It’s the wrong frequency to cook anything.

The idea that microwave ovens use some specific frequency that’s good for cooking is a myth.

Dielectric heating occurs over a very broad range of frequencies. What actually matters is the energy density of the EM field. A microwave oven cooks food because its putting more than 1000 watts into a small confined space, your cellphone doesn’t because its transmitter is shooting less than 1 watt into the open air (where the energy density quickly diminishes by the square cube law).

Maybe they could be synced using RF over fiber. This has been proposed as candidate technology for 6g wireless networks, to enable cell free massive MIMO.

That would mean that you would need to run optical fiber to each of them, though we’ve already seen fiber drones spool out kilometers of the stuff as they fly.

EDIT: I just remembered this interesting article about doing radio interferometry over a fiber network using cheap quartz oscillators instead of atomic clocks. My (layman’s) understanding is that the quartz oscillators are good enough over a few milliseconds, but will fall out of sync with each other over longer time spans. Meanwhile the fiber optic reference signal (distributed from a central atomic clock) can be kept correct on average by reflecting the reference back down the fiber and doing active correction of the changing path length (caused by thermal fluctuations and vibrations along the fiber) but will be incorrect on a millisecond-to-miliscond basis because of light speed lag and the path length being a moving target. So they use the quartz oscillators over small time scales and use the fiber reference signal to keep them synced over long time scales. Surprisingly the article says they actually get a better sync this way than with using multiple atomic clocks.

So perhaps something like that is possible.

I think its a combination of that and games moving from community run servers (named things like “Gregz Hangout | Gungame 24/7 | No isms” ) to just clicking a matchmaking button and being dropped into a match with a bunch of people you’ve never seen before and will never see again after that game is over.

With the server model occasionally people join or leave, but you’ll likely see most of the same people over several matches and maps. And if you rejoin that server another day because you liked it you might see that some of those people came back for the same reasons that you did.

• it says in the article they were selling them. I think this is illegal in most countries with planned economies because they don’t want a capitalist market to develop in parallel with the planned system (the entire point of economic planning was to eliminate markets after all).
• They were producing their computers using components that were stolen from government factories. This wasn’t a novel design, and the name wasn’t there’s either, they were just assembling CoBra computers (itself a clone of the British ZX spectrum) outside of the factory they were normally produced in, using the same components the factory used to produce them.

I should note that the article also says that ordinary people couldn’t ‘purchase’ (exchange vouchers for) these computers, so this is the only way they would be able to attain one. The government hadn’t allocated any of them for use by the general population. So, make of that what you will.

Long distance power transmission also effectively makes the day length longer, lessening the need for storage.

UK is US-lite.

Some sodium ion batteries use an aqueous electrolyte, meaning they’re full of water.

Seeing as how I’ve worked with thick pieces of wood every time I’ve built a fire, I’ve “tried it” thousands of times.

You can’t light thick wood on fire with a match.

Yeah, where’s the version of this comic with a boomer sitting on a recliner for 12 hours straight drifting in and out of consciousness while a news channel drones on a TV?

You can’t refuel a gas car without electricity anyway, the pumps are electric.

Chemicals like sodium lauryl sulfate and other fatty acids with organosulfate head groups, which are much more powerful surfactants than the fatty acid sodium salts you get by reacting lye with a fat (like vegetable oil). “Traditional” soaps like that also contain glycerol (formed when the lye cleaves the glycerol backbone off of a triglyceride), which acts as a humectant moisturizer.

Technically, at least in the US, chemicals like SLS aren’t legally classified as soap, and must be called a detergent. Which is why so many products are called things like “body wash” and “body bar”, and you wont find the word “soap” on their packaging.