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I disabled our shower by forcing the taps shut with spanner, the tap washers I prefer are ok for this.
Attached a shower head hose to the bath tap, so now all we have is a shower head you have to hold and mostly sit or squat to use it.
This has eliminated certain individuals from emptying the hot water system while washing their hair, and my own tendency to use a fair bit of hot water while standing in the shower.
Bit of a hack, YMMV.
You can enjoy him being roasted here: https://youtu.be/X4gt7jL0rP0?t=54
When the eco-modernists say relying solely on intermittent renewables during electricity into a class-stratified privilege, this is what they mean.
How do I use as much electricity as Elon musk does running the Twitter servers?
Tangentially related entry conservation-wise. I disabled our shower by forcing the taps shut with spanner, the tap washers I prefer are ok for this. Attached a shower head hose to the bath tap, so now all we have is a shower head you have to hold and mostly sit or squat to use it. This has eliminated certain individuals from emptying the hot water system while washing their hair, and my own tendency to use a fair bit…
Vs alternatives like using a flash boiler, or convincing your government to reduce the water that the agriculture industry can use, or adding a timer on the shower?
I’ve heard a few stories of panels not being installed properly and flying off roofs and hitting cars below. Unfortunately most lebanese live in apartments, and if a resident or two already called dibs on the roof, you’re out of luck. Tangent, price of fuel/diesel used to be fixed by gov subsidies. Most of our (very tiny) amount of money left has been smuggled across the border to Syria. Same applies to bread, flour…
https://www.healthcarelawinsights.com/2015/11/court-strips-i...
Actual prescription drugs being imported wholesale is rare because the penalties are pretty high for that. There is a somewhat related "diverted drugs" industry which is basically where people who get HIV medications for free from the government/insurance sell for them like 5 cents on the dollar for cash only for those to be resold a bunch of times to "wholesalers" before ultimately ending up in a pharmacy again - these kinds of sketchy secondary wholesalers are where counterfeits/illegally imported drugs would probably end up though. Nothing on the scale of what happens in Lebanon but if you read https://www.drugchannels.net / the WSJ it shows up every now and then.
When the eco-modernists say relying solely on intermittent renewables during electricity into a class-stratified privilege, this is what they mean.
Where/when is electricity not a class stratified privilege? How do I use as much electricity as Elon musk does running the Twitter servers?
Start your own cryptocoin and promote it. Then other people will spend megawatts of their own electricity to make you money. Er, make themselves money.
This article kind of has the: “Obesity rates are plummeting as cancer rates increase” feel to it. Basically, a really shitty situation is driving something that you are seeing as good. Lebanon at this point is pretty close to a failed state. The solar power boom is basically the populace losing faith in the government to provide basic infrastructure.
Basically, Lebanon had 30 years to figure out how to build basic infrastructure like a proper electrical grid and production (from 1990, the end of the civil war to present). Instead, crooks, thieves and fraudsters figured out how to bilk the nation of billions while leaving subpar services in their wake. My parents have had solar thermal collectors for hot water on their roof in Lebanon for 3 decades now... other th…
"My parents have had solar thermal collectors for hot water on their roof in Lebanon for 3 decades now"
For 30 years now your parents have circumvented the state. Welcome to Lebanon.
Same for Puerto Rico. Solar tech makes more sense every year for everyone, but places with bad utilities + more sunlight have a lower threshold.
Basically, Lebanon had 30 years to figure out how to build basic infrastructure like a proper electrical grid and production (from 1990, the end of the civil war to present). Instead, crooks, thieves and fraudsters figured out how to bilk the nation of billions while leaving subpar services in their wake. My parents have had solar thermal collectors for hot water on their roof in Lebanon for 3 decades now... other th…
They do this in Israel too. The solar powered hot water heaters work wonderfully. However now with many more highrises being built they no longer are as popular and we are forced to use electric heaters.
From what I understand, the Lebanese are used to working around the failings of their government in all aspects of life: work, shopping, now banking, and even education where possible. I don't know about water supplies or roads, but from what I heard the Lebanese view their government more as a siphon of their earnings and resources than as a provider of services and order.