Factor in the energy cost of making CFL/LED bulbs (including the additional electronics and mining the required material and all the...
Factor in the energy cost of making CFL/LED bulbs (including the additional electronics and mining the required material and all the shipping it requires) and the energy costs of dealing with the toxic waste they contains, and now this doesn't seem as much like a sensible move. When you compare retail prices and actual lifetime you notice that the new bulbs are significantly more expensive than the now banned traditional ones while having overrated life expectancies and now you understand that the manufacturers are getting more money and faster, suddenly this overpriced incompetence has a feel of greenwashing followed by an aftertaste of lobbying
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A lot of the rare books seem to be books that are most relevant to specific professions within specific countries.
docs: Add DeepSeek V4 Pro/Flash support to agent-model-matching guide
It's cute, looks nice, and bravo for shipping something, but FZ is too hyped and too expensive for what it is.
I'd really like to see a plug-in hybrid pickup where I can do 10-20 miles on a charge without needing the gas engine to even kick on.
There are places where solar is less than helpful -- up here in Scotland, we're north of Moscow: in midwinter we get as little as 4.5 hou...
Too niche, not enough profits.
MIG author here.
Factor in the energy cost of making CFL/LED bulbs (including the additional electronics and mining the required material and all the...
Factor in the energy cost of making CFL/LED bulbs (including the additional electronics and mining the required material and all the...
Factor in the energy cost of making CFL/LED bulbs (including the additional electronics and mining the required material and all the shipping it requires) and the energy costs of dealing with the toxic waste they contains, and now this doesn't seem as much like a sensible move. When you compare retail prices and actual lifetime you notice that the new bulbs are significantly more expensive than the now banned traditional ones while having overrated life expectancies and now you understand that the manufacturers are getting more money and faster, suddenly this overpriced incompetence has a feel of greenwashing followed by an aftertaste of lobbying
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