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Cake day: June 5th, 2023
  • Otter@lemmy.caOPMtoCanada@lemmy.ca•How heat storage technologies could keep Canada’s roads and bridges ice-free all winter longEnglish
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    3 days ago

    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.

  • Otter@lemmy.catoAsklemmy@lemmy.ml•Duties fee on shipping?English
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    5 days ago

    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.

  • Otter@lemmy.catoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•AI in realityEnglish
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    14 days ago

    I found the screenshot order confusing at first, and it’s not OPs fault since the original article got the screenshots backwards too

    From the article:

    Synopsis Wes Winder, a Canadian software developer, is facing backlash after his controversial decision to replace his development team with Al backfired. Once a trending topic on Reddit and a source of widespread ridicule, Winder is now in an awkward position as he turns to Linkedln in search of web developers to hire.

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