quicklime

joined 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Could we make it Uranus?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago

Let us now palpate this irony.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (6 children)

He's not worth the fuel cost :\

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 weeks ago (11 children)

I can't afford fast food anymore. This article must be about the vanishing middle class and above.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

pretty sure the other replies missed the satire

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago

and that's just the psych side. It's blatantly obvious that in terms of physical health he has one and a half feet in the grave.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I don't know how chainmail-specific your wish is, but there are plenty of weighted blankets for sale. Most of them have thousands of tiny heavy beads sewn into a quilted fabric that keeps them from moving around or bunching up too much. The one I have weighs about 8 lbs in Queen size and it feels, weight-wise, similar to the feeling of having four or five extra blankets on the bed but without all the heat/insulation of doing that.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

Now is that better or worse than being raccooned by up to 100 hounds?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 weeks ago* (last edited 4 weeks ago)

The trick is learning not to hate what you live, but to live what you hate.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago (3 children)

I don't understand who's downvoting this article, except for maybe those who didn't read it and are only downvoting the headline.

If anyone's downvoting it after actually reading the whole piece, I wonder what they found objectionable about it.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Remember, though, that it is currently profitable to reform hydrogen out of methane, at the same time as it's not profitable to contain and sell 'byproduct' hydrogen. There are sure to be reasons why, and they might be fairly durable reasons that don't change much even as the demand for hydrogen increases. I'm no expert on this so I won't speculate too much on what those reasons might be -- maybe factors related to scale and logistics?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm pretty sure the basic thermodynamics of it are against truly green hydrogen production ever becoming cheaper than the dirty business of producing it by reforming methane from natural gas, unless basically all fossil fuel subsidies are someday cancelled -- or else after the energy cost of energy gets so high (in other words, the energy return on energy invested falls so low) that it's no longer practical to extract fossil fuel from the ground regardless of price or any other economic factor; -- but by that point in the future, that same scarcity will have permanently crashed the world economy thus humanity will already be in forced deindustrialization. I could go on...

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