The thing is, we don't need to fly to survive. We need heat/cooling, we need food, and we need local transport.

But flying... not so much.

And we need to get rid of _all_ CO2 emissions.

So we need to save 2% here, 3% there, 1.5% over there. We need to save every bit we can.

The French have already made a working prototype some years back. Shame they didnâ(TM)t do more with EVs.

It's quite easy, really: if they were in any way left-wing, they would have been labelled as such, as communist or whatever. If they were Islamic or foreign, they would have been labelled as terrorists, not "violent extremists". No-name violent extremists can only be white, right-wingers. Especially with the "will likely continue to plot", throwing their hands up in the air, there's nothing we can do attitude. If it was anyone else they'd have their face in the dirt and someone sitting heavily on their neck before you can say "I can't breathe".

The answer is "yes".

Redwood materials already have a process that enables 95% recovery. Quote, from redwoodmaterials.com

> Redwood’s technology can recover on average 95 percent of materials like nickel, cobalt, copper, aluminum, lithium and graphite in a lithium-ion battery.
> These valuable materials can then go directly back into the supply chain to make batteries for new electric vehicles and energy storage products.

And before anyone shouts "snake-oil", it's lead by JB Straubel, who is about the safest pair of hands I know of.

Yeah, if you're going to clarify why VPN is security snake-oil, don't add your own browser snake-oil. Https has been around since last millennium. About a thousand years in internet time.

Two things have changed.... ubiquitous SSL/TLS on web servers, and HTTPS by default in browsers: even if you deliberately choose http:/// the browser will switch to https:/// if it's available on the server.

Am I the only one who thought âoethatâ(TM)s stupid, why not just submit it on paper, like everyone else?â

Because youâ(TM)re not an asshole?

So, California basically burned to the ground, Texas had extreme weather (which scientists also predicted), Siberia is still burning⦠but youâ(TM)re gonna cherry-pick one of the few statistics that is less of a problem than expected?

Btw sea-level rise will absolutely be a problem, in Florida it already is, pacific islands too. Itâ(TM)s only a matter of time, might be 100s of years, but still a problem for most coastal areas.

It's like the opening scenes of a disaster movie.... but a disaster movie that plays out over years, instead of a couple of hours.

Are we all just going to be boiled frogs?

Or perhaps drowned frogs....

Those are a mixture of rumors and lies:

> And forced to work
Tesla responded in a blog post, stating: "Recent reports that we have terminated employees due to their concerns over health practices are fundamentally untrue.

"The employees quoted in recent stories are still employed with Tesla and we have offered them work multiple times.

"All we have asked is that our employees talk to us and provide us the details of their own concern so we can do what we can to help find a solution."(https://news.sky.com/story/coronavirus-elon-musks-tesla-denies-firing-employees-who-stayed-home-during-lockdown-12020300)

> without protection

"Tesla has released plans to maintain worker safety including temperature checks, the wearing of gloves and masks, installing barriers between workers and maintaining social distancing." (https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2020-07-02/workers-say-tesla-threatens-firing-if-they-do-not-return-to-jobs)

That has to be the craziest straw man Iâ(TM)ve ever seen.

> in a smaller and lighter package than typical designs.

This is what they're saying, and it's important for aeroplanes. It's about power density, more than efficiency.

> Apparently the innovation here is a motor that turns proportionally more electricity into rotational energy,

Electric motors are typically around 90-95% efficient, so improving on that figure has diminishing returns, and only really reduces your cooling system footprint, it doesn't give you any significant gains in efficiency. So that's not what they're saying.

Yep, I'm totally with you here. I have been really struggling as to whether the space race is a good thing. But if we can send all the most powerful people up there to see the same thing, if that's what it takes to change their minds.... it can't happen too soon.

Let's get them up there, as quickly as possible.

You are sensationalizing the impact of cloudy days. Solar cells have excellent performance on cloudy days, normally in the ballpark of 40-70% of rated capacity.

Part of the reason for this is that cooler solar cells perform better, making it harder to catch all the energy from full sun without some expensive cooling solution.

A few years ago, if you thought solar sucked, you were a bit of a pessimist. Nowadays, if you think solar sucks, you're just plain wrong.

You are right, I used the wrong word. Thought experiment is what they are. But because the interpretations are often not falsifiable, you could call them metaphors and your comment would be even more useful.