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Comment Re:Time to call out some liars (Score 1) 218

You may want to spend a little time at a crisis pregnancy center (e.g. affiliates of Care Net) and get informed about what a life-changing miracle it was for those women/couples to have chosen life instead of abortion. It's really quite touching. It's why my wife and I have been supporting them financially for many years.

Submission + - SPAM: Europe Developing 'Battery Passport' for EVs

schwit1 writes: OUT: United States of Europe Means No Passports
IN: “A group of German automakers, chemical concerns, and battery producers have announced the joint development of a ‘battery passport’ designed to help government regulators trace the history of the cells.”

"According to the German economic ministry, officially the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action, the overarching plan is for the EU to mandate traceable hardware be installed in all batteries used in the continent by 2026. Those intended for use in electric vehicles are up first, with the passport scheme also serving to chronicle everything from the vehicle’s repair history to where the power cell’s raw materials were sourced."

"I’m also a little concerned that this could eventually end up as another arrow in the quiver of industries that are trying to hoard ownership rights on products they’ve already sold to the consumers."

"As vehicles and other products have become perpetually connected to the internet (beaming out your private data FYI), manufacturers have begun trying to put up roadblocks for anyone hoping to fix their own vehicle or utilize an independently owned repair shop. Despite the right-to-repair movement doing its utmost to prevent this, it’s fighting on too many fronts and is going against well-funded corporate lobbyists possessing longstanding relationships with government legislators. Meanwhile, the European Union seems far more interested in exerting new regulatory controls under the auspices of environmentalism and safety than backing a grass-roots movement comprised of people who still want to fix things."

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Comment Power source of the future (Score 1) 48

This is great news! From: http://www.sci-news.com/astron... - Spinning black holes store rotational energy that can be extracted; when a black hole is immersed in an externally supplied magnetic field, reconnection of magnetic field lines within the ergosphere can generate negative energy particles that fall into the black hole event horizon while the other accelerated particles escape stealing energy from the black hole. In a paper published in the journal Physical Review D, a duo of researchers from the United States and Chile shows analytically that energy extraction via magnetic reconnection is possible when the black hole spin is high and the plasma is strongly magnetized.

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