It definitely would be a good idea to put some SIBs in every place that produces intermittent energy.

Also, energy intensive places might want to get batteries too. Let’s say you have an aluminiun factory, which obviously needs lots of energy 24/7. How about you use cheap (or even free) solar power when there’s oversupply to charge the batteries, and discharge them during the night.

Energy is a peculiar word, because it’s used by new-age loonies (and scammer), sci-fi authors and even real scientists. However, I don’t think I’ve ever heard a scientist use the longer term “energy field”, but the first groups certainly seem to love it. When scientists speak of fields, they prefer to specify exactly what kind of field it is (e.g. magnetic or electric).

If I ever get to own a (farming) field of my own, I’m going to name it “Energy Field”, just to mess with everyone. Maybe I should set up a solar panel there, so that the name actually made sense.

That article says it’s 32 768 Hz, which is strangely close to some of the figures you can find on wikipedia.

I don’t even need to come up with my own BS, when I can just copy some crazy nonsense written by other people. Here’s a sample:

UNDERSTANDING CRYSTAL VIBRATIONAL FREQUENCIES

Every crystal on Earth possesses its own energetic signature, measured in Hertz (Hz) or megahertz (MHz). These frequencies interact with our body’s energy field, creating resonance that can promote healing and balance.

As if sources even matter when traversing this deep in Crazy Town, but there you go anyway.

Oh, I totally agree. US english has diverged from UK english by making certain things more sensible, but there’s still a long way to go.

I think I’ve seen some organization try to change the spelling of health to helth. Maybe it was an Australian clinic or something. Can’t remember. Anyway, I totally agree with that sort of spelling reform. Just make the spelling closer the pronunciation and get rid of all the random nonsense.

Unlike many other languages, English doesn’t have a central authority thay could even propose changes, let alone dictate them. Spelling reforms have been attempted many times before, but it doesn’t look like we’re getting anywhere.

English is also incredibly widespread, which is beginning to turn into a burden at this point. If you want to change something, your new spelling won’t be compatible with the rest of the world. If you make the spelling match the pronunciation, you need to choose one dialect. Which one though? Oh, I’m sure that decision won’t be controversial in the slightest and everyone will be totally ok with the outcome.

Predictability is key. As long as thouse double letters don’t misbehave, this system should work just fine.

Just from that table alone, I can tell that there are many “collisions” (to borrow a cryptography term) where single letter can map to multiple sounds or vice versa. As long as the rules are clear, you don’t necessarily even need spelling bees.

That’s pretty cool. Tell me more about your system. Is it fully consistent, or only partially?

Yeah, I think sonic shorthand sounds good. Or maybe auditory? It even helps me remember absurd spellings like gothi.

The actual pronunciation and correct spelling may have some convoluted mechanism connecting the two, but I don’t need to worry about layers of history, a list of exceptions, language of origin and other things. I just memorize a particular sound and generate the correct spelling based on that. I guess that’s a shorthand of sorts. Not the shortest route really, but doing it properly is way beyond my memorization skills.

You just reminded me of a brilliant Numberphile video about french numerals. This stuff is truly mind blowing!

And yes, you’re right. The layers of history can be seen in the disconnect between spelling and pronunciation. The Great Vowel Shift is just the tip of the iceberg.

IPA can’t help with spelling because it aims to record sounds in character format.

My idea is to convert a hard to memorize character strings into an easy to memorize sounds. The human brain just works like that for some reason. Anyway, these two concepts are related, but distinct. I can totally see where this question is coming from.

When writing, you don’t need to remember the letters. You just recall the absurd sound and convert it back to a sequence of seemingly unrelated characters we call “correct spelling”.

Tried generating cool treehouse pictures, but they all sucked, so I had to build the damn thing to get the picture right.