The world’s largest sand battery got through Finland’s harshest winter in years. 2,000 tonnes of sand, heated to 500-600°C by cheap power, feeding district heating in Pornainen. And it worked. Result from one install: oil down 100%, emissions down 70%. Industrial process heat is the real prize.

Read about the British space program again and now I'm sad

Form follows function, which is why a Jewish ethnonationalist irridentist government has completely incorporated antisemitism into its worldview uncritically.

the president loves stealing your money and giving it to pedophiles, folks. it’s like his favorite thing to do

Transportation version of the crab cycle is how every attempt at "rethinking" land transportation in the pursuit of efficiency inevitably ends up reinventing either the train or the bicycle

"car donation charity marketed as helping under-privileged and impoverished american children is actually a money scheme to boost IDF enlistment and west bank settlement" is a top 10 sentence that describes the late american empire

Open house pt 2, featuring the Acela owned and operated by yours truly:

The Lead Paint Theory of Anti-Gentrification holds that preserving neighborhood disamenities like freeways depresses property values, keeping housing affordable. Lead Paint Theorists oppose quality of life improvements like parks, bike lanes, and small businesses like coffee shops or restaurants.

Open house at the North Shore Model Railroad Club:

that's my fucking New Reconstruction President

in spite of every administrative roadblock this is going to keep happening, and they can't stop it

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

the unspoken part of this panic is that *white* fertility rates have fallen below replacement values, and these people are white supremacists ironically, this is in large part because white people are, on average, so affluent

New everyone is 12 image dropped

The local model train shop has the unstreamlined Hudson in stock for less than half of what Bachmann is asking on their website, with DCC and sound included I might be in trouble

I understand that not everyone lives somewhere that makes biking, walking, and transit an option, but lots of people do live where those are viable options and there's no time like the present to explore them. People need to break out of their existing habits and try something new.

You all need to post more about your hobbies. Knitting, model trains, yodeling, fucking whatever. I don’t care. The point is brighting up the timeline a bit. Just need to see more folks interested and/or happy about something.

Open house at the club this weekend, running the pride of the fleet if it cooperates with the grades!

I've set up a storage solution for my HO-scale collection that leaves me with room for one more locomotive, most likely a steam engine to have all my bases covered. At the time, I was thinking something small and versatile like a Mikado or a Light Pacific Then Bachmann has to go and announce THIS

Maybe? Definitely.

Will someone please give us a train oh my god

this truck in front of me has a sticker that says "i identify as a corvette" and it's making this ungodly noise every time it shifts gears. my dude you are worried about the wrong kind of tranny

Steam Controller easter egg: the controller screams when dropped by about 3 feet (Big Picture Mode, about once every 5-6 drops) www.reddit.com/r/SteamContr...

There’s a plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty that reads “Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” wish we meant it.

I do not think anyone is ready for how turbo antisemitic the GOP is going to be post-Trump

I stack my bins after going thru TSA and i expect that to be reflected in the size of my Heaven Yacht

Stadium country dominating the airwaves, Pilk being sold at Dunkin, everything is beige now. It’s time to admit it: America has fallen. The 4 Horsemen of the White Apocalypse are here

Slightly increase a band The 1976

Now that's more like it.

This is the best cycling advert ever, especially because I’m in it. It beautifully shows that cycling is for everyone, no matter who you are or where you come from. Bikes bring people together and remind us that cycling is one of the best ways to improve our health and wellbeing.

Any time I see this "alien invasion stories are xenophobic propaganda" nonsense come up, I'm always amused to remind ppl that the story that literally invented the genre is, if anything, a metaphor for European colonialism

We would be a lot better off as a country at the moment if more of our institutions had said, "Fuck you, make me" over the past year and a half

I hope she is sitting in her mold castle having just the worst day because of this

The Onion ass headline

the politics of the latest Guy were a very bad sign for where this is going if people become convinced voting won’t work that’s not the profile you usually see from someone who tries something like that, and you really do not want to be in a situation where his profile becomes the new normal

the true 'project freedom' is freedom from material desire

With all the doomerism making the rounds today, I'd like to remind everyone that we're not even halfway through this second term, the onshore shock of the Straight being closed isn't even close to being over, Trump is dying, and they have absolutely no bench whatsoever

The big divide in today’s Democratic Party is not liberal-progressive or centrist-leftist. It’s fight-acquiesce.

Imma keep it real with you, chief: I'm not concerned about the opinions of people who've crafted an emperor-worship cult around a sundowning pedophilic gameshow host.

“The national counterterrorism strategy attempts to draw a link between transsexuals and the Muslim Brotherhood while the president glues coins to doors.” Dada ass republic. Fuck this place, honestly.

We smokin that Dinosaur Planet bronto leaf. Them Titanian tongue twisters. Slim wanted beef with me, added his sorry ass to General Pepper's invoice. My shooter a frog with autism. My bitch got blue fur and pronouns. This shit ain't nothin to me, man.