ISP around me had policies like “we can provide Usenet except for the binaries trees”

Internal combustion cars are about half as efficient as big fossil fuel powerplants. The big ones waste a third of the energy as low grade heat; cars waste two thirds of the energy as low grade heat

Don’t forget that big batteries can react in fractions of a second to large power demand spikes or dips, stabilising the grid far better than spinning steel can

Thanks, I’m not great on biblical history, so corrections and detail are welcome

Also remember that the bronze age Jews were not at all special among the tribes of the area, their story about themselves is aggrandizing fiction that all the tribes did, it’s just the Jews’ stories survived and became popular

Also bronze age. Those that left left so long ago, the only right they have to the place is military might and the legal right given based on lobbying and the racism of the law makers in question.

Occasionally my phone recommends an article to read that I find interesting, I click it and it opens in the built in chrome based browser and is a sea of ads. Fortunately there’s an “open in Firefox” button so I actually can read the article

“the global South” oh like Australia, New Zealand, South Africa?

Because it’s all their fault, look away from the banks

Gen X here. I agree torrents are for legit uses only

Usenet is the best for piracy

It’s more than that. You need a chance for your body to recoup. People exercising hard more than 3 times in six days are doing themselves damage

People since ancient times have lived as long as modern people

More of us make it to the very old ages than twenty thousand years ago, but even back then those who survived childhood had a good chance of making it to old age

It’s not very true. Our bodies work fine for a good long time. It may be the cause of some of the problems we get as we age though

Incidentally I have heard (no idea whether it was folk stories or science) that kids who don’t crawl (some roll and drag themselves and learn to walk very early) get bad backs young

Most of the great apes are more or less upright much of the time

The sails used by large ships now are rigid. They are angled by motors, they are depowered by being stalled

These ships can use wind to push them forward or rearward, accelerate or brake. They don’t need additional crew, they don’t need any specially trained crew

It would be green methane, much easier to contain than hydrogen

And that would be shipped, though many places could make their own green methane

Many of us have solar power. I could power all my electric usage (including driving an EV) with the solar I can fit on my roof and a modest battery

I’m impressed by recent vertical axis wind turbines, as when we have a week with little sunlight the wind is usually blowing

There are efforts to develop green steel, it’ll be more expensive than coal, but coal is only so cheap because of the huge amount mined for fuel

It’s both. If demand goes down, price goes down; of supply goes up price goes down.

I expect the supply of shipping is pretty stable. It takes a while for ships to be built, it takes time for them to wear out, so in this case demand would be the driver of short term change, pushing the price of shipping in those ships reduced.

I wonder what could be carried in a former coal carrier.

Oil world get either very cheap or very expensive if the petrochemical fuel industry fell over

Very cheap while production was high and stockpiles full, then expensive as major producers left the industry

Funnily that isn’t a bad description of shipping green hydrogen

Industrial lubricants and asphalt fit my definition of petrochemicals

But then so do plastics