size and weight of a car

blocks of ice measuring 4 ft × 4 ft × 2 ft.

This you?

Because 32 cubic ft is about the volume of most residential AC units.

Is it?

92kWh/m^3 of energy is a lot of cooling. It’d be hard to not be effective.

I think youre misunderstanding one thing, which is that the ice is a replacement for batteries. While the system had a small battery for running a small pump and fan, its a small cheap one that doesn’t store much and the water has substantially more energy, equivalent to something like a large lithium battery.

The thermal battery is also far smaller, cheaper, and more robust than a lithium battery and it won’t deteriorate with repeated cycling. The obvious trade off is that in this case it can only be used for refrigeration and only down to 0C. So while its very niche, it is quite effective for home air conditioning.

These maps never include Alaska or Hawaii despite the myriad risks in those places.

I actually find the fact that becoming a more militarized wartime state has induced similar instances of violence in Russia to be really interesting. Up until this point, most other countries assumed there was something unique about US culture that resulted in school shootings, but showing some sort of hypothetical link between wartime mobilization and mass violence is interesting and the US interventionism has only been increasing along with their mass shootings.

I’ll just remove the post. Everyone has to wade through slop now adays and everyone is gonna fall for it at some point.

Nothing is going to solve all our problems, but triage is important and if you can get your weird cousin to vaccinate their kids, you’ve done measurable good for society.

I just pulled the title from the headline, but I’ve made the change because you’re right. It shouldn’t be normalized.

In my experience people don’t like being told their diet is bad.

Feral horses are a problem in the American plains and west with one of the issues being the fact their carcasses will attract grizzlies or black bears which can then encroach on humans. Hiking out, digging a massive pit, and then burying a horse really isn’t an option so they blow them up to increase the speed of decomposition.

They also degrade and destroy native grassland and the whole problem could be easily solved with a cull of the herds, but some dipshit-wanabe-cowboys are obsessed with “saving” “wild” horses so now the federal government has to spend over a $100 million on horse contraception to keep the population vaguely in check.

TDLR: We blow up a bunch of horses corpses every year because of a politically connected nonprofit.

Don’t eat the onion.

/c/collapse is perhaps a good place to drop this.

The Federal Government actually owns most of the west. Its the reason why there’s more land for public recreation and national parks in that region of the country.

You can typically hike, camp, or explore BLM land, which is the majority of it, as much as you want so long as you don’t start any fires or litter.

The US wasn’t conducting a genocidal war in Afghanistan. The Russian government is explicitly attempting to erase Ukraine as an entity and anyone who calls themselves Ukrainian with it.

Ngl I kinda want zeplin public transit.

neither party when elected do anything meaningful to secure the border or deport illegals.

It might shock you to learn the best way to prevent immigration is to make the countries experiencing outflows more stable and liveable, but I’m gonna take a wild guess you don’t like foreign aid.

maintain demographics

There sure was a lot of hand wringing before you wrote down what your actual problem with immigration was.

Pray tell what is the ideal demographic make up if the United States?

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Imagine branding yourself with the image of a way to circumvent state authority only to lick the boot at the first opportunity.

Sadly, this is probably true.

Deadliest catch story lines are drying up. Gotta have Harris call in an airstrike on an illegal Chinese trawler.

How about we get someone who can win in a swing state so we can avoid Trump? Because right now from the polling it looks like Biden can’t.

I’d vote for a literal corpse with a (D), but there’s voters who are somehow undecided or ambivalent about fascism. The fact remains that the polling shows this hurts Biden in required swing states which is extremely concerning.