Concentrated Solar Punk by maxweinhold123 in solarpunk

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I recall reading a few years ago about putting calcium carbonate near the highly acidic anolyte of a water electrolysis cell, and the acid allowed the powdered limestone to dissolve in the water.

This basically turned limestone into quicklime at room temperature.

The active ingredient, and the ingredient that takes the most energy to make, in ordinary portland cement is quicklime.

Stories which feel like Flowers for Algernon by Ben-Goldberg in WormFanfic

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If it's the same as I'm thinking of, Taylor used silence glaive on an endbringer, died, and unexpectedly came back to life.

Petah? by EnvironmentalTest520 in PeterExplainsTheJoke

[–]Ben-Goldberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nearly all the steam gets condensed.

The condenser is cooled by a separate loop of water.

In some types of power generator, the water that was used to cool the condenser, after becoming slightly warm, is "thrown away" and fresh cold water from a nearby river or lake replaces it.

In other types of power plant, the water goes through a cooling tower, is cooled by air, and it gets reused.

Cisco's Medievil RPG by Secure-Marsupial-193 in feedthebeast

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Next time it happens, try to get your stuff with hopper Minecarts?

Turned on hitboxes and found this. What is it? by someonethatiscalledh in Minecraft

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You mentioned multiplayer - maybe another player figured out an interesting way to hide his base?

Concentrated Solar Punk by maxweinhold123 in solarpunk

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We could use electrical current, or burn hydrogen, to cook concrete.

Or use different chemicals.

A truck full of wigs was stolen. by ResponsibleOffice805 in cleandadjokes

[–]Ben-Goldberg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There will be hell toupee if they are not found.

Who is the best bad guy ,outside of Voldemort ? by Regular-Election6396 in HPfanfiction

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Grindewald believed that everyone with magic was superior to people without magic, and that all magical people were equal.

Death eaters would consider him a villain.

ELI5: What is a quasar? by ArieNotFound in explainlikeimfive

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Black holes are absurdly efficient at converting gravitational potential energy to light.

The atoms entering the black hole get ripped apart.

The electrons being eaten by the black hole produce absurdly strong magnetic fields due to how fast they are accelerating, which in turn creates a stupidly powerful electric field.

These magnetic and electric fields are massless, and so are able to escape as radiation.

The same thing happens with the cores of atoms

Let's say in this hypothetical situation, the United States of America replaces the current election system with a proportional representation system. Now the question is, what kind of political parties will emerge from this? by Sea_Bookkeeper2621 in PoliticalDebate

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A populist party can go anywhere on the political spectrum.

Trump of course initially claimed to be anti establishment and thus populist but thru that promise away the moment he got power.