BougieBirdie

I feel like a maker space with a tool library attached would be the best of both worlds.

I don’t have any major power tools because they’re a huge investment, and even if I did I wouldn’t have space to house them.

Some projects you can’t take to the maker space though. Most home improvement projects would require you to bring the tool to the site.

So anyway, I guess I want the best of both worlds.

I’ve always understood rice cookers to be most energy efficient. If I had to guess why, it’s probably a factor of insulation and their precision of temperature control. Less heat is lost versus the stove top.

Admittedly, that’s mostly a hunch. But even if my opinion here is misinformed, the convenience factor of the rice cooker can’t really be overstated.

I don’t know if I have a BIFL recommendation. I got a mid-tier one to see if I liked it and would use it, and usually when buying my first appliance of a new kind longevity isn’t my biggest concern. But now I know I won’t go back to making rice on the stove top, so for my next one I’d hope to buy it for life.

Mine is an Arrow Professional Plus. I’ve had it close to five years now and it still looks and behaves as new. I might have already stumbled into buy-it-for-life, I don’t know

TIL, thanks

I’m skeptical of the scalability.

On paper, it sounds like a good idea. Competing in air freight for medium speed / cost makes sense. Fuel for an airship is probably easier on emissions than bunker fuel used for freight ships.

Buoyancy is what I’m struggling with. We don’t have an unlimited supply of helium. Thermal airships don’t seem to be any faster than cargo ships. Hydrogen is too combustible.

So maybe this does have potential to carve out a small part of the market, but I can’t foresee this being a huge disruptor in the global supply chain