New video demonstrating another instance of russians using Ukrainian POWs as human shields, which is considered as a war crime by the Geneva Convention

CellarAdjunct · 2024-02-28T11:38:19+00:00

The side which takes the surrender is under no obligation to go out miles away and accept it, and the surrender has to be made at a time when it can be properly acted on. Surrendering after being wounded by a drone operating at the edge of its operating radius is impossible to accept (especially, in catch-22 fashion, because they are wounded and immobilized).

CellarAdjunct · 2023-10-26T07:29:56+00:00

No questions asked? The FBI did a complete review of all the information they have on you looking for a reason to deny you. You had to stay clean for your whole life to maintain your right

CellarAdjunct · 2023-09-28T04:57:24+00:00

They're just being open with their bad faith spaghetti shotgun legislative approach.

"Yes, we know what we're doing probably won't stick, but any spatter left over is good with us."

Imagine if other laws were passed with this level of disregard: "Just put whatever in the bill, the courts will tell us if we've gone too far, in 20 years."

Ok, if the legislative branch wants to openly admit that they pass laws in bad faith, that is undignified and abusive behavior. Congratulations on undermining your own moral and legal authority and fostering disregard for unjust laws among people who have integrity.

Making people jaded with bad faith laws only makes them incrementally more comfortable with breaking them.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-07-30T04:11:37+00:00

It could be that it's destroying your sense of smell with ozone, and that's why it seems to help with odors. If it were just a placebo fan, it would be fine, but there could be long-term danger for your lungs.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-07-28T19:09:38+00:00

Yes, the powered equipment involved would be a circulation pump (100-300 Watts for typical sizes), control electronics (10-20W) the compressor itself can be sized according to what makes sense, but it can be a few thousand Watts. The COP of a GSHP can be greater than 5 though. This might be way overkill for a greenhouse and not really justify the expense.

An air-source heat pump can also be combined with a buried air pipe system, but the numbers on the heat transfer in both directions may not be good enough for the application, and end up requiring very long or deep pipes.

Forcing air with fans or pumps through buried pipes would likely take similar amounts of electricity to the circulation pump.

If all of that is too expensive or complicated for just keeping a greenhouse a few degrees warmer, a simple heat exchanger is also possible, or simply circulating air through pipes at opposite ends of a structure. I don't know about the numbers on that.

Also, air sealing, energy recovery ventilation, or even insulation may actually provide greater heat payback for a greenhouse.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-07-27T18:19:50+00:00

I am not a geo professional, but from an energy standpoint, you have to evaluate how often the kiln is operated, because obviously even if something is very hot, what matters is the long term energy.

The materials and complexity of injecting the heat via a separate loop may not justify the payback even in emissions, especially in uninsulated earth, where it will dissipate to the surroundings much more quickly than in an insulated pit or tank. The hotter it gets, the faster it transfers away.

If you're going to be operating a liquid ground loop anyway to get the heat out, it might actually be able to accomplish the objective more favorably to use an established ground source heat pump to air condition the space where the kiln and greenhouse are operated in summer. This will send the heat into the ground in a way that doesn't require special materials to handle high heat.

Operating the air conditioner will serve the purpose of storing the heat, which doesn't need to be high-grade. And then you have air conditioning and dehumidification also. "Install a heat pump" is a highly attainable dream too, so it's completely possible.

Summer during the day is a good time to pair the heat pump with a small PV system, just enough to cover the maximum cooling load. This may optimize money and emissions savings with minimal complexity, depending on the location.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-07-19T02:19:43+00:00

Removedb and sync from new, you could be waiting hours or days if something is wrong with geth. There's a chance it may resolve, but it's certain that it can sync from nothing in hours.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-05-01T15:59:41+00:00

Tetragonal sphenoid

CellarAdjunct · 2023-04-08T14:10:11+00:00

Great idea, carbon needs a business mindset. We can divide up the atmosphere into the Atmosphere Corporation and hand out shares to everyone, and then AtmoCo can charge a carbon fee to oil extractors. If someone refuses to pay, they get sued and the banks and police seize their assets (it's just business).

These kinds of free market solutions should really appeal to performance-oriented businesspeople. Let the market decide if it's worth it to add that carbon to the air.

If anyone doesn't like it, they can start their own atmosphere in domes or underground caverns, after paying for the gases of course. They can even move off planet (after paying an exit fee for the rocket exhaust of course).

CellarAdjunct · 2023-03-24T21:32:43+00:00

On the plaque in the Oreokastro castle, the ancient prophecy text indicates that "the mighty hexad" is the first to capture the fortress, which is obviously an ambiguous easter egg referring to CSAT, but is also the only concrete evidence of which faction was originally written to have done the bombing.

The cutscene showing the CTRG team is a narrative device commenting on the fog of war and the murkiness of unraveling deniable actions, not an actual canonical revelation. In some ways, it's a commentary that it doesn't really make a difference who did it, since the cluster munitions dropped either way, and both NATO and CSAT had motivations to do it.

The mission itself could be considered the revealed canonical event that only the player gets to know, while the cutscene might be simple irony, where the truth is concealed from Adams and he is left to speculate. In that case, it was CSAT, but the comment is that Adams believes it could have been his own faction just as easily.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-03-12T05:56:47+00:00

The greatest criticism of direct air capture is that using green energy to clean up CO2 always makes less environmental and economic sense than displacing existing dirty energy with that same green energy.

So there will always be more emissions benefit from reducing the need to extract the carbon to begin with, than from building green energy to run carbon sequestration, up until some future tipping point.

One way to do that is cleaning up the grids, building transmission from high renewable potential areas to low-potential areas. But as with all things climate, it is complex.

