An itemized bill would list the doctors fees and the fees/cost for their procedures (e.g ultrasound, stethoscope survey of chest, consultation) as well as cost of items(syringes, x ray photo platters poor data carriers, disinfectant, OP gown, tubes, non-reusable items) in complete detail.

This makes it less easy to bill you a 10 cent plastic piece for 100$, which they could hide else e.g. under hospital infees.

A faded child's backpack.

As I would, had mine not fallen apart.

Unless it's Disneyfied, a children's backpack is just a small backpack. If the straps are adjustable, it's perfect for a lot of jobs for adults as well.

Learn landmarks.

They can differ per person.

My wife remembers shops, I remember building and crossing shapes and layouts.

> converting heat into work

This article (https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121119140627.htm) mentions an overall efficiency for solar steam of around 24%. Probably a bit more now.

But less than I expected!

If you concentrate sunlight and shine it directly into the water or on items absorbing sunlight which are inside the water, apart from refraction, reflection, and lens heating losses, all energy from sunlight should be transferred into the water. You lose some more from radiation of heat from the water vessel and the pipes.

In this case I think your efficiency is mainly ruled by your turbine efficiency: around 65 to 90 %, bigger turbines and hotter steam tend to be more efficient.

For the solar panels on the other hand, we look at 17 to 25ish %.

I guess steam power is still good.

I do have no idea about cost efficiency. The steam solution will have much higher maintenance costs and probably also setup costs.

You might also want to look at molten salt solar solutions.

One of the many problems is that we have been pushing the problem in front of us for so long, while it becomes just more and more urgent and almost exponentially more expensive the longer we wait.

That is a major failure of city planning.

A law introducing electric transport by rising percentages will definitely put pressure for change on the situation. Here's to hope for better connections for you.

In the regions of China, Japan, Germany, Netherlands and France I have lived in, High Rise areas were always connected at least somewhat decently.

My experience is limited to Germany, The Netherlands, Japan, China and France, only down to -10 Celsius.

Biking in the snow is never a good solution, unless you have spikes.

And because your country favoured individual traffic, you cannot get around without a car. I do understand that.

My personal experience is limited to certain regions of Germany, France, The Netherlands, Japan, and China, all of which had more or less comfortable connections for public transport from high rise areas to working places.

But you might also have noticed that the demand is for a percentage of new sales to be EV, so not a hard cut off. There will be pressure to enable public transport and to build cheaper or different personnel transport solutions.

Your argumentation, while probably 100% valid now in your case, is ignoring the pressures on society this law will cause. Our way of living has to change, but we will have to see how well we deal with the change.

Electric buses, trams and bikes.

If you live in a high rise, at least here, you are in the inner city and have your choice of bus, tram bike or even walk.

Most of my colleagues live in the inner city and have commutes under 10km and do not use their cars, if they even own one. And money is not the issue for them (work is related to legal matters). And while I do own a car, I drive less than 5k km per year with it, most of this to visit family about 600km away. I don't use it to commute.

I thought 65 degrees would be enough to kill almost everything? (Well, there is a 50 degree setting too, but that's no good for cooking)

The energy input is the problem.

I guess would need a combination of big gas giant (infrared radiation output from various processes) plus small orbit (extra heat from gravitationally caused tectonic processes) plus high amount of heavy elements (extra heat from radioactive decay).

Without the energy inflow from a sun, is going to be really cold, Canadians might even need a sweater.

Apart from that, having planetsized moons is feasible, even getting ejected as a whole gravitationally bound system doesn't seem out of the ordinary..

Ideally...

Depending on where you work, not really. When you can't get budget for a broken power supply because "there is still one in it"

Unless one broke and you never got funds for a replacement...

That is why server power supplies normally have these little wire clips to secure the power cable.

But in the past, no one had those.

To be honest, I have never experienced the need for the charging port to be cleaned with either of the five mobile phones I owned on the last 30 odd years?