Published May 8, 2020
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> For a 25-year project, he estimates that Gravitricity would cost $171 for each megawatt-hour. Jessika Trancik, an energy storage researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, says that number is aspirational and still needs to be supported with field data. But Schmidt’s calculation of the lifetime cost per megawatt-hour for lithium-ion batteries, $367, is more than twice as much. Flow batteries, a promising grid-scale technology that stores charge in large tanks of liquid electrolyte, come in at $274 per megawatt-hour
The complaint here doesn't seem to be that Facebook is handing out money, but rather that not everyone is getting a cut.
But you don’t have to. You can just throw it in the trash or blue lid recycling bin, emptied every Monday.
What motivates someone to spend hours scrubbing and personally delivering clean plastic?
Yeah, they depict collectors bicycling around town with a trailer and then washing and delabeling the collected plastic in a domestic kitchen sink. They would have to charge thousands per ton for the clean stock.
I hope the landing was smooth and we can look forward to lots of aerial photos from Ingenuity.
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140128153814.h...
Confusion and nutritional backlash from news media exposure to contradictory information about carbohydrates and dietary fats
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/public-health-nutrit...
Luxury goods can behave oddly, but in general demand is independent of supply. Restricting supply causes prices to rise, which lowers demand (at that high price). The underlying demand (at the lower price) remains constant.
Exactly. Philosophers should be required to take courses in abstract algebra and topology before being allowed to discuss utilitarianism.
Then 10 billion people with 1.1 happiness each yield 11 billion total happiness. They are, collectively, happier.
And 100 billion people with 0.111 happiness each are, collectively, even happier.
And 1 trillion people with 0.01111 happiness each are, collectively, even happier.
Etc, etc.
The ‘repugnant conclusion’ is that this sequence never ends. You can argue for ever higher populations based on total happiness even though individual happiness approaches zero.
It’s obvious nonsense.
> And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!
I think the author realizes this. The article is an attempt to shame them into giving up this value.