What part don’t you get? If you can be more specific, people might be able to help you out with some largely spoiler-free hints.

For example, do you not get ‘what the goal is’ (this is a legitimate concern, and someone might be able to give you a direction to pursue for example)

Steel, aluminium and battery production can also make good use of lots of cheap renewable energy.

I’m not a cook, no. I work in tech

If you’re looking for Latin American, I would suggest:

• Santa Salsa, arepas
• La Neta, tacos
• Maestra Vida, ceviche
• Volca, argentinian café
• Salta Pizza, argentinian pizza

Finally, one I haven’t been to but heard good things about: Checa, peruvian

There are a few nice restaurants in Stockholm if you know where to look

Muscles hurt when they don’t get used. Strength exercise fixes this, although you will replace it with some level of soreness instead.

Still, it’s worth it

There’s a huge difference between fire codes and R1 zoning with massive setbacks/minimum lot size/maximum lot coverage/mandatory parking minimums/etc.

It hit -8 C last week where I am, still a pleasant 20 C inside without having turned the heat on.

I probably get a lot of free heat from my neighbours apartments though, I would guess.

As long as it’s bearable with additional layers on, I’m going to lean towards doing that, as cool bedrooms make for amazing sleep quality.

Nothing wrong with wood as a construction material. The key factor is the insulation.

I don’t, no.

I’ve given a suggestion in the thread, but I have no obligation on account of pitching in on the effectiveness of Duolingo.

If we’re talking about the best method, I wouldn’t recommend Duolingo, and this is coming from someone with more than a decades worth of using it.

It’s alright for slow casual learning, but fundamentally not good if you’re looking to learn a lot fast.

The quickest way is probably complete immersion, but I’m guessing that’s off the table. Second best would likely be one-on-one tutoring.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbscKa_X1Wg

Modability is moreso a function of architecture than source code license, although being open source certainly doesn’t hurt.

Jones act probably matters somewhat here too

40 minutes is clearly in the range of doable walks, although if it were a commute I’d do it by bike every time which would shorten it down to 10 minutes, probably.

Is this an American problem that I’m too European to comprehend? If I forget to buy something at the store I literally just walk 4 minutes to the nearest store and buy whatever I forgot. Maybe I’ll even pick it up on the back home on my bike for even less of a time penalty.

I enjoyed the trilogy “Remembrance of Earth’s Past”, on which 3 Body Problem is based.

Also, The Power Broker has been quite nice.

The case for an H2 economy is one entirely based on Green H2 made from surplus renewables which are needed most days to have enough renewable energy every day.

Wouldn’t it be more compelling to store it in other types of batteries instead of H2 primarily?

That gas companies know how to build pipelines, distribution, and make metered gas sales to customers is a path for them/employees to remain useful without destroying the planet.

I honestly don’t think H2 is a good idea for these use-cases. H2 distribution is a different beast than natural gas distribution, on top of gas combustion just generally not being particularly good compared to common household electrical counterparts (induction for stoves, electric for ovens, heat pumps for heating buildings and water).

Commercial vehicles has legitimate benefits of lower cost from H2 FCs than batteries. Quicker refuel times. Aviation especially benefits from redesigning planes for H2 for the weight savings. Trains/ships need the power/range. Trucks/cars can use the range extension, and could use H2 as removable auxiliary power for extended range.

I imagine refueling times is not necessarily going to be critical for all types of commercial use-cases.

Aviation struggles with the relatively low energy density in H2.

Trains should essentially always be running on catenaries.

Boats might be able to make use of H2, I’m not super familiar with the issues affecting them.

Long-hail trucking should broadly be replaced by the much more efficient rail shipping.

Cars run pretty much fine on electric as is, I’m not sure the case for making H2 cars is compelling enough to be warranted.

Ammonia and fertilizer is traditional use for H2.

This might be a good niche for H2 to fill.

All in all, I’m still not convinced that large-scale H2 buildouts is a good use of our resources, but there are definitely a few compelling niches that it can fill. We need to be wary of them being co-opted by blue hydrogen fossil fuel companies though, which often seems to be the case today.

I have a generally negative impression of hydrogen because many of the intended use-cases seem to be a cover story for the gas industry to keep existing, which it very much should not be any more.

Do you know any use-cases where hydrogen is truly warranted, outside for example steel production, which I think might be legit?

Americans saw this and then went ahead and voted for the guy anyway.

I hope you realize that this does not go away - it’s enough humiliation to last to the end of time.