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I have just gotten a 4th COVID vax dose. Figured I might as well tweet what happens to me. Will I die? Will I become untouchable to Omicron? Will I become magnetic? Or will I only annoy the antivaxxers? Also, should I try and beat the guy who got 10 doses?

@lauriewired @FelixCLC_ Also thermal expansion. Higher temp means higher expansion. More risk of failure from solder joints cracking. And electrolytic capacitors dont last as long at high temps. Even if the transistors are ok, other things might fail due to the heat.

@lauriewired @FelixCLC_ Transistors have a negative temp coefficient, they conduct better at higher temp. But that can cause a small part of a transistor to get hotter, more power flows through that part, gets even hotter, then it fails from too much heat.

I’ve always wondered, why can’t we run CPU’s hotter? Look at any modern CPU, and the maximum junction temperature (TJMax) is around 95ish C. Leakage current explodes past that point, and reliability drops off a cliff. But the question is…couldn’t you make a “tougher” transistor? The answer is…sorta. The Glenn research center at NASA experiments with silicon carbide wafers. Venus is crazy hot (~470C!). Apparently, NASA has been somewhat successful running a medium-scale IC at 500C for 1 year. Ozark IC also won a contract to develop a multicore RISC-V cpu intended to operate at 500C, but I haven’t seen updates in a while. Perhaps an EE can chime in. Is ~95C TJMax just a local optimum that everyone collectively settled on? How much density would you have to give up to run things just a little bit hotter? I wonder if a special, “low density space H100” could reliably run at say, ~150C, or if that’s completely outside the realm of what’s feasible.

@SustainableOz @ClaireCoutinho You don't even need that. As air to air heatpumps are more efficient than air to water. Alot of the extra power used during summer would be offset by less power used in winter.

Simple solution; mandate solar and batteries to run the AC for 12hrs using locally stored energy reserves and allow it. If your ac uses 2kw, then you need 24kwh of battery and enough solar to generate 48kwh in 8hrs (circa 8-10kw peak) Free AC for the owner then and zero grid impact. Encourages efficient AC and energy usage.

Britain’s miserabilist view of energy policy is never as clear as during a heatwave. That’s because, unlike virtually every other civilised country, British housebuilders are de facto banned from installing air conditioning. Our building regulations say that housebuilders must exhaust every other “passive” option for cooling buildings – from airflow to shutters to awnings – before local council pen pushers will let them install air con. The result is that most of our homes are built without it. That’s why 3% of British homes have air con, compared to 90% in the US, Japan and Korea. Why do we have this mad ban in place? Because our political class, including erstwhile Conservatives such as Robert Jenrick, said it ‘used too much energy’. This is an anti-growth mindset that must be rejected. Cheap, abundant energy is the foundation of prosperity, but the problem with the net zero ideology is that it turned this fundamental truth on its head. Energy use became a bad thing to be demonised, and the result is that we made electricity scarce and expensive by focusing on decarbonisation over cost and security of supply. Prices went through the roof and fewer and fewer people now use it. But as energy demand has collapsed in the UK, so have growth and living standards. That’s why two years ago I made a speech saying we would need to prepare for more energy demand to fuel AI and air con, or risk becoming poorer and less prosperous. The fact that we are one of the only major economies that has decided the solution to hot days is to “sweat it out” tells you everything you need to know about our warped energy ideology. All the evidence shows that in heatwaves people sleep far fewer hours, productivity plummets and children struggle in school. Why would we limit access to a technology that is proven to save lives, boost productivity and make people more comfortable? It is even more absurd when you consider that Ed Miliband is carving up the countryside for masses of solar farms – solar farms that we are going to be paying millions of pounds to switch off when it’s too sunny in the summer. Yet air conditioning demand peaks in the summer at exactly the same time as those solar farms are generating more electricity than the grid can use. That’s how mad our energy policy is – we are now building energy generation that we want to stop the public from using. We really are through the looking glass now. This is all part of the mind rot that has infected all echelons of government, which sees UK energy usage as uniquely bad and will do everything it can to drive it down – even when that means transferring our industries’ emissions to coal-powered China, or blocking our households from enjoying the growth, prosperity and consumer benefits that other countries allow. That’s why rather than embrace AI, Labour are currently agonising about whether it’s compatible with net zero - and why they would rather use Putin’s oil than back our British industry in Aberdeen. Under Kemi Badenoch and my leadership, we Conservatives are taking a new approach. We need to get back to energy realism by repealing the Climate Change Act. We need to prioritise cheap, abundant energy by backing the North Sea, doubling down on nuclear and adopting our Cheap Power Plan to make electricity cheap. Energy policy should serve the needs of the British public, not the other way around. That’s why we would axe the outdated building regulations that are blocking air con and build an energy system which puts consumers first.

