I've heard flammable gas uses reverse (left hand) thread to prevent cross connection. At least for welding gases in NZ; not sure about natural gas.

Doesn't seem possible considering it's a per ounce listing.

Perhaps it's suggesting less than 1% impurity in the alcohol; i.e. methanol content?

I got a surprising amount of use out of a similarly configured C720 as a general purpose portable machine.

Swifts and Mirages can be under 900kg.

Yeah, you can't really say "we started the engines but #2 wouldn't start, so we're continuing to the destination on one engine". Delaying/cancelling the flight due to a safety/maintenance issue is perfectly legitimate.

The issue is that after that, a) passengers are entitled to compensation depending on the delay, and b) you need to provide food/water/aircon or take the passengers back to the terminal.

You're also potentially blocking a seat that could be used by a paying passenger, and the operator will statistically run more/longer trains at higher cost to cope with increased demand.

The bigger the bits, the easier recycling is and the lower contamination is.

Plastic bags fall apart into tiny pieces, and there's often more other waste attached to the bag than there is actual bag

Toyota has been claiming to have EV-killing tech 3-5 years away for 20 years. It's part of the plan for selling hybrids.

Sounds like textbook money laundering/diversion of charity funds to me.

Don't give the money to the privy purse directly - spend it on upkeep/repairs/renovation of private property that the king can 'legitimately' collect rent on.

Any modern SATA SSD will still nearly max out the bus in sequential writes, delivering sequential performance ~3x that of a spinning disk and random performance, even for the cheapest of drives, at >100x a disk.

Installing windows is not generally going to be enough to fill the drive write buffer, and even if it does, they're still going to be comparable to spinning rust. This is a problem that affects low quality (not necessarily cheap) drives, both SATA and NVME.

Probably depends on the meter model. Ours was just a modem swap in NZ.

Unfortunately, my understanding is that they mostly use screen-scraping.

Giving your account username/password to anyone but your bank is usually a breach of ToS, and they can use it to deny you compensation if something goes wrong and someone cleans out your bank account using internet banking.

They also get to datamine everything.