The AH Coffee Shop and Reading Room 09

[NotWise]

It is not just the power consumption. AC's don;t magically create cold. They simply move heat from inside to outside, creating even more heat while they do it. The prevalence of AC and the lack of vegetation are why cities are becoming little heat islands in the summer.

If you use an evaporative cooler, then the temperature of the air you're blowing out of a building is lower than the temperataure of the air your drawing in, and the heat content differs by the heat of evaporation.

 

[NotWise]

Given the increase in solar as well as wind power in Europe, we're nearly at the point of having so much excess electricity in the daytime in summer that we need more people to have aircon to balance the grid. We now have multiple days at a time of no fossil fuels being used in the UK (and no-ones's building more biomass, and only replacing aging nuclear facilities).

Offshore wind in particular is growing incredibly fast. China is phasing out coal rapidly; India and developing countries may be able to a
skip the most polluting stages of industrialization. In time to stop runaway global warming? Let's hope so.

I think you're being a little optimistic about China and India. China still uses more coal than the rest of the world combined, and India is number two on the list. China liquifies more coal than the US consumes. (Bloomberg News article, based on information from the UK Energy Institute and IEA.)

 

[MrPixel]

Entropy.

The end state of moving heat someplace else: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_death_of_the_universe

 

[NuclearFairy]

So I'm watching Dawn of the Dinosaurs with the kids and I see something that you see in older cartoons at least a lot, and I've gotta wonder, can a normal person actually hear when spit hits the ground? And if so, what does that sound like?

 

[NotWise]

Like 'ptooey... splat?" You wouldn't usually hear the splat.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Yeah, only in these cartoons the spit is going down a deep chasm to judge how deep it is. And it's like, if I can't hear it hit the pavement, then how do they hear it hit the bottom of the chasm?

Keep in mind I do have a 70% hearing loss and am aware that there are things I can't hear that others can.

 

[NotWise]

A natural chasm where you can spit to a bottom you can't see is a rare thing. You wouldn't be able to hear the spit land.

 

[MrPixel]

Wouldn't hear the anvil land, either.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Oh come now, in a loony toons cartoon, if it's funny to hear it, you'll hear it.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Despite the lack of chasms to spit in, I'm pretty sure you could hear an anvil hit the bottom. Then you have to calculate the depth by how many seconds it takes to hear the hit, keeping in mind that part of the time is the anvil falling while it accelerates and the rest of the time is the sound of the hit propagating at a constant velocity. Not an easy thing to do ...

There's a fresh pot of coffee brewing. The teapot is whistling and is not falling in a chasm so it's position is known. There are donuts on the counter along with some fresh blueberry muffins straight out of the oven.

I'll be over in the corner, trying to remember the integrals and derivatives needed to calculate the depth of a chasm from the sound of dropping an anvil into it. Once I figure out that I can't remember anything from my dynamics class, I'll get back to writing my story. Oh, joy ...

 

[NuclearFairy]

O.O One of our hens managed to hide eggs from us long enough to hatch a chick, and somehow it hasn't been slaughtered by the other chickens. We'll see if that lasts. Also three of our other hens aren't showing up to eat so maybe there'll be more of them. But for now it's just one tiny chick amongst a small flock of chickens.

 

[NotWise]

O.O One of our hens managed to hide eggs from us long enough to hatch a chick, and somehow it hasn't been slaughtered by the other chickens. We'll see if that lasts. Also three of our other hens aren't showing up to eat so maybe there'll be more of them. But for now it's just one tiny chick amongst a small flock of chickens.

And a rooster.

 

[NuclearFairy]

And a rooster.

Roosters are chickens. x3

Ah, though there are even more roosters on the other side of the fence, which the little thing can easily wander through... Prolly won't live if it does though.

 

[MrPixel]

Oh come now, in a loony toons cartoon, if it's funny to hear it, you'll hear it.

Despite the lack of chasms to spit in, I'm pretty sure you could hear an anvil hit the bottom. Then you have to calculate the depth by how many seconds it takes to hear the hit, keeping in mind that part of the time is the anvil falling while it accelerates and the rest of the time is the sound of the hit propagating at a constant velocity. Not an easy thing to do ...

