Notjustbikes on youtube has a ton of great watch on good city planning but in NA it all boils down to NIMBY and selfishness.
I would not give up a detached home with a garage, driveway and backyard. Most people wouldn't. Hence the large detached lots and urban sprawl which then creates a car-centric culture.
Also, roadway design guidelines written to force stroads. Even if a development wanted to make something different, more liveable/walkable, municipality would force them to comply with guidelines that force a lot of useless space (for instance 17-23m ROW for internal roads). The slight hole is if you register it as a condo, you have a little more flexibility but they still enforce some ridiculous design standards.
As for not giving up driveway, garage and backyard, I reasonably agree with you but would happily give up the front yard of most houses. It is normally dead space. Bring the house forward and put on a porch where people can sit if they want to be sociable. That could reduce lots by ~5m in depth with minimal change to the useful portions of the dwelling.
Have you met many programmers? The socially awkward buggers love working from home! Basement/gamer chair/fluffy bunny slippers/manga porn on the walls….
Notjustbikes on youtube has a ton of great watch on good city planning but in NA it all boils down to NIMBY and selfishness.
I would not give up a detached home with a garage, driveway and backyard. Most people wouldn't. Hence the large detached lots and urban sprawl which then creates a car-centric culture.
I've been watching his stuff for a while, along with the strongtowns content too. It opens up your eyes to the mountains of inefficiencies and non-sense baked into our infrastructure.
Have you met many programmers? The socially awkward buggers love working from home! Basement/gamer chair/fluffy bunny slippers/manga porn on the walls….
Also, roadway design guidelines written to force stroads. Even if a development wanted to make something different, more liveable/walkable, municipality would force them to comply with guidelines that force a lot of useless space (for instance 17-23m ROW for internal roads). The slight hole is if you register it as a condo, you have a little more flexibility but they still enforce some ridiculous design standards.
As for not giving up driveway, garage and backyard, I reasonably agree with you but would happily give up the front yard of most houses. It is normally dead space. Bring the house forward and put on a porch where people can sit if they want to be sociable. That could reduce lots by ~5m in depth with minimal change to the useful portions of the dwelling.
problem with front yard is that it's your driveway that dictates it's size.
I do agree that front yards are highly wasteful and a huge waste of space in general. Just something to pretty up with landscaping and never spend any time there. Similar to the living room (not to be mistaken with family room) where you have some seating and maybe a piano that no one touches.
I keep wanting a bigger home but currently my townhouse has exactly the amount of space we need as a family. No extra bedrooms, no living room. Miniscule front yard. Just too many stairs.
problem with front yard is that it's your driveway that dictates it's size.
I do agree that front yards are highly wasteful and a huge waste of space in general. Just something to pretty up with landscaping and never spend any time there. Similar to the living room (not to be mistaken with family room) where you have some seating and maybe a piano that no one touches.
I keep wanting a bigger home but currently my townhouse has exactly the amount of space we need as a family. No extra bedrooms, no living room. Miniscule front yard. Just too many stairs.
You could put house in the front yard. It would look more like oldschool houses with rear garages. Porch up close to the sidewalk with house behind, driveway beside, garage at end of driveway. Basically cover the useless patch of lawn with building. Alternatively, driveway could potentially be replaced with deeper garage. Asphalt has few positives, might as well bring that space inside.
You could put house in the front yard. It would look more like oldschool houses with rear garages. Porch up close to the sidewalk with house behind, driveway beside, garage at end of driveway. Basically cover the useless patch of lawn with building. Alternatively, driveway could potentially be replaced with deeper garage. Asphalt has few positives, might as well bring that space inside.
That is not a battery by any definition. A battery converts chemical to electrical energy. That is thermal storage. It is a pile of hot sand. It works if you have the space and lets you shift demand curve vs load curve. They've done ice storage for many years to allow chillers to freeze ice at night and ice to cool buildings during the day (and then repeat).
Energy storage is the capture of energy produced at one time for use at a later time to reduce imbalances between energy demand and energy production. A device that stores energy is generally called an accumulator or battery.
It's coming into common usage that any type of stored energy is considered a battery. ie Norway can be the battery for Europe via pumped hydro - no chemical conversion needed.
A gravity battery is a type of energy storage device that stores gravitational energy, the energy stored in an object resulting from a change in height due ...
