Heat pumps are great, but under -15C, they’re really, really inefficient.
I think you're working off old data, or you're misunderstanding the article where they say air-source heat pumps start to lose efficiency at ~15°C. My unit, installed just over a year ago is rated for a COP of at least 1.72 at 0°F (-17.78°C) when the inside temperature is 80°F (26.67°C). And as I said, newer units are getting better and better.
Since they're rental units by your standards they can never be affordable?
First is that gas heating can actually be more efficient than resistive electric heating depending on the power source.
Manitoba's electricity is almost exclusively Hydro.
So of your using gas to generate electricity to heat homes your actually better off just burning the gas for heat.
If you don't account for the environmental impact of the roughly 2% which is lost in transit.
Heat pumps can adjust this equation during moderate temps, being more than 100% efficient at moving heat, but during cold snaps we will still ned auxiliary heat.
That only applies to air-source heat pumps, and even then, they're constantly improving.
We would need to roughly triple the electric grid capacity to be able to take up the current winter heating demand.
Source? Also, as the population and the economy grows, energy sources are going to need to grow either way, so it might as well be electricity.
And we know if you call yourself something, that makes it true!
Sincerely,
Lord Emperor of the Universe
Yeah, I feel like someone should make bumper stickers that say something like, "If it was safe, I'd be on my bike instead, and out of your way."
Because you’re using an external device to extend the capabilities of the port. It can’t do that without the dock, so now you have two things to carry around.
Maybe that's what the previous commenter meant, but they were bemoaning the number of ports, not dongles, etc. Even then, if you are using those ports, you are already carrying around extra accessories/dongles which might be replaced by the dock (or in my case, moving between stationary docks).
If you look at the comments on this, there are two distinct camps of people who will never agree: those who expect their laptop to be a self-contained unit that doesn’t require anything that wasn’t packaged with it to meet common use cases (which requires more ports), and those who are okay with docks and dongles and adapters.
Sure, and other commenters are pointing out that manufacturers are serving both groups.
I'm not sure why you think that's untrue, but it is true. I literally have a dock that provides power to my laptop, as well as connecting it to my monitors, keyboard, mouse, etc. all over one USB type C cable.
It's not like the power port is power only, or even only power or accessory. It can do both at the same time.
So, by percentage that's:
2021,6.9%
2022,6.9%
2023,6.9%
2024,7.0%
I'm not sure those raises are justified, but we did just go through a period of high inflation, and even a business like Verisign has employees and other expenses that got more expensive. I'll be interested to see where this story goes.
I wonder if this is mostly a hangover from COVID. My parents are teachers, and they say after the 2 month summer break the kids backslide and most classes aren't back to normal until almost Christmas. This survey is from 2022 when schools still weren't even completely back to pre-COVID routines.
Kids emulate adults…
I would generalize that more to, "People operate and react to the system they're in." For kids, a huge part of that is their parents, but there are other factors involved like social media, and the wider society.
So many people want the simple answer, so they say it's "personal responsibility" and nothing else. We need to create/adjust our systems to generate the outcomes we want. As you point out, socioeconomics play a huge part so we not only need to relieve those burdens, but also provide specific supports in schools and the wider communities.
Not only do I have concerns about privacy concerns of age-verification, I think the "ban until 16, then unrestricted" is a very bad policy. Yes, social media is harmful to kids, but frankly, it's harmful to everyone. If kids have no exposure to social media and no education on how to use it appropriately, it's just going to concentrate the issues to teens/young adults.