You’re right - sanity is limiting.

That’s the point with a fracked well, right? Massively increase the permeability of the strata in which the hydrocarbon is situated, then try to capture as much of the resulting output as possible?

One one times one two is one two?

There’s that too.

I’d be going with a bit of both too. A combination of naivete and certainty suggests a fair bit of arrogance too.

According to Howard, math *is* all wrong...

“This is the last century that our children will ever have been taught that one times one is one. They won’t have to grow up in ignorance. Twenty years from now, they’ll know that one times one equals two. We’re about to show a new truth. The true universal math ... I have created the pieces that make up the motion of…

It generally results in some unexpected winners and losers, true.

He would have likely been better sticking with Renault in hindsight, but when he switched it looked like the arse was about to fall out of the team - they weren’t investing anything, Carlos Ghosn (the driving force behind Renault coming back to F1 as a works team) was out, and McLaren looked like a great option.

And your last sentence also answers why CarMax didn't pay more for it. They didn't have to, the seller was willing to sell it for that much.

That sounds like a very good reason not to do it. Also, that sounds like a swampy hellscape.

The other thing to consider is that the air-conditioners are more efficient in colder weather. The coefficient of performance (units of cooling energy output you get per unit of energy input) drops as the ambient (outdoor) temperature increases. They work by rejecting heat into the external ambient environment, and as…

Out of interest, have you looked at the possibility of chilling the slab during summer? Chilled-beam cooling is now used in some buildings, and it’s quite an effective energy-saving measure, and it looks like the same kinds of systems are available on a domestic scale.

It depends on whether your AC unit has a variable-speed compressor (also known as an inverter drive compressor). These do run, as the name would suggest, at different speeds depending on the cooling requirements, rather than cycling on and off (with all of the associated wear during start-up, starting current spikes…

If they didn’t see that their actions have unforeseen consequences when the whole state went dark in the middle of winter, they ain’t gonna see it now...

And the people in those industries need to be helped to move into whatever is next, and to be listened to about how to do that. I don’t know for sure, but i feel like a lot of people mining coal or drilling for oil (those actually working in the mines or on the rigs), would not mind too much doing a job that’s less…

Status quo in Kern County isn’t exactly great at the moment, by the way. Pollution associated with oil drilling contributes to poor air quality in Kern County (worst particulate pollution in the nation, among the worst ozone pollution, both linked to oil drilling), and in a business-as-usual scenario, average annual…

They’ve assisted with industrialisation, true. And if we keep using them at the same rate as we are, the results are going to be genuinely bad. Just because something is good for a while doesn’t mean that it has no downsides or that it should be used forever even if a better solution comes along.

Indeed I have heard about him. It’s a pity he isn’t trying to secure a prosperous long-term future for his state, and is instead content to continue acting as a proxy for the coal industry. Our last Prime Minister was a bit like that. He took an actual lump of coal into the house of representatives to wave around as a…