rce 5y ago
Good Eggs seems to be doing this, I've looked at ordering a few times and it just seems astronomically expensive, even by Bay Area standards.
817.
by s0rce 5y ago
Do you get your direct deposit (assuming you have a normal job) to your Fidelity account? I've been considering moving everything to Fidelity.
818.
by s0rce 5y ago
Was just my observation on the road in the Western USA. I think the stats you have include fleet and commercial which frequently buy the base models, I was just talking about non-commercial use.
819.
by s0rce 5y ago
You can buy graphene enhanced shoes [1], not really sure its much better than carbon black but it sounds cooler. I generally agree with you, from nanotubes to graphene no one can seem to really make it into anything. Cool physics though. [1
820.
by s0rce 5y ago
Salt water intrusion into the aquifer is pretty bad for agriculture. Not sure if that would be a problem with refilling oil reservoirs but I'm not an expert.
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by s0rce 5y ago
Non-jet engine aircrafts run on avgas, which isn't diesel like jetfuel, basically just high octane gasoline.
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by s0rce 5y ago
The vast majority of non-commercial truck use is not towing or hauling. Just look at the pickups you see on the road. Most are just luxury vehicles at this point. Not much difference than a slightly more practical sportscar.
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by s0rce 5y ago
Is Evanston really a college town? I was in grad school there and its so close to Chicago it just feels like a suburb. I've never lived in a true small college town. In Toronto my university experience was even less of a college town f
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by s0rce 5y ago
There is basically no community spread of measles currently due to good herd immunity (via widespread vaccination). When there are outbreaks it is usually very serious and stuff gets closed and people isolated.
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by s0rce 5y ago
Teeth have remarkable intricate structure, simple depositing some disordered mineral using a bio-mimetic peptide isn't the same as regenerating your enamel. Remaking your actual tooth material is very difficult (currently no method is
826.
by s0rce 5y ago
The outer hard enamel layer of your teeth is acellular and cannot regenerate after it forms. Its been a while since I worked in this field (my PhD) but the inner dentin has some ability to regenerate due to the adjacent cells in the pulp. I
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by s0rce 5y ago
Cleanroom wipes are actually great. I use them all the time in lab, no lint, often woven and super durable, chemical resistant fibers. Totally overkill for some, although I have taken some home when we had odd sized samples we didn't n
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by s0rce 5y ago
They aren't using benzene intentionally as an ingredient. So even if they aren't just reselling a generic product this is likely an impurity in one of the ingredients. It doesn't really matter if its a white label or if its c
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by s0rce 5y ago
Huge parts of the California desert are also classified as urban as the counties are so large, some of those places are extremely remote. Even the western central valley, other than i5 cutting through it is remote and sparsely inhabited.
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by s0rce 5y ago
My recollection of the paper on the natural examples was that it was quite a long and exhaustive search through mineral specimens with likely candidate compositions before they found the natural one.
831.
by s0rce 5y ago
Sentinel imagery is weekly and is quite good. I use it to see snow melting in the mountains when planning hikes.
832.
by s0rce 5y ago
I routinely used one and it lasted 10 years. I recently replaced it. Few $/yr seems like a decent deal. Its nice to use, reads quickly and apparently accurately.
833.
by s0rce 5y ago
If you wave it around frantically in air it works well enough, certainly not the intended application and if that is your main use then there are better tools.
834.
by s0rce 5y ago
I found the facebook killed forums more than Reddit, although its probably both depending on the audience.
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by s0rce 5y ago
Good point, thanks, I figured it must be owned by some large corporation by now. At least the historical branding remains.
836.
by s0rce 5y ago
I like that you can still buy Birdseye brand frozen foods in the Grocery store.
837.
by s0rce 5y ago
Canada uses letter/legal paper sizes at least it did when I last lived there 10 years ago.
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by s0rce 5y ago
I tried that. I'm not motivated enough. Totally my problem but the structure of communting was really helpful in getting me to do it everyday. Also, I live 300ft up in the Oakland hills so going out and back in the morning to WFH means
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by s0rce 5y ago
I also found it difficult to find a nice quiet inexpensive membrane keyboard. I ended up just buying a $15 AmazonBasics model. Its nothing special but it works, could be a bit quieter. Still looking for something nice.
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by s0rce 5y ago
I have a nice ~20min (4-5mi) bike ride to/from work in the SF East Bay, usually good weather. Found a route with bike lines and moderate traffic so its pretty nice. I'm looking forward to going back to the office more.

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