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Comment Re:Reverse Molten Salt battery? How? Why? (Score 1) 129

If you read the article carefully:

The efficiency of the engine is the work divided by the heat introduced to the system

The efficiency is expressed for conversion between forms of energy (heat mechanical), where one direction would be x < 1 and the other could be close to 1/x > 1, for a net efficiency close to 1. Or not so close, I don't think Carnot's theorem actually says what is possible.

But, AFAIK you can in fact get close to full round-trip efficiency with good enough heat pumps, the limiting factor being complexity & size vs. efficiency & power trade-off.

Comment Re:Help me out (Score 1) 129

If you use multi stage compression/decompression with inter cooling/heating, you could get quite high efficiency at the expense of some complexity. In effect the heat would be pumped into the sea or whatever, but also recovered as the gas expands and cools - but you need to do this in stages or continuously for near-isothermal operation.

Comment Glass is not the problem. (Score 1) 199

Glass is not a problem, they are using regular glass, different coating.

Metalized AKA low-E glass used in some window panes, creates issues for milimetere wave 5G (the close-range deployment). Low-E glass largely stops even the usual bands, but that's less of an issue as they pass through almost anything, including walls.

Comment Re:Strange screen (Score 1) 35

You can tell your BS to my 6 and 10 year old OLED phones. Both show no visible display degradation.

From your reference, lowball numbers on use degradation are 10,000 hours at 100% brightness, giving about 2 years at 100% brightness for 12h a day. Is that not enough? With moderate use and moderate predictions it becomes decades.

As for moisture etc, which are a separate issue, it should not be a problem on a quality build, if you take reasonable care of the device. Most other components are susceptible to damage from excessive moisture, UV, mechanical damage etc. Backlights on LCDs fade as well.

Comment Re:Energy sprawl (Score 1) 287

The mentioned bill is not for unreliable power, but for excess power due to (possibly) badly structured contracts/pricing.

Many countries pay more for (mostly old) renewable energy contracts, but that was mostly to attract investment and is not so or at least nowhere near to the same degree for new installations.

Comment Re:Neat idea... for now (Score 1) 102

Note that popular banana equivalent dose calculations are widely misleading, as they assume lifetime contribution from radioactive potassium isotopes in bananas, valid if the body stored infinite amount of ingested potassium, instead of it being roughly constant.

Radioactive caesium is also excreted, but concentration is much slower to return to equlibrium and is much much more radioactive, even if directly compared to the ~0.01% of K that is actually radioactive.

Comment Re: Again? (Score 2) 283

Incompetence, arrogance and greed is not migrating to IPv6 for more than a decade, instead forcing NAT, CG-NAT etc, so you need datacentres or exorbitant payment just to be publicly reachable. Death to P2P, SIP, self-hosting, custom protocols..

Everyone, please waste and hoard as much IPv4 as you can, so we can finally migrate to a scheme with enough addresses.

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