Can you ELI5 why water has no calories, which is also a unit of energy? Do we just not absorb it?

Worst years of my life. Some par for the course, some not. For example, it probably didn’t help that my school district was going through a reorganization and I went to 4 different schools in 4 years (grades 6-9).

Everything with energy, sure… But I’m not sure that all matter has energy. Water, for example, has zero calories/energy. In fact, cold water effectively has negative calories as your body has to use energy to bring itself back up to temperature.

I think the question is if calories can take the form of a gas like it can solid or liquid. Like, just by breathing them in somehow.

even though I read this huge wall of text, I’m not closer to understanding what this plugin actually does

Sounds like every piece of corporate literature produced in at least the last decade

I work with a different kind of legacy system. It was retrofitted to work with SOAP, OOP, and some other modern stuff, but none of the old farts bothered to learn it. When I inherited a SOAP service that system used, I had to learn a lot about it to get what I needed.

And honestly? It’s been a lot of fun. It’s a unique kind of challenge, I’ve practically gained celebrity status at work, and even if it’s nothing I’ll be doing long-term it shows how I can pick up weird systems and work with others to make some miracles happen.

It’s all relative. I live in Denver and don’t think the Nebraska border (almost 3 hours away) is particularly close. But when I drove home from Minneapolis a few days ago, I was thrilled to be in the home stretch

So kind of like saying “I am 14 yeared” (the same way a shirt with stripes is a striped shirt)? That’s actually kind of interesting.

Wait until you realize where the word verano comes from

In my first language (English) a 14-year-old would day “I am 14 years old” which means “I am 14 years old”

In my distant second language (Spanish) they would say “tengo 14 años” which, like Italian, means “I have 14 years”

The thought counts

Was there even thought though?

Energy is not created or destroyed, it only gets transformed from one form to another. Fuel represents a storage of energy. So when you burn fuel, you are taking the energy contained in that fuel and using it to create heat energy, harness it to make a car move, generate electricity (which you seem to agree is energy as well), or whatever.

Think about high school physics. Bring a 200 pound weight to the top of a tower, and it has potential energy. Nothing happens, just as nothing happens to fuel without a spark, but if you drop it out turns into kinetic energy. Let it hit the ground, and the sidewalk will absorb some of that energy as it breaks, it gets absorbed into sound energy, the whole process repeats on a smaller scale as it bounces, etc. All energy, and not in the hippy “the universe is all energy, maaan” kind of way.

The first part of this Technology Connections video also shows how propane is stored energy that gets converted: https://youtu.be/OOK5xkFijPc - just because that spark was needed to convert the energy in that propane to heat, doesn’t mean the spark is the source of the energy. If you’re going to be pedantic enough that I have to explain that.

I never said it would happen immediately 😉

Gas isn’t energy

It absolutely is. Do I need to explain why that’s a ridiculous take, or have you had enough coffee by now to realize it?

Just don’t die there - it’s illegal

Svalbard, Norway doesn’t even require a visa to live there, but you do need to be able to support yourself (basically, have a job lined up before you arrive) and you’ll need to be able to enter the Schengen region to get there.

Not sure why you’d want to go out of your way to immigrate to Russia of all places given… Gestures at Putin

I mean… Gas prices are relatively low right now, at least here in 'Merica. I’ve seen them more than double what they are now, how did that happen?

Still nothing terribly new here. Energy has always had inelastic demand, meaning usage doesn’t change much with price. Whether gas costs 1, 3, or 5 dollars people still need to get to work and will still buy stuff. Maybe people will start to combine trips or whatever with higher prices, but nothing huge.

Which wasn’t a factor before? 😉

I’m not sure about that. The way I see it, there will be more supply for the below-expectation demand, which would make prices go down