Comment Re:MAGAs will rebel (Score 1) 44
Basically, all you build on a property can reduce real-estate values, because to build anything else, you have to remove it first.
I don't trust the manufacturer, either. That's what the UL listing and certification is for. UL I trust as much as possible. And installing anything like that will require it to be to State electrical code, which is fairly picky on battery storage.
I'm biased. The house I currently live in had the oil burning furnace explode in 2011. It was located in the basement and the fire gutted the kitchen above it. I'm surprised the whole house didn't burn, but there was significant damage.
Where I live it is common for 120 gallon propane tanks to be strapped to the outside wall of the house. Granted, I'm in West Virginia and this place isn't know for intelligence. Safety regulations are for them liberal hippie communist types.
Sigh...no. From the website:
UL9540A 'Champion' rated nonflammable at the cell level with no thermal runaway under any condition
People have heating oil, propane, and kerosene tanks next to their houses all the time and rely solely on the fire-rated tanks. Batteries aren't special in this regard, unless you consider they aren't a liquid that can spread or a gas that can expand so they're safer.
How much usable energy per unit of battery weight?
That really isn't their concern, because they're not marketing to the automotive sector, where weight is an issue. Their focus is for stationary storage like data center, grid scale, etc. Weight is no longer a major concern when you aren't hauling it around.
According to this page, energy density in Wh/l is 1/2 to 1/6 that of Lithium. On the other hand, significantly better maximum sustained power and recharge times.
They do mention EV fast charging, but they aren't talking about the car batteries but rather battery storage at the charger so charging stations can level out their power draws and reduce their utility bills.
Motional worked with Hyundai to create fully autonomous (SAE Level 4) Ioniq 5 robotaxis that are currently operating in Las Vegas.
AM radios add maybe $1 to the cost of a vehicle, and they don't need a long antennae, contrary to what someone else said (well, I've never needed one). The real reason for this push, in my mind, has to be lefties trying to kill talk radio, which they've been salivating at for decades
This is conspiracy territory and not founded by any reality.
The good news is that Roku has also introduced a recommended content row, that will compile picks from across various streaming services and use AI to point customers toward new shows and movies they might like.
How the fuck does this merit the description "good news?" Here, let me translate this for you:
"We're going to take away the channel selection menu that you put together and prioritized according to your own wishes, and replace it with paid placements and whatever our half-baked Mechanical Turk chundered up. And replace the lower-third of the main screen with video ads."
While you're at it, why not dump dogshit on my plate and call it chocolate cake?
Yes, they are, which is the problem. Razer slapped some RGB LEDs on a mask and sold it.
For large values of one, one equals two, for small values of two.
