Just a few facts:
Toyota fuel cell car has a range of 300 miles... same as the electric Tesla.
Tesla can recharge in 20 minutes at a SuperCharger, not "hours".
Electric outlets are everywhere... hydrogen refuel stations are... where? (I think there might be one in California).
A lot more places have electricity than natural gas pipelines. It's cheap to install an electric socket to charge an electric car. Everyone could easily do this at their house or business. I have friends who have Nissan Leaf cars and they just plug them into the garage outlet.
Gas would have to go below $0.40 cents a gallon to be competitive with electricity... not going to happen.
Much cheaper and easier to just install an electric plug for your electric car. Electricity is available just about everywhere (and a lot more places than natural gas).
If it only works on Windows, it can't be that "highly advanced"... probably just some teens in their basement. Windows is not that hard to compromise.
Linux is one price (free) and you get a server and tools and all the features.... bonus, you are not a target for malware!
These people were all obese and had metabolic syndrome to start:
Sixteen overweight/obese men and women 30-66 years old, with a BMI between 27–50 kg/m2 participated in this controlled dietary intervention (Table 1). Participants had metabolic syndrome defined as having three or more of the following criteria: waist circumference (101.6 cm men, 88.9 cm women), blood pressure (130/85 mm Hg) or current use of antihypertensive medication, and fasting plasma glucose (100 mg/dL), triglycerides (150 mg/dL), and HDL-C (40 mg/dL men, 50 mg/dL women).
Hard to draw any conclusions from this study for normal people. If you're fat, you have bad numbers and you need to lose weight and going on a high fat or low fat diet doesn't make much difference.
We've been conducting a geo-engineering experiment by increasing the CO2 content of the atmosphere and, so far, it isn't going well.
What makes anyone believe that any further meddling with the climate would not have severe unintended consequences?
I have a subscription to the NY Times.
I still get loads of ads on my tablet with no adblock.
Adblock is your friend.
OMG... call the engineers! I bet they never thought of that. A big mistake. You are a true genius who will save us from the folly of renewable energy.
Most of the GMO seeds from big agribusiness (Monsanto, etc.) are engineered to be resistant to the chemicals which you must apply to get the high yields. The chemicals kill everything else. You must buy the seeds and the chemicals together to get the high yields.
This makes economic sense (if not environmental sense) in developed countries but completely fails in less developed economies. This is the problem with foisting developed country "solutions" on developing countries. They end up with high cost, unsustainable agriculture.
Yes, you are an old fuddy-duddy.
They have... it's called the model A+
Iridium ran out of money before they could get enough satellites up to make the service viable and lost billions. It was also very expensive compared to ground based networks so was only viable in isolated areas, giving them a very limited market. But post bankruptcy is still operational and will start launching it's next generation of satellites (with better data capacity) next year. Elon Musk's SpaceX has been contracted to launch the satellites. Now, twenty years later it is a viable business.
Right now they are constrained by the supply of batteries. They are building a factory to make enough batteries for 500,000 cars a year so in a few years they will not have this constraint.
Currently their gross margin on cars is 30%... much higher than any other car company. They also have a 2-4 month backlog of orders without doing any advertising and having a very limited distribution network. They are projecting 50%+ growth for the next few years.
The competition has so far only produced pathetic electric cars (limited range using old designs and chassis from their ICE cars). These are equivalent to what a weekend mechanic could build in his garage. None of the established car companies has attempted to make the investment required to build a real electric car from the ground up like Tesla has... they could do it but they are at least 5 years behind the curve so it will take them a long time to come out with something equivalent to today's Tesla... and by then, Tesla will have moved on to something better.
In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way. -- Epigrams in Programming, ACM SIGPLAN Sept. 1982
