Growing up in a Christian household and being around people who pfeached5and believed in the prosperity gospel, my impression has always been that they think they are too poor to help people so if god wants them to help others then it will make them prosperous.

And it’s not like usenet ever went away, just not used as much nowadays. Hell, even BBSs are still kicking.

Adventure mode is more accessible compared to the previous versions of DF, but still more difficult than Fortress mode which is still difficult.

Anarchists who still appreciate neat curves and color inside the lines

A router, the kind you use for wood work.

It was my father’s tool, and probably as old as I am. It doesn’t work and parts are no longer available for it. I’ve since bought a new one. But I still have the old one that will never work.

Hopefully they can bring it out of retirement, that blimp really seemed to piss off Donald and the Trumpettes

Nope, you pay either way. I think it’s $10/mo for the ad supported tier, and $20/mo fke the ad free tier.

You pay to see ads.

My biology professor said, this is the required textbook available from the college bookstore. And here’s how the syllabus matches up with the OpenStax book

My background is chemical engineering. From this brief article, it sounds like a decent proposition. Basically taking a diesel engine and powering it with methane, but feeding it excess methane. Enough methane combusts to power the engine, which also powers the downstream processes. The excess methane is reformed to hydrogen without being fully oxidized to carbon dioxide and water. The nascent hydrogen is fed to some downstream process to create methanol.

This seems like a good way to produce a needed fuel / feedstock without additional energy inputs. I would be interested in seeing a full life cycle analysis of the system.

The energy efficiency of the appliance will only be a small dent in the energy consumption of cooking the rice. Most methods rely on boiling the water. Heating water up doesn’t take very much energy - about 4 kJ/kg/K. This means that heating 1 liter of water from 20 C to 100 C takes about 320,000 Joules (1 kWh = 3,600,000 Joules).

Once water is heated up to 100 C, the next step is boiling where you phase change from liquid to vapor. The specific enthalpy of vaporization for water at atmospheric pressure is about 2000 kJ/kg, so the one Liter of water would take 2,000,000 Joules to completely vaporize. You could weigh your pot before and after cooking to see how much water you vaporized.

Let’s assume you have 1 kg (about 1 liter) of water and 1/10 of it vaporizes. The minimum energy for this is about 500,000 Joules assuming 100% efficiency. Divide by efficiency, so if the appliance is 90% efficient it would be around 550,000 Joules, while 80% would be about 625,000 Joules.

So, to answer your question, the most energy efficient method will minimize vaporization. Soaking the raw rice for a few hours will help reduce boiling time. Then use a standard issue rice cooker, which should stop the boiling process as soon as the rice is finished.

Who knew wild dogs could be such dholes