32 karma · joined April 11, 2017
That’s only 5 amps, but such a high-ish voltage is enough to lead to arcing. Charging cables are likely to require additional safety measures.
- They point out that the Antarctic ice sheet is gaining in mass due to the melting/compaction of snow from the past 10,000 years, not because of anything having to do with global temperatures.
- Ice losses to calving (ice breaking off and falling/drifting into the ocean and ultimately melting) are still massive, increasing, and "will catch up with the long-term gain in East Antarctica in 20 or 30 years -- I don’t think there will be enough snowfall increase to offset these losses.”
- Also, this article is from 2015. Here's a more recent analysis from 2018: https://www.nasa.gov/press-release/ramp-up-in-antarctic-ice-.... You can even see the East Antarctica trend that the 2015 article talks about in this plot from the 2018 article: https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/su...