From your lips to [insert deity here]'s ears, OP.

Agree, have a drink at the Omni but don't stay there. And do not eat dinner there. It's very disappointing

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All of what?

In general you will not see 1Gbps per connection on wireless. Yes in theory it can be done but in the real world with typical consumer equipment in a home, it doesn’t happen. If you get 500+ Mbps per device your doing good. If you really want high speed you need to run a cable.

You need storage (battteries) too. I’m in Hawaii and even here it with so much sun you need a lot of panels and batteries to be self sufficient. It’s an investment with a lot of up front cost.

No one is calling for the sudden shutdown of fossil fuel sources. It is a transition and fossil fuels will continue to play an important role.

My comment is that the fossil fuels are “cheap” only because the actual damaging effects of them are not priced into what the consumer sees.

Everything has drawbacks. Renewables and nuclear just has fewer drawbacks than fossil fuels.

Critical minerals in batteries are more than 95% recyclable with today’s technology so that isn’t as big of a deal as people think.

Oh, wow. Two posts displaying the shortcomings of Google Maps in one night. Local knowledge wins again.

You can have dirt cheap energy right now but you need to install solar power panels on your roof. They are record cheap and will continue getting cheaper

Don't worry about them lithium batteries. There are other more common metals which could replace lithium, like sodium.

The Kimpton Hotel Monaco. I had a great time there when doing a lil staycation a while back. They even had free happy hour with wine in the afternoon.

That’s assuming you have the money to set that up.

The William Penn is fancy, but I wouldn’t call the rooms romantic. They are kind of geared towards older folks and business travelers in my opinion. Maybe do drinks in their lobby and stay elsewhere. I stayed at a Landing Hotel in upstate NY and it was nice, but I wouldn’t call it Valentine’s Day romantic by any means. I recommend looking into Hotel Monaco or the Renaissance. I feel like those might be more romantic.

Yeah let's get rid of that and use wind and solar instead. Works great in Pittsburgh, and I didn't want heating in the winter anyway.

Start drinking coconut water on the regular

Has winter never happened to you guys

You def might find some pirates gear at st vinnies or goodwill.

That's Oscar! I used to see him out in squirrel hill all the time. He lost his leg to a rat trap--I'm a bit upset to see his caretakers still let him roam after that.

Lots of old houses without much insulation around Pittsburgh. And now new heating units tend to be more 'efficient' but they just run more often because they can't heat up the house.

WFH Oriental Market on the corner of Penn and 23rd in the strip district has a great noodle selection. Real Udon, real Lomein and the flat rice noodles for Thai Pad See Uw.

WH foods in the strip is my go-to asian grocer, but you have a bunch of other good suggestions!

We're importing less gas and exporting more natural gas while our prices rise. Production is increasing but that gas isn't going to us, thus our prices go up because there's no excess to offset record high inflation. Exports are at record highs and imports at near lows. They are sending our gas over seas, along with the hundred billion tax payer dollars they also sent.

Biden said he was going to end fossil fuels (and fossil fuel appliances apparently). And he is. But only for us. Not the rest of the world though who suddenly need our gas because the Nord Stream 2 pipeline was mysteriously destroyed... you know, after Biden said he would destroy it. But totally wasn't him. Nope. Don't listen to his own words.

Setting like 40 % of electricity is generated by gas. They talk a lot of shit about putting people on all electric, but you don't hear a lot about replacing that generating capacity. Nuclear could easily do it.

You’re a moron…