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azepoi commented on Japan has opened its first osmotic power plant   theguardian.com/world/202... · Posted by u/pseudolus
sl-1 · 10 days ago
Depends on the CAPEX and OPEX requirements. If it is cheap to do, it could be a solid win, but if the plant requires a lot of capital, it might be cheaper to just take the hit on efficiency
azepoi · 10 days ago
Yes the brine could just be diluted wih gray water to reduce the environnemental impact without the energy recovery of the osmotic plant and the capital can be invested in other renewable with better efficiency.

That being said it's a first so it's a pilot project needed to have feedback on a real plant in operation and not just back of the enveloppe calculations and suppositions. Sometime you need to just build the thing to encounter problems, issues or non-issues.

azepoi commented on Why you can’t grow cool-climate plants in hot climates   crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.... · Posted by u/surprisetalk
fifilura · 14 days ago
In southern Sweden the vast spruce forests are starting to die because of the spruce bark beetle. You can see it everywhere now.

Supposedly due to warmer summers.

And new planatation replace spruce by larch or leaf trees.

Luckily they don't seem to affect pine trees, but they have their own climate expectations.

azepoi · 13 days ago
Pine tree suffer from other parasites and notably sphaeropsis fungus
azepoi commented on French firm Gouach is pitching an Infinite Battery with replaceable cells   arstechnica.com/gadgets/2... · Posted by u/pabs3
wiether · 17 days ago
> Even avid cyclists could never hit the kilometres travelled by your average car user in a year.

According to different sources, the average kilometers travelled by motorists are under 25k km/year (including Europe & US).

You'd be surprised by how many amateur cyclists ride more than that each year.

azepoi · 17 days ago
25000km is 250 100km days per year. That's a lot.

In France for example the average yearly distance travelled by car is closer to 12000km not 25000. More achievable but still a lot.

azepoi commented on Million Times Million   susam.net/million-times-m... · Posted by u/susam
mattigames · 2 months ago
In the long system how is a billionaire called? A milliardaire? That doesn't sound right.
azepoi · 2 months ago
Exactly how it's called in french
azepoi commented on Endometriosis is an interesting disease   owlposting.com/p/endometr... · Posted by u/crescit_eundo
andrelaszlo · 3 months ago
An Argentinian friend of mine said you get cancer from drinking beverages that are too hot. He sent the Wikipedia page to prove it but only the Spanish version of the page had this information.

Is this another example of culturally specific health "facts" or have I just missed something?

azepoi · 3 months ago
Heard this in France too from MD. Link between drinking too hot (over 60°C) and oesophagus cancer
azepoi commented on My quest to make motorcycle riding that tad bit safer   gill.net.in/posts/my-ques... · Posted by u/mygnu
nielsole · 4 months ago
I unsuccessfully built something like this for my bicycle a while back: https://niels-ole.com/bike/maker/2020/02/20/bicycle-light

> It turned out that when I accelerate strongly, I pull the bike back, at some point in the rotation of the pedals. This is rightfully detected as a sudden deceleration of the bicycle.

I guess on a much heavier motorcycle the deceleration of the motorcycle is actually a meaningful indicator of the combination driver+motorcycle slowing down.

azepoi commented on Take the pedals off the bike   fortressofdoors.com/take-... · Posted by u/bemmu
throwaway2037 · 8 months ago
Balance bikes are all the rage in Tokyo. I have heard from parents that their kid learned to ride a regular bike in a day or two after pushing around a balancing bike for a couple of years. We agreed that learning to ride a regular bike a kid (without first using a balance bike) was tough!
azepoi · 8 months ago
Half the children seem to have one in France. My neighbourhood is full of them. Draisiennes/laufräder/balancebikes are a real transportation means as children go every single day to the crèche on them. Some Kids that do this know how to ride and can learn to ride a real bike before 3. You then have to find one small enough
azepoi commented on Norms-Based Intellectual Property Systems: The Case of French Chefs(2008)   pubsonline.informs.org/do... · Posted by u/kelseyfrog
nl · 8 months ago
The abstract sounds interesting. Is the paper available?
azepoi · 8 months ago
Yes: About->view pdf

(On mobile)

azepoi commented on Combining 15s interval whole-sky-camera photos to form a 4y spanning keogram   astrodon.social/@cgbassa/... · Posted by u/nebalee
hinkley · 8 months ago
My favorite work in this vein is still the guy who did the trigonometry to convert a year+ worth of telemetry from a light level sensor in his back yard to paint a picture of the tree canopy. Each day is a scan line of light and dark patches at a different solar inclination. So everything above the sensor eventually got “painted”.
azepoi · 8 months ago
Have you got a link or do you remember the name of this person?
azepoi commented on Is My Blue Your Blue?   ismy.blue/... · Posted by u/bpierre
joegibbs · a year ago
I got "Your boundary is at hue 167, greener than 86% of the population. For you, turquoise is blue". I think I consider darker and yellower colours as green - for instance tennis balls are firmly green to me, but a lot of people say they're yellow.

I wonder if this has anything to do with your upbringing. I grew up on a farm in a dry part of Australia, where the grass didn't often get very green. Most of the year it was yellow. If you associate green with grass and the grass is yellow, maybe you associate green with a yellower colour?

azepoi · a year ago
It can be cultural. Turquoise is often called bleu turquoise in french. So it's more of a blue to me.

u/azepoi

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