You'd only need to get a $5/month vm on linode or something like that, have your home computer connect to it with openvpn then connect to your home computer via the linode vm IP.

I have even often map static ip addresses to home computers with such a scheme so I don't really care about CGNAT anymore.

That would be what is called a "bottoming cycle"-- you take the waste heat and use it. But you still have to reject the waste heat, and you have to reject it at a colder temperature than the (hot side) temperature of the bottoming cycle.

So, for example, if your system is capable of rejecting waste heat at say 350 Kelvin, you could run your electronics at 400 Kelvin. Now if you reject your waste heat at 350 Kelvin, you can use the fifty-degree temperature difference to generate power.

That's the trade off: if you want to use the waste heat, you have to run at a higher temperature, because you need the lower temperature as the cold side of your thermodynamic cycle.

Only if you can reject waste heat somewhere. Entropy can't decrease.

You can't power a laser from waste heat. That violates the second law of thermodynamics.

A quick and non-technical explanation is that photons from lasers are coherent, that is, they have zero entropy (according to Boltzmann's law). Therefore, the entropy of the waste heat can't be carried away by the laser light.

(Yes I know that this means that the premise of Sundiver doesn't work.)

... you cannot send Guinness down an optical fibre at anything like the rate at which most civilised people would drink it!

Ought to be a crime under EU legislation!

... when they get it on an 8" floppy disk.

Historical precedent: A temporary, year-round DST in 1974 caused children to go to school in the dark, and this was a major factor in the change being repealed due to safety concerns and public outcry.

Electric makes sense for a delivery van; short distances with a lot of stop and go; always going back to the depot at night to charge.

Yeah so rude for the poor dinosaurs, maybe they were having sex.

Anyway, I would have called them the "Lovers Dinosaurs" which is much more respectful for those poor peaceful gentle creatures which for some reasons we always paint as violent.

Wait a second, that is a deliberately skewed metric. You suggest comparing the worst CO2 producer in China to the average CO2 producer in the west. To be fair metric, you want to compare the worst CO2 producer in China to the worst CO2 producer in the west. Say, compare the top 1% highest CO2 emitters in China to the 1% highest in the US.

If you have those measurements, I'd like to see them. Failing that, though, you would want to compare the average American to the average Chinese person. In that measurement, the average American is 1.5 times worse than the average Chinese person in terms of emissions.

You are correct. In your uninformed opinion those are reasonable assumptions. You don't know, you assume. What is clear or obvious from someone who has NEVER met me, isn't so clear if you have.

I've been addicted to drugs, had to dumpster dive, even sleeping in a park.

Meanwhile, the poor today have all their needs met, if they can manage a few simple steps. They can even have servants bring them food at all hours from a cornucopia of cuisines from around the world. In minutes.

Let me put it to you this way, why do people go to the gym? Because their life is easy, they have to "work out". Working out is "struggle" so you don't end up weak.

I have more scars (real and mental) than you can even imagine. What you think you know, is your own problem, not mine. I don't judge you, except for your stated biases. You're a bigot, you just don't know it.

Most current-generation electrical power plants (except solar and wind, of course) are gas turbines, essentially jet engines, because they are very efficient.

"Universe 25 was a 1960s-70s experiment by John B. Calhoun that created a "mouse utopia" with ample food, water, and nesting sites, but no predators or disease. The experiment demonstrated how an overpopulation of mice, despite a lack of material scarcity, led to a social breakdown known as the "behavioral sink". This collapse included social withdrawal, aggression, a breakdown of parental care, and a cessation of reproduction, ultimately leading to the colony's extinction." -GoogleAI created summary.

We don't want to admit it, but we're so successful and wealthy that we cannot see the value of struggle.

Or, if you want the Space version, WALL-E fat lazy human civilization.

The problem is, removing resistance makes us weaker not stronger.

So why did you call out Exxon, who was not involved, and did not call out BP, who was?