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andrewducker) wrote2018-10-31 11:00 am
andrewducker) wrote2018-10-31 11:00 am
Entry tags:
- advertising,
- beautiful,
- children,
- co2,
- compression,
- conservatives,
- conspiracy,
- costumes,
- design,
- disabilities,
- edinburgh,
- electricity,
- fitness,
- flooding,
- fraud,
- funny,
- games,
- germany,
- goodnews,
- halloween,
- healthcare,
- heat,
- history,
- inequality,
- italy,
- labour,
- language,
- links,
- marketing,
- materials,
- murder,
- norway,
- ohforfuckssake,
- phones,
- politics,
- programming,
- republicans,
- roleplaying,
- scotland,
- security,
- shakespeare,
- tax,
- usa,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- video,
- vitamind
Interesting Links for 31-10-2018
- How Lisp Became God's Own Programming Language
- (tags: programming language history design )
- German ex-nurse admits killing 100 patients
- (tags: murder germany healthcare )
- The people embracing their disabilities for Halloween
- (tags: halloween disabilities costumes )
- RPGnet bans posts in favour of Trump
- (tags: politics usa roleplaying )
- Venice flooded by high tide – in pictures
- (tags: Italy flooding )
- Need to relax? Try this live stream of a Norwegian train in wintery countryside
- (tags: Norway video beautiful )
- US Power generation CO2 emissions are lower than they have been since 1987
- (tags: co2 usa electricity GoodNews )
- Climate change: Low cost, low energy cooling system shows promise
- (tags: viaDanielDWilliam heat materials )
- The FBI has been asked to investigate claims that women have been offered money to fabricate sexual-harassment allegations against Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
- (tags: fraud conspiracy usa politics republicans )
- Android's under-5s apps have unfair and deceptive ads
- (tags: advertising children phones games OhForFucksSake )
- John McDonnell faces down Labour critics and vows to back tax cuts for the rich
- (tags: labour tax inequality )
- The image in this tweet is also a valid ZIP archive, containing a multipart RAR archive, containing the complete works of Shakespeare.
- (tags: Shakespeare compression security )
- Vitamin D levels in the blood linked to cardiorespiratory fitness
- (tags: fitness vitaminD )
- ‘Tory-free’ wish banned from Edinburgh 2050 word cloud
- (tags: conservatives funny marketing Edinburgh scotland )
Re: Reflective Material
Which is, as you say, not huge, but is pretty significant. Just on it's own it's a nice win. But you also get a benefit in developing countries of a reduction in the capital expenditure required to enjoy WEIRD standards of living.
There are roughly 100 large power stations in the UK (including currently operating, in planning or recently decommissioned), they cost about $500m each, so a 3-4% efficiency gain would avoid perhaps $2bn in capex. That is a goodly sum of money that places like Kenya don't have to find and a goodly number of Indian coal miners not down a mine getting lung disease.