Re: other shapes, they have to be tesselations of repeating regular polygons. I would refuse to call the one on the right a grid:
And this one is right out:
Edit: I have been informed that the Escher tesselation pictured is in fact a grid and am now in a foul mood.
Those transmission losses don’t have immediate health and environmental costs, though, and even discounting those there’ll be conversion losses on both ends (e: for chemical energy carriers) if what we want to get out of it is usable electricity from renewables. Dont take my skepticism for poohpoohing btw, this kind of counterintuitive thinking is one of the more fascinating things about economics. Or maybe I just like to argue :P
I’ll look up the paper, this is an interesting topic.
Pipelines are cheap because we already build a lot of them. We already use them to move multiple products. It’s a somewhat generic technology (which is very impressive, dont get me wrong).
I’d be interested to learn how the capex breaks down for the HVDC lines. Is it labor? Procurement? Those can both be optimized with scale. Expand the qualified workforce and incentivize competition among suppliers. If it’s raw material cost it might be a little harder. I imagine right of way costs are also quite a bit higher owing to the large footprint. But then once you acquire the RoW it stays there in perpetuity. Still, I bet my favorite hat that once you consider the externalities and conversion losses the transmission lines are a clear winner. The electrical grid really only causes fires when its neglected, whereas gas infrastructure leaks constantly.
fantastic, now they can tell which specific parts of the jeep ad get my blood pumping
HSPA+ is not 4G. It has a max theoretical throughput of 168Mbit. It was sold as 4G. Same with Wimax and earlier LTE implementations.
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Interesting how similar this is at first glance to Kerboscript. Neat!
Ah yeah I got that and then kinda lost scope reading the reply. Non sequitur for a non sequitur.
Y’all have a funny definition of guilty. Didn’t read the whole thread but I bet one of you silly sumbitches called a Caesar salad a guilty pleasure. Mine’s pizza. Any variety. I will eat the whole pie. Pizza is love, pizza is life.
mistakes like selling the evolutionary upgrade of the previous generation as the revolutionary next generation? That kind of mistake?
Never forget that the original 4G spec promised gigabit.
They say they’re gonna fix it with something called “AI”
Sure, but in the case of an accident that footage is ammunition. Maybe the other party was eating a four course dinner and cranking their hog, but unless they had an interior camera too you can’t prove a thing. These cameras seem like they would be a disadvantage in court no matter what.
But that requires R&D, and that means hiring and paying more engineers! And maintaining multiple production lines! And paying people to work on those! Can’t we just make a law that all Americans have to buy an F-150 by the time they turn 30???
You and I see eye to eye. Let them witness a better world and despair.
well now I have to add joco back into my regular rotation
Yeah, never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. I just wish he’d make more mistakes faster and that midterms came sooner.
Assuming there are midterms, which I hope to god there are. The alternative is very bloody, and while my teenaged self thought he was ready to die in a ditch for his ideals my thirtysomething self would like to have the joy of building a just society rather than the satisfaction of dying for the hope of one.
I wonder why that might be.
wouldn’t dems have to, like, win elections to do much more than they’re doing rn with temporary injunctions and whatnot? I’m not saying they WILL do more, I’m skeptical that they CAN.
If one shingle breaks yeah you wouldn’t want to huff it, but realistically dilution would mean the tiny amount released is next to harmless. Asbestos is an extreme occupational hazard for people unlucky enough to have worked with it, but for most extant asbestos material the best practice is to leave in place.