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  • Unplug your fridge. Clean the condenser coil (the pipes that get hot) which will usually be on the back but could also be underneath or on top. Then let it cool down for about 15 minutes before plugging it back in. A lot of times when a fridge fails it is just a dirty condenser. If that didn’t work then it has an actual problem like bad start components, a failed compressor, or a refrigerant charge issue. If it is one that has an active fan on the condenser then that could also be the cluprit but most residential fridges don’t use an active condenser fan.












  • Somebody linked above to a new closed loop turbine design which uses supercritical CO2. I know from CO2 refrigeration that CO2 has some insane volumetric expansion based on temp which makes it a good candidate for use in a closed loop turbine system. Plus, because they’re running it through the turbine as a supercritical fluid, the density is higher than that of steam so it requires smaller turbines. The biggest issue is that because it’s super critical CO2 youre talking about working pressures well over 1000PSI. That doesn’t make it impossible to work with as we already know from CO2 refrigeration, but it does make it a bit more difficult than just boiling water.


  • Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoMemes@lemmy.mlFuck cruises
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    25 days ago

    My mom insisted on taking me on a cruise for my birthday. I left that boat wanting to full blown Ted Kaczynski.

    A cruise ship is just press where the wealthy wring as much money out of people as possible. You’re there to drink and gamble. If you don’t like doing either of those then you can go to any one of the dozens of events where people are, surprise surprise, drinking and/or gambling. I guess there were a few events that were just marketing for scummy tat or services too. There is nothing you can do that doesn’t cost money even with the “free” perks. We had a free drink package but god forbid you forget to tip for every fucking drink including if you just want some fucking water. Oh you one a free massage? Well guess what, it’s not actually free. It’s free after you buy the base package. Plus at the end of the cruise they automatically charge you a $160 “gratuity” just for existing because fuck you. The whole thing was unabashedly scummy; It felt like spending a week trapped in a car dealership.

    Our time off the boat was at tourist trap islands which had all been pillaged so thoroughly that tourism is now all they have. Some of those islands still had some natural beauty but looking at it also just pissed me off because there was nowhere you could look and not see what little remained being actively destroyed. The snorkeling trips were even more infuriating, nothing quite makes you hate people like snorkeling in dead garbage filled reefs.

    I want to see every cruise company executive sent through a woodchipper feet first. I want every cruise ship turned into an artificial reef.