Crowbar stocks is on the rise.

Take heat from homes

That’s the tricky part.

This sand battery works by offsetting the production of heat to be used in an already existing district heating system.

That system does not easily change into a district cooling system. It is simply not built to run in reverse. Every part of it from production through distribution, exchanging and in-house distribution are made with one purpose: To transfer heat in one direction.

It makes sense to use renewable energy to charge this battery, so they don’t need as much fossil fuel or whatever they use normally.

But, if we were to make a district wide hvac-system the same way, it would probably be better and more efficient to simply use individual airconditioners using the renewable energy directly.

I think AI could have a good tool for specific purposes and also a very lucrative business if only they had not thrown all that money at it.

The extreme investments forced them to roll it out prematurely over a much larger market that it could ever supply in a meaningful way.

They’re trying to force a camel through the eye of a needle.

I think fertilizer production is one of those things where we already have a solution that works on renewable energy, but it’s more expensive than the conventional methods.

It basically boils down (pun intended) to pressure cooking organic materials. This requires a lot of energy. In my opinion it would make sense to decentralize the production and make it smaller and closer to the also decentralized sources of renewable energy.

About 50% of the price of conventional fertilizer comes from the transportation anyway, so it would make a lot of sense to make it closer to where it’s needed. This is not economically feasible with the conventional production though.

I wonder how long it would take to rebuild society without oil, if we were to cut it from one day to the next.

I don’t think it would be long. Lots of solutions already exist but are infeasible only because oil is cheaper.

Peace is coming.

We don’t send draftees to war. It’s only basic training.

You won’t get banned, but Patrick will add you to his list if you scare the normies.

Yeah BYD will survive, but smaller brands like hiphi, neta, nio, LI auto, etc. There are more than 160 different Chinese brands trying to enter the markets. Most of them will or have already failed i. Europe, even if they are active in other countries.

Plenty of new European brands have also failed for the same reasons.

I do see some chinese brands on the road, but not many in comparison to other more established brands.

The thing keeping people away from chinese brands is the uncertainty of future repairs. The “flood” might come in a few years once people have more experience with how it’s handled. Currently, as people get their first EVs, they want to be able to take their VW to the VW shop, not take their BYD to the random no-name mechanic with a BYD sticker on their window.

Everyone is also waiting for the statistics from the EU inspections. Nobody wants a car that can’t pass the inspection in a few years time. Tesla has proven to be a huge failure in that regard, and I think that will scare people away from not only Tesla, but also the unknown chinese brands who yet have to prove themselves.

It also doesn’t help that these smaller brands pop up and go bankrupt in the same year as they scramble to find their markets.

EU brands might not be any better or cheaper, but at least they are better represented locally.

They have 2 reasons to do this:

1. To drug the soldiers.
2. To put the blame of failure on individuals.

The purpose is to have an army of cannon fodder when they take on NATO and to push through the inevitable failure when doing so.

It’s an option that you can enable/disable in the settings using the merchant card.

Depending on the type of store, it can easily be a confusing nuisance. People don’t always look at the terminal and start typing their pin code as the tip amount or just generally wasting everyone’s time by talking and asking questions about it.

Doubt it. Even Putin knows not to check for electricity by pissing on the fuse box.

Robot vacuum designers are limited to using only the “o” vowel. That’s just the way it is.

Your taxes paid for it.

If I was Mark, I would require all company meetings to happen in the Metaverse, so I could change all their sad faces to happy smily faces.

Why have sad conversations when you can have “hey boss I think you suck and I quit! 😄😄”

Some year/decades ago Prague was the best place to experience fantastic jazz for cheap money. Probably still is to some degree.

This was because they had a lot of people enrolling in universities (music conservatories) due to poverty. They even have a one of a kind conservatory for blind musicians.

The entire countryside was a dead end, so anyone with a remote talent for doing the hand whistle would move from the villages all over the Czech Republic to take the chance in Prague. Education gave them a low but steady income and a chance of getting into an orchestra. Much like Hollywood, right? Except these people got paid to do it, so it obviously attracted many to do so.

However, orchestras and universities only need so many players and teachers, so once they were educated they ended up playing on the streets or in small dive in bars if they were lucky.

Mind, these were the state-of-art and most talented people at that in the world. Competition was fierce. Only the best could survive on that.

As an ignorant tourist not knowing the reasons, this was heaven. The street artists were more talented than the professional orchestras at home.

I myself had a dream of becoming a performing musician at the time but I gave up that dream after seeing a guitarist at a jazz club in Prague play the most magnificent solo while attempting to keep the band aid shut on his finger to avoid the blood dripping over the stage from playing ten gigs before on the same day.

Soon, if things continue the way they are, we will find the best computer programmers on the streets, making code for nickels while wearing casts to keep their mouse stain injuries from stopping them.

Anyway. Romans didn’t do that, but gladiators, musicians and coders are still just people trying to make living.

In my opinion that’s a band aid that has to come off.

We shouldn’t take the high road to avoid backlash. The populists are going to go lower regardless of where we set the bar. This is how it has already gotten so low that we’re even debating straws.

We should set the bar much much higher, so they can bitch and moan about hundreds of issues instead of finding unity in single issues like straws.

I don’t think people are limited to bitching about one thing at a time, so we definitely shouldn’t hold back the discussion of unsustainable meat production until they’re done bitching about straws.

We aren’t supposed to learn anything from the giga-fucks of data.

It’s the AI that will learn everything about you so it can invent new ways to throw marketing at you.