flights to east asia are much more expensive from europe, and the cheapest ones were with stopover in one of gulf countries (qatar or uae generally) now you can get direct lufthansa flight over polar circle, but you’ll pay

must be greenpeace, move along nothing to see here

(also it’s old news atp)

pigments are the least problem, and many are not dependent on oil, like titania. some might, like soot, but because we’re talking about japan, it’s likely they get it from chinese manufacturer, and chinese chemical industry relies on coal heavily. but it’s such a small part of it all, binder, solvent and the entire packaging are likely petroleum-derived or dependent so there’s close to zero savings here. not to mention fuel and fertilizer use in farming that led to that product

it’s such unbelievably petty corner cutting, the only value of it is in marketing

you know what would help them? switch to solar process heat, best time for it was decade ago, second best time is now (they’re using heavy fuel oil for heating something)

cap, that’s a marketing move. black ink still needs solvent and amount of it saved by using one pass instead of 3 is tiny, transport will take more

4-5V is state of the art and pushing it there or beyond that gets very tricky very quickly. pure water has electrochemical window of 1.23V, but you can go a bit over that because at low overvoltage water splitting is slow at most electrode materials. that’s why lead battery can have 2V per cell and will generate hydrogen when charged much over nominal voltage

storage of heat is also very cheap compared to some other options and can just be using ground around boreholes, especially considering that most of residential energy use is in form of heat. if you have a hill that you don’t need you can even put an artificial lake on top of it

there’s a speciality resin (that new material) in that battery. resins are nonrecyclable. i don’t think it can be 4x cheaper per kg than LiFePO4 battery because of that material

some of you people itt have never imagined that there could be something like a research dead end and it shows

use of water as a solvent limits maximum voltage

wanted to use water to get electricity anyway for a laugh? we have a tool for that: it’s called STEAM TURBINE

or you could go with sodium battery, or LiFePO4, or thermal energy storage at this scale. hell maybe even pumped hydro

just put butter in the toothpaste tube smh

this is not something unusual, it’s like saying “how china’s manufacturing industry fuels microplastic crisis”. it so happens that manufacture of many APIs (active pharmaceutical ingredients, especially generics on account of lower profit margin) got over time outsourced to china and india. what else do you want? cut off entire countries from opioids import? there are legit importers everywhere and it’s that countries’ regulators/customs/etc job to figure it out

breaking news: fork found in kitchen

quixotic, even

if you’re interested in heating only, then geo-solar hybrid might be better for you. the point is that excess heat from solar collector gets stored in soil near borehole, which can be used for heating in winter. solar heat also gets you hot water year round, and it can be made to work with heat pump or without

they could be just as well from cambodia for all we know

scammers don’t give a fuck and you can find them in any country in the world

fr this is worse than toilet paper roll math

there are 199 seats and so 2/3 supermajority is 133 seats. tisza has 136 now at 60%ish polling stations counted

at 45% polling stations (?) in, Tisza has 135 seats, which is more than supermajority, and results from bigger cities where opposition has greater support still are not yet counted. if mi hazank drops under 5% threshold, their lead will be greater. lowkey expecting that orban is looking for plane tickets to moscow rn

update: at 72% stations in, Tisza has 138 seats

turns out you can just do things, and consequences depend on who you are