It is possible for a third party to arise in FPTP elections, but it’s certainly not common or easy. The UK has a bunch; NZ had a couple before moving to MMP; I think Australia has some.
It usually requires a competent and well-known politician storming out of their party for ideological differences, but being locally popular enough to win their seat as an independent or new party.
AOC might pull it off.
I imagine something akin to a draft or arranged marriages. You’re not married, you’re not married, congrats you’re now married.
I’m not too fond of calling this a ‘tax’. Tax money goes to funding actually useful things. Conservatives want you to think that giving money to the government and throwing it down the toilet are the same thing.
That would likely be the winch, but yes, you’ll need a nice large regenerating motor drive.
I would hazard a guess that a 40t-rated winch, 40t-rated 100m wire rope, and 40t-rated steel bucket to hold the scrap each cost more than a 10kWh battery.
I’m not liking their maths.
For a large shaft, we move weights up to 40 metric tonnes, which give us the capability to store up to 10 kWh of energy per 100 metres of depth.
40t ~= 400kN, so at 100m that’s 40MJ. Sure, that’s 11.1kWh mechanical, perhaps a little optimistic to say you’ll get 10kWh back. That’s a smallish home battery.
Where do you get another five-and-a-bit orders of magnitude from, to get to two gigawatt-hours?
Pumped hydro works because water is really really cheap and pretty easy to store, so millions of tonnes of water is doable, whether the height is tens or hundreds of meters.
Steel/iron/concrete is just too expensive. And you can’t fit much in a five meter shaft compared to a lake.
Yeah; it’s ‘sufficient’ for a lot of purposes. It’s like complaining about things being made out of cheap plastic; it’s not as good but it’s often good enough. There are ethical concerns but they won’t generally stop its use.
Using it to make decisions or write actual technical documentations is different. But most art doesn’t need to be correct; it’s art.
I mean, if it was written well, it might say something like discharge reproductively viable genetic material. It looks like an unfertilised egg disintegrates before leaving the body, so isn’t viable.
‘Discharging genetic material’ on its own includes a nosebleed.
Yeah, it’s kind-of the onion in that it’s a satirical bill, presented to the House.
Google has removed the video through an automated process without talking to the owner of the channel or verifying who owns the video in the first place.
Honestly sounds like Hanlon’s Razor on Google’s part. No collusion necessary, just can’t be bothered to maintain/staff an actual effective system.
Fair point, have edited.
I know NZ has ‘working holiday visas’ - I wouldn’t be surprised if the US has something similar.
It’s heavily dependant on the plastic type. PET bottles are pretty good.
Even if it’s not recycled, it’s still far better to landfill or burn it than have it hit waterways.
Apparently that’s the new way to do math in AI. The AI works out you’re trying to do math, tries to write some Python code to do the math, runs the python codes, gets the answer, writes a response around the numeric answer.
I can’t think of any possible issues with this; it’s infallible. /s
Are you talking about China or the US there?
That’s not bad pricing wise. There’s very very little prosumer gear that’s multi gigabit and it’s all much higher price, or it’s just a PC with several NICs.
If and when we move to hyperfibre this is going to be pretty high up on the list.
European governments and courts have a long history of laughing at US companies attempting to apply US labour laws on European soil. I’m sure they’ll cope.
I’m not sure that lossy compression on vectors is strictly impossible.
You can do things like store less colour information and simplify splines so that curves are less complex.
Lots of places also have variable limit signs that get updated based on traffic, accidents etc.
Here in NZ those seem to all be marked on the speed limit maps as 100km/h even if in some places the signs never go above 80.
Ngauranga Gorge is one such location and I believe has the country’s highest grossing speed camera.
It would have to be in a single district; attempting multiple would definitely fail.
NZ has had a number of individual electorates where the Greens* won the seat, Labour came second, and National 3rd. With a sufficiently left-wing area and a galvanised base, it’s possible.