Imagine driving along a Canadian road soon after a snowfall — but there’s no snow or ice on the pavement. The salt trucks and plows have not passed. Yet the roads are already clear. The technology exists to make this possible, with a system hidden beneath the pavement.

“[The] system captures solar heat during the summer months and stores it underground. Then, when winter arrives, the stored heat is transferred through pipes beneath the road surface, warming the pavement and preventing ice formation — in essence, a solar powered underfloor heating system,” engineering researchers explain.

Today in The Conversation Canada, Mohammadamin Ahmadfard and Seth Dworkin from Toronto Metropolitan University discuss how this technology, known as Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (BTES), could be a solution to Canada’s winter woes.

“Canada has the potential to lead the way by adopting BTES systems on its most treacherous roads, steep inclines and vulnerable bridges,” they write.

On mine, I can press the info icon (i) -> Remove EXIF

That was my thought too!

Out of curiosity, how much did it sell for? I can see something like this going for a lot

Very cool, thanks for sharing!

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I once won a promotion and I was sent some items for free. When I went to pick them up, I had to pay more than I would have been willing to pay if I bought the items, because of ‘duties and taxes’.

I probably should have just refused the delivery, but I was young and didn’t know any better so I paid for my package. There was a receipt inside the box that listed the items as being somewhat expensive, so I assumed there was some weird accounting where I still had to pay the taxes despite getting them for free.

I’ve bought and shipped a lot of items since then without ever having to pay upon pickup.

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While it’s supported by one of the donation platforms we are using, we haven’t set it up yet

I’ll pass this along to the team for more discussion :)

and thank you!

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I didn’t mind Proton’s as much, but holiday season as a whole got annoying with all the emails. Mozilla in particular, I almost unsubscribed from their emails

The balance I’ve found is

• if it’s important and I have time: read it myself
• if it’s important and I don’t have time: save it for later
• if it’s not important (and I’m fine with reading someone else’s summary of it, knowing that their summary might be wrong), and curious enough, I’ll get a quick AI summary of it. Afterwards I might go back to read it properly if it sounds interesting, or skipping it happy I didn’t waste time on it

That’s actually why I liked having those summary bots in the comments.

• only generated once, so it saves some resources compared to many users generating it for themselves
• people who read the piece or know about the topic can call out issues

Cool!

• use “gentle update” API so apps don’t get killed while in use
• experimental support for un-archiving apps on Android 15
• separate share link and share file actions in app details (so you can share the link to the app page or the installed APK)

This one is amazing as well 😄

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The first thing that came to mind for ‘persistence’ was sweat…

Maybe something long-lasting in that case

clearly intentional explosion by somebody

I was trying to figure this out myself, since the article I saw mentioned fireworks. Are there better details somewhere?

can Tesla just unlock any of their vehicles remotely and access all the camera footage on it

Yes, the first one is arguably a service, but the second one is a problem

https://www.reuters.com/technology/tesla-workers-shared-sensitive-images-recorded-by-customer-cars-2023-04-06/

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tesla-camera-scandal-is-the-latest-lesson-in-dangers-of-letting-companies-record-you

Tesla employees passed around videos taken in car owners’ private garages and other interesting recordings captured by the cameras built in to the company’s vehicles, Reuters reported today. “We could see them doing laundry and really intimate things. We could see their kids,” according to one of nine former employees who told the news agency about the practice.

what happens when tests show a risk of hereditary diseases?

I see mentions of

• early intervention
• couples being able to “make informed decisions about their future”

But a primary source would be helpful

Key bit

“Unlike traditional heat pipes, pulsating heat pipes diffuse heat through the vibration and circulation of refrigerant inside ultra-thin tubes,” EV Magazine reported. “The method offers more than 10 times the heat transfer efficiency of standard aluminium, effectively moving heat from overheated battery cells to cooling blocks, even under the high demands of a moving vehicle.”

Since ultrafast charging superheats EV batteries, cooling the cells is critical. So, Hyundai’s tech places the heat pipes between cells, reducing the risk of overheating by keeping internal temperatures throughout the battery stable.

The mixup / other percentage might have been here:

The ocean covers more than 70 percent of the surface of our planet. It’s hard to imagine, but about 97 percent of the Earth’s water can be found in our ocean. Of the tiny percentage that’s not in the ocean, about two percent is frozen up in glaciers and ice caps

Persistent cookies

Stories involving 2 are often the most fun, as well as 4 if they aren’t lazy with the timeline corrections

1 feels the simplest and I would prefer it. With 3, unless the technology is limited to a few people, it’s going to get messy