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Comment Re:Yay to the abolition of lithium slavery! (Score 3, Informative) 136

That really isn't their concern, because they're not marketing to the automotive sector, where weight is an issue.

I think if weight were the primary concern with vehicles they woudn't still almost exclusively favor the heaviest optopn available (lead acid) and would be going with something more like lithium.

Lead acid isn't chosen for its weight - it's chosen for its cost, energy density, resilience to vibration, and cranking amps.

Comment Re:Good (Score 2) 50

I bet you would LOVE to live in a solar powered cave or similar hole-in-the-ground

I'm struggling to determine why this would be bad, except for a potential lack of views. Come to think of it, if we built hobbit holes on appropriate slopes, then everyone would have a view, unblocked by other buildings. The energy efficiency would be exemplary. Thanks for sharing this idea with the class, not just even though but especially because you thought it was a bad one, o blessed reverse barometer.

Comment Re: If it is burned then it is not vented. (Score 2) 50

You want to talk about primitive, let's talk about fire.

It is a horribly wasteful method of getting energy into things.

Don't get me wrong, i'm not about to stop cooking my steaks with it, there are times when it's great. But given the basic issues with using fire I want to avoid it whenever it's not adding anything to the end result.

There's a reason steel plants use induction.

Comment Re: Don't say don't say don't say don't say gay (Score 1) 242

Your theory would make sense if the majority or even a significant number of bathrooms had some kind of controls over who could enter them based on apparent gender. But for the vast majority of bathrooms in the world, or in the US, or in fact in any place you can name, there are no such controls.

As such, the idea that not letting people with penises [claim to*] be women and use women's bathrooms protects women from being sexually assaulted is, frankly, spectacularly stupid. Men dressed as men can just walk into them and rape women. In fact, it happens dramatically more frequently than a chick with a dick doing it.

* It doesn't matter which for the purposes of this argument, and I'm not interested in having that debate in this thread

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