Thermal mass so stuff like stone, brick, earth or similar stores the average temperature. The more you have the longer the time period they average out over. So for in Panelleria the mean temperature in August is 26C and that is what those buildings keep over the entire day, even though it can get as hot as 34C during the day. If you have more thermal mass, for example in caves or underground structures, you can have the mean temperature of an entire year.
Come on women are fine with these guys around. Little girls though…
It is just insane how massive the impact of climate change is already.
As for the collecting data. It can be done, if the right sensors are used. For example a movement or magnet sensor to trigger a traffic light or weight sensors to measure how full train cars are. If a city has fare gates, those might be used to count usage as well.
Also open source code for public infrastructure would go a long way to help with that.
It is relativly common to fly 7 hours non stop. You need good enough thermals for that, but those are relativly common. Usually you have to stop at night though, but not always.
No, Japan has ended the usage of floppy disks last year, besides a single case relating to vehicle recycling.
Yes we are. In a mortgage the bank gives you the money today, for the promise of payments in the future. So for a bank far out payments are nearly worthless today. So they will not give you better conditions for a 50year mortgage compared to a 25year one.
The further in the future profits are, the less they are worth today. As in getting $1000 today is better, then getting a promise of being paid $1000 in a decade. After all if you got the $1000 today you could have invested it and got a return on it. So lets say you know you can get a return of a rate of 5%. The $1000 today invested over a decade would be $1000 * 1.0510 = $1628.89 in a decade. You can also use it the other way around, to estimate what the $1000 is worth in the future. As in X * 1.0510 = $1000 -> X =$613.91 That rate of return is called the discount rate.
The issue with getting money in 50 years is that it ends up being nearly nothing today. So it is just a horrible idea.
Anybody who believes a 50 year mortgage is a good idea, does not understand discount rates…
Reading his Wiki page, he does sound rather reasonable. Support for Occupy Wallstreet, running as a UK Labour candidate, openly calling not to elect Trump and also calling the US Libertarian Party “lunatics”.
Do you not get a massive pigeon problem with them sitting on the nets and shiting on the people below?
This just shows how important moving away from fossil fuels is in fighting the far right.
It is also going to be a huge problem for petrostates. Oil and gas require a relativly small workforce and make a lot of money. So it is easy to set up a dictatorship financed with that rather then taxes, which means the government does not depend on the people. If you take that away revolutions become much more likely. No money to pay for welfare or military, police, secret service to oppress the people.
We need a 500% tariff on US vehicles.
I dislike the all or nothing aspect of a lot of them. It is hard enough to nail a single aspect of life. So imho it is better to have different groups for different aspects. As in you might have a housing co-operative, a co-operative work place, a utility co-operative, a bike sharing group and so forth. That makes it possible to not go and avoids being stuck in a group, which you really do not like. As in it is much easier to move to another place, then to do that and find a new job, organize transport and so forth.
There are some other ones as well:
Yes, but any librarian you might ask for the directory, is going to ask you what you are looking for.
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Past promised pedestrians slasher and present delivers.