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- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 3 days ago:
Oh sure the technique of storing heat in stone is valid. Again, the Finnish have used it for long time in oven design. It’s possible to get modern soap stone ovens for this purpose.
- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 3 days ago:
It could be interesting in a smaller scale or off grid purposes, but you’d still need solar panels as a source.
I doubt it’s worth saving heat from a wood stove. It’d be better to burn less wood to begin with. Some of the modern pellet ovens are very efficient for that.
They use this system to convert excess renewable electricity to heat for storage to be used in the district heating system. There’s probably a lot of loss in comparison to a regular battery, so the point is to utilize excess the electrify. It makes perfect sense in Finland because their electricity is a lot cleaner than their heating.
- Comment on ‘A very Finnish thing’: Big sand battery starts storing wind and solar energy in crushed soapstone 4 days ago:
It’s basically a very large sauna stone.
- Comment on Half-Life 3 is just the hot exclusive Valve needs to propel SteamOS past Windows 3 months ago:
It’s already too late. HL1 came out 27 years ago, HL2 came out 20 years ago.
Only old people will be hyped. Old people don’t hype well.
- Comment on Take your protein pills and put your helmet on 1 year ago:
Yeah well that’s from where I learned English, so my vocabulary might be a little froody.
- Comment on Take your protein pills and put your helmet on 1 year ago:
I’d like to take moment to appreciate that Space Oddity was released 54 years ago and still hits my daily feed.
Bowie always presented himself as just some dude doing whatever he wanted to do m, and while I never did much to seek him out, he still constantly pops up in my life in the most peculiar ways.
Hopefully future historians will be able to explain what he actually did, because I have no clue, but his influence obviously transcended the medium that he used for doing it.
- Comment on I believe theyre talking about newborns there. 1 year ago:
…and you know this because…?
- Comment on Plates 1 year ago:
Sort of. This plate sticks out because in order to create a shadow and light this way when facing down it would have to be angled in a way that doesn’t match with the others when also assuming that they’re all placed on the same surface. It only looks right with the others when seen as face up. The trick here is that we normally assume light to come from the top when given no other clues, but this assumption doesn’t match with our assumption of lighting. The text also suggests the wrong way first.
If the picture had been presented upside down, it might have been difficult to even ee it any other way than the correct one.
- Comment on Plates 1 year ago:
It all looked like pills to me until I read the text. Couldn’t even see plates for a while.
Anyway, I noticed that the top right rectangular one doesn’t match the perspective when seen as face down. All the other ones are round, so they don’t insinuate a perspective at all. That’s why that plate is the key.
- Comment on Is there a “proper“ way to say “6:05 AM”? 1 year ago:
The correct spoken way is to say 5 past 6.
I don’t really see a reason for including the zero unless it also says all the digits at other times. Like 6:45 would be six-four-five, which makes very little sense when spoken. If it’s capable of saying six-fourtyfive, it should also just say six-five for 6:05. But again, in the case of 6:45 the proper spoken way would be “(a) quarter to seven”
It seems like a lazy solution just to say the digits.
It doesn’t have to be difficult to do right. The code should just include a small table with the correct words.
- Comment on stock vs stock cubes + water 1 year ago:
It dissolves better directly in water. Otherwise it may lump up on something else in your food.
However I don’t usually make a liter of it. Just a 1dl cup is fine. If I do need more fluid in the food I can add the water directly to the food.
It depends on the dish. If you’re slow cooking something then you can just toss the stock cubes on there, no problem.