@gomiam @AndyOz002 @MetJam_ Humidity has a big effect on Aircon cooling load, due to latent heat of water vapor. Could be as simple as higher than normal humidity, Aircon systems work harder, more waste heat discharging. Higher outdoor temp.

@gomiam @AndyOz002 @MetJam_ Waste heat from Aircon, gas hot water etc. Also cooling from the trees/ grass in the park. That spike might just be from a change in wind direction. Im not trying to deny global warming, only that particular weather station isn't a good example.

Oxford, the longest running continuous weather station in UK history, with temperature observations stretching back to 1815, has preliminarily broken its maximum temperature record for May yesterday by OVER 3ºC with a temperature of 33.7ºC. Unprecedented in its 211-year history.

@JayBush37475884 @heywildrich They look like tow hooks / loops. That bolt to the chassis of a 1992 Toyota MR2.

@heywildrich What's the part's exact name?

I ordered some car parts from Japan and US customs needs to know not only the country of origin for the part, but the metal used for the part, and the county of origin for the STEEL used in the part before releasing the parts to me. It's apparently more difficult to get MR2 parts in the country than it is to get an entire third-world village here on visas.

@RonTannert @EVCurveFuturist Perfectly fine. As EVs still have lower overall CO2 emissions, even when charged with coal power. And EVs also improve the economics of renewable generation. Via using late night or mid day power that can't be used for much else.

@EVCurveFuturist He Chris, is it OK to burn coal to make electricity for EV's? Norway has hydropower...but if it doesn't snow, then what? Just askin! 🤔

EV charging infrastructure is usually identified as the key obstruction to high EV adoption. There’s some truth in that, but it’s also heavily mixed with ignorance, outdated assumptions and outright disinformation. The reality is far more nuanced. Norway, the country now sitting at ~99% EV sales and roughly 40% EV fleet penetration, ranks lower than many expect not because infrastructure failed, but because EV adoption exploded so hard that charger utilisation became extremely high. Home charging also absorbed much of the demand. The Netherlands took the opposite approach and massively overbuilt public charging early due to dense cities and apartment living. Then there’s China. Maintaining roughly 1 public charger for every 8–9 EVs at 40+ million NEVs is infrastructure deployment at an almost incomprehensible scale. This isn’t simply about EV adoption anymore. We’re watching entire transport and energy systems being rebuilt underneath the old world in real time.

@grant_farquhar This is equivalent to Telecom spending lots of money on those cute animal TV adds in the 90s. While charging crazy prices for toll calls.

Air NZ is estimated to spend between NZ$30 million and NZ$60 million a year on advertising in New Zealand. For an airline with very limited domestic competition, that feels like a surprisingly high number.

@InnKeeping_ @evclinic Yes

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@DrStefool @skdh Someone even managed to patent the wheel. newscientist.com/article/dn965-…

@skdh My favorite patent: "Animal toy" 😸 freepatentsonline.com/6360693.pdf

Patents, like peer reviewed publications, look impressive in CVs, and many institutions reward them. I have seen this with my own eyes, after my host institution offered a bonus for patent applications (not registrations!) my PhD-advisor promptly applied for a patent to convert garbage into energy with higher dimensional black hole relics (which, for all we know, don’t exist). A research team with lead at Northwestern University in the United States reports a new type of academic fraud: fake patents. They have found multiple companies which sell credits on UK registered designs to academics, mostly in India, who can use them to boost promotion scores and institutional rankings. UK registered designs are not technically patents. They protect appearance, not function, and are not checked for novelty before registration, which makes them fast and cheap to obtain. The companies sold these off for prices corresponding to roughly $20 to $400 per authorship. Many of the fake patents had long technical-sounding titles, multiple academic applicants, recycled images, and implausible products, including an alleged artificial intelligence skin-cancer device that appears to be a modified Glock pistol model (see image).

@CoolGuyCatDude @FormerlyFormer And some of those supposedly environmentally good refrigerants actually cause higher power use. Harming the environment due to higher CO2 emissions to generate the extra power required. R454b replacing R32 is a good example of that. And higher running costs.

@FormerlyFormer Pretty sure the same thing happened with the old school refrigerant. Patent was running out and all the sudden it's super bad for the environment. Coincidentally they just so happened to have a new, safer, more expensive version waiting in the wings.

Over 10 yrs ago my asthma inhaler went generic and became cheap. But the govt said the propellant was bad for the environment, mandated a new type, and I was back to buying branded for $$$$. Recently that new type went generic as well. Cheap again! Yay! Except now the govt says this propellant is *also* unsafe, and will be banning it, forcing everyone to buy a (patented of course) newer more expensive type yet again. Funny how the timing works that drugs become “unsafe/environmentally bad” juuuust as the pharmaceutical patents run out. Very curious, that.

