The system takes advantage of the heat difference between Earth’s surface and the night sky, with the ground radiating much of the heat it captured during the previous day.
It’s not a reverse solar panel. It’s not a solar anything. It requires a difference in heat… So it generates electricity in the same situation that a sterling engine uses to generate motion. Could you put one on a diesel generator to turn the waste heat into more electricity?
Does it have anything in common with those weird little solid state heat exchangers?
Any flies that fly into my house are given a chance to leave. If I can herd them out the window, they get to live and make lots of new baby flies.
On the other hand, their chances of getting a close up view of the fly swatter increase exponentially with every minute they spend refusing to leave and ignoring the fact that I’m literally showing them the exit.
My cat could. But only because I would rub my fingers together to make a faint noise, so they could tell where my hand was without looking.
It significantly reduced the number of surprises, and they felt a lot more comfortable around me.
Gossipdle Dec 14, 2025
I noticed today’s puzzle has an error. For the first clue, William says that there are exactly 3 ethicals in column C. ::: spoiler spoiler Rachel says that there are exactly 2 ethicals above Travis. ::: ::: spoiler spoiler Travis is on the bottom row of column C, and must therefore be ethical. ::: It is only by revealing another clue later on, that they can be marked.
Thank you for sharing this. I have mixed feelings about this piece.
There’s a lot to look at. They’ve obviously put a lot of time and skill into it, and it’s nice to look at, and I don’t want to sound like I don’t appreciate its merits, but I feel like I can’t appreciate it completely.
The top and bottom thirds are interesting and recognizable, but my brain has to work hard to piece together the busy middle section. I kind of wish they had done something like this: [email protected]
That would take it from “wow, this is awesome” to “mind blowingly awesome”
I wouldn’t work very well to see it in real life, because you’d have to stand so far back you couldn’t appreciate the fine details. But it would be possible to arrange two close up photographs to get a 3D effect of the detail.
Vantage Master 2 fits that requirement. It has been released as freeware for Windows XP.
I tried to play Warlord 2 like that, but there are times when I want to shift-click, or alt-click, and my onscreen keyboard doesn’t always allow that.
