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Looking for an electric water kettle
  • Better for what?

    Moving parts and complexity makes it more prone to failure.

    Also, how much energy do you need to keep this working? It's not said on the website.

    Granted, both kettle and this zori trade energy and complexity/failure-potential for convenience. Much more so the zori. How much is unknown. On the simple, less-energy end, you'd use an electrical resistance in an insulated jar.

    All electric kettles will fail at some point. They have moving parts and are designed for obsolescence.

    In my place I use a kettle that allows me to boil 1 cup of water. The filter mesh has failed long ago but the water does not have hardness. Instead I use a small improvised cap to keep the flow of vapour to the cut off thermostat (usually at the bottom of the handle).

  • California regulators cut incentives for rooftop solar even further
  • small scale solar like this is quite inefficient compared to grid-scale stations.

    grid-scale generation is much more effective, both in cost and generation efficiency.

    Can you explain a bit better on the magnitude of these differences and why they exist? Thx

  • Europe’s politicians are dEsPeRaTe to tackle e-scooters, why aren’t they bothered by monster SUVs?
  • Because, as I walk through the city, it is 10x more common to find an e-scooter blocking the sidewalk than an SUV?

    Or, maybe, because SUVs do not go at 25kph in walking areas?

    I can absolutely agree with this..

    to be clear about what’s a real problem, and what’s not. (...) Pick up trucks and monster SUVs are -the- a problem and we need a public debate about those 3-4% biggest cars, the space they claim and the danger they pose.

    EDIT: My city has specific, identified and plenty spaces for e-scooters. Either the rental e-scooters break down (too) frequently, or (some of!) the users of those are assholes that abandon them at random.

  • Eco friendly loofah alternatives?
  • Have you made simple mistake on your original comment?

    That source is about the use of dried luffa, a cucumber like vegetable.

    You commented about

    dried sea cucumbers

    From the Wikipedia article on sea cucumbers, "they are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body ... found on the sea floor worldwide."

    Thus me having asked for a source.

  • Eco friendly loofah alternatives?
  • This somehow reminds me of the plastic industry ploy to discredit cork stoppers and thus get wine with plastic stoppers. ---- No. No, the production of cork does not require the killing of the cork oak tree.

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    Removed the basement wall and saw this big crack. What should I do?
  • The first advise is get expert help.

    Find a civil engineer or a structures engineer and ask them.

    That crack does not look good. If I remember correctly cracks with more than 1mm gap should not be ignored.

    If you don't want to follow any of the previous advise, carefully monitoring for movement on the crack on a medium to long timeframe is, IMHO, the most irresponsible you can be.

  • New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power
    www.pv-magazine.com New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power

    In a recent study, researchers from the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) questioned the planned development of new nuclear capacities in the energy strategies of the United States and certain Eur...

    New research shows renewables are more profitable than nuclear power

    Researchers from the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), the Stockholm School of Economics (SSE), and the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) questioned the planned development of new nuclear capacities in the energy strategies of the United States and certain European countries.

    The commentary-paper Why investing in new nuclear plants is bad for the climate

    ...this has been posted here, in this same community. Will delete ..if I can. I have tried deleting (from within Jerboa) but it didn't (obviously..)

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    Are trains and railroad solarpunkable?

    A lot of people point to trains efficiency as a way forward to minimize the environmental impact of the transportation sector. But are trains and railroad solarpunkable? Or is it just another "all eggs in the same basket" industry?

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