Gabu

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[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

you depend on the wind blowing.

For achieving maximum speed, sure. To simply guarantee you get there? Not at all - the Iberians knew how to navigate solely on maritime currents 500 years ago.

If sails were that great we would still be using them for freight, we didn’t switch to petroleum for the fun of it.

We started using pretroleum because capitalism requires infinite growth as fast as you can muster it. Particularly with modern refrigeration techniques and automation, time insensitive navigation for transport could easily be done with sails.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 1 points 6 months ago

I'd say with Lithium, that's only bad news.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago (1 children)

You took the worst possible path to calculate all of this. Just compare energy to energy, that's the whole point of Watts.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 0 points 6 months ago

Could you imagine a world in which both products catch on? I shudder just to think about it

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The fact it uses clear plastic for the mouth has to be a crime, surely.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 3 points 6 months ago

The average person is notoriously shit at doing objective analysis, so yeah, you shouldn't trust people you know.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 4 points 6 months ago

Lord of The Rings

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's objectively more effective to exercise more than to eat less. There are countless studies on the subject.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.ml 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

??????

They display all classic traits of obesity

 

I've been racking my brain lately thinking of what are good methods to increase internal airflow in a house with few windows, all facing the wrong direction to catch wind. What are your ideas?

Edit: Breaking a wall to make more windows isn't an option.

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