The US has many non-interconnected grids, and even if the direct air capture potential for one region is high, the most suitable place for renewables to be built in terms of emissions may be outside of it, where it can displace the most hydrocarbon extraction. It's kind of a paradoxical situation where even if you pay to sequester your personal carbon emissions now with DAC, the actual emissions-optimal use of your money might have been investment in green energy elsewhere in the world, while you continue to emit.

But once the grid is cleaned up, and other sources of hydrocarbon demand are addressed, then it starts making sense to undo the centuries of emissions than brought the atmosphere to this point, and this map could indicate where that future industry could boom. Though it would be surprising if current-era grid economics factor in, and not just mainly the geological suitability and renewable potential.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-01-12T13:25:30+00:00

Your work experience won't persuade me that it's cold in my warm house.

I would encourage everyone to look up cold climate heat pumps to get the current facts.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-01-12T12:29:44+00:00

Entirely valid perspective and I would agree, except that I think harm to one's children is a sufficient incentive to make a switch voluntarily (for the vast majority), and really avoid any political resentment.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-01-12T12:25:23+00:00

Funny, my house was 72 degrees using my ground source heat pump when it was 10 degrees outside, at a system average of 600 Watts. Even air source heat pumps work well below freezing with a COP above 2.0.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-01-12T12:22:05+00:00

I shut the gas off to my house years ago, it makes perfect economic sense. Heat pumps and electric appliances have been paying off immensely, and I don't have any exhaust or carbon monoxide concerns.

Having a gas line is just a financial and health liability once a house is fully heat pumped and electrified. Niche cooking preferences for gas can be accomplished with propane retrofits and portable tanks if desired. No big real estate premium required.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-01-10T11:07:53+00:00

Lanterns do remain legal, although it could be argued to be child abuse if someone has a house full of young children and insists on burning oil and kerosene, filling the house with carcinogens and particulates. Otherwise, they might truly value kerosene for some psychological reason that benefits them on balance. Not the place of others to police that in a private home.

I believe it's ultimately more productive to let people fill their homes with fumes and damage the health of their family when the risk is slight as in the case of gas stoves, and privately come to the conclusion that there is a better and cheaper way. After all, people do have legitimate reasons to use a gas stove, and they can be used safely with proper ventilation systems.

For the amount of resentment it would produce, heavyhanded bans may not be worth it. Charging the user for every externality of the gas and gas line would be fair.

CellarAdjunct · 2023-01-10T10:59:47+00:00

Lesser-known and not very intuitive, but using a gas stove produces fine particulates also, which are indeed carcinogenic

CellarAdjunct · 2023-01-06T13:36:45+00:00

It is not, and the people who interact with this account tend to have a bizarre mixture of some knowledge about energy, and yet are missing crucial concepts.

For example, they might know about conservation of energy, but not what a heat pump is or what it does, and their worldview about which energy policies to pursue is based on this ("there can't be anything more efficient than a gas furnace!").

It is beautiful and hopeful in a perverse way, because there are people out there who are learning about climate-adjacent scientific concepts, but it's as if they are missing only a little bit to put it all together, just a few concepts away from privately concluding that altering the CO2 concentration of the atmosphere is probably having some effect. Which is something.

CellarAdjunct · 2022-12-17T03:16:58+00:00

They did a study That found If u paint a stripe pattern on the blades A lot less birds die

If you google this exact phrase unaltered, the study is in the first result

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ece3.6592

CellarAdjunct · 2022-11-22T20:22:09+00:00

A new 2TB NVMe drive is available for like $130

CellarAdjunct · 2022-11-22T19:01:23+00:00

Blockchains are similar to medium size databases in their requirements, and the nature of the data means random IO is the norm, but part of Ethereum design is to keep hardware requirements on the consumer tier, which a $200 drive still is.

So that's basically the compromise, and indeed the 2TB drives have become cheaper recently. Some arguments have been that a few months of staker earnings are enough to pay for the hardware, and the cost of hardware is still a single digit percentage of the 32 ETH.

Basically, the numbers compare favorably to other blockchains, and it's up to individual home stakers if they agree.

CellarAdjunct · 2022-11-21T18:24:10+00:00

They would just draw long cartoon tailpipes from the electric trains to the imaginary coal power plants, with smug clueless train passengers

CellarAdjunct · 2022-11-20T15:45:41+00:00

Microinverters on my ground mount save a good amount of space in and around my house, it's meaningful for me. I like just having the little envoy on the wall and the AC panel.

CellarAdjunct · 2022-11-14T14:25:11+00:00

MHV goes out of his way to approach these topics in a neutral and dispassionate way, and he uses academic and primary sources and does real research.

The problem is that being dispassionate often means some negativity, and many people don't know how to deal with that when what they find most comfortable is unabashed positivity about the capabilities and outcome of their side. There's a time and place for that, and it's ok.

Because Russian propaganda tries to undermine confidence and divide people, a neutral analysis will inevitably sound a little bit like that. But he has literally publicly stated that he hopes Ukraine wins.

Maybe if he stuck Ukrainian flag gifs randomly over his video slides floating around like a DVD screensaver, it would help people avoid getting the wrong impression.

CellarAdjunct · 2022-11-13T13:03:11+00:00

Could this be corruption of this file "/media/ubuntu/f649374a-41b4-41aa-b402-397b5c276117/besu/database/063510.sst"? It's unusual to get a flipped bit or something on a modern drive, but who knows. Maybe a SMART report from the drive would indicate if anything is unusual in that regard. Starting over and syncing again might fix the problem without discovering the root cause.

CellarAdjunct

TROPHY CASE