Das Doak
@dasdoak
Gentleman adventurer, mostly decent bastard, only slightly pessimistic optimist. I ride bikes, tinker, program, and read way too much. White, cis, straight, US male if you need the context. It's a fucked demographic; wasn't my choice to be born into it.
For the record, this is what the thing looks like. It comes with ~250, 500, or 1000hp, it weights MORE THAN TWO TONS and is seven feet tall. This shit should be illegal.
US alcohol consumption actually peaked well before prohibition was considered within the realm of policy and, when Prohibition *did* happen, it was as much a racist response to minority immigrants with drinking cultures (the Irish, Germans, Italians) as it was about actual alcohol consumption.
For the most part, that's the Östdeutsches Suburban Partei. Though, much the same as how Neoconfederateism has now spread to much of the US midwest, it *is* escaping containment.
Looking at maps centered around Evry in particular, I think I can see where their outliers are coming from; they think that these giant warehouses are poorly insulated and are going to be blasting their air conditioning 100% of the time, both of which seem like highly pessimistic assumptions.
To be very blunt, I have *questions* about the authors' methodologies, because the maps in the paper cited is projecting those 2°C rises in the vicinity of Paris in very weird locations, while also not showing increases in places you would expect to see them.
In terms of specific policy, this means planting trees, hanging shade sails wherever possible, covering parking lots, and - wherever possible - removing unnecessary pavement.
$32k right off Chevy's website right now. Maybe don't pick one of the higher trim packages?
It's almost all political; if you wanted to solve housing - basically permanently - you could grant national permission to build some version of a Khrushchevka and then the factories that'd be built to pump out their components would drop the price through the floor if there were no red tape.
Just about any city on the Ivory Coast would put your median flyover country backwater to shame.
So, here's a street in Offenbach, a suburb of Frankfurt, that I walked down a few days ago. I can almost guarantee that every single apartment in these buildings is cheaper than anything in Chicago specifically *because* they were built at market rate decades ago and then depreciated over time.
The fact that oil revenues have historically been about twice oil product revenues - in spite of oil products being significantly more valuable than oil itself - is part of why I think the destroyed refinery output may be able to be covered my global refineries.
"Congratulations! Your efforts to avoid spending thirteen quid has resulted in you being fined £11,000!"
The only circumstance under which this would be acceptable would be if the camera functionality would only operate as long as a gigantic "Smile, you're on camera!" sign was attached to the glasses.
Biomass (the lovely euphemism for "burn plants for power") *can* be cheaper than coal, but normally only in countries that have a buttload of trees and, even then, it's almost always more expensive than just sticking a bunch of solar panels in a field and hooking them up to batteries.
...and blocked for violating my "no ad-hominem insults" rule. People really seem to have a problem with that one.
It's gotta be BioShock Infinite. The only other games that come close are the GTA series.
Hell, you could probably transport *more* stuff with a vintage station wagon because it was feasible to strap a bunch of it to the roof! While this is, in principle, possible with modern SUVs, they aren't designed for it and you'd need to pack a ladder to access anything on the roof.
Of course, that's nowhere near as funny as the Green/Gray hydrogen distinction, which results in the absolutely incredible determination that the carbon emissions of producing a fuel don't matter when considering the carbon-intensity of a power plant using that fuel.
Anyways, if you did bother to read the ruling, you'd know that Austria's position had nothing whatsoever to do with hydrogen co-generation and *everything* to do with the classification of gaseous fossil fuel thermal plants -period- as "contributing substantially to climate change mitigation."
Also, funnily enough, a full life-cycle analysis by the World Nuclear Association (hardly an impartial group) suggests that the source of energy with the lowest lifetime CO² emissions is actually onshore wind, and not nuclear.
...what planet are you on? Just less than half of Ukraine's domestic energy production comes from Nuclear and that number has *fallen* since the war began.
I don't like all of Frank Lloyd Wright's work but, even so, I still have to admit that the man had *range* and he actively considered the environment that something was going to end up in.
...so we aren't going to talk about the French nuclear shutdown at all then?
Conversation about London's underground reminded me of the fact that, when the thing first started it off with the Metropolitan Railway, they were working off the obscenely wide 7'1/4" GWR Brunel Gauge, which means that all the old pictures of it look like they were stretched horizontally.