Background in hard sciences, computing (FOSS), electronics, music, Zen.
I heat 2 slices of already-toasted bread in the microwave often …with a slice of cheese between them… for 12 to 15 seconds (with 1100 watts), just long enough to start the cheese melting.
Faster than grilled-cheese in a pan if ur in a hurry … and ZERO cleanup.
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it’s also it’s own rabbit hole.
I quit all that tech & dozens of learning curves when I realized I was spending more time in the tech zone that than on music. Think how technically shitty that record ‘Louis, Louis’ was, yet it got covered thousands of times. Can’t ‘quantize’ or ‘EQ’ or ‘reverb’ or ‘mike arrange’ or ‘24-track’ a great song.
Oh geez, so your electric bills go up a little bit. But in 4 more years they’ll make so much money you’ll never have to work any more, just party until the day you die!
I’d not like to ride a communter, but long-distance rail has always been a pleasure. Even moreso when I knew something of the land and history that was passing by. Hitch-hiking is closer to the ground, but slower and much less rewarding … more like labor vs. a concert.
Especially rewarding when you’re free to get on-and-off when/where you want, and be welcomed back aboard when you’re ready to move further on!
There are no other alternatives for baseline power generation.
You can’t run a national grid on 100% renewables and batteries Of course not, but the quickest and lowest-cost solutions should have much high priority. Ergo nukes should be lowest.
(to my understanding) renewables don’t have the output and stability required to fill that void.
Your understanding would change if you actually looked into the facts and the numbers, and change even more if you’d been keeping track of what financial markets have put their money into for well over a decade.
What has worked great for France is keeping their nuclear mishaps very well hidden… as it did for the Saint-Laurent meltdown in 1980, and at the Centraco plant in 2011, for two examples.
That expenditure would displace the 10x the power which renewables + storage have already proven to do all over the world… that’s what nuclear would replace. Nuclear is never good news.
Well-done, funny stuff!
Nuclear energy is never good news.
Solar energy can boil water too. At much lower cost, 10x faster build times, and MUCH less waste … none that has to be guarded for centuries.
Never safe, never clean, never too cheap to meter. The exact opposite of the sales pitches. Rarely built without taxpayer dollars. Name the companies willing to insure one.
And Mac has ‘some production stuff’ that’s leagues better than anything Linux offers. So … great for everyday use … if you can get the Mac hardware at a great price.
That’s not how capitalism works.
I suspect that it’s always been the case that bigger customers are able to negotiate better prices. 1 car a year vs 1000 cars a year? 200 pounds of bread a year vs. 200 tons of bread?
Damn slam!
Oh yeah! But not so many people can handle that option.
Absolutely … smart thinking! Each brand is likely to have different ways to lobotomize it, might take a while to decide which is easiest/best return, then start stocking up.
Reading the other day a June 2011 Elec. Musician mag. Story on Moby in it, he’d collected hundreds of old analog boxes, after digital came along. Used to make his ‘Destroyed’ album.