DisasterTransport

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I checked with the poopsmith and while he says he can't offer you his skills hes proud of you for being number one at going number one.

If one shingle breaks yeah you wouldn't want to huff it, but realistically dilution would mean the tiny amount released is next to harmless. Asbestos is an extreme occupational hazard for people unlucky enough to have worked with it, but for most extant asbestos material the best practice is to leave in place.

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

Re: other shapes, they have to be tesselations of repeating regular polygons. I would refuse to call the one on the right a grid:

And this one is right out:

Edit: I have been informed that the Escher tesselation pictured is in fact a grid and am now in a foul mood.

"Why the hell do people keep letting ducks loose on my bus?"

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 7 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

"the back" is a distribution center a couple towns over, because modern retail is a tightly integrated and logistics heavy industry. How don't you know this Carol? This has been the standard for like 40 years CAROL

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Those transmission losses don't have immediate health and environmental costs, though, and even discounting those there'll be conversion losses on both ends (e: for chemical energy carriers) if what we want to get out of it is usable electricity from renewables. Dont take my skepticism for poohpoohing btw, this kind of counterintuitive thinking is one of the more fascinating things about economics. Or maybe I just like to argue :P

I'll look up the paper, this is an interesting topic.

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Pipelines are cheap because we already build a lot of them. We already use them to move multiple products. It's a somewhat generic technology (which is very impressive, dont get me wrong).

I'd be interested to learn how the capex breaks down for the HVDC lines. Is it labor? Procurement? Those can both be optimized with scale. Expand the qualified workforce and incentivize competition among suppliers. If it's raw material cost it might be a little harder. I imagine right of way costs are also quite a bit higher owing to the large footprint. But then once you acquire the RoW it stays there in perpetuity. Still, I bet my favorite hat that once you consider the externalities and conversion losses the transmission lines are a clear winner. The electrical grid really only causes fires when its neglected, whereas gas infrastructure leaks constantly.

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

If they're renters they have no economic roots and will simply move somewhere that has jobs and no data centers, or at least jobs. You live in Indiana. You should know this.

"Why is my small city dying? this is all Indianapolis's fault, oh I hate those city slickers so, daddy gubmint pls halp"

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 72 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (19 children)

fantastic, now they can tell which specific parts of the jeep ad get my blood pumping

[–] DisasterTransport@startrek.website 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (3 children)

You would have to pay taxes, and that's fine. But how do you report a sudden windfall of fifty million dollars in cash?

HSPA+ is not 4G. It has a max theoretical throughput of 168Mbit. It was sold as 4G. Same with Wimax and earlier LTE implementations.

 
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