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musings on entropy
Personal blog · musingsonentropy.comsciencehistory
musings on entropy is a personal blog at musingsonentropy.com about science and history. Since 2017, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 4 times. The last post was in 2018, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (2) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these posts for household water-use figures, such as a 6.15 gal/day motorhome estimate, and for a critique of refrigerator design, covering toxic plastics, insulation and refrigerant problems.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
What Hacker News says?
Keep in mind that your storage requirements are also dependent on other supplementation. Ready.gov suggests one gallon (4 litres) per person per day ( https://www.ready.gov/water ) It's helpful to look at actual empirical usage. Van Lifers often give their own usage statistics. This article gives a 6.15 gal/day (23 litre/day) figure: https://musingsonentropy.com/2014/10/07/motorhome-living-one... Household-level usa…
Comment linking /2014/10/07/motorhome-living-one-month-in-daily-water-consumption/
on “Water Conflict Chronology”Submitted 1930s Household Refrigerators (2013) as a story · 44 points
HN discussionHis article https://musingsonentropy.com/2013/01/26/i-caught-the-refrige... is an informed summary of issues with current refrigerator designs. Full of toxic plastic, insufficient insulation, energy wasting door construction, poor compressor and condenser placement, almost no thermal mass, highly toxic and expensive refrigerant gas, uneconomic to service generally. Basically, they’re cheap boxes of toxins designed t…
Comment linking /2013/01/26/i-caught-the-refrigerator-bug/
on “1930s Household Refrigerators (2013)”Submitted Some Old Refrigerating Machines as a story · 2 points
HN discussion
