lemming741 @ lemming741 @lemmy.world

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My county lets you search property tax records by owner name. It is trivial to find someone.

You learn a lot about the speed of sound

The receptacle thing sounds like an attempt at vendor lock in.

It's a corporate laptop, so no telling what it's trying to do.

I don't make it to the next day. I hear the fan running full blast in my bag while it commits seppuku.

In truth, I'm just a Frank Lloyd Wright fanboy.

I'm trying to spread that term here in the SE US. Everyone looks confused so I say "string trimmer". "you mean weed eater?"

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usonia

I wish this had stuck.

Go to a junk yard and look around the import section. Without a front bumper, it can be very hard to tell what make a car is.

Yeah give the people what they want- a registry!

If you charge overnight, the base load is less likely to be fossil fuel. If it is fossil fuel, emission controls on a power plant are far more effective than anything with wheels.

The average car emits 400g CO2 per mile
https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/greenhouse-gas-emissions-typical-passenger-vehicle#driving

My power company emits 364g per kWh, which will take an EV about 3 miles. So that's ~120g CO2 per mile, one third of a gasoline car.
https://www.climatiq.io/data/emission-factor/65ad9f91-28a1-45b2-bbab-3dcdd5de6a46

That's the total mix- natural gas is the primary peak fuel so charging at night is likely less than 100g/mile

They're so fucking myopic. A $50k per year chemical manufacturing operator is going to fuck up $20k worth of equipment and finished product a year compared to a $65k per year.

A $100k/yr technician will save your bacon twice a month and make it look easy. The $70k/yr parts changer will misdiagnose away that $30k you 'saved' in about 6 months.

Dissent detected, officers en route

Yeah it's like 30% less heat input to melt cullet and you save raw materials. The problem is the quality impact. It's a similar problem with paper recycling. Part of that is the fault of consumer preference, and I think that's changing.

https://www.aigmf.com/docs/105/Cullet%20Sorting%20Technologies.pdf

Some info on the challenges

A 12 oz glass bottle takes roughly 1100 BTUs to melt the glass for. That is conveniently, roughly, 1.1 cubic ft of natural gas.

60,000 BTU/hr is a very common size for natural gas HVAC furnaces. That's basically a bottle a minute, just to give people an idea.

There are other inputs of course, but furnace net efficiency is around 2200 BTU/lb

That seems like a trick that only works the first time

But have you seen Rampart?

Same, just noting that they weren't a default option in my ddns plugin. I'm sure that's changed since 2023?

It's really more about automated assembly which ultimately is about saving labor cost. A worm clamp is impossible to automate. The crimps are more reliable and easier to automate.

Here is the manual assembly process, and per usual, disassembly is the reverse

https://knowhow.napaonline.com/how-to-repair-an-air-hose/

Cut that crimp longitudinal and peel it off with pliers. Snatch the hose off and there's a hose barb. New hose, tiny worm clamp, done.