The energy needed for phase change for supercritical CO2 is substantially lower than steam.
There’s more wiggle room. My understanding is that similar to heat pumps, they can build systems with different optimal temperatures, and even daisy chain them together. They’ll never make a perpetual motion machine, but they can waste less energy.
It’s funny (in a sad and sardonic sense) - I pay attention to the energy industry and the outcry over data centers has got me watching these generators closely. If they deliver on their promises, they could represent a great way to deliver on mirror-based solar reactors in areas with limited water resources. (And to recapture and use waste heat from the servers of data centers.)
Society is on the precipice of investing a lot into increasing energy generation for data centers that have to be near the same sorts of resources that people need - fresh water, environs conductive to generating power, stable (enough) climates. But this technology is arriving/set to reach adoption just in time for this boom-bust cycle. All those data centers in populated areas already have a timer ticking for when the shell corps have their rugs pulled.
Weird fucking glove.
I came here to recommend The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet, but couldn’t recall the writer’s name.
I should have known someone would have suggested the series.
Embarrassment kink followed by the lack of emotional regulation to handle the outcome of a scenario they asked asked for.
If the Trump administration doesn’t kill the ADA law changes regarding digital accessibility set to go into effect soon, Adobe is going to leverage the law to unseat the PDF format on the web in an effort to get people to pay for a subscription-based content management system.
Adobe doesn’t own the PDF standard. They gave it to the International Standards Organization in 2008. Acrobat’s accessibility checker has never been updated to newer standards, even as the federal government has moved to require compliance with WCAG 2.1 (a web standard). Their checker does partial WCAG 2.0 and PDF/UA, which was released in 2008. The ISO is working on PDF 2.0, which is not backwards compatible with PDF/UA, nor will files compliant with WCAG be able to meet the PDF 2.0 spec.
Which means that Acrobat (or InDesign) won’t be able to make files that can be legally shared online by many organizations. Adobe will leverage their near monopoly to steer designers into cloud products integrated into their publishing software as a means up fill the niche vacated by PDFs.
Yeah. I wasn’t disagreeing with you.
If anything, I was bolstering your statements against the person who said republicans would love this.
They also want the part where a woman can be controlled by unwanted pregnancy.
Minimally.
One does not need to be exceptionally imaginative to think about what things could be done by a christofascist government with the vaguest cover of law. They’ve already tried to float taking guns from all transgender people due to a single shooting. We know that simply by being known to law enforcement that they will target you for harassment and create charges or “confidential criminal informant” testimony to justify destroying your property (see AfroMan) without any means for you to seek compensation or breaking into your home in the middle of the night and murdering you.
I accidentally brought handcuffs into a flight on August 2001. The TSA agent who found them asked what I planned to do with them.
Being a teenager, the answer was obviously that I kept them in my jacket to pull them out and show my high-school friends how quirky and cool I was. But being a teenager, I didn’t realize how endearing that response would be, so I blurted out the first thing that came to mind, which was somehow better and worse.
“I’m visiting my girlfriend!”
She gave me a slow blink and said “Well, alright then, go get your freak on!” (Or something of a similar sentiment - time has robbed me of the exact phasing.)
‘Iran could develop time travel and kill Milton Friedman!’ JD Vance
‘Iran could develop zero point energy and antigravity tech to leave the planet to die in the hellscape we’ve gleefully created while they travel the cosmos!’ JD Vance
‘Iran could develop couches that chop off dicks!’ JD Vance
So, did my Etsy curses work? Time will tell. […] For now, we can only trust in the timing of the great unknown. […]
And to you, Mr. Kirk: May the rash come swiftly.
They were power napping between play fighting sessions.
Maggie, aka Maggie Moo, or Moo, Mooster, Moo-Diggity and several other variations. The ultimate form is Moodelayheehoo
Freddie, Fred, Ferd, Frodo, Froodlehopher
Banjo, aka Beebs, Beebie Jeebie, Beanie Jeanie, and ultimately Bibbertyjibbert
Todd, Toddster, Tupelo, T-Dangles, and Toodleoo.
Juniper, Juney, June bug, Joonie boonie, June Buggie. (Ultimate form unknown. She’s new.)