Yes, but…

The distribution limits are almost always an afternoon/evening thing. Early afternoon for warm climates (aircon and cooking dinner) and evening for cold climates (cooking dinner, showers, heating).

Midday for solar injection.

Hence the famous ‘duck curve’.

The distribution network has plenty of capacity overnight; we just need people to wait until about 11PM before we start charging.

At that point we get the question of whether we have the generation.

There’s a lot of improvements that have come about as a result of being technically feasible, in many cases over the objections of the workers.

E.g. safer working at heights - harnesses, scissor/boom lifts, scaffolding with kick guards and netting.

In other cases, both the workers and employers wanted improvements. Compare the nose end of a modern truck or freight locomotive with a WW2 era or even 1980s one, for example.

Not just jobs. AI can’t hold copyright. This could have messy legal implications.

Why can’t both be accurate?

A fair number have reasonable driving ability but still drive outside it.

It’s electrical componentry, so conductivity and corrosion are a concern. Differential thermal expansion can also be an issue.

The lugs are aluminium.

The split bolts are copper or brass, tin plated for better corrosion resistance.

None of this is going to be found in a security camera (unless they’ve earthed it with fat conductors for some reason). It’s high power gear.

Are there that many? How much wood are we talking per person per year?

Some of the articles I saw suggested that it was (at least historically) trimmings from hedgerows, which are too thin/green/wet to be useful for much else.

In a lot of places farmers burn piles of unwanted vegetation anyway.

It is bail; it is in lieu of being in prison where you have none of those abilities anyway.

We can discuss whether the original arrest/prosecution was sensible (it probably wasn’t), but the bail conditions aren’t unreasonable for whatever version of ‘hate speech’ she’s charged with.

Bonfires apparently, at least in parts of Germany.

I don’t see anything significant suggesting they’re being discontinued. It’s a relatively small amount of wood mass being burned on one day a year.

And there we have the difference between advocating and enforcing. Plenty of people now have the time to focus on safety issues; doesn’t mean they get any more effect than the people advocating for veganism or environmentalism.

In a functioning system (and bear in mind that sometimes the US doesn’t have that, and I’m certainly not taking the US situation as a goal), a regulator is often going to step in and make you stop.

People only caring once it affects them personally means that the people who haven’t been affected yet are going to keep vibe-coding dams and drag-racing on public roads.

Coercion can be a relative thing - anything from slavery to a gentleman’s agreement that if you help me build a house, I’ll help you build a house, because neither of us wants to lift rafters on our own.

The work required to e.g. build a (reasonably large) bridge is substantial; the work required to maintain that bridge in a safe condition is also substantial and it’s quite well known in free software circles that maintenance is a lot less sexy than building another shiny new bridge - government can struggle with this too, but that’s where rigid safety and oversight systems come into it. Start looking at dams and it gets way more scary.

Many many safety failures affect far more than the person who made the decision. That said, you often find the opposite - many people value others’ safety more than their own.

This can be a critical mass thing, though. Some projects are pointless unless you get enough people involved, but then have worthwhile results.

I would also put ‘safety’ in the “valuable, but no one wants to use it” category (note - not create safety systems, but convincing the truck driver or forge worker or backyard chemist to implement and use them).

Some idle comments:

• In hot climates, an indoors HWHP is preferred, as it offsets AC loads. In cold climates, put it outdoors.

• Avoid putting AC units directly in the kitchen due to fouling the filters.

• Multiple single splits can be cheaper than a multi split, and are generally slightly more efficient.

• Shade can help reduce AC loads significantly.

Same thing with the cluster that is VoLTE support between carriers.

Isn’t “I can move my phone between countries and carriers without worrying” something that was mostly sorted out in the 3G days?

Is that not because the copper holds more heat, so stays hot for longer at the same dissipation?

Copper has more mass, heat capacity, and thermal conductivity per litre.

Is aluminium actually more effective as a dissipation surface? I hadn’t heard that.