[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

They're saying the ring around the North and South Pole is actually 1:1 scale. An inch of land is an inch of map.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 57 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The elf reich huh? I knew those long eared bastards were up to something. Goddamn thalmor.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 55 points 5 months ago

He's a chronicler of Baltimore's underbelly. He's a subject matter expert of Baltimore and graft.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 56 points 6 months ago

They have a civil case for defamation, but I honestly think adults bullying children should get a criminal citation. Not a felony, but still something.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 57 points 6 months ago

Salted roads and pitting corrosion in stainless steel? Who would've thought.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 59 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

That law provides several different levels of trafficking, and Hotchkiss was convicted under the lowest level – having between 2.2 lbs and 100lbs. That weight includes all parts of the plant, root and stem and all.

40 years, jesus fucking CHRIST.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 59 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

If you can work it properly, molten salt reactors are MUCH safer and more efficient, because the waste heat from fission products cannot cause a problem with something cooled through convection and conduction of a molten salt. You can't really have a destructive meltdown when the coolant doesn't care if the fuel melts. The problem is, most previous attempts ended up with the reactor catching on fire. Not a dangerous fire, exactly, but generally not the outcome you're looking for.

On the waste front, neutron activation of water produces tritium at worst, which you dispose of by putting it into a bigger body of water. Neutron activation of the molten salt coolant can be more difficult to dispose of, but it's not exactly a major problem.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 59 points 10 months ago

No war but class war

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 58 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah they nailed him with a noncompete for that public domain IP. Crafty.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 56 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Opposite actually. Combustion of most organic molecules react oxygen with hydrocarbons to produce water vapor. Fire is humidifying.

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 62 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

One thing I can promise you, even if it's not 2x4 construction, those brick and plaster walls will turn a house into an oven over the summer even with judicious control of open windows. They just store up the heat for a night time that feels like noon day sun. Folks used to straight up sleep on their porches.

Signed,
A resident of an un-air conditioned brick and plaster house in the mid Atlantic currently sweating his balls off

[-] roguetrick@kbin.social 55 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You'd need huge cryogenic tanks due to the volume density of hydrogen over kerosene. Good for rockets that you can jettison tanks from, but less so for planes. I just don't see it ever being practical for aviation over just creating our own hydrocarbons out of something else. Either catalyst based or otherwise. That's potentially carbon neutral as well.

Edit: my comment, but with numbers https://pubs.aip.org/physicstoday/article/74/9/11/928294/Hydrogen-as-an-aviation-fuel It's not a problem with how heavy the fuel would be or just how much space they'd take. It's how heavy the damn tanks would need to be and how much of the aircraft would be devoted to them on long distance flights.

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