i think that you give them entirely too much credit, they really are this deeply steeped in technolibertarian nonsense

you’re on lemmy which means you’re around non-idiots a bit more often than usual. normal people don’t use adblocks and treat chatbots like literal magic, you have to lower your expectations

not hard, but it easily becomes classified info leak source which is what it looks like it is investigated as here

the waste heat comes from cryogenics system that keeps all of this helium at below 3K. turns out you need to spend a lot of energy to cool down things to temperatures this low

polymarket is just gambling for people who don’t want to admit they have gambling problem and have delusions of propethood think that their supreme rationality allows them to predict future

you can’t turn a gas into liquid by compression alone if temperature is above critical point, you also need to cool it down. separation is done by fractional distillation, but the reason it’s done is mostly about oxygen (medical and steelmaking among some other uses). for nitrogen it’s somewhere about -150C. first air is stripped of water and carbon dioxide, then it’s turned into a liquid, then it’s separated into oxygen, nitrogen and argon, and some large specialized plants also separate xenon, krypton and neon

if you don’t actually care for it being a liquid, there’s another method called pressure swing adsorption that separates gases based on how tightly do they bind to porous surfaces under pressure. this is how medical oxygen concentrators work

making liquid nitrogen is actually efficient these days, as in not much more energy is used than is actually needed

yeah nah, you are a tool and talk like one, there’s zero risk you’re ever getting close to admission

how many alts have you made today

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shooting down bosses stupid ideas is #1 productivity tip for professionals (like most people on lemmy are)

note that these are only verified and identified as either protestors or irgc, and these are numbers from saturday. later reports that are counting more broadly estimate that number of killed is at least 2000 (saturday) or closer to 10000 (sunday). complete internet blackout lasts 3.5 day now and it’s not helping either, this also means that information diffuses slowly within iran

We’re British

important point lol, 90s sucked in eastern block https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cross_(demography)

also a couple of east asian countries like at minimum japan, south korea, taiwan were proper tinpot dictatorships until 90s

as i understand, this is what bellingcat uses as a major source of data when reporting on russian activities

“It is one of the paradoxes of modern Russia: on the one hand, these services are illegal and rely on leaked data, yet on the other, they are far more convenient for day-to-day police work than the multitude of official departmental databases,”

gaben on piracy: “We think there is a fundamental misconception about piracy. Piracy is almost always a service problem and not a pricing problem,”

still up for me, but in any case https://web.archive.org/web/20251223055820/https://www.justice.gov/epstein/files/DataSet 8/EFTA00025010.pdf

is really every digital turd dished out by trump’s court newsworthy

There is a thermal energy storage included as s major part. This works because compressing CO2 to 55atm adiabatically heats it up to some 450-ish C, so that heat is pretty high grade, and only the final stage cools it down with heat exchanger open to air. In discharging direction, some heat is taken from outside air to evaporate part of CO2 and heat stored is used up

compressors, turbines (like steam turbines), piping, some of which heat-resistant (500C), container for liquid carbon dioxide, lots of plastic for the bubble, something for thermal storage, dry and clean carbon dioxide, these aren’t unusual or restricted resources, don’t depend on critical raw materials or anything like that

Compressed air without heat recovery is more like 30%, so this is huge

Carbon dioxide can be liquefied relatively easily which is what i guess makes this efficient

i can only watch in disbelief

wood, magnesium, aluminum, plastics, they say titanium is bad, but i’d expect iron, nickel, manganese, tungsten, silver, maybe zinc to be worse