no see what’s so strange about this shape is it only has one side. because it’s a squashed cylinder.

Edit: gee, tough crowd. möbius strips typically do not have a thickness.

i’m assuming that they don’t get a constant influx of new neighbors, so the fortune is in the past.

welp, i’ve been entrapped. it’s been nice knowing you all.

it’s from a thread on askreddit in february of 2020, titled “what are some ridiculous history facts?”

user Tsquare43 posted

Hitler, Stalin, Trotsky, Freud, and Tito were all living in the same area of Vienna in 1913.

someone responded with the opening bars to the friends theme, and 50 meme comments later, /r/comradesshow was born. they got pretty far, too. got a few scripts done and set up a crowdfunding thing. which failed, of course.

oh so you haven’t seen the attempt to actually make this into a show?

this isn’t the “comrades” lineup i remember from the pitch…

sounds like he’s not even trying then

if violet is trying to entrap people, they’re really bad at it, since they’ve repeatedly stated that they don’t want dms and will never post any of their own pictures online ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

def verify_age(age):
    return age is not None

why not hydrogen?

not if you leave them uncovered!

you first, mr huang

i don’t want safe, i want DANGER!

a giant flywheel for every town!

idk i haven’t asked

i have a guy for that

ooh hey! nice to see you again :)

there’s only so much you can fit in an elevator pitch :P

you can use an anaerobic digestion system to generate about 100 liters of gas a day, given that you feed it around a liter of 50/50 food scraps and water slurry. you can heat a stirling engine with it to generate 2-300W or so.

it’s not risk free of course, biogas is explosive, but taking precautions can minimize it. produce and store outside, under low pressure, limit the volume, and use filters and flame arrestors.

this video is a good intro to the subject.

another interesting avenue if you have access to cheap wood is syngas. you can run clean syngas in a unmodified internal combustion engine, so the generator part is easy. clean gasification is the hard part, since you need to get rid of the tar and water content. using charcoal is the best method because all that gunk is already burned off. you put it in an airtight container with an inlet and an outlet, light it at the inlet, and pump in a controlled amount of air. the charcoal then goes through a redox reaction and produces syngas at the outlet.

a syngas generator can produce roughly 10x the energy of a biogas plant of the same size, but involves high temperatures and more preprocessing.

here’s a video on that too.

lastly, what’s more important to you? lowering your bills or being energy independent? my housing co-op has a deal with a local electricity company where they installed a load-following battery bank in our basement. it tracks the energy market so it can charge at night, be used by us during the day, and sell the surplus to the grid. it has lowered our energy bills by about a third. a lot less messy than the other two solutions, but also a lot less independent. doesn’t really matter for our situation, since we’re on district heating as well, but your situation may be different.

use compost to make biogas, use biogas to drive a heat engine generator.