@newagemaker1 @o_tonypaulsen31 @PCarterClimate Don't know about whole settlements. But in Auckland, the city council and govt have had to buy back and demolish quite a few houses due to flooding.

@o_tonypaulsen31 @PCarterClimate I saw that NZ was actually thinking about abandoning some settlements (north of north Island I think)as they were going to be to difficult/costly to service. Has that started to happen yet?

THE POWERFUL EL Niño IS BLENDING WITH MASSIVE PACIFIC MARINE HEAT WAVE This will be globally disastrous- they will feed into each other. We are already at 1.5 °C. This marine-atmosphere combination will be a huge boost, leading to unprecedented super-extreme weather events worldwide. #elnino #globalwarming #MarineHeatwave

@Pt_Kangaroo @NMowbray23 Probably British American Tobacco.

@NMowbray23 And what a concise list of portfolios. I wonder what the "Bat" portfolio does.

WILD. Comparing the NZ government structure to Finland’s. A picture says 1000 words !! Both countries have similar populations (5.5M). The structures behind are very different. Finland: • 12 core ministries • Clear vertical accountability • Defined ownership • Built for speed, clarity, and execution New Zealand: • 40+ departments • 80+ ministerial portfolios • Layers of overlapping responsibility • Super-ministries reporting across multiple ministers The result? Accountability blur. No improvement. Massive waste. In any high-performing organisation, if everyone is responsible, no one is. NZ has exceptional people. But we need systems designed to deliver outcomes, not a birds-nest structure that creates no improvement or efficiency. Fixing this will be a HUGE unlock on NZ long term. All parties should come together in a bi partisan way to sort this out.@actparty @NZNationalParty @nzfirst @nzlabour

@kylecordes @TESLA_winston This would increase insurance premiums. As otherwise repairable cars get written off. And those write off cars also have lower value, as parts can't be resold.

I think carmakers have figured out that they don't get any value and have reputational risks from any use of a wrecked vehicle. So eventually they will all do anything they can to ensure these are crushed. Even taking off and reusing apparently undamaged parts, while very beneficial for consumers, is not beneficial to the car makers. When eventually everything in our world is under DRM-like restrictions, you won't be able to reuse a single part from a wrecked vehicle. Obviously, I am not advocating for this. I'm just describing what's likely to happen.

I have been hearing reports of wrecked Lucid vehicles being purchased at auction, then bricked by being put in "service mode" when connected to wifi. This typically happens after the airbags deploy. In order to get the car out of service mode, you need to take the vehicle to Lucid to have them inspect the vehicle. Really not cool @LucidMotors. I heard it can cost upwards of $15,000. Lucid Airs have been selling at auction anywhere from $15,000-$20,000 with "light damage." The kicker is the part pricing and availability.

@renedepaula @skdh Reminds me of when I tried to install the Mobil Smiles (rewards) app. That app itself gave me a 403 FORBIDDEN error when trying to create an account.

I went through a similar torture trying to recharge an electric car in Italy using ENEL chargers their mobile app has a lousy usability that throws errors all the time and when you finally manage to create an account the process of adding a payment option is so convoluted that, after a few errors, they block you for good I rented an electric car because ENEL chargers are everywhere, but after being blocked I had to chase alternatives, and it was really stressful this is another example of the internet enshittification: online services became a nightmare. (I used to be a UX professional...)

Trying to pay an invoice from Germany in 2026: Oh no, they sent it by Stripe! Don't have any of these payment providers, so pay by credit card. Your payment provider declined the transaction. Try the other two credit cards. Your payment provider declined the transaction. Why do I have 3 of these in any case? Ok, so use the virtual Revolut card then. Not enough money on the card. Recharge from bank account. Payment provider declined the transaction. Recharge by Google Pay? Google Pay not working. Why not? Ah, the credit card is expired. Replace the credit card? Your payment provider declined the transaction. (Tried to charge virtual card via Google Pay and Google Pay via the virtual card. Didn't work, unfortunately...) Ok, some other way to recharge the virtual card? Wires money from bank account to PayPal and then from PayPal to Revolut and then to Stripe from Revolut. Payment declined😭 Add to trusted merchants. Try again. It goes through 🥳 Would be easier to send cash with a pigeon at this point.

@Sailaff @shub0414 Bots.

@shub0414 Who gonna download

Also add something called “payment integration” so that i can receive money.

@levelsio This problem has already been solved. smartvent.co.nz/shop/heat-and-…

I still haven't solved the CO2 bedroom challenge You open the window and you wake up from a 6am garbage truck or barking dogs and sunlight You close it, you suffocate in 1200 ppl at 5am I guess you really need some mini tube in your wall with a vent that opens and closed based on internal CO2 but how do I build that?

