only residential wiring uses copper, everything from 350kV down to 400V lines is aluminum, and even in houses aluminum can be used too
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old power supplies used transformers, which when not loaded behave like inductors, and this causes reactive current to flow. not a problem for the last 15+ years because everything uses switching mode power supplies now
Bad news for Trump’s Golden Dome: He can’t build it ~~without Canada~~
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it's not solved, it's just companies saying that they think it will be solved in the future
none of that shit works and won't work for a good minute, cryonics is rapture for nerds that take scifi way too seriously
what we already know tho is that because there's one payment to store meat popsicle effectively forever and this shit is ran by true believer techbros, it tends to run out of money pretty regularly. that means they run out of liquid nitrogen and meat popsicles thaw, and this already happened more than once
France also has warning shots, js
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rocket lab is 4x too big (that's quarterly revenue, not annual)
now that i'm thinking: would be 4000 VMs enough for spacex? maybe it is some smaller organization. i also take it is state-owned or similar, which narrows it down to a handful of countries that launch satellites
and probably not government agency, because these would have people competent enough to do a git pull
wait, i missed that, but then idk why it got called "semi-governmental"
this was before we figured out that you can use stranded aluminum wire and it's fine this way
that, or copper clad aluminum