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Natural gas burns at ~2200 K. Ambient temperature is ~300 K. 1 - 300/2200 = 86% as the Carnot limit?

If you slide off the road and get stuck in a ditch in the middle of the night, an EV is a lot more comfortable. Standard advice for keeping warm is to run the engine for ten minute…

Americans were our brothers. We had been partners for over a hundred years.

I keep thinking back to that e-card, "once you hate someone, everything they do is offensive." I don't think tech companies appreciate the extent to which they used to get the bene…

China is the world's largest exporter of alternatives to oil. This adventure has done nothing but strengthen their relative economic position.

Options are a bit riskier than RSUs. If you have RSUs issued at $100 and the stock goes down to $50, then your RSUs are worth half. If you have the option to buy stock at $100 and …

Not everyone was so optimistic. Many people argued that the money spent going to the moon would be better spent on problems here on Earth. https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:Tom_L…

That had more or less been the explanation in the books for decades, and even in George Lucas' notes from 1977: > It's a very simple ship, very economical ship, although the modifi…

In our case, it was suggested that the first transfer of the first cycle had a 15% chance of success. Whether that's "very rare" is perhaps a matter of perspective. It was low enou…

The total number might be a little out there due to her non-medical treatments, but the general sentiment is accurate for IVF. My wife filled up an entire sharps box with the injec…

Taiwan's biggest problem is that the average age is currently ~45 and in 15 years it will be ~55. It's going to be hard to keep the economy going once half the country's retired.

It's understandable that parents are upset, but tech companies are not the ones harmed by these laws. When we've outlawed privacy, it will be the public who suffers.

Do you mean Dory, the fish from Finding Nemo?

> instagram and the like are uniquely and disastrously harmful Could we perhaps regulate them to require that they be made less harmful for everyone? > anything the reduces the pow…

It was in the manual and the Player's Guide. You can find ditto on page 47 of the latter. https://www.scribd.com/document/586237858/Pokemon-Red-Versio... https://archive.org/detail…

The £700M (960M USD) spent on fish protection measures at Hinkley Point C would be a topical example [1]. It's expected to save an average of a few hundred twaite shad, six river l…

If manipulative algorithm are the problem, then perhaps we should consider regulations that would protect everyone.

The comments on Reddit from folks who claim to have worked for Northvolt are pretty wild. I would take them with a grain of salt, but they're interesting to read. https://www.reddi…

Shade on older solar systems would impact energy production disproportionally. You would typically see dramatic reductions like 50%-80% reduced output due to 10-20% shade. New shad…

The Greener Homes Grant and Greener Homes Loan you describe have ended, but the 160% tarrif on imported solar panels remains. Solar prices in Canada are still quite expensive, and …

The proposed bans on open source 3D printers in Washington and New York would be examples of bad laws proposed by Democrats in the name of gun control. https://hackaday.com/2026/01…

> The next salvo is going to be US statehood for Alberta and Saskatchewan. There is already partisan support within those provinces, and Trump is going to offer money to push it. T…

Corsair Vengeance 128 GB (2 x 64 GB) DDR5-6400. $339 in Sept 2025. $1599 in Jan 3026. 4.7x increase. https://pcpartpicker.com/product/LPvscf/corsair-vengeance-12... I cancelled my …

> the Mazda CX90 is a real car A Mazda 3 has been my daily driver for the past decade and I really wanted to like the Mazda CX90 PHEV when I was buying a larger vehicle last year. …

My copy of Mirror's Edge from EA is unusable due to DRM. It's still listed on my EA account as belonging to me and I can download the game from them, but it can only be installed f…