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Some cells are getting 47%, which is ridiculous for a generator! The theoretical maximum efficiency for solar cell from the sun as it appears in the sky is about 68%, so that’s pretty good!

However, how expensive is that cell going to be? How much maintenance does it need, and how fragile is the system once deployed? It’s very obvious that PV efficiency has beed skyrocketing recently, and I don’t thinks it’s stopping soon, but a commercial PV panel available today is just breaking 20% efficiency. Luckily, sunshine is quite abundant.

Ooo, good call.

There’s also radioisotope piezoelectric generators, where the electrons are caught by a cantilever and then released in regular pulses. An electron waterwheel if you will.

Did you know my profile picture is a Windows Vista background? I didn’t until a few months ago.

Kermi Tree Frog

Lots of metamorphic bugs do this. Even the ones that eat as adults often die that same year, after 3-20 years as a larva.

The only really new kinds are thermocouples (mostly garbage) and solar panels (poor efficiency, but abundant fuel).

Some fusion might end up using magnet pumping, which is basically just a plasma powered piston.

I feel like this is more an issue of poor healthcare than personal choice. It seems like rather than the U.S. chosing to be opt-in, they are physically unable to give everyone the choice to opt-out.

This exactly. I don’t speak latin and don’t want to.

Several videos have been removed (including one for being violent?).

The original came from twitter, but has since been removed (I think, maybe x is just bad), but the DailyMail did a news article on it (ugh) and happen to still host the video.

https://videos.dailymail.co.uk/video/mol/2017/08/03/5104484344653724905/480x270_MP4_5104484344653724905.mp4

You don’t need giant EMS vehicles is cities. I bet 95% of EMS vehicles in large cities never leave city limits. Even if absolute units of EMS vehicles are somehow necessary for rural service (I doubt that), smaller, safer vehicles could easily service urban areas.

There’s still miles of countryside between cities in the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, Germany, and Denmark. Many of Canada’s cities have fantastically walkable neighborhoods and light train services, and Canada has even more unreachable rural areas than the Sates. Urban solutions are almost completely unaffected by the size of the rural areas.

These solutions can all happen in individual cities and even towns. How many hours of car driving away the next urban center is doesn’t affect where parking is placed, or zoning density, or where the highways are routed, or how fast the busses are, or whether a light train could be viable.

That’s probably where line breaks were at some point, and some garbage formatting leaked in when moving the text.

Eh, that’s a few dozen steps removed. By that standard, every herbivore “uses” photosynthesis.

These guys (coral & lichen too) use photosynthesis much more directly, completely encapsulating the algea and supporting it internally. It’s much closer to mitochondria.

Also, the cooling effect sulphate aerosols can cause only really happens at high altitudes. At low altitudes the reflected light is less likely to escape to space, and the aerosols fall out of the air faster.

Even if they reached high altitudes, one of the effects of being in the atmosphere is moving with the wind, across entire hemispheres. And at tropospheric heights, sulphates, their products, and other byproducts of combustion may destroy ozone at significant levels.

There may come a day where aerosol-based geo-engineering becomes a part of climate management, but it’s definitely not with bunker fumes.

It would be really nice on less powerful hardware too. One picture gallery can eat all my RAM real fast.

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Nauvis is “NAW - vis”, like gnawing and aravice.

Vulcanus is “Vul - CAN - us”, like Vulcan or Vulcanize

Gleba is more fun like “Glee - ba”, but usually ends up being “glebbah”.

Fulgora is “Full - GORE - ah” but I originally misread the name and said “Full - GROW - ah”.

Aquilo is usually “A - QUILL - oh” but I accept arguments to pronounce it like Aquilae.

The DLC is two words: “Space - Age”. Spaceage is whatever is dumped off a platform.

It’s almost analogous. A more massive object experiences a larger force caused by gravity, so assuming the gravity field stays the same, a larger mass is heavier.

You’re right that it’s technically incorrect, especially when talking about something like moving the Earth with gravity.

Both accelerate at the same speed, but the bowling ball completes it’s fall first because the Earth was pulled up to meet it. The bowling ball falls faster not because it’s moving faster, but because it’s fall is shorter.

Those are Rare panels, if you didn’t notice.

Racism. The Jays in jaywalking where probably immigrants with weird hats.