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This form factor is installed by literally cutting a whole into a flat surface, nothing limits you to only one hole.
I genuinely can’t tell - you’re aware that this is a standardized form factor, and they didn’t invent this just for this particular device, right?
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This form factor is installed by literally cutting a whole into a flat surface, nothing limits you to only one hole.
I don't think anybody wants to cut a separate hole in their countertop for controls when everyone already has one big rectangular hole where a cooktop goes.
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The second floor of the mall exploded for some reason, and the roof collapse is secondary to that. It seems to have happened after the earthquake and subsequent evacuation. There are videos of people leaving the mall: https://x.com/yuto4388/status/2082060992377475247/video/1?s=...
It is due to a gas leak that caused an explosion.
Few things would create an explosion of this size, so it's a logical inference, but you never know.
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/20260728_30/
Local (i.e. Japanese language) news is speculating an LP leak.
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> Electricity allows for so many more automatic safeguards. Since the mid-2000s there has actually been a push by Japanese utility companies for adoption of what they call "all-electric" オール電化. Adoption has been reasonably good with new-builds because they can also have solar panels. But adoption in older properties has been slower. First in general, electricity in Japan has tended to be more expensive than gas. Seco…
At the plastics plant I worked at in the 2010's, they had seismic emergency valves for the natural gas. At the time, I thought they were such a pain, as the vibration caused by a semi-trailer bumping a warehouse dock could cause them to shut off. (But it only took a screwdriver and 2 minutes to reset the valve.) Now I'm thinking such valves are a good measure. I have no idea if they could work in such a major quake,…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQlaUfMPHFI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHwJHyoGQWw
Kumamoto is barely finished rebuilding from the last quake, you can still see cracks in structures as you drive down the road. This is really horrible; not to mention the city is already beginning to depopulate as the youth move north to Fukuoka.
It's my understanding that small to medium sized cities (and rural areas) depopulating is going on now throughout almost all of Japan. One of the things that really surprised me recently is how low the cost of real estate is for an older, normal middle class home in some sparsely populated areas of Japan. Apparently the declining population and younger people not wanting to live in their parents' rural countryside ho…
If you're willing to move to depopulating areas houses cost a little kinda everywhere.
In Puglia, Italy, in my in laws village (8'000 people), you can buy a freshly renovated, rather huge house for 50k, and you can likely find livable ones, not renovated at the 10-15k.
In US, in many rural areas you can buy a whole home in good conditions at the 50k mark.
Japan follows the same trend, and yes, I've traveled Japan some, there's plenty of almost-ghost towns nowadays where you can buy real estate for pennies as well.
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Yeah it's crazy to me, especially in earthquake-prone places like Japan or California. I bought a house here in Japan last year and replaced the gas with all-electric due to concerns of not only leaks and disasters but also just in day-to-day use gas isn't good for indoor air quality.
The one place gas makes sense is heating in cold climates because furnaces are externally vented.
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A hundred years from now people are going to be absolutely flabbergasted how we just piped gas everywhere all the time. Electricity allows for so many more automatic safeguards.
Replicating the power density of a gas pipe requires far more than 110v ac. The future might wonder why we accepted the danger of 5,000v power lines running through food courts just to avoid using gas burners.
... but this was already the case before induction cooking?
There's no getting around Ohm's Law, so any serious consumer is going to have its own transformer to avoid either having massive last-mile losses or insanely thick cables. A large shopping mall will already have multiple transformer stations (and the associated 10kV cabling) to power all the lighting, advertising displays, air conditioning, and so on. Adding induction cooking to that is almost a rounding error.
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Replicating the power density of a gas pipe requires far more than 110v ac. The future might wonder why we accepted the danger of 5,000v power lines running through food courts just to avoid using gas burners.
I agree there's a huge amount of energy that would need to go into a commercial kitchen to replace gas, and I also agree its probably a bit unfeasible at a lot of locations with current technology to do it at any reasonable scale and have it be economically efficient. However, you're not really being honest by suggesting things have to either be 110VAC or 5,000V. Even residentially, an electric range isn't often goin…
It is quite common to see 125A CeeForm around large buildings here for temporary installations, and those give you 86kW of power. Supplying a fraction of that for a hard-wired range really isn't a problem.
This was my first real earthquake since moving to Kyushu. After it stopped I looked it up, and the first place to post the epicenter and shindo was NERV's twitter...which is named after the org from the anime and has an anime screenshot as its banner ( https://x.com/EN_NERV ). Apparently it's a real disaster information service, though. It's been mentioned before but maybe interesting to some ( https://news.ycombinat…
It started as a Twitter account during the Tohoku 2011 earthquake, and then subsequently became a “real” service; the IP owners for the Eva agreed to let them use it going forward.
I never watched much anime, but an old college roommate put me through Neon Genesis Evangelion and it holds a special place in my heart. :-)
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> TSMC, Sony, Fujifilm chips, imagers, materials plants evacuated This makes me think, is it wise to build these places in regions with known earthquake trends. Almost no earthquakes in Korea and Samsung fabs are also located in the most safe area within Korea.
It's a major reason why Arizona was selected for a US site.