Hamartiogonic

Most instructions you find online are built on a very specific style where you use a fixed mass of leaves and water and infuse for a specific amount of time. Turns out, it doesn’t have to be that way, and the Chinese style is radically different. I’m using an adapted version of the Chinese style, and here’s how that works.

1. Weigh 4 grams of tea leaves. You can use more or less. It’s a matter of preference.
2. Put the leaves into a tiny tea pot. Mine holds about 150 ml. You can also use a mug and a metal basket.
3. Fill the teapot with hot water. The temperature and steep time depend on a bunch of variables. More on those later.
4. Let it steep.
5. Pour the tea into a mug. If you have tiny Chinese tea cups, you can use those as well.
6. Enjoy

Wait, but that’s just one mug of tea? What if you want more? Turns out, the same tea leaves can give you so much more. Fill the tea pot with more water, and you’ll have more tea.

During the first cup, the steeping time is a bit longer. Maybe something like 30 s or so. It takes a while for the dry leaves to get wet and start extracting.

The second cup extracts super quickly. Just pour in water and pour out tea. No need to wait a single second. If the tea comes out too strong, you should probably use slightly cooler water. Knowing this takes a bit of experimenting. Some teas, such as puerh, extract very quickly. If you use more than 5 g of tea leaves, it’s going to be even faster.

Third cup should be about the same. It really depends on the type of tea you have. Experiment and find out.

At some point, you’ll begin to notice that the next cup of tea isn’t quite as strong as the previous one. That’s when you can crank up the heat. Use boiling water if you want. You may also need to increase the extraction time. Once again, it takes some experimenting. Once you know your tea well enough, you can just wing it.

Yeah, the only truly green option is to skip the datacenter entirely. Well that’s not the reality where we live.

If the alternative is to power the datacentres with gas turbines, I would say that PV+BESS is pretty green.