From an European view who has accustomed to imperial units, these discussions are so tiring. The metric vs imperial debates almost always come down to just personally preferring what you're familiar with. I've had the exact same feelings about imperial units as Americans express of metric. I really don't have a problem estimating what 10 cm or 1 kg or 1 kilometer or 2 degrees of Celsius difference in the weather is.
And the division issue is almost trivial in my view; you can just take 120 cm or 12 gram quantity. You don't magically lose the ability to divide things by other than 10 or 5 or 2 when using metric. Its not like decimal fractions disappear in imperial systems either. The metric system is there for making it easy to scale things between orders of magnitude and have sane conversions between units.
For seasonal grid-level storage, I wonder if simple compressed hydrogen storage (around 350 bar) is the most reasonable solution. AFAIK doesnt require any high-tech materials, avoids most embrittlement caused by LH2 and boil-off rates are reasonable.
The most efficient seasonal battery is probably synthetic hydrocarbons. By the time you get to propane (3 carbons) the pressures for liquid are super super reasonable (400psi including a giant safety factor) and there's zero embrittlement.
Further is that vehicles can use propane so you don't even have to idle the plants during the winter so long as there's some PV from the southern states. They might be running at 100% capacity in summer and 40% capacity in winter but that's way better than 0%. It's a lot easier to keep people employed to operate the plants if they're needed year round.
Liero is part of the Finnish shareware game scene that lasted from early 90s to mid 00s [1]. These games are super nostalgic for me and a lot of other tech minded Finns of my age!
Happy to see my own game “Oikeutta Eläimille” in this list.
I made it in turbo pascal in about 1 week, uploaded it to a BBS and it started to spread. Then pretty soon I saw it mentioned on TV and that totally blew my 16 year old mind.
I can make something and the world will react to what I make? Cool!
This is what got me interested in this gig in the first place. I am still yet to create something the world will react to, but whatever, I am enjoying the journey anyways
Very cool to see such a list maintained. The PaybackTime 2 is still playable, albeit without sampled sounds (crashes the emulator), here: http://rflxn.com/paybacktime2/
Not just Finland, Liero was big in Estonia, too! I remember I got Liero on a floppy disk from a friend early 00's and ran it on my Win98. Good ol' days. Terep2 was another great game.
Brazil too. Used to play this with family and friends, especially one of my cousins. Also played it quite a few times with friends in computer classes. Everyone could play using the same keyboard at the same time, it was crazy.
My favorites in the Finnish scene were the cave shooters (luolalentely). Games such as Auts or V-Wing. Are there any modern games available in this genre?
Nice generator! I'm not much of an UI or web designer, but I guess this is a common design task in those contexts. Presets for corner roundness are nice, but there could also be a slider for it.
One could argue it more moral to deal with those externalities within the wealthy nations than offloading them to poorer, less well-regulated economies.
Western nations pride themselves with achievements in environmental, labour and other industry regulations. Extending them further down the supply chain would maximize their positive effects.
As a non-American I don't understand the Fahrenheit vs Celsius arguments. What's special about 0F being really cold and 100F feeling really hot? I find that -20C being really cold and 30C really hot quite intuitive and easy to understand. Also in terms of weather it is easy to understand that below zero temps snow and ice will form. Add the convenience that Celsius is basically just an offset of Kelvin and I really don't see the appeal of Fahrenheit at all.
It's just American Exceptionalism. Many people in the US categorically refuse to entertain the idea that their system isn't the best, and come up with justifications that sound funny to outsiders.
I've been living here for 15 years and the recurring pattern still hasn't stopped being funny.
In terms of outdoor air temperature in the North East US, 0-100F is basically the temperature range you’ll experience throughout the year. 50 is about average in spring/fall.
Regarding atmosphere loss: currently Mars is losing about 95 kt of atmosphere per year [1]. Actively offsetting that amount of loss is not that big of an effort. Also I guess if you would generate an ozone layer, part of this atmosphere loss due to UV radiation would be attenuated.
Obviously, generating an atmosphere on Mars would be immensely energy intensive and likely possible only after we level up on the Kardashev scale.
