Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
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Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
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Re: Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
#2Neat. When I look at old pictures like the one in the article, I wonder, is it foggy, smokey, or just an artifact of the photograph?
Re: Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
#3Having lived in Korea and visited Japan, ubiquitous vending machines is an absolute game-changer. Especially with a choice of hot or cold drinks, vending machines really make life super convenient.
Pretty cool to see the Victorians had this idea over a century ago.
Re: Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
#4The link entitled "Pluto Lamps" goes to a site which is gone and which changed the content of that linked page frequently. The intended story is in this Wayback Machine capture: https://web.archive.org/web/20130622053706/http://www.reasou...
Re: Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
#5The one thing I've noticed that kind of sucks from everything getting super power efficient is that, everything becomes "single purpose" since there is very little energy that is wasted.
Can't have fun little things like this tacked on using waste energy.
Re: Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
#6Having lived in Korea and visited Japan, ubiquitous vending machines is an absolute game-changer. Especially with a choice of hot or cold drinks, vending machines really make life super convenient. Pretty cool to see the Victorians had this idea over a century ago.
Completely agree; I'd love to see it in the US, but it's really a shame that Americans are completely incapable of not destroying a vending machine that isn't under 24/7 surveillance...
Re: Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
#7Having lived in Korea and visited Japan, ubiquitous vending machines is an absolute game-changer. Especially with a choice of hot or cold drinks, vending machines really make life super convenient. Pretty cool to see the Victorians had this idea over a century ago.
Completely agree; I'd love to see it in the US, but it's really a shame that Americans are completely incapable of not destroying a vending machine that isn't under 24/7 surveillance...
Vending machines for everything seems pretty unsustainable. Is everything made of paper or something?
Re: Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
#8Now this is steampunk.
Re: Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
#9Coffee lamps, electric trucks, the Titanic, gigantic starship-like airships - what a time to be alive...!
The future was then.
Re: Victorian gas lamps that sold cups of hot coffee (2012)
#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Completely agree; I'd love to see it in the US, but it's really a shame that Americans are completely incapable of not destroying a vending machine that isn't under 24/7 surveillance...
Vending machines for everything seems pretty unsustainable. Is everything made of paper or something?
Cans have an extremely high recycling rate because (unlike plastic) it costs a lot more energy to get the stuff out of the ground than to melt it down and reuse. Cans are also fairly easy to get back clean (unlike plastic), and they don't degrade as much as plastic does.
In the US, which is not very good at recycling at all, the EPA estimates that 70% of cans are recycled: https://www.epa.gov/facts-and-figures-about-materials-waste-...
In Japan, recycling rates for cans are about 94%. https://recycling.world-aluminium.org/regional-reports/japan...