Cool idea.

Well that’s an average and it will differ greatly with seasons. What percentage is problematic?

That’s actually a problem

Is it? Wind is 10% and solar is 4%

https://www.eia.gov/energyexplained/electricity/electricity-in-the-us.php

What do you do when you leave the house?

Any users here mind sharing their experience?

Did they actually generate power during the test flight?

Sorry about that, I got all excited at just a tenth of what they are trying to achieve. Oops

So it’s a 100kW generator and you would need around 60kW to float the weight of a hot air balloon basket with a couple of people. My math is probably way off though.

TIL thanks for bringing this up

Edit: I was trying to get more information from other articles and got the S1000 (100kW) mixed up with the S1500 (1000kW)

They’re trying to get it to100kW. That’s like a pretty big generator but not a huge one. So this isn’t a replacement for wind farms just yet. The picture is from a year ago. No mention of costs.

Would it be possible to use heat to get it to float, instead of helium? Heat it up with electricity.

Education via childhood trauma

Depends on the price

I think “thoughts and prayers” are the bottom of the barrel. This is actively withholding money from Disney. And Disney LOVES money. If enough people stop giving Disney money, then the “line goes up” people will not get tens of millions of dollars and they’ll have to take some action. This isn’t a meaningless gesture. Obviously it depends on how many people cancel their subscriptions. How’s spotify doing nowadays?

This sounds like someone said, I only changed some text, we don’t even need another round of testing.

I’m not against my refrigerator having a screen that I can control

A system like that can claim 95% accuracy by just saying “yes” always

That would actually be cheaper than what they’re trying to do.

From reading the study, it seems like the workers didn’t even use it. Less than 2 queries per day? A third of participants used it once per week?

This is a study of resistance to change or of malicious compliance. Or maybe it’s a study of how people react when you’re obviously trying to take their jobs.

Even a simple tuya wifi plug

Why does daddy spend more time with the server than with mommy?