Do US banks have limits on how many accounts you have?
I think you run out of numbers at 99 here in NZ but otherwise most banks will let you have as many basic everyday or savings accounts as you want.
Edit: BNZ says there’s a limit of 25 transaction accounts for them.
Ships haven’t really ‘solved’ the same issues. They’re dry-docked at regular intervals (about every 5 years?), have minimal moving components below the waterline, and get the props cleaned by divers more frequently.
They are also capable of travelling to dry-dock under their own power and deliver a lot more revenue than your average wave turbine would, so the costs of dry-docking them aren’t as significant.
Absolutely. The point is that even when people say “ha ha, your [heat pump | EV] still actually runs on gas/oil/coal to make its power” - you’re still using less gas/oil/coal than you would with conventional gear, even if the power grid was 100% gas/oil/coal. Which it’s not.
Absolutely. The point is that even when people say “ha ha, your [heat pump | EV] still actually runs on gas/oil/coal to make its power” - you’re still using less gas/oil/coal than you would with conventional gear, even if the power grid was 100% gas/oil/coal. Which it’s not.
With wind, at least all the moving parts tend to be well above water, only exposed to salt spray (though that’s still pretty nasty).
Tidal and especially wave have moving components exposed to water, often right on the wind-water line. That makes them corrosion and maintenance horrors.
There have been plenty of demonstration wave & tidal plants that have produced power, but I think the operation record is about two years, most much less.
Building and scrapping your plants every year or two is neither cost nor energy efficient.
Solar, hydro, geothermal, and wind are much nicer to deal with.
In moderate climates it is more efficient to burn gas to produce electricity then use that to run a heat pump, than it is to burn gas directly.
Gas power plants are about 35-60% efficient depending on whether they’re a cheap inefficient peaker or Rankine, or a pricey CCGT plant.
Heat pumps have a COP of 2.5x to >5 depending on outdoor temperature and series.
Good gas furnaces/boilers and the grid are both upwards of 90% efficient.
So a 40% efficient gas plant driving a COP 3 heat pump produces 1.2x the heat that you get from burning the gas directly. That’s close to worst case and you can also run your grid on other fuels.
Fun fact: you can ship bees by mail (at least in some areas) and the ‘this way up’ on them is important as otherwise the sugar water inside causes issues.
Sometimes it’s easier to let these people do what they’re doing than to try and change their mind.
I was thinking it was going to be this one:
Yeah. 5-10 years ago you would have installed the LEDs you wanted and that’s it.
Now lots of industrial stuff is starting to come RGB. They can stock fewer parts and you fix it in software.
I’ve never had this happen to me.
The safety issues with aluminium conductors are basically solved and there’s a slow push to reintroduce CCA into domestic wiring.
Air New Zealand/Queerland?
USB-C is kinda sorta hermaphroditic.
Also good old child abuse, poorly handled.
12, because they’re zero-indexed.
Probably six cores with hypethreading or the AMD equivalent.
Fair. I was mostly talking about the logo change, not so much the general “let’s remap a key”.
Most of the market flat-out won’t notice. The few that notice are probably split between don’t care and having the newest logo be conspicuous consumption, same as the windows key.
An extra seat cushion can help lift you up; my mum used to drive that way.
I assume your seat is fully up already?
“energy ceasefire”