▲ 130 ▼ China’s ‘artificial sun’ sets nuclear fusion record, runs 1,006 seconds at 180 million°F (charmingscience.com) submitted 2 years ago by yogthos@lemmygrad.ml to c/technology@hexbear.net 57 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children) At 160 million we may as well just be using kelivn. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 4 child comments replies: [–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 child) Have you considered that it's never okay to use America anything including numbers? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] leftAF@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* Fahrenheit does have a wider range of whole numbers to express the temperatures in our daily climate. Unfortunately the digital thermostats I had for years, even one in Shanghai, would step in 0.5 deg increments regardless of it being in F or C. I assume it was using K internally throughout the system, so keeping it in F meant more granularity (68, 68.5, 69 being more specific temps than 20, 20.5, 21 could dial in). And it was noticeable enough to where I'd keep it in F (except one time when I was sick and wanted in between the two possible F setpoints). permalink fedilink source parent [–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago At that scale they're equal permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GalaxyBrain@hexbear.net 24 points 2 years ago (1 child) Have you considered that it's never okay to use America anything including numbers? permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] leftAF@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* Fahrenheit does have a wider range of whole numbers to express the temperatures in our daily climate. Unfortunately the digital thermostats I had for years, even one in Shanghai, would step in 0.5 deg increments regardless of it being in F or C. I assume it was using K internally throughout the system, so keeping it in F meant more granularity (68, 68.5, 69 being more specific temps than 20, 20.5, 21 could dial in). And it was noticeable enough to where I'd keep it in F (except one time when I was sick and wanted in between the two possible F setpoints). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] leftAF@hexbear.net 2 points 2 years ago* Fahrenheit does have a wider range of whole numbers to express the temperatures in our daily climate. Unfortunately the digital thermostats I had for years, even one in Shanghai, would step in 0.5 deg increments regardless of it being in F or C. I assume it was using K internally throughout the system, so keeping it in F meant more granularity (68, 68.5, 69 being more specific temps than 20, 20.5, 21 could dial in). And it was noticeable enough to where I'd keep it in F (except one time when I was sick and wanted in between the two possible F setpoints). permalink fedilink source parent
[–] invalidusernamelol@hexbear.net 3 points 2 years ago At that scale they're equal permalink fedilink source parent