Tag: energy
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Like kicking dead whales down a beach: understanding the Great Hydrogen Delusion
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Engineers will rarely tell you something is impossible, even when your proposal is a very bad idea. Computer scientists at Stanford and MIT in the 1970s came up with a wonderful expression for this, an assignment that was technically feasible, but highly undesirable. They called it “kicking a dead whale down a beach”. The folklore compendium The Hacker’s Dictionary defines this as a “slow, difficult, and disgusting process”.
Yes, you can do it like that. But you really don’t want … Read More