Brokkr

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Depending on the depth of the snow, you may want to consider gaters.

As for the boots, you might be able to use a good pair of leather boots with lots of insulation (buy a size or 2 above what you need and wrap your feet up well). The advantage of full leather boots is that they can be maintained and repaired, whereas rubber will wear out eventually. Wearing the insulation will be better than having it built into the boot. Worn out socks are easier to replace than built-in insulation.

Regardless, look for Merrell out soles or plan to use crimp-ons for icy conditions.

Maybe a Sorel or LL Bean boot. They are only water proof up to a certain depth, but they both do pretty well in the winter.

It would help to know when you plan to wear them, what activities are you with them?

Before doing this, you may want to checkout the Farming while Beige youtube channel (blackbirdcoop).

In some of his videos he provides a very honest description of the work involved.

Interesting because drivers of white cars are usually the most incompetent. Maybe people know to avoid them more and therefore they get into fewer accidents?

You keep saying that, but it seems that you're only able to make sense of the article because you have some prior knowledge. I was hoping you would share that knowledge, but it seems you have no interest in doing so. What was the point of sharing the article then?

Since you seem to want to be reductive, it appears that this detonation engine is nothing more than a regular combustion engine with a fuel mix that is more reactive. That's great and cool, but it still isn't clear why this is any significant innovation.

I could be very pedantic here, but I'm actually trying to understand how this is different from a traditional engine.

In that sentence, what does the "required pressure" refer to? Presumably an elevated pressure is required, instead of a negative pressure? For what purpose? How is that pressure achieved? Is the pressure changed by a change in volume? Temp? Once the pressure has changed, does the gas do work on something?

The KIT system creates the required pressure inside the combustion chamber instead.

I'm specifically referring to that line.

Thank you, but that explanation is causing more confusion because it is at odds with the article. The article states that compression is required before ignition. Is that true?

If not, then in the detonation engine, is the fuel mixture already at explosive concentrations upon mixing?

The article isn't very clear about how compression in this engine is achieved, but it's clear that compression is still required.

How is this different?

There probably is some novel idea here, but the headline and description could also apply to regular gas engines...

Would it be ethical to knowing give someone a 99% chance of a severe illness within a few months?