@CreativeDeduct @MasterVril Main problem was the Resource Management Act 1991. Was meant to help the environment. It actually gave a monopoly on the right to pollute if you were doing so already. And it also caused house prices to increase far faster than incomes.

@MasterVril OK, I'll take your word for it. But Rogernomics was a massive free-market success story, regardless of the OECD ranking.

In the early 1980s New Zealand was a textbook socialist failure: one of the most regulated economies on earth, with exploding public debt, double-digit inflation, rising unemployment and a slide from 6th to 19th richest per capita in the OECD. Then came the libertarian revolution known as Rogernomics. In 1984 Finance Minister Roger Douglas and the Fourth Labour Government slashed farm and industry subsidies overnight, scrapped tariffs and import quotas, floated the NZ dollar, deregulated finance and banking, abolished wage and price controls, and cut the top tax rate from 66% to 33%. The next step was privatisation: Telecom NZ, Air New Zealand, energy firms, ports, forests and banks were sold to private owners. Short-term pain was real, but the results were spectacular. Inflation was crushed. Productivity in privatised firms soared: Telecom NZ transformed from creaky monopoly into an innovator with collapsing prices and exploding services. Air New Zealand went from chronic losses to profitable global airline. Real consumer prices fell, investment boomed and public debt was slashed. By the late 1990s New Zealand was running surpluses, enjoying a long growth boom and climbing the global economic freedom rankings. Rogernomics proved what free-market advocates keep saying: government is a terrible steward of resources. Restore private property rights, kill political meddling and let markets and incentives work. Free people and free markets deliver the growth and prosperity the state never could. Freedom works. New Zealand proved it.

@jsfry007 @alex_avoigt EVs. As VW can't compete against Honda and Toyota for ICE engine reliability. But EVs are weak points for Toyota and Honda.

@alex_avoigt But here’s the challenge - ICE engine or EV? And if they latter do they have sufficient supplier capacity? Not trivial at scale.

The VW Group, in its Current Form and State, will Not Survive Today, the VW Group's supervisory board will be presented with a 160-page restructuring plan from BCG, and I predict the company will continue to take only cosmetic measures, which it is forced to take, thereby driving the company further into crisis. Currently, at least four more plants in Germany would have to be completely shut down, and the company should be preparing for a capacity reduction of 4 million vehicles per year, not 1 million. All decision-makers on the board of directors, the supervisory board, and the stakeholders of the Porsche and Piëch families are hoping that everything will somehow turn out for the best with minor adjustments, and they are reassuring each other that it will all work out because no one benefits from speaking the truth. What needs to be done: The VW Group must discontinue one-third of its models, reduce capacity of 4 million vehicles per year, close at least 10 - 15 plants, lay off another 50,000 employees, and invest heavily in battery electric vehicles (BEVs). Ultimately, the VW Group should begin licensing negotiations for FSD with Tesla and develop two to three models capable of using the system right now. None of this will happen because the decision-makers are avoiding the truth, and no one wants to say what everyone has known for a long time: the VW Group, in its current form and state, will not survive.

@Raymond93426525 @MagazineTesla You can install solar panels on your house if the price of electricity increases. If the price of gasoline increases, you can't do anything.

@MagazineTesla Tout ça pour s’exposer non plus au prix de l’essence mais à celui de l’électricité 😬

6 ans de Toyota RAV4 hybride. Zéro panne. Fiabilité parfaite. On l'aimait vraiment. Et on a quand même commandé une Tesla Model Y. Voici pourquoi — honnêtement. Le RAV4 hybride est une excellente voiture. C'est important de le dire d'abord. 5,6 L/100 km réels. Fiabilité légendaire. Coffre de 580 L. Six ans de service impeccable. Mais l'hybride auto-rechargeable, c'est à moitié électrique. Vous restez exposé au prix de l'essence. Juste moins fort. Mars 2026 : SP95 à 2,20 €. RAV4 : 2 355 €/an de carburant. Tesla Model Y : 660 €/an (domicile HC 0,1579 €/kWh). → Économie annuelle énergie : 1 695 €. Les peurs avant l'achat : 🚗 "Le coffre ?" → 854 L Model Y vs 580 L RAV4. Plus grand. 🏔️ "Les Alpes depuis Paris ?" → 1 arrêt Superchargeur 22 min à Valence. Sandwichs, enfants sur l'écran, arrivée à l'heure. 🔧 "La fiabilité Toyota ?" → 5 mois sans problème. Pas 6 ans de données, mais un bon début. Ce que je n'avais pas compris avant : Avec le RAV4, j'allais à la pompe. Avec la Tesla, je branche le soir. Le lendemain, pleine. C'est un changement de paradigme, pas une amélioration marginale. L'hybride en 2020 était avant-gardiste. En 2026, il n'est plus à la hauteur de ce qu'on peut avoir. L'article complet → tesla-mag.com/on-avait-un-to…