Twice the voltage == half the amperage for the same wattage. Are UK kettles higher wattage?

US circuits are about 15 amps; UK ones similar - but twice the volts.

So a US kettle is about 1500 watts, a UK one 3000.

You can get commercial water boilers in the US if you need.

or just use an insta-hot tap which is infinitely faster than an electric kettle. or a plain old kettle on an induction cooktop which will also be faster than a single purpose electric kettle.

Actually yes, around double the wattage. It's one of the things English people notice when they move to the US (true!).

3000 glorious watts

Great project. This begs for real-world feedback though. A go kart would be fantastic.

My son has Down Syndrome and is non-verbal. He's clever though and has found ways to wander off from his school and caregivers. As a parent this is terrifying. Eventually we tried AirTags on his shoes. It's an imperfect technology but it works.

Now do Google. A few that immediately come to mind:

* Accounts: Can't use a GSuite address for Youtube, Nest, or any other Alphabet offering. Never explained. 15 years of this.

* Sheets: Hide the sum option in the menu bar. After digging, you find the Summa character and click on it. Oh, it's a menu of functions, not sum.

* Search.

Particularly search on Google drive / gsuite docs. For a search company, it’s just embarrassing.

That you cant jump to the beginning or end of search results in gmail. You can only click page by page and only know the end is near when you know when the results get close to your account creation date. The only work around is to guess ahead with editing the results page number in the URL string. It's been this stupid annoying way since day 1 of gmail.

Also now seeing the stupidest copying of liquid glass in google's web interfaces. Like adding transperancy to some of their pop up info boxes just so ugly and pointless.

Same on Mac FF

This is actually a plot line in Landman, where the cartel occasionally steals the oil company's jet and then returns it.

This is great. I picked up weaving right before the pandemic and it carried me through. I've fallen off the past few years but hope to get back to it. Like any hobby it has the "I could do X if only I had a Y!" feature/curse that can potentially eat your bank account.

This is a great build and report. Even though you don't have great photo gear, you should try capturing a picture of steam in the light (as DIY Perks did).

That's a great suggestion, thanks! I'll give it a try. It already works with dust quite well though, hehe.

As a layperson I go into this thinking that it sounds like "scientists make matter from light" but after reading it seems more like "scientists make fancy electric field with a laser".

I guess "solid" has a technical definition that allows for this sort of interesting interpretation.

The problem is that the usual definition of "solid" requires a classical understanding of what it means for "a thing to be in a place". With quantum mechanics, places get blurred, so you can have things remain in a rigid structure and flow, simultaneously.

So you read it correctly: scientists made a fancy electric field with a laser.

I'm immediately reminded of John Mulaney's "Jerry Orbach's eyes" bit.

Wait I remember those ads and I’m now confused.

If vision-restoring eye transplants are the novel domain of futuristic moonshot research, how did Jerry Orbach’s eye donation give the “gift of sight for two New Yorkers” twenty years ago?

EDIT: Ah I follow now: he donated his corneas, which is a more routine procedure than an aspirational, vision-restoring full eye transplant