A new generation of relatively small and inexpensive factory-built nuclear reactors, designed for autonomous plug-and-play operation, is on the horizon, says a group of nuclear experts at MIT and elsewhere. If adopted widely, these proposed “nuclear batteries” could help reduce greenhouse gas...
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Nuclear batteries have been used successfully in space exploration for over four decades, powering twenty-seven missions. The newest model, the Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator (MMRTG), will power the future Mars 2020 Rover
Have you met many programmers? The socially awkward buggers love working from home! Basement/gamer chair/fluffy bunny slippers/manga porn on the walls….
hey I know a programmer!! - black belt in BJJ and former university team wrestling team champ (my prof) - if you wish you can come to my gym, I can introduce you so you can meet him up close to test your theories and assumptions
and in general I can tell you that smart nerds often succeed in BJJ more than meatheads (especially in light weight classes) - they see it as a full contact human chess - and who doesn't like a good chess match?! Edy Bravo calls them "silent assassins" - so maybe you should expand your generalization into multiple categories to keep up with ever changing world
hey I know a programmer!! - black belt in BJJ and former university team wrestling team champ (my prof) - if you wish you can come to my gym, I can introduce you so you can meet him up close to test your theories and assumptions
and in general I can tell you that smart nerds often succeed in BJJ more than meatheads (especially in light weight classes) - they see it as a full contact human chess - and who doesn't like a good chess match?! Edy Bravo calls them "silent assassins" - so maybe you should expand your generalization into multiple categories to keep up with ever changing world
I knew I’d trigger some people with my tongue in cheek comment but instead of apologizing I’ll double down and say I’ll insult your nerdy wrestling champ via an avatar in my gym simulator.
Notjustbikes on youtube has a ton of great watch on good city planning but in NA it all boils down to NIMBY and selfishness.
I would not give up a detached home with a garage, driveway and backyard. Most people wouldn't. Hence the large detached lots and urban sprawl which then creates a car-centric culture.
I prefer OhTheUrbanity.
Every time I watch Notjustbikes, I get part way through and they start making snarky unnecessary comments, and going on tangents.
The one with the reason that they moved was bizarre. Apparently, all our children here are being kidnapped by people in white vans.
What if bicycles get really popular? no road tax, dont buy fuel, no insurance claims, few horrific accidents for body shops and tow vehicles.
All the cyclists get fit and we have less obese and diabetic? the health care industry folds up. Less heart conditions and no EV charging stations.
Most cyclists dont need paid parking, the bikes need few repairs relativly speaking. Most people dont finance a pedal bike over 5 yrs. or trade every 5 since its beat.
The carbon footprint to make a bicycle is zip compared to an F-150. Be afraid.
Years ago I went for an interview for a start up company. It was going pretty well actually but I wanted an answer to a question “where do you see yourself being based eventually?” because I assumed they would stay here in K-town as it was associated with the University. The answer I got was “oh we would move to Toronto due to corporate density”….which translated to a few things, one was some of the board of directors were from the GTA and the other was that they felt they would be taken more seriously if they were on the same industrial campus as more well established companies. So a kind of corporate FOMO if you like. I turned down the position there and then as I said I had no interest in moving sorry. It also struck me as strange as the kind of work we would do is location independent but this is the corporate mentality and it’s one that ensures there’s always going to be traffic snarls to get to these “industrial villages”. Change that kind of mentality and that would be a start. Maybe make smaller campuses on the outskirts of big cities and near cheaper housing or locate to smaller towns/cities and that would help. If you jam everything together in one place then everyone will head there in the morning then head out in the same direction at night.
Long before govts coined the term 'Center of Excellence' businesses understood the concept.
It's hard to maintain and grow a successful business in a smaller city within a few hundred km of a big center, investors will point that out to any promising startup.
There are countless examples of companies who tried and failed. Most suffered from leadership and cultural challenges that come about when the resource pool lacks diversity. A few companies I worked with (not for) that collapsed or sold-off due to leadership and cultures inbreeding: RIM, Corel, Nortel, Cognos, Canada Trust... the list goes on.
I have seen a few, Opentext Shopify if that have done better. I know Opentext did it by acquiring and growing outside their home base, not sure about Shopify.
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