In Paris a lot of apartments had a cellar opening on the outside.

Like this one:

Unfortunately a lot of them have been removed since it’s much easier to have everything in the fridge at constant temperature and energy used to be cheap.

My dog would sit in front of is and whine of we don’t take the harness off after a walk.

Even without pumping, hydroelectricity is great to complement intermittent storage. A dam is storing a lot of potential energy that can be released or not at the right time.

There is a big dam close to where I live. In winter the level goes down progressively and as soon as spring comes back, the solar panels are producing again and the electrical demands goes down so the lake level goes back up progressively.

In summer the lake is full so all the tourists can enjoy the activities on the water.

When we believed the future would be better.

Now when we looked at the future we see climate change, rise of fascism some the world, destruction of the biodiversity …

the devices can be powered by on-site battery packs topped up by solar panels.

I believe this is the case for a lot of the very fast chargers, it’s easier to install batteries pack to smooth the consumption rather than upgrading the grid to handle the occasional peak consumption.

The possibility to easily change the USB port definitely weight in the balance in favor of a fairphone when I picked a new phone.

Now two other members of my family have a fairphone 5 as well.

English isn’t my first language so it’s hard to find the word to describe it.

It’s definitely a unique drink, very herbal. The green is not on the herbal side, the yellow a bit more on the spices like vanilla, liquorice.

The best way to drink it is to slowly sip it in a wide glass. Like a perfume, the flavor profile change with time. So the first sip will not taste the same as the second sip.

I sometime “forgot” a glass for an hour and two and when I came back it was a completely different drink, sill as delicious as the beginning.

On the expensive side, one recently seen this display in a monastery’s meeting room in France. 3m high, 5m wide filled with bottles of chartreuse, some more than a century old, some very rare editions where less than ten bottles were produced.

Any of these bottles could be sold for several thousands.

Wrong, there was a vote few months ago at the UN to make food a human right. Only two countries voted against it, the USA and Israel.

So the US don’t consider food to be a human right.

5 min charging, but 15 min to park the car, plug the car, find that you need to download an app, scan the qr code, download the app, create an account, verify your email, verify your phone number, no I don’t want a subscription, no don’t send me customized emails from your partners, enter the 10 number of your credit card, verify the paiement on the bank app, click on “start the charge”, it failed because the car was already plugged, unplug the car, redo steps 4-12, start the charge, plug the car and it’s finally started charging.

This is my biggest issue with EV charger, having to jump through all that to charge the car just because they want to have their app on my phone.

With today’s technology, we could just arrive at the station, plug the car and that’s it.

The station can recognize the car, could get the paiement data from a shared database between chargers and start charging both my car and my credit card automatically.

There is a law in France, all new washing machine since last year need to have a micro-particle filter installed.

The story of the liqueur is fascinating.

To start the original manuscript was an alchemist recipe for the elixir of life, it might have been brought back from Constantinople by one of François Annibal d’Estrées ancestor.

Since it seems valuable but he couldn’t do anything with it, he brought it to the best herbalists he knew: the cartusian monks.

The monks worked on it for a while but it’s only in 1755 that he brother Jerome Maubec managed to refine the recipe to create the first chartreuse “Elixir de Santé”. The recipe was written down in a manuscript and kept secret at all cost.

A lot of events happened after that, the monk got expelled and the monastery was seized by the French revolutionaries. They came back few decades later. They created the brand “Chartreuse” in 1840.

In 1903 the monastery and the brand “Chartreuse” was seized by the French government and the monks expelled once again. This time the monks saw the wind turn in advance and moved all the production equipment in Spain to protect it and started the production there. From 1903 the Chartreuse was produced in Tarragona (Spain) by the monk.

At this period the recognition of the liquor grew internationally. In 1925 it appears in the novel “The Magnificent Gatsby”.

The monks finally regains the brand after decades of trials and the right to move back their monasteries.

In 1935 a landslide destroyed their facilities at “la Fourvoirie”. They saved what they could and moved everything to Voiron, to be close to a train station for logistic. (I have a picture of my great grandfather supervising the transportation of the barrels after the landslide, I can share it if I manage to find it again).

They moved the distillery to Aiguenoire in 2018.

The monks created a company that produce the chartreuse, all the technical steps (bottling, labeling …) are done by this company under the monks supervision but the recipe is still kept secret and only a few monks have access to it. So, despite the million of bottles produced every year, the critical steps of the recipe, the mix of plants, are still done by the monks themselves in secret.

Chartreuse can be hard to find in the US right now since it grew in popularity since the early 2010s but the monks don’t want to increase production. From what I understand their mindset is that there is no point of increasing the production for a trend that might be gone in a few decades.

This is the best one in my opinion (after the VEP, but the VEPs are in another budget range)

I don’t understand what you are asking. You don’t need a VPN since you lube in a third world country that does not care and piracy.

Then torrent movies without a VPN.

A Bamix is bifl.

As a french and daily nixos user, this is great.

Nixos or a derivative would make a ton of sense for an administration, just load the same config on all the computers and voila! Each department can have it’s own variation of the config.

So far it’s just a plan to come up with a plan for this winter. It’s not like the French government is ready to switch all the workstations this year.

But, things have been going on the right direction for a while.

There is shops that can cast a ring based on your design.

You either send the 3D model, the resin ring you printed and the make a mold from it or the wax part.

This is more the road I would go towards. You can design your ring, maybe print it and try it on for a bit to make sure it’s the right size, iterate of necessary and then have it casted for you.

I stopped drinking alcohol.

I strongly reduced my consumption after my first kid was born and just drank less and less.

Initially I reduced my consumption because being hangover while taking care of a crying baby SUCKS! Then the less I drank the more I realized the impact of even a glass of wine to my mood and energy level.

Yes, even Monaco or the Vatican get their own euro coin.