Favorites March 27th 2023

Walnut Creek, October 2022

Caleb Watney @calebwatney

I love my UK friends, but imagine living in a country that still has separate hot and cold water taps at the sink to wash your hand. This is the actual advice to cope with a lack of simple temperature controls!

He also has a follow-up on showers, which I've rephrased in the style of Seinfeld: "What is the deal with European showers? I mean, why even bother with a shower if you're just going to flood the entire bathroom? It's like they want you to take a bath, but standing up"

Nat Bullard @NatBullard

Should this year's US federal energy R&D budget go through as requested, we will be *almost* back to the same outlay as during the Carter administration. Wondering what our energy system would be like if we'd maintained our 1980 level for 40 years bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Tim Latimer points out that by a strange coincidence, there were significant advancements in wind, solar, battery and shale oil&gas in the 1970s.

Threads

• Don't buy into the memes that things were better in the US in the 1950s, they weren't, they were worse, for everyone.