how would that even work with a burger?
It wouldn't The parent comment is at best by someone who misremembered the details, and doesn't know enough about food presentation to have been able to be able to recite the details back, or is at worst someone who is full of shit.
It's way easier to hand-pick each lettuce leaf and tomato slice than it is to order from a bunch of locations and try to freeze that complete burger in a specific moment in time.
Lazard is a pretty respected analyst for energy costs. Here's their report from June 2024.
In the U.S., peaker gas plants that are only fired up between 5-20% of the time, the levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is between $110 to $230 per MWh. The levelized cost of storage for utility scale 4-hour storage ranges from $124-$226 per MWh, after subsidies. Before subsidies, that 4-hour storage costs $170-$296.
Residential storage, on the other hand, doesn't come close. That's $882 to $1101 before subsidies, or $653 to $855 after subsidies.
So in other words, utility scale storage has dropped down to around the same price as gas peaker plants, in the U.S., after subsidies.
And yet, people do.
Should we just ignore the dynamics of that system, and pretend it doesn't exist? Or can we make observations about that system, and analyze its effects?
This comment section is all people missing the point.
The point of the post is that a particular job will generally stabilize at a particular pay. If it's a tipped position, then the employer will pay less, so that the overall income is roughly at that stable income for that position, including the overall average tip.
So people who tip less than the average are free riding off of the people who tip more than average, where that worker will make an average tip overall, which comes more from the generous tippers than the stingy tippers. Thus, it effectively transfers money from generous tippers to stingy tippers, on net, in the long run.
The merits of this system, whether servers deserve to be paid more, whether we should push for reforms so that this isn't the system, is besides the point. The post is making an observation of how things actually are, not advocating for how things should be.
It's just that I don't have any expectation of the girls in the picture being shocked
That's the joke.
Yeah, people are working on it.
The EIA estimates that there's about 30 GW of battery capacity in the U.S., mostly in storage systems that are designed to store about 1-4 hours worth.
That's in comparison to 1,200 GW of generation capacity, or 400 times as much as there is storage.
It's coming along, but the orders of magnitude difference between real-time supply and demand and our capacity for shifting some of the power just a few hours isn't quite ready for load balancing across a whole 24 hour day, much less for days-long weather patterns or even seasonality across the year. We're probably gonna need to see another few years of exponential growth before it starts actually making a big impact to generation activity.
Not exactly. "Mass timber" is a newer construction material made from wood, but put together in a way suitable for tall buildings, including structural elements for skyscrapers. Currently, the tallest timber skyscraper is the 25-story Ascent MKE building in Milwaukee.
The fire safety challenges are real, though. It's just that timber as a building material has different characteristics. It's under a lot of study from fire safety researchers, as they work out the tradeoffs and how to best mitigate the weaknesses and vulnerabilities.
And it's not all bad. Timber is actually stronger than steel at high heat, and the beams don't contain voids that allow fire and flames to travel along the structural elements as steel or concrete elements might. So the key is that the engineers need to design things with the timber's properties in mind.
I've heard of nigging but I've never heard of this.
Um I hope you mean negging
Even if we were to produce 100 000 000 perfect replicas of our genes they would still hit the same wall— extinction.
Doesn't matter, had sex.
From their taller exes
"Mogging" as a term originated in the early 2000's and went mainstream-ish in the late 2000's when the "pickup artist" community started getting attention in places like the New York Times. The people who originated it are probably like 45-50 years old now.
Quick etymology: comes from these pseudoscientific douchebags trying to name the phenomenon where a man tries to subtly belittle another man in front of women, establishing that he's the AMOG (alpha male of group), eventually became a verb amogging or mogging, and then various specific types of this behavior earned prefixes: heightmogging, etc.
The fact that it has this kind of staying power, 20 years later, is the surprising part.
Why can't the locals be trained to operate and maintain the tractor?