These factories do produce a quite pungent stench at times. It's not like if you permanently walk around in a bonbon store. Probably some sort of production step. Just like there are nasty stenches in breweries at times.
But one learns to live with this, it never bothered me. The upside was that everything in that city was pretty much in walking distance. Even the university was. I moved out to the country a bit but that was because I am just not a big city dweller.
So, it's okay that they used slaves, since they didn't have cranes?
Is it open during your services, with loud music, fighting and gunshots?
Chocolate boilers? They would melt.
I never said it was ok. Romans were very much able to build stuff without slave labor, and they did. Back in their days they were clearly the technological leaders. Talk to an old native American chief, ask them whether they had indoor plumbing, heated bathtubs and all that in their teepees 1500 years ago.
But all that went into the heads of some of the Roman emporers who then did rather loco things. Like trying to concquer the whole world, without really knowing what good that would do even if they hadsucceeded.
It is open, yes, sometimes loud music but that gets drowned out when the choo-choo train comes around. Gun shots, not so much. Although it does happen out here.
No, massive steel cookers. Sometimes there was a pungent smell. if you pull up a sat photo for "Deliusstrasse, Aachen, Germany" you can see the factory. It's still there. But it looks like they may have converted the whole place into lofts.
Were there Oompa-Loompas?
-- Les Cargill
Today it is -25 C in Helsinki and down to -40 C at the Arctic Circle.
The consumption yesterday was 14.3 GW, an increase of just 1000 MW or
200 W/person. At these temperatures air-to-air heat pumps are more or less useless, so those houses are now on direct electric heating.This just shows that with proper insulation, the power consumption can be kept at reasonable levels.
Multiply my figures by 2 or 3 to get comparative figures.
Apparently you have two teenage daughters that both like to spend an hour in the shower each day :-)
Anyway, returning to the original subject about EVs, according to my calculations, the current infrastructure would be sufficient in Finland for at least 9-10 month a year, if all commuting traffic would be switched to EVs. To handle the winter months, one new nuclear reactor would be needed as well as some strengthening of the distribution network.
A couple of days ago it was -80F (-62C) in Alaska. OTOH, Winter never happened here (a couple of nights got down close to 20F). Highs been in the
60s and 70s all week.They work just fine here. In fact, they're the most common heating type. With the hot and humid summers air conditioning is a requirement, so the installation cost of the heat pumps is almost zero. Electricity is cheap, too (no lefties allowed), so it works pretty well.
In the '80s, some new homes here were "super-insulated". It was found that the outgassing of common furnishings caused indoor pollution worse than any city. That's not a solution, either.
Go for it. It is *not* going to work in the US, regardless of the socialists' wet dreams of an EV in every garage.
Where the women wear just leaves? Haven't seen any.
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For America it would at least have to be this kind of vehicle :-)
Whatever floats your boat. ;-)
That figure is probably the MPG equivalent which is a complete bogus number.
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But it looks good in the glossy brochure :-)
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