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  • noli@lemmy.ziptoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldJuicy
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    5 months ago

    I worked as a garbage collector for a couple summers as a student. Over the course of a load, the juice would accumulate at the bottom of the truck’s loading area and slush around while driving. It looked a lot like chocolate milk… I wouldn’t recommend having a sip though.


  • The assumption here is that solar panels make sure that the energy from the sun gets turned into electricity instead of heat. However, pretty much everything that uses electricity is technically a 100% efficient electrical space heater (eg. A fan turns electricity into heat and kinetic energy… which dissipates into heat). So the only way that solar panels could have a cooling effect is if we didn’t use the electricity (someone smarter than me will probably be able to point out exceptions to this, but still this should be the case for the majority of uses).

    Also, since solar panels are intended to capture as much solar energy as possible (hence why they are typically black), the realistic effect of covering the planet with them would probably be a temperature increase











  • noli@lemmy.ziptome_irl@lemmy.worldme_irl
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    11 months ago

    Cardio alone will allow you to lose weight for sure. If you have a net higher energy expenditure through a day, you will burn more calories and if the diet stays the same you will lose weight.

    The argument is just about how you increase that expenditure. Having more muscle mass and just existing will burn more calories and regularly doing cardio will burn more calories.

    Will you be more lazy and thus expend less ‘base’ energy on days that you do cardio? Probably. That just means that you have to do enough cardio to offset that difference.

    You know what’s even easier than both cardio and gaining muscle though? Not drinking calories, using lean ground beef instead of full fat, replacing some of the carbs in your meals by more veggies, eating fruits instead of sugary snacks, getting more protein in your diet, … If you’re consuming a fuckton of calories a day, there’s no amount of muscle that’ll allow you to lose weight.