Gabu

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

you depend on the wind blowing.

For achieving maximum speed, sure. To simply guarantee you get there? Not at all - the Iberians knew how to navigate solely on maritime currents 500 years ago.

If sails were that great we would still be using them for freight, we didn’t switch to petroleum for the fun of it.

We started using pretroleum because capitalism requires infinite growth as fast as you can muster it. Particularly with modern refrigeration techniques and automation, time insensitive navigation for transport could easily be done with sails.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I'd say with Lithium, that's only bad news.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Eh, it's a Chinese product - it may have good failure avoidance/protection, or it may just use a single resistor soldered where a microcontroller was clearly supposed to be.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

You took the worst possible path to calculate all of this. Just compare energy to energy, that's the whole point of Watts.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

Could you imagine a world in which both products catch on? I shudder just to think about it

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (3 children)

The fact it uses clear plastic for the mouth has to be a crime, surely.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

The average person is notoriously shit at doing objective analysis, so yeah, you shouldn't trust people you know.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Lord of The Rings

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's objectively more effective to exercise more than to eat less. There are countless studies on the subject.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

??????

They display all classic traits of obesity

 

I've been racking my brain lately thinking of what are good methods to increase internal airflow in a house with few windows, all facing the wrong direction to catch wind. What are your ideas?

Edit: Breaking a wall to make more windows isn't an option.

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