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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.

Eagles are fucking bastards. Vicious pidgins with legal protection.

I have had Maalox dumped into my eyes on many an occasion and haven't suffered any ill effects, but maybe if I become addicted to throwing rocks at cops it'll start to take its toll.

But I can also say with certitude the thing that will probably deal horrible long term damage to your eyes is repeated untreated exposure to all the fun varieties of tear gas the police have. Rinsing with bottled water or LAW is going to do far less harm than that so I wouldn't discourage anyone from it.

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

Nearly three-quarters of expected flood damage to American homes is currently uninsured, according to new data released by the Federal Reserve — and Republicans and those who don’t believe they’re personally threatened by climate change are more likely to be among those underinsured.

In a new Federal Reserve working paper, researchers estimate that there will be $24.4 billion in future annual financial losses as a result of flood damage to single-family homes — and more than $17 billion of that potential damage is currently uninsured. What’s more, 80 percent of households at risk of flood damage do not have adequate coverage, with the average home needing roughly $7,000 more in insurance to cover potential damage.

In areas known to face the most acute threat of flooding, such as those affected by hurricanes and other areas prone to flooding, more than half of the expected damage to homes remains uninsured. The study also found that more than 90 percent of those in the lowest income brackets lack adequate flood insurance — a problem that will likely become more acute as flood insurance premium rates continue to increase.

Taken together, the findings suggest that without emergency government bailouts, many Americans could face the prospect of enormous out-of-pocket costs, bankruptcy, or homelessness in the wake of expected floods.

“Understanding the magnitude of this insurance crisis is necessary to identify potential solutions for the mitigation of financial losses from physical climate risks,” the authors wrote.

The report also examined the role of people’s beliefs in their insurance decisions. In their study of millions of single-family households, researchers found that “a 10 percent higher share of survey respondents perceiving personal harm from global warming is associated with 26.7 percent lower underinsurance.” They also found that “a 10 percent higher share of Republican voters is associated with 14 percent higher underinsurance.”

According to the study’s authors, “our results suggest that household beliefs regarding future climate risks may be a larger determinant of underinsurance” than “policies that change the price of flood insurance.”

The findings suggest more research is needed to parse how partisan political battles over climate change could be impacting environmental action. A recent New York University study of 60,000 people in 60 countries, including the United States, found that despite different opinions, liberals and conservatives worldwide take action to address climate change at roughly the same levels, such as supporting the construction of EV charging stations and raising carbon taxes.

The new warnings from the Federal Reserve also come at a time when 33 out of the poorest 50 counties nationwide are in states governed by Republicans. This includes counties in hurricane-affected areas such as Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, and South Carolina.

Flood insurance premiums are rising, with almost a quarter of people surveyed in 2022 by the mortgage financing company Fannie Mae saying that flood insurance is not affordable. ZIP codes in Louisiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and Texas — states at a particularly high risk of flooding — will see significant premium spikes in the years to come, according to data collected by the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which helps Americans prepare for, respond to, and recover from disasters.

As climate change wreaks havoc on the country’s insurance safety net, the repercussions could set the stage for the next financial disaster. A new report from the Senate Budget Committee that extensively references The Lever’s reporting warns that “we must speed the transition to clean energy and eliminate carbon pollution” to avoid triggering “a full-scale financial crisis similar to what occurred in 2008.”

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.

Antibiotics might be overused in humans, but as the article states, the amount used in animal agricultural is astronomically higher.

Animals are kept in appalling conditions to lower the cost of meat and this causes rampant infections, so antibiotics are used prophylactically leading to increasingly resistant bacteria.

A better solution than limiting human usage is to ban their use in agriculture.

Bug in my Lemmy app. It should be fixed now.

Fellas, is it gay to speak Gaulish?

I'm all for sanctioning them too. Economic sanctions are the bare minimum we should be doing to genocidal authoritarians.

Political agenda is a funny euphemism for imperialist invasion and genocide.