Comment Re:Crowds win (Score 1) 73
Or you could state the same in mere economic terms: data suggest that women do 80% of the consumer spending.
People fly because it's cheap, and they will fly from anywhere to anywhere else on a whim. Which is (would have been?) nice, because the indirect costs were thrown away as a "future them" problem. Now, the bill is due, and it sucks, but it's the cost of everyone being nearsighted for decades. Time to visit something closer while on vacay. It won't kill them.
It's all fine and good to have that opinion, but then you need to stop using "parochial" as an insult. Because in light of this, all you're really saying is they're poor.
The neighbors have a (usually legal) right to "peaceful enjoyment" of their property. However, property owners should have the widest latitude possible to use their property as they see fit as long as it's not hurting folks or externalizing costs onto them.
Agreed, but turning regular living space into hotels does, in fact, hurt folks and externalize the costs because these mini-hotels are businesses not subject to the same level of taxation as real businesses. Not to mention that purchasing investment property artificially increases the value of the property.
You'll never chase them all down, and doing things badly saves money. The whole industry just has to go.
The technologies to replace it are about here, though some need testing at scale. Once the combination of wind, solar, and Form Energy's $20/kWh grid-scale batteries can produce load-following electricity for a penny cheaper than a gas peaking plant, it's all over but the construction project.
Replacing half a billion furnaces with heat pumps is the longer-term challenge, but there's no question that those who do it will save money, it's just a question of up-front spending versus long-term savings.
So, let's get past "peak gas", if we haven't already, then start shutting down (or stop buying from) gas sources in order of most-offensive, downward. These guys will be about at the top of the list.
If only the real world were as simple as you are.
What sort of pathetic developing world dystopia can't guarantee its electricity supply? 2023, FFS.
The last place I expected to see tone-deaf "it's the current year" garbage is slashdot. But here we are. Maybe, I don't know, travel. Or just google. There's not a grid in the world that doesn't have issues in extreme weather.
Until the range improves, I need to be able to go 500 miles on a charge. Why? because of cold weather and summers which cut back on range. Either that or fast charging vehicles, you wouldn't catch me dead waiting 20mins to charge my car, 7-10mins maybe.
You are going to be waiting a long time to see ranges of 500 miles, because it isn't a target there is much of a market for. High range vehicles are usually closer to 350 miles. Very few people need to drive more than 350 miles in a day. That would be at least a 3 hour one way commute. And if you are doing long range driving, 300 miles gives you about 4-5 hours of interstate driving in between charges. Most people are looking for a break to driving at least every 4-5 hours.
As for hot and cold weather, it is only cold weather which has a significant effect on range. You can expect about 70% of the normal range in very cold climates. So in a cold climate, if you have over a 2 hour commute to work then current EVs probably aren't for you. Otherwise complaining about range is really just blowing hot air for the vast majority of people.
Do you live in the NE of the US where everything is close together or something? I can't think of a single road trip I've ever taken that's under 5 hours, and most are between 8 and 21!
The legislation is to force manufacturers to build them. You can't buy something if nobody makes it.
Everyone already builds them to the extent the supplychain allows them and/or to the extent that they're able to sell them.
. Elon Musk hates the things Californians like such as universal health care, caring about the welfare of all human beings, and anti-nationalism/anti-tribalism. Ever since becoming a right-winger infected by the MAGA mind virus, Elon has entirely embraced right-wing idealogies such as tribalism/nationalism, coldness to others wellbeing, and default dislike of humans who serve him no purpose all while claiming he is a centrist.
Or maybe he just hates when people who ostensibly have the talent he wants fill their heads with idiotic dichotomies like the ones you've laid out here.
The Internet was fine after Section 230 was enacted. So, yeah, the internet was fine, later, when Google came along. Why was it fine? Because Section 230 allowed Google (and every other website or service which users interact with) to do their things without being held responsible for what other people decide to do.
Name your favorite website. It probably exists because of Section 230, and will probably go away if you repeal it.
...and then google realized they could use their position to put a thumb on the scale...
The only question is whether we will make it that far, not whether that's physically possible.
If whether or not we have enough rare earths and lithium to achieve this isn't ALSO a question...we're asking the wrong questions.
Most people who say that you can do it all with solar and wind just can't add up. All I ask is that you read a little bit so you understand what you're saying.
You actually CAN do it all with solar and wind....you just can't do it cheap as the rare earths became a severely limiting factor before you get there.
I would like to see you getting the same level of functionality from a MacBook of the same price.
The fact that you find a $500 laptop acceptable for your level of "functionality" means you haven't considered many workloads at all. I'm not apple fanboi, but I do use an M1 air for my mobile DJ'ing biz because mixxx just isn't going to cut it.
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