IIUC, it’s variable D/C which must be regulated and/or inverted to A/C involving more hardware, conversion, and waste.

Actually, I had a discussion about this with someone who really knows this stuff recently, and we figured that the inversion process isn't actually that inefficient. The efficiencies achieved are often >95%, so there isn't actually a lot of loss.

I guess you should do what makes most sense to you.

There is no such moral obligation as to "have children" or "don't have children". The choice should be yours.

"TOTAL LACK OF RESPECT for the Earth and the secrets that lie beneath the surface" had me for a moment. great comedy, lol

translation: "dear boss, i can't come to work today, because we have 20cm of snow".

Wait a minute, I thought the milky way is only visible from the southern pole? Or was it the center of the milky way?

billionaires are a cancer of society and need to be cut out. they think of nothing but their own growth and will damage all of the system because of it. we need to get rid of them before it's too late.

Edit: better yet, we need policies that disencourage their behavior.

I saw a meme a while ago with three panels:

• in the first panel, insects smashing against a driving car (labeled 1990)
• in the second panel, just the driver, but no insects (labeled 2020)
• in the third panel, the driver is gone, it's just the car (labeled 2050)

unfortunately i can't find the meme anymore.

Instead of recycling rare metals from batteries (which is notoriously difficult), try constructing your batteries without rare metals. It is theoretically possible, sodium ion batteries set an example for this. Yet they are still under development. Link

It's like a fishing net catching only the small fish, but letting the big fish slip through the holes.

solar energy is the cheapest form of energy at this point. capitalism will drive the green energy revolution forward from now on.

conspiracy model: marihuana has been banned in the US for a long time, not because of its negative health impacts, but because the ruling class has been afraid that people will be more relaxed, less anxious nervous and tense, and will relax instead of working hard.

young adults have been forsaken by the society in favor of "the economy" and yet another bullshit.

we need an end to economic growth on earth. we need an end to investment, to innovation, to unnecessary scarcity, to the 40-hour work week, to young people spending large part of their lives in schools. we need a social system, we need communal construction and transport, we need free education and healthcare, 20-hour work weeks for all (including adults and school-goers). we need technological prowess for the benefit of society, not for some rich greedy assholes.