LG would be South Korea. Maybe it contacts tracks on PCB below and it’s some kind of semi-conductive rubber

lol as if they could plan this far forward

that’s no problem at all, systems like that are in use

It’s easier to freeze water than to cool rock borehole

This will continue as long as there are CCGTs used as baseload, then it will drop as CCGTs (and biomass + waste burners) will cover the gaps

methane cracker? that’s a very unusual unit that outputs hydrogen and carbon. i could find info about opening of ethane cracker in 2025, but that’s for plastics, next to shutdown of another similar unit

yeah this is only practical option, the analysis isn’t that expensive, but equipment to run it is. but also people who have their own water wells have to submit their own samples

Reflective side out, and on the outside this should work. Aluminum foil or a thermal blanket would also work and are lighter

set of hex keys and potion that gives you caffeine overdose. 10% chance of notebook with cursed knowledge

AC also needs to deal with line resistance, and cheap, efficient multi-MW, multi-kV DC/DC converters aren’t there so far, but there are prototypes (and drop-in transformer replacements https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid-state_transformer) Advantage is that these converters can be more efficient than transformers and you don’t have to deal with reactive current (if DC). Obvious downside is that frequency control isn’t there

if power electronics get a bit better than they are now, we could switch to DC power transmission and DC/DC converters instead of transformers. bunch of infrastructure could be replaced one by one, but benefit is slight except for already used undersea cables

but on generation side, it’s either photovoltaics or spin a magnet

if it’s that thick, i expect it’s some kind of pharmaceutical dissolved in oil. over time oil, like sesame oil, will gum up and darken like this

Somebody in the lab asks you to get them an E-plane bend or an H-plane bend. You can’t remember which way the fields go in the waveguide, but you don’t want to look stupid by asking. Don’t panic, there is an easy easy way to remember which is which. The E-plane bend is bent the “easy way”, and the H-plane bend is bent the “hard way”, which you can see in the photo below. If it isn’t obvious to you what is meant by easy and hard way when you are bending something of rectangular cross-section, it is not too late to consider a career shift to the software industry

they make great merchants too

tapeworms and parasitic roundworms as a category

in no particular order and also roughly from that period: cosmosis, x-dream, astralasia, man with no name, astral projection, doof, amanite fx, manmademan, tim schuldt, mfg, blue planet corporation, hara gobi, chi-a.d… perhaps shaolin wooden men

sounds like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pig_butchering_scam it’s in early phase so far

still 84% to go

Banter is the last thing I want from a coffee machine

but is it still on the list?

the other way around. you can post there so that other ai scraper will ingest it and include it in training data