Don’t worry, that rocket is new shepherd, so you can eat him when it comes back down in 30 min. New shepherd doesn’t get to orbit, it just does 100km hops straight up.

Okay, that’s resistive heating. So it’ll be the same efficiency as a oil heater or any space heater. So heating less space with it will save money.

Most all forms of heating are near 100% efficient, since it’s the waste heat you want. Unless the central heating is using a heat pump instead. Does your central heating use gas heating? If so, using it will probably be cheaper. If it uses resistive heating, the individual unit might be cheaper. But if it uses a heat pump, it might be cheaper to use central again. There are a lot of variables it’s hard to know.

People aren’t going to switch to something that costs a ton more to fuel and has fewer fill up locations. It doesn’t have any advantages over gas other than being low emissions, and that’s not enough to get people to switch. And electric only takes a bit longer nowadays to fill up.

How do Germany and France have a greater than 100% participation rate?

Edit: oh that just means they’re above the required threshold already.

Wasn’t the steam deck OLED the incremental upgrade? I thought they did a sight spec bump along with the screen upgrade.

Sometimes you need to write an application to prove you aren’t a bot.

Except they do to produce other products. Customers can’t be expected to know every step of every supply chain, but the companies already do, they just don’t care.

They’d need to grow big enough to turn off federation without much loss.

Right now oil companies are at an inserted stage before oops which is “it’s too hard and too late to do anything about it now, we’re all doomed anyway”

Raising operating costs by servicing tiny congressionally important airports would definitely be a thing. And once you’ve added service to somewhere, you couldn’t remove a flight without backlash. To pay the maintainers more, you’d make maintenance more convoluted than it needs to be.

And people voting have a lot better stuff to do than look into airline efficiency. Even tickets costing twice as much probably won’t be a very important consideration when people are voting.

Why would government owned airlines incentive lowering operating costs?

Too much government control of the airlines was definitely detrimental after WWII. They couldn’t compete on prices, couldn’t adapt to changing routes, and couldn’t really cost optimize anything. Deregulating the non-safety aspects improved air travel a lot.

You talking about airlines or aircraft manufacturers?

Sure? But Congress doesn’t fund them to be able to do their job.

Airlines might be a bad example. Before 1978 there was a lot more control, such as mandating price minimums. Without those you get affordable air travel.

But for airplane companies themselves, I absolutely agree. The FAA had to save money because of their tiny budget, so they had airplane manufacturers inspect their own things instead, with bad results.

A LTT video recently mentioned, often it’s cheaper to buy a broken laptop that uses the same charging cord just for the cord than to buy the charging cable directly. But there’s always some hassle second hand even if it is much cheaper.

Any cable that gets frayed could shock you, so to avoid getting shocked, stop using the cable before it rubs though to the metal. Getting a more heavy duty cable can help, but any cable will rm eventually wear through.

Our dog loves to do that with the piano, it’s really cute.

The problem is I’m addicted to Fusion’s generative design topology optimization. I haven’t seen anything else like it on the market, much less open source. It’s shapes are so cool and material efficient for 3d printing.