Posts by couru

Europe's deepest mine to become Europe's deepest battery

I know it's a funny meme, but coal actually sucks. Even body fat (38MJ/kg) has a higher energy density than coal (24-35MJ/kg) does; we only really use it because it was the easiest thing we could find in the 1800s.

Re: “ perfect for capturing the energy of heavy weights being dropped down a shaft”

I feel like cooling carbon dioxide to at least -80° to solidify it so that it can be dropped would probably take more energy than the battery would be able to generate.

CSS is a pipe dream, usually pointed to by industralists to say "look, it's so easy *and* we wouldn't have to sacrifice anything!". It's been "coming soon™" for the past few decades.

Sam Altman set to rejoin OpenAI as CEO – seemingly with Microsoft's blessing

Board members go for a cheap power grab, something that has been happening for millenia - "must be those damn women's fault!"

Lawsuit: We've got the stats to prove Twitter ax fell unfairly on older, female engineers

10% is pretty significant when dealing with demographics.

Former Twitter employees accuse it of holding up 891 arbitrations

Dissuasion. Make as many barriers to someone suing you - every obstacle you introduce is another opportunity for the plaintiff to say "oh fuck it, this isn't worth the effort" and give up.

Florida man insists he didn't violate the law by keeping Top Secret docs

Re: The best POTUS of the modern times

What?

Re: In the interest of equality surely the article should refer to a "person".

What?

Yeah, Rishi, it's AI that'll make Britain great again

Re: Ha

No, you don't understand, people don't care about the economy! They wanna hear about the latest celebrity drama or how foreigners are causing all of our problems! Culture war is the only thing people care about /s