Like in Dune, once you are in the storm, you have to go with the flow to survive.

Happened to me, in a canoe on a large lake. I had a lot of experience on small lakes, but large lakes also have large waves. Hadn't planned on that. It was either 'go with the waves' or go under

Tsk. Should have listened to more Gordon Lightfoot :-)

Or Stan Rogers

“Don’t take the Lakes for granted. They go from calm to a hundred knots so fast they seem enchanted.”

Indeed, like any physical or metaphorical system of forces...

unless you're a salmon

While wind is nice for new ships, may a first step would be to stop using awful bunker fuel in the ships that already exist.

This two options don't need to be explored serially.

Equium claims that the heat pump system is completely silent, despite the use of a speaker to generate the acoustic wave. The level of noise is reportedly lower than 30 dB – the equivalent of a whisper.

“The sound our system produces stays confined inside the core, so you cannot hear it from outside,” said Loyer.

My traditional heat pump (using R744) claims to produce about ~37dB, and while I have not measured it I can say I would not be able to hear it over a light breeze while standing right next to the thing, let alone inside the house with a wall in the way.

To be even quieter than that is remarkable, IMO.

I'm curious, where did you get a heat pump that uses R744? As far as I know, none of the major manufacturers offer one for residential use. I'm also curious about how well it works for you.

It is super common in Japan for domestic hot water heating. It was pioneered by the government of Japan, electronic goods firms, and the power companies.

You'll see them sold under the EcoCute name. Daikin, Panasonic, and Corona (no relation) make them. They get used for homes meant to only have water and electricity hookup, called "all electric" homes.

We have this thing https://www.sanden-hot-water.com.au/specifications/ IIRC with a 300L tank. It was quite a nice upgrade from our old 1960's era 2-phase instant hot water unit that was slowly failing - cold showers in winter are not fun.

As user Danieru replied the heat pump is a a Japanese import (although the tank and rest of the system is locally made).

Same outfit in the US: https://www.eco2waterheater.com/

I imagine this is possible because of better modulation of the acoustic and pressure controllers to minimize energy loss..

I wonder how this idea will age. I haven't been to a bank branch in so long. Hell, I've written 5 checks in the last 2 years. I deposit the rare check with my phone or ATM. Why would I want to go to a branch? I took out my last mortgage with my credit union and still never when in the branch. My 20-something daughter never considered branch locations at all when picking her new bank.

I do most business in cash and drop by the branch every week to get some.

It’s downstairs from my office and pretty quick.

I get it - I’m weird. But even weirder is that the bank branch sometimes have money! More than a couple thousand dollars is sometimes too much.

better yet - don't apologize for using cash

Cash. I have used a branchless bank for much of my banking, but it is still useful to keep an account open with a branched bank for the times that I need to do transactions with amounts of cash that are larger than ATM limits.

Yep, cash. Especially in the age of: 1) robo-support with pre-defined assistance paths that are engineered precisely to avoid servicing the types of issues you will run into at critical moments, and 2) banks / money processing services cutting you off with no warning.

I asked my bank a while back to send me a new card as I regularly do when the current card gets worn out and starts to more frequently fail chip/strip readers, and it got lost in transit. I requested them to send me another; however, this time they had marked my old card having been lost/stolen and closed the debit account.

Not wanting to struggle with finding a friend both actually having money to spare and willing to engage in some attentive coordination, I was effectively cut off from _all_ of my cash, as far as I could see. I'm not particularly familiar with all the money movement mechanisms.

I had to make the effort to get to the bank the next day during business hours (I am a night owl and work full time), and I withdrew a good chunk of cash to hold me over while waiting for my card, which finally arrived yesterday.

Yadda yadda, something something don't put all your eggs in one basket. Yes, I know. I have only on the order of months been making enough to be able to entertain sharding off more than negligible amounts into a secondary account. It is on the to-do list.

The last time I wrote a cheque was in the early 90s I think.

My landlord requires payment by check every month. Mountain View, Silicon Valley.

Banks don't even issue chequebooks here (Norway).

We just transfer money directly to bank accounts, or pay by direct debit, or electronic invoice. For paying small amounts (up to about 500 USD) we have a Scandinavian mobile app called Vipps that lets private individuals pay other people just by knowing their mobile number.

All these things are free to use but using a cheque costs money.

Deposit today morning and yesterday evenings revenue.

Deposit cheques in business account.

Have a personal conversation with manager about that loan and thank him.

Get heads-up if some cheque you issued might bounce and deposit money tomorrow.

Meet friends you made at bank as you have been visiting it for the last 40 years.

I have to go every month or so to get quarters for laundry. Ever since covid started they have limits on the number of quarters I can get per trip. There's no change machine in the laundry room in my apartment building. This is Mountain View, Silicon Valley.

This is true. I still have my accounts with a credit union in California, even though I’ve lived in Chicago for the last 11½ years.

I still have checks left in the checkbook I used, 20 years ago, to pay my first month's rent for my apartment.

Meeting with a banker face-to-face can often work better if your situation is in any way unusual or complicated. The definition of "unusual" might not be what the reader would expect.

For example, the process to open a new account at SMBC (one of the three largest banks in Japan) can be done entirely online, unless the customer has a middle name. Why? Probably some ancient COBOL program that can only be bypassed by hand-verifying the customer's info.

Same. I'm 44. I haven't been in a physical bank branch since I was 16.

About damn time.

This idea looks like something you could commercialize!

What about berries?

I guess those $10 magnetically attached name tags are bad too then.

I guess I am confused a little. Are park rangers or maintainers actually going through "wild" areas and removing the carcasses? Why? I am not sure I would even think of such an area as "wild" then. Heck, I'm not sure how you would even keep up with doing that.

I remember touring the museum there during a visit as a new employee in the early 90s. Only time I ever visited HQ.