Apparently this is a hot take but IMO, cooking noises and smells should be isolated rather than... amplified and spread throughout the rest of the dwelling
house layouts is my quirky special interest so I have to chime in! Historically, it was very upper class European to isolate kitchen smells (and labor!) and place the kitchen as far away from the dining room as possible, even burning incense in the dining room so you can’t smell the food smells. I don’t get it! But when I am laboring in the kitchen, I hate how open concept kitchens make it so that everyone is in the way. I kick everyone out. So there’s that.
And this is why they had to invent those pneumatic tube delivery systems that some banks still use in their drive-thrus. Please support my "burrito delivery tubes as physical infrastructure" utility startup
honestly I want to see pneumatic tube delivery at the neighborhood level become a normal feature! It'd save a LOT of fuel and energy for delivering small items to households. By extension I guess you could have a durable Tube Standard Bento Box for food deliveries that allows sealed compartmentalized storage and you just send it back to be cleaned, sanitized, and reused when you're done
Do you realize how inefficient of a transport method this is? It requires huge amounts of air whose energy is nearly all lost to the environment and only a small fraction is utilized for propulsion.
Even what you see in a bank is a missile weighing 100 times more than the paper it carries and if you were to fill with water it just wouldn't move.
Unless we are talking about a different thing or you are just trolling #transport #energy
oh I absolutely realize the efficiency sucks. Does it suck as badly as having a two ton fossil fuel powered vehicle make a trip to deliver a single small parcel though? I'd absolutely lose it laughing if that turns out to be the case (and I wouldn't be surprised if it WAS if you pressurize a long tube for this purpose!)
I think only in the US they use SUVs for delivering coffee and donuts, where I am at they use +/- 100cc scooters, reliable honda cubs. On flat cities they use bicycles for such. A 4x4 with the a/c maxed out for door dashing is US foreign policy and social stability based on low fuel cost.
Efficiency has never been an issue in the US transportation policy, prohibiting train development (archaic) advancing truck and passenger cars.
Using air in tubes or should I say fluids, is common. Cars use hydraulic brakes, trucks use air. It is transferring mechanical energy from one end to the other. In the case of transferring a bullet container the end is flexible, it keeps moving.
There are two quantities that play a role here, pressure and volume. Liquids are heavy and when volume increases gas becomes a better choice than liquid.
The social political component to the problem of delivering small pkgs is a society being too busy too short of time to run and get lunch, or a tool, or a document. So someone has turned the squeeze on that society's time.
It would take a revolution to take back the time "bosses" have taken away from us. Meanwhile, while on the squeeze and underemployed you can deliver burgers and pizza. - unemployment check valve -
there was a bank near me as a kid with a main building and a drive-in location off site with a pneumatic tube a mile long buried under a road, with the idea being that they'd be able to safely move cash and documents back and forth that way.
The blowers for it occupied most of the second floor of the main location and part of a floor of an office building near the drive-in side, and it proved completely bonkers slow and unreliable so they abandoned it shortly after it was built.
I remember one of my teachers in elementary school telling us about how obnoxious the system was. It had vent stacks next to the sidewalk in a few places including one right next to one side of his house. When the tube system was being reversed, the vents would open to equalize pressure, and would emit a very loud rushing/screaming sound.
Speaking of tubes from a tube, in the sci.fi/dystopia movie Brasil (1985) directed by Terry Gilliam with Jonathan Pryce Robert De Niro Bob Hoskins Michael Palin et.al the use was extensive among bureaucrats of the dictatorship.
One of my all time favorites. I think I spent most of my life living up to the role DeNiro played for a few minutes :)
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I'm like yooo I'll take one of those, please. If anyone needs me I'll be cooking up a storm in my fortress of solitude 😂
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The kitchen at Versailles is so far away, the royals' food was always cold or at best tepid
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It requires huge amounts of air whose energy is nearly all lost to the environment and only a small fraction is utilized for propulsion.
Even what you see in a bank is a missile weighing 100 times more than the paper it carries and if you were to fill with water it just wouldn't move.
Unless we are talking about a different thing or you are just trolling #transport #energy
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On flat cities they use bicycles for such. A 4x4 with the a/c maxed out for door dashing is US foreign policy and social stability based on low fuel cost.
Efficiency has never been an issue in the US transportation policy, prohibiting train development (archaic) advancing truck and passenger cars.
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There are two quantities that play a role here, pressure and volume. Liquids are heavy and when volume increases gas becomes a better choice than liquid.
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It would take a revolution to take back the time "bosses" have taken away from us.
Meanwhile, while on the squeeze and underemployed you can deliver burgers and pizza. - unemployment check valve -
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The blowers for it occupied most of the second floor of the main location and part of a floor of an office building near the drive-in side, and it proved completely bonkers slow and unreliable so they abandoned it shortly after it was built.
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One of my all time favorites. I think I spent most of my life living up to the role DeNiro played for a few minutes :)
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