Failed electrical engineering major here - it turned out I was built to be a scientist, not an engineer, but it took a year of EE classes to figure that out.

Regarding energy storage, capacitors aren’t much different than batteries, but they can charge/discharge faster, have lower energy density (units of stored energy per units mass), and self-discharge faster, hence why they aren’t used in place of batteries. For something where weight and volume aren’t an issue and with no need for long-term storage, like a solar-equipped house, a huge cap would be a great option. I’m trying to figure out how to build one of what’s described it the article now.

The rate at which a capacitor discharges varies just like a battery, proportional to the resistance of the circuit. The reason most folks associate capacitors with “shorted terminals go boom” is the maximum rate of discharge on a capacitor is much higher than a battery, plus some capacitors operate at a much higher voltage than is practical for a battery, increasing the likelihood of generating a small arc. Shorting the terminals with a conductor makes a low resistance circuit so it just dumps its charge, whereas a battery would max out at a much lower rate, typically making a toasty wire versus a vaporized or melted wire.

Speak for yourself, I might make one!

Put up or shut up, Ron.

Or accessible at all!

I’d punch the alleged deals into camelcamelcamel to find they’d been similar for years. I’ve even found prices that went up!

Dude, these are SO fucking cool!

How do masons feel about Freemasons?

Edit: this picture is getting so much mileage this year.

People are much nicer as a whole here. I was on Reddit for years and I started to dread seeing I had replies to my comments. I’m actually excited when I get responses here.

It helps a ton. Facial massage and neti pots help me survive the worst congestion.

Oh shit, I didn’t know about ESPhome. There goes my free time!

No kidding. I have a disability and was fired back in January for it (investigation and lawsuit pending). There are so few jobs I can do and it really sucks.

Seconded. Alligator Auschwitz is appropriate.

I can help. Hair dies after it grows out of the hair root, deep in the follicle. Cutting it won’t change the rate of growth as there’s no way for dead cells to signal that anything has changed.

Periodic trims eliminate split ends, so the hair breaks less frequently. That’s all it is.

I’m surprised they haven’t called for a recount on elections they’ve won.

You’re not supposed to chew them?! I love oysters but I chew them up.

If only science could provide an answer. It must be a witch!

I’m a secret leftist amongst a bunch of low information MAGA voters (the ones that voted for Trump more because they’re stupid and easily duped than being giant racists) in a few different circles. All they know is I own guns and answer “oh fuck no” when asked if I’m a liberal, so they assume I’m a non-MAGA conservative*. Hehehe.

Without exception, they adore Elno. They don’t realize it but they’re prosperity gospel types (because stupid), so they assume he must be a good and intelligent guy, otherwise Jebus wouldn’t have made him successful.

*Side note: I have one all hot and bothered about seizing the means of production, just using different terms.

I’d amend that to already tiny intentional userbase. Google, Samsung, Microsoft, Apple, and others are gleefully shoving it down their users’s throats, hoping they’ll get hooked, so there’s a massive userbase. I suspect this is exactly why only 3% are willing to pay - they’re a portion of the tiny group who actually signed up.