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I think they mean why can you lift say 50kg with both arms, but can only lift 20kg in each individually, rather than 25kg individually.

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Yep on that last part! Hubs still swears by B&B when he’s sick.

Grains such as rice, wheat and corn are also seeds and they have less protein than legumes on a dry weight basis.

Edit to address whole plant differences: If you look at forage crops, legumes such as alfalfa have much higher protein content in the whole plant than grasses.

What happens when they hit revenue goals without spending budget?

Yep. can't tell you how many government offices/conference rooms I saw with 80" flat screens and "smart boards" right next to the cheap dry erase board that actually got used 98% of the time. And this was back in the early 2000s when all of this was new/expensive technology. Easily $2000-4000 tvs and I dont even want to guess what the smart boards cost

The electric grid needs to run at certain voltage ( 110v /230v at the home ) and a certain ac frequency (50hz eu or 60hz us).

When a (steam) generator runs it produces a certain voltage at a certain frequency depending on the load and rpm.

More load than output and the voltage and frequency(generator goes slower) drop, more output than load voltage and frequency go up.

Electric grid operators turn on/off generators or demand more/less load depending on voltage and frequency the generator are putting out.

Allowed voltage range is +-6% (+10%-6% in eu) they try to keep the Frequency in a +-0.2% ish range.

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This is a good answer, but I have one minor change:

Legumes don't get the nitrogen for free. They trade for it by giving the bacteria sugars and a place to live. When legumes grow in soil with plenty of nitrogen, they stop trading with the bacteria (if you dig these plants up, you won't find as many nodules where the bacterialive on the roots). Still, legumes have much easier access to nitrogen than other plants.

> a more sophisticated approach to things

You could substitute "sophisticated" with complicated. The existing method is simple. Yes, extra more gets spent each December, but it gets spent on stuff the departments would possibly be asking for later anyway. With the existing method, its easy to track, gives departments a little morale boost cus they get some cool shit, and a greater sense of agency.

The alternative is a complex system trying to balance who came in under budget, by how much, how often. Which department got that cool thing they asked for? Did they need/deserve it? they came in under budget 3 times and they've gotten additional funding they requested twice, but one of those times the funding vastly exceeded the amount of money they were under budget. What is fair? Is one department seeing favoritism?

You can see how complicated that can become... plus there would likely be additional accounting and management costs required for implementing it, so the net benefit would be reduced.

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We don't need to know the exact values which is nice

If you have a diesel engine or similar putting mechanical energy into a spinning generator and then you increase the electrical draw on that generator, it'll slow down. You can either accept the slower generator which changes the frequency or increase the power being supplied to the generator by the diesel engine. If you reduce the electrical load then there's less push back and the generator will speed up.

Thanks to this you don't actually need to know how much mechanical energy is being put into the generator or how much electrical energy is being drawn from it. You only need to make sure its spinning at 3600 rpm (60 Hz for North America, its 3k rpm for Europe and 50 Hz systems). If it spins too fast then put less fuel into the systems that are powering the generator. If it spins to slow then increase the mechanical energy you're supplying.

The generators can only tolerate a fairly small change in frequency (<0.5 Hz) so overall production and overall demand needs to be pretty similar, but you can figure out how much was consumed later as long as you add fuel now to manage the slowdown of the generator.

If you haven't upgraded to the Pooptana yet, then you need more fiber in your diet. Nothing beats taking a poop, then using unsheathe and a heavy attack to cleave that log in two.

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Oh, yeah, I definitely assume BC when someone says Vancouver!

For example, the way the NFL's broadcast contracts are structured, the owners could play all of their games in empty stadia, and they would STILL turn a profit.

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Electricity is really convenient. Devices draw as much as they need, and as long as we keep the generators turning at the same speed (and have enough of them) we will not overproduce or underproduce.

The difficult part is keeping them turning at the same speed. As we use more electricity, there is more force pushing against the wheels to slow them down. The engine needs to push harder to keep the speed the same. By adjusting the fuel and air flow to the engines, or water flow to turbines, we can make sure that it keeps spinning at roughly the same speed.

I like to shave my face with a sharp piece of shale, or a good shell. Works great and is incredibly reusable.

> Like who is the police in all this?

It's not that there's an agency that tracks the amount of money and the "value" of goods and services and runs around changing prices to match. It's that, if you have more money, you're more likely to spend it, which means you'll accept a higher price on items. Since you're willing to pay more, companies will raise prices to match. That's what causes inflation.

Repeat this millions of times because all that extra money you spent means everyone else has more money, so they are willing to spend more, which means companies can raise prices, and the cycle continues until you're at new "stable" prices that are simply higher than the original prices, roughly proportionally to the extra money that was injected.

I'm neither but what my doctor usually recommends is something which helps with coughing for the day and something to stop coughing for the night, since, well ... sleeping when you are coughing your lungs out sucks.