‘Termination shock’: trust our expert warnings on geoengineering’s planetary risks | New op-ed in @theguardian.com by Ray Pierrehumbert (@climatebook.bsky.social), Julia Slingo, @valmasdel.bsky.social & yours truly: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
For home coffee making, it’s probably a solution in search of a problem. But the article notes industrial scale coffeemakers for canned beverages etc. could significantly reduce energy costs by not having to heat massive quantities of water before bottling or canning their product.
A fellow scholar
Shout out to the Scots showing the lovely Americans what alcohol, travel insurance, and socialised health care waiting at home can achieve.
"Big historical horsecunt was pure beggin' for a conin'", noted one onlooker.
Regulated monopoly utilities tend to behave better when they face a credible threat of some other model visibly outperforming them. The credible threat from public city-run utilities was the main reason the robber barons who ran electricity monopolies agreed to regulation in the first place.
All groceries are cargo but not all cargo is groceries. It’s like the third thing they teach you at grocery college.
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The energy nerd in me loves this. The coffee nerd in me is not thrilled at yet another way coffee snobs can demonstrate their elitism. “BREWING coffee!? What are we, cave men!? Let me show you real coffee … hand me that acoustic cavitator …”