Reduce fossil fuel production and subsidies to oil companies? Nah...
Have less cold margaritas and negronis? Yeah, that's gonna stop sea level rise for sure
https://archive.md/Q47mG
Calculator in hand, he explained that if you shake three and a half ounces of tempered ice for 12 seconds, you'll generate about 2,000 watts of power on average.
wow that's crazy. a whole 6 watt hours. Come on, this is the energy of two old USB mice plugged in for an hour. Yes, your twelve dollar cocktail requires $0.0004 of energy. Christ the bartender is probably putting out 70 watts to shake it. Do you know how much fucking energy your alcohol needs to manufacture? If the issue is that ice is thrown away, or that freezers are inefficient, then focus on that.
I suspect that eco-friendly bar isn't saving energy by having somebody else make blocks of ice and then ship them. Rather, they are buying clear ice and breaking it up to put fancy ice in their drinks. Using every piece because it is expensive.
Article would be much funnier if it sneered at Americans for drinking drinks that are 70% ice 30% drink. Euros don't need everything to be served at 33°F.
Ice isn't even that energy intensive if you're using a good heat pump.
2000 sounds like too much. Isn't that the order of magnitude an AC uses?
phase changes take a lot of energy, but they're overestimating because ice doesn't completely melt when you shake a drink
1 gram ice absorbs 334J when it melts
3.5oz = 99.2 grams
so completely melting 3.5oz ice in 12s would absorb 99.2 * 334J / 12s = 2761 W
this is why those remarks about whiskey stones being useless are correct. most of the cooling effect of ice comes from it melting
When they came for the plastic straws, I did not speak up. When they came for the ice, I said nothing. When they came for my Jumbo Gulp, there was no one left to speak up for me
"STUDIES SUGGEST" 
bullshit has justified "therapeutic" alcoholism for decades.For a lot of people, being drunk isn't enough. They want to be fancy drunks pretending it's for their health.
Disclaimer: Yes, you can drink. I'm not in any position to take that away from you even if I wanted to. My point is that I'm surrounded by alcoholics in denial that seriously say shit like they can't be alcoholics because they only drink fancy wines.
water sommeliers
Around where I am, I can only assume the most refined and delicate tastes prefer the exquisite tones of raw water.
Wasn't that a Adam Sandler movie bit?
Yeah that's right about Alaskan glacial water
There's been so many paid vacations for that grandfather of modern apolitical edginess that I don't know for sure, but probably.
I don't know. I have seen one or less of those movies in the last 30 years.
time for a movie night where we watch the dredge from the bottom of the slop trough
Years ago I heard of a study that found that the rich are drinking more than the poor and also that problematic levels of drinking are more prevalent among the rich than the poor.
It turns out that if you can afford more of a thing or a nicer version of a thing, you're more likely to do the thing.
I'm here drinking bourbon because barrel aging counts as carbon sequestration.
It's-a Italiano. Pretty good cocktail: gin, red vermouth, and campariIt's actually the "test" cocktail for bartenders usually. If you can make a good negroni, you're probably a good bartender.
Look, I was fine eating bugs and living in a pod but this is a step too far
No, I will continue using as much ice as I can fill my cup with, thank you
Iced beverages >>>>>>>
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