Who do you know that was trained on stuff that will happen in the future?

Bet this is modded something like +4 Troll the next time I look.

Perspective is important. It's an extrapolated figure, based on trace-element factors for Cd, Cr, Mn, Ni, but not lead. That seems incredibly dishonest.

What's more, they report 0.86–1.70 ng/m ambient lead level... which upon brief examination, is about 1/4th the average urban ambient lead level, and from what I'm able to determine, about 20% of the EPA 2022–2024 non-source Pb-TSP daily mean. In other words, it's significantly lower than sources with known lead. (Similarly, it's about ~20% of historic ambient national levels - couldn't find date later than 2019 for this.)

Looks like they played very Orwellian with their data interpretation. "The use of wood as an energy source is a relic of the past, one that should not be relived if given a choice." is... well. This is "let them eat cake" level hubris. Whoever said this either has a disdain for the people they're's studying, or have zero economic understanding.... and based on the actual study findings, I can't say it appears to be truthful, either.

The people who burn wood are not doing it out of personal preference. They're doing because they can afford it: they have no other choice. Chopping, splitting, drying, and burning wood is a labor intensive activity. It's done out of fiscal/economic necessity: fuel prices for heating are extremely high, and in the area they sampled, they rely primarily on heating oil (basically: diesel fuel). Even last winter, the average household heating cost was about $1800/month, about twice what it was in 2015. With fuel prices surging? You can effectively expect twice that cost (or more) this coming winter due to the conflict with Iran.

Musing: Were the lead actually higher in the area (from what I can tell, it's not), I wonder if the "high" lead in the air would be representative of "carbon sequestration" of the trees over the past 70 odd years: as they grew, they absorbed the lead in the air?

Every sales client I have... "You've secured my infrastructure... now give this CRM package I just found with Google full access to my mail, calendar, and file systems".

Sometimes you just want to give up on the world.

What are you, a commiebot? You're spamming multiple threads with this nonsense.

Why don't you just propose burning the corporate facilities and the farms of people who don't eagerly comply, too?

The result is the same.

Sure, if you're building them to 1970s common practice.

A modern DC uses as much water as a Super Walmart, and a modern nuclear facility is passively cooled and recycles its water (as in, uses it repeatedly).

That's a symptom of economies of scale, and excessive de-industrializing regulation. Nuke plants have been a one-off, unique design with little reproduced between them. When they have been built in recent memory, it's been with 1950s technology.

If we instead institutionally embraced newer (safer, cheaper) reactor designs and built them at scale (with industrialized QA), we'd have safe, clean nuclear power for 200 years+ in the US, just using the existing nuclear waste.

There are enough public instances of people losing their Google account due to Google's policy and automation that this is likely a very bad idea.

I've got less than a year of email locally in Thunderbird for one mail account and it tops 10GB.

I think you underestimate the amount of space files can take: attached files take up a lot. What do I do with that email, delete it? That's not a workable solution if I want to retain the metadata associated with the files (which I do).

> All that stuff has to react rapidly

Just to add color ... equipment that has to do a lot of work quickly, even if intermittently, has a huge draw. Like your well pump or air conditioner when it starts up.

Now imagine you need to start a few dozen air conditioners simultaneously. The startup energy can be 10x the operating energy.

I've been doing the math on some of this for home solar. In my case I can ramp up the voltage over a few seconds but AIUI rockets still need instant action in many cases.

It's possible future reusable spacecraft could be more proactive, lowering costs and necessary chassis strength. Most of our technology starts off brute force and gets refined with more elegance but also more complexity over time. We're still early days in spaceflight.

I love you Angle-Westerns, you're all so obtuse!

(That made your whining sound particularly dumb.)

How "bout those removable phone batteries?

Yeah, taxes are generally unavoidable for most people.

Hosting a blog on Substack is just a market choice among so many.

Apple and Google stores are a bit more grey; I'd allow it.

It's like those guys who find a Civil War chest with a hundred gold coins in it and call the FBI.

Clout is far too expensive.