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  • Like other commentators have already stated, the conditions (temperature difference) in winter and summer are different.
    However, if the temperature differences are the same, only reversed, heating requires less energy than cooling, as the (electric) power is also transformed to heat which in winter, when in heating mode is also usable heat, while in summer, it adds to the heat that needs to be discharged outdoors.

    E.g. a heat pump with a electric power consumption of 1 kW and a COP of 5 transfers 5 kW usable heat, but has only a cooling power of 4 kW (and thus, an EER of 4).











  • Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay and Paraguay are adopting a format based on the European one and the German number plate font?

    Yes, but they always use the narrow type instead of the regular, as their licence plates are less wide. In Germany, the narrow type is only a fallback if there are too many digits on the plate for the use of the regular type.

    In October 2014 the members of the Mercosur South American trade bloc agreed to introduce a common design for license plates. They adopted a size of 400 millimetres (16 in) x 130 millimetres (5.1 in) similar to that used in Australia and China. The design uses the narrow script Engschrift FE-Schrift (fälschungs-erschwerdend, forgery-impeding typeface) design to show the registration code with 7 elements. The FE-Schrift was found to perform better against alteration and falsification in comparison to the Brazilian Mandatory script as shown in a test at the INTI. The design also includes a blue strip above the registration code with the Mercosur emblem in the left upper corner, the national flag of the member state in the right upper corner, and the country name printed in the center. It was agreed to introduce the Mercosur design by 2016. The actual introduction was delayed until 2018.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FE-Schrift


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    2 days ago

    FYI, карандаш means pencil in russian.

    There is a legend that the word карандаш (pencil) was originally the name of the founder of a pencil company. Swiss entrepreneur Arnold Schweitzer (1885-1947) actually founded the company Caran d’Ache in 1915, naming it after the famous French cartoonist of the Belle Epoque, Emmanuel Poiret[2]. However, the Caran d’Ache pseudonym chosen by Poiret was itself a transcription of the word карандаш (pencil), which already existed in Russian at that time.

    russian Wikipedia