ebc
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- Comment on Why would the NA beer industry standardize on a bottle shape that's grotesquely inconvenient, topples with minimal force, and doubles the required volume to ship? 4 weeks ago:
The lining in question is very thin (akin to a layer of paint) and just burns up when the cans are re-melted.
Recycling beer bottles is indeed pretty easy once you get them to the processing center intact, but it’s getting there that’s the hard part. They’re fragile, pretty heavy and don’t stack well unless you put them in some form of packaging.
Once they’re broken, they’re basically useless; glass isn’t recycled much except as grit material for sandpaper; re-melting it is resource-intensive and sensitive to impurities.
- Comment on The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff 1 month ago:
Haven’t watched the video, but what do you think circularization is? If you’re “just a circulization away from orbit”, you are indeed going a bit slower than orbital velocity. There’s no point to going orbital velocity if your trajectory still brings you back inside the atmosphere. To get to orbit you want to raise your periapsis outside the atmosphere, and you do that by doing a burn at the apoapsis, which is what we commonly call “circularization”.
- Comment on Okay, but Mötley is a pretty awesome name. 2 months ago:
Just don’t be morbidly obese if you’re named Leviathan…
- Comment on Weather app asking for permission to manage calls 5 months ago:
Even SD cards and USB chargers have powerful microcontrollers in them nowadays
- Comment on Teslas Have a Minor Issue Where the Wheels Fly Off While Driving, Documents Show 5 months ago:
I have 4 kids and I don’t want to pay over 100k for a car. Believe it or not, there is currently no EV option on the market. It’s looking like the EV9 will be the first…