...or misinformed. I suspect many people don't have a very clear idea of the costs of the various things they use electricity for. (Not helped by the media, who sometimes focus on small things l… (View Post)

Assuming you run the heating during the day, your house would have to be really badly insulated to drop below 0 during a single night. I have mine set to a lower temp overnight and it typically only … (View Post)

The key missing word here is "yet". If you stop employing people to maintain a big office building, then for a while nothing much will seem wrong. But issues do start to crop up, and some o… (View Post)

It's a popular literary theme (Swift famously covered it in part of Gulliver's Travels), but I do wonder how much of the attraction of the "living forever would be terrible" idea … (View Post)

But is that kind of "whip up an amazing proof-of-concept of something you didn't believe possible" engineer what Twitter actually needs? Twitter's a big company with a massive exi… (View Post)