OT: Sens Lounge -The Spring before the Summer Begins Again

[Beech]

Eh. There's no way the population will be that high because the guillotines would have been deployed by then.

Zappers! Logan's run.

 

[BonHoonLayneCornell]

We don't have enough water to grow enough plants for that many horses to eat.

I was hoping you'd point out the more immediate issue of our streets being covered with feces. I hear that was quite the issue back in the day lol.

 

[Relapsing]

That reminds me of my days as a kid, walking the path along the river behind the parliament buildings. There were still a fair bit of floating logs down there back then (when the log driver's waltz was still relevant), and tied up in groups at various areas of the river. Kinda crazy that we haven't seen that around here in a good 40+ years now.

The more I get into woodworking and furniture making here, the more relevant the history of that industry becomes. I would have loved to have seen that.

I got into a house today that had millwork dating back to the OG lumber barons of Ottawa, just incredible work that's about to go through a big restoration. Hoping I can get some restoration work out of it, even if it's just a door or two.

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

There was a regular CRV driving in front of me on the QEW this week that dumped out more condensation from their exhaust...

 

[AchtzehnBaby]

I was hoping you'd point out the more immediate issue of our streets being covered with feces. I hear that was quite the issue back in the day lol.

 

[Big Muddy]

Semi's, and other large fleet vehicles will go Hydrogen because it makes the most sense. Quick refueling and turn around.

The vast majority of people will be using an electric vehicle.

Hydrogen is currently a really expensive fuel source, and if everyone else is using battery based vehicles, you'll never get the infrastructure in place to refuel with hydrogen, except maybe for things like ships.

There should be some additional focus on industrial emissions as those are larger than all electrical grid and transportation (all modes/systems) combined. Super-hot intense heat is required by certain industries like forging steel or making cement. One solution is thermal batteries, which in part or in some cases has been called “hot rocks in a box”.

As for new forms of energy, nuclear fusion (unlike nuclear fission). They’ve been working on this in the National Ignition Facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, California.

The two most obvious fuels are sunlight & wind. They are also a renewable energy.