Does oil rolls out of the ground ready for use in cars? Nope. There is a tremendous industry not only around drilling, but transporting and refining petroleum products. Ironically, there is discrete and distinct electrical cost at every step of the cycle to process oil into your SUV's fuel tank, perhaps not enough to power an EV the full distance, but surely measurable at least. Natural gas will likely backfill most of the electric grid top capacity for now, but solar is getting better quickly.

While my Ford Mustang Mach-e loves my lead foot a little too much, I rarely have range anxiety, but then only because the charging network really sucks (for now). So like the early car enthusiasts, my trips sometimes take a little more planning, much like the historical use of the Michelin Guide, only this time it's more of an app. Three quarters (75%) of all crude oil is used as fuels for trucks, airplanes, boats and mainly cars. As EV adoption continues, reduction in demand for gasoline will likely reduce new drilling and infrastructure. Reduction in scale will likely lead to surplus if it happens fairly quickly and I think it will. Beyond trying another foolishly thrilling Cannonball Run, I can't imagine any reason why a reasonable well planned trip won't soon (is now for Tesla owners) always be better using a quite, calm efficiently powerful electric car

This is a conflict between a former slave class and their oppressors. The Hindu religious caste lead by divine birthright (wear yellow), but the warrior caste are the enforcers (wear red).

Functionally it's a broken study, as it depends on the consumer's confusion, as the date displayed on the QR code is the 'Best by date' which is later than the 'sell by date' most see printed other jugs. People by them thinking that those dates are the same, when they're not, eventually most will know it.

Likely that's the underlying reason why they could do it, but the Webb telescope is pretty single threaded. Surely it cannot be as easily directed to immediate needs of more modest scientific objectives. We should be building a small fleet of space telescopes at several lagrange points (moon, mars, jupiter?), if only to have as communications relays and survanace of commercial space traffic.

Trump's Big Lie is simply virtue signaling for a GOP dictatorship and that insurrection was pushed though twitter as part of his campaign against losing the election fairly. At the time it was important, but now not so critical. People need to be banned for safety of others when they call for violence, but permanent bans assume people can't change or be diminished.

Once BEV overtake ICE cars in sales, there will be fewer gas stations, to the point where they become as uncommon as fast charging stations are today.

What's more is that the physical properties of gasoline doesn't lead to easy storage or transportation of the product. It's only 'cheap' right now because there is a huge infrastructure which needs continual investment and upkeep. Every gas station you see effectively has a 20 year timer on the underground tanks fuel pipes and pumps, few of them will be replaced, especially out in rural areas (save for diesel for a while). The economies of scale can produce odd market effects when there is a quick and permanent drawdown of a industry.

You are correct on the about the notably poor performance of tanks in the Yom Kippur war, but the fix found in the era was reactive armor, RPG cage retrofits for APCs and better tank design (keeping munitions out of the crew area). Both the Javelins and NLAWs have multistage warheads to blow through countermeasures and impact ballistically to reduce glancing blows. I think the next iteration of tanks will be smaller and unmanned.

Turns out that the Russian Army's ability to communicate securely needed those cell towers too. That might even be the reason why so many of their generals have been killed.

While sometimes tech words change meanings, 'hacker' didn't imply criminal or as loosely applied, but yes, DDoS had long been 'distributed', likely the author (and his editor) was wrong.

I am totally screenplaying that! With the U.S. as an oppressive world regime stamping out science while enforcing a decades long 'world peace' (or so they say), heavy dose of religious fervor to pretend to be art, lots of sex and violence for the traffic. Netflix will surely fund it with little more discussion than this comment!

The wired article and the same article at another link taipanmagazine.com

Maybe I haven't worn my seat belt in decades, the fact I hadn't died in a car wreck doesn't mean it can't happen. Politicians should stick to flouting science that plays out over decades (like climate change) rather than months.

5 Bullies- those that make quick easy judgments based on loose information with little rigor or consequence, but sound important doing it. When successful they take credit, however failure is either concentrated elsewhere or disappeared.

Calculators are usually solar powered and that is practical because they have the same kind of low power screen as your phone. There are no inlays waiting for a finger's resistance, no logic running to detect your cheek or radar looking for a face.

I understand why people who like to think of themselves as 'movie buffs' would drool over 50's era saturday matinee features. However, there are only a so many of them, they likely burned through them in the first season, or do people think the witty banter of the robot puppets was the main draw. If they do it right, it could be a good live experience hecking a couple of cheezy movie, but I'm not booking the tickets.