We're going to ignore the physics, just like the cartoonists did. The RR scenes that I recall have the anvil or safe falling a great distance, and the sound more or less a soft "poof" accompanying a little cloud of dust at the bottom of the cliff.

I used to normally search for a clip on YT to show you, but their ad serving and recommendation features these days have made it a useless tool. Google giveth, and Google taketh away.

 

[MrPixel]

Just finished a long chapter of my most active series. At 18K words it's double what I usually do. What's fun is it was inspired by a short thread here about crossover stories, where characters or plot from one story line appear in another. I don't see it being uploaded for several weeks as there are three chapters ahead of it in the timeline. It also has numerous spoilers for the other series, so I might hold off until I get those uploaded in bulk.

I was schooled today in proper story titling and subtitling. Previous story with a slightly cryptic name seemed to not take off in terms of readership, 2.7K reads in 10 days. The continuation of that story with the same setting and characters with a both a title and description directly referencing sexy content? 2K in 12 hours. Hmmm...

 

[Candy_Kane54]

We're going to ignore the physics, just like the cartoonists did. The RR scenes that I recall have the anvil or safe falling a great distance, and the sound more or less a soft "poof" accompanying a little cloud of dust at the bottom of the cliff.

I used to normally search for a clip on YT to show you, but their ad serving and recommendation features these days have made it a useless tool. Google giveth, and Google taketh away.

I've seen RR so I know what you are talking about. You should see the small cloud of dust before you hear the sound. I don't remember if the cartoon portrayed that properly or not ...

My scenario assumed you couldn't see the bottom of the chasm and that it was narrow enough that the sound wouldn't disperse too much.

 

[Candy_Kane54]

Another stormy evening with a tornado warning that sent us to the basement for a few minutes. It's cloudy this morning with rain expected and hopefully clearing out by the end of the day. I won't need to water again today so I'll have more time for writing ...

There's a fresh pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is hot. There are danish and donuts on the counter so help yourself.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story, trying to remember the idea for my story that popped in my head overnight ...

 

[NotWise]

Another stormy evening with a tornado warning that sent us to the basement for a few minutes. It's cloudy this morning with rain expected and hopefully clearing out by the end of the day. I won't need to water again today so I'll have more time for writing ...

There's a fresh pot of coffee brewing and the teapot is hot. There are danish and donuts on the counter so help yourself.

I'll be over in the corner working on my story, trying to remember the idea for my story that popped in my head overnight ...

For me, those overnight ideas can be hard to remember, and sometimes when I do remember them they aren't as good by the light of the day.

Happy writing

 

[iwatchus]

Stay safe CK. I have never had to take refuge from a tornado or even a warning. I would be terrified.

Good luck with resurrecting your plot bunny.

 

[NuclearFairy]

Overnight ideas that get forgotten in the morning are about as bad as first thing in the morning ideas that get forgotten once you reach the computer.

Our only refuge from tornadoes is the bathtub, with a mattress thrown over the top. It's not much of a refuge.

 

[NotWise]

We don't get tornadoes, but my youngest moved from here to places where they do. We worry about her now and then.

 

[TheRedLantern]

I came in here grumpy and stressed about a bunch of things, but none of them are tornadoes so I'm going to count today as a win.

 

[NotWise]

I came in here grumpy and stressed about a bunch of things, but none of them are tornadoes so I'm going to count today as a win.

Have a coffee and danish. What's to be grumpy about?

I cut two more gladiolas this morning and replaced two old ones from the vase on the dining table. Ten stems seems to be equilibrium for now. Four colors in the mix right now, but it'll be a color riot once they're all flowering.

 

[MillieDynamite]

I've got a French press filled with caramel coffee, any takers this morning? Well, almost nooning, actually.

 

[MrPixel]

G'morning (barely), Millie. Thanks, but I'll take a pass on that flavored coffee. Pass the bottle of Jameson, tho'.

Well, I think my lesson about story naming and description got its own lesson overnight. I discounted the possible influence of keywords. I'll ask a stupid question, since I don't do keyword searching on LitE: is it possible to use keyword searching on new stories only, and not get the whole site?