I imagine something akin to a draft or arranged marriages. You’re not married, you’re not married, congrats you’re now married.

I’m not too fond of calling this a ‘tax’. Tax money goes to funding actually useful things. Conservatives want you to think that giving money to the government and throwing it down the toilet are the same thing.

That would likely be the winch, but yes, you’ll need a nice large regenerating motor drive.

I would hazard a guess that a 40t-rated winch, 40t-rated 100m wire rope, and 40t-rated steel bucket to hold the scrap each cost more than a 10kWh battery.

I’m not liking their maths.

For a large shaft, we move weights up to 40 metric tonnes, which give us the capability to store up to 10 kWh of energy per 100 metres of depth.

40t ~= 400kN, so at 100m that’s 40MJ. Sure, that’s 11.1kWh mechanical, perhaps a little optimistic to say you’ll get 10kWh back. That’s a smallish home battery.

Where do you get another five-and-a-bit orders of magnitude from, to get to two gigawatt-hours?

Pumped hydro works because water is really really cheap and pretty easy to store, so millions of tonnes of water is doable, whether the height is tens or hundreds of meters.

Steel/iron/concrete is just too expensive. And you can’t fit much in a five meter shaft compared to a lake.

Insert ‘Full Self Driving’ Here.

Also, outlook’s auto alt text function told me that a conveyor belt was a picture of someone’s screen today.

Yeah; it’s ‘sufficient’ for a lot of purposes. It’s like complaining about things being made out of cheap plastic; it’s not as good but it’s often good enough. There are ethical concerns but they won’t generally stop its use.

Using it to make decisions or write actual technical documentations is different. But most art doesn’t need to be correct; it’s art.

Redundancy doesn’t necessarily come with a golden handshake, though many employment contracts do mandate it.

But they do have to try to find you another job elsewhere in the organisation if that’s possible, and they have to disestablish the position not necessarily you. That means that if they want to make one person from a team redundant, they generally have to actually ask if anyone wants to leave, and if not, run a transparent process to decide who from the team to make redundant, not just pick someone.

You also have to not be planning to re-hire for the role any time soon as that would imply the redundancy wasn’t genuine.

If you’re in a country with good worker protection, there’s a big difference between ‘made redundant’ and ‘fired for cause’. There is no ‘fired for no reason’.

I mean, if it was written well, it might say something like discharge reproductively viable genetic material. It looks like an unfertilised egg disintegrates before leaving the body, so isn’t viable.

‘Discharging genetic material’ on its own includes a nosebleed.

Yeah, it’s kind-of the onion in that it’s a satirical bill, presented to the House.

Sounds like they need to move to either ZIF connectors or 48V power; this kind of power over high pin counts isn’t really practical.

There’s a reason electrical codes don’t usually let you use parallel conductors below about 4AWG/60A per conductor.

What type of SSD? There are basically four types:

• 2.5" SATA, looks like an old HDD

• mSATA, a PCB with two screw holes.

• M.2 SATA, a PCB with one screw hole and usually two notches.

• M 2 PCIe/NVME, a PCB with one screw hole and usually only one notch.

The latter two are physically compatible but electrically not. It just won’t work.

Google has removed the video through an automated process without talking to the owner of the channel or verifying who owns the video in the first place.

Honestly sounds like Hanlon’s Razor on Google’s part. No collusion necessary, just can’t be bothered to maintain/staff an actual effective system.

Fair point, have edited.

Running through a tent site is not the world’s smartest plan. You’ll trip on a guy wire.

Protons are positively charged. Like charges repel, so protons fly apart unless there’s an equal number of electrons (or other negatively charged particles) to keep them happy.

Electrons are negatively charged, and fly apart unless there’s a more-or-less equal number of protons. Electrons are a lot lighter than protons so move easier, and electrons deciding to be somewhere with more protons and less electrons is basically lightning.

Neutrons don’t have an electrical charge. They just sit there being gravitational.

I know NZ has ‘working holiday visas’ - I wouldn’t be surprised if the US has something similar.

Do you remember where you played it?

It sounds/looks a little like some of the stuff from bontegames.

It’s heavily dependant on the plastic type. PET bottles are pretty good.

Even if it’s not recycled, it’s still far better to landfill or burn it than have it hit waterways.