10w is impressively low. And totally justifies the convenience in a lot of cases.

Thanks for the info.

10watts on stand-by? That’s impressive. I didn’t find that info on the website. Can you point me to where that is? plz

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Better for what?

Moving parts and complexity makes it more prone to failure.

Also, how much energy do you need to keep this working? It’s not said on the website.

Granted, both kettle and this zori trade energy and complexity/failure-potential for convenience. Much more so the zori. How much is unknown. On the simple, less-energy end, you’d use an electrical resistance in an insulated jar.

All electric kettles will fail at some point. They have moving parts and are designed for obsolescence.

In my place I use a kettle that allows me to boil 1 cup of water. The filter mesh has failed long ago but the water does not have hardness. Instead I use a small improvised cap to keep the flow of vapour to the cut off thermostat (usually at the bottom of the handle).

small scale solar like this is quite inefficient compared to grid-scale stations.

grid-scale generation is much more effective, both in cost and generation efficiency.

Can you explain a bit better on the magnitude of these differences and why they exist? Thx

Because, as I walk through the city, it is 10x more common to find an e-scooter blocking the sidewalk than an SUV?

Or, maybe, because SUVs do not go at 25kph in walking areas?

I can absolutely agree with this…

to be clear about what’s a real problem, and what’s not. (…) Pick up trucks and monster SUVs are -the- a problem and we need a public debate about those 3-4% biggest cars, the space they claim and the danger they pose.

EDIT: My city has specific, identified and plenty spaces for e-scooters. Either the rental e-scooters break down (too) frequently, or (some of!) the users of those are assholes that abandon them at random.

I’ll take your word. Thanks

Except your comment and the post seem to exist in different frames of reference.

No apologies needed. Great that we got here. Cheers

Have you made simple mistake on your original comment?

That source is about the use of dried luffa, a cucumber like vegetable.

You commented about

dried sea cucumbers

From the Wikipedia article on sea cucumbers, “they are marine animals with a leathery skin and an elongated body … found on the sea floor worldwide.”

Thus me having asked for a source.

This somehow reminds me of the plastic industry ploy to discredit cork stoppers and thus get wine with plastic stoppers. ---- No. No, the production of cork does not require the killing of the cork oak tree.

I’ma gonna need a better source for that, k !?..

Same content on archive.ph.

The first advise is get expert help.

Find a civil engineer or a structures engineer and ask them.

That crack does not look good. If I remember correctly cracks with more than 1mm gap should not be ignored.

If you don’t want to follow any of the previous advise, carefully monitoring for movement on the crack on a medium to long timeframe is, IMHO, the most irresponsible you can be.

Great post! Thanks for this.

"Ninety percent of the world doesn’t need to reduce their [personal] emissions, but most readers of The Washington Post probably do,”

*same article on archive.is.

Somehow I always think of the migrant boats crossing the Mediterranean. I hope events are unrelated.

Will look for that city nerd.

Fuel is heavily subsidized, trains are not.

How do these subsidies work, that the rail companies cannot tap into those. The electrified trains have most of their electricity coming from fossil fuels which would benefit from the same subsidies.

I feel that an optimised engine on a low friction track carrying 500-1000 people should be orders of magnitude cheaper than a car.

Did not know that. Thanks for the info.

It still surprises me that a 300km train ticket costs about the same per person as taking a car with 2 people paying fuel and highway tolls. A 600 seat optimized ‘car’ on a dedicated low friction track should be, maybe, 100x cheaper.

Yes, you make some very valid points on underestimating the costs of a car. But even at 50c/km, that compares with 10c/(km.person) on a train. On the other side of the competition, long/medium distance trains are more expensive than airplanes. What’s up with that? Look at France legislating to favour trains. So I ask myself if it is even possible to get around those centralisation issues with a more DIY fashion.

Yea, urban trains can work really well. With somewhat overlapping services.

But for longer distances i don’t really understand why today’s fares are higher than using a car share between 2 people. I’ve seen that kind of pricing weirdness in Portugal, Spain, England and France, and that does not sound efficient at all.