Oh, wait, wrong kind of spider, nvm.

... to see before climate change destroys their main attraction:

1. Glacier National Park
2. Redwood National Park

Any others?

How is Firefox broken on your phone? It works fine for me on my Pixel 4a.

I have the current Firefox mobile and it has a "Desktop site" switch.

The problem with Firefox mobile is that they blocked all but a handful of add-ons. I don't think this is like the add-ons upgrade on desktop. All current desktop add-ons should work on mobile; they just blocked most of them. Maybe it's about avoiding malicious add-ons. Maybe it's about app stores forbidding stuff you can program with. Whatever the reason it's very annoying. But I haven't seen any other mobile browsers that can use add-ons. If you know of any that can use Stylus or *monkey, please let me know!

The goal here, last I heard, is four 150kW chargers at each station. A 3MW wind turbine with a 20% capacity factor would provide enough net energy for continuous use of all four chargers. One Tesla megapack per charger (four per station) should be plenty to buffer the power. And these are rather overly cautious specs for a charger in the middle of nowhere anyway.

That is not how charging stops work now. There are a few kiosks. Next to a store, in a parking lot, or just by the side of the road. You pull up and plug your own car in. If there's a problem there's a number on the kiosks that you can call. They'll try to help you over the phone and may remotely reboot a kiosk. If that doesn't work they'll send a crew to fix it, eventually.

About the only thing this might change is that the crew might respond more quickly.

It still allows accessing validly allocated memory with unrelated pointers, doesn't it? So this just fixes use-after-free, not every buffer overflow.

That should have been obvious. He was always a, paperclip, maximizer.

At night the solar panels are colder than the ground, so the TE panel generates a little energy. During the day the panels are hotter, so the TE panel might be able to generate a little more if it's bidirectional. But the TE panel insulates the solar panel from air cooling. And solar panels are less efficient when they get hot. So my guess is that the TE panel provides less energy than it makes the solar panel lose.

The tools are right here. Total cost: $145 billion between now and 2050.

But we have to start banning devices that use fossil fuels now. That means no more gas furnaces (use heat pumps) or gas stoves (induction works well, I hear). And no more gas cars soon.

That's old news. https://electrek.co/2021/06/04...

So, what they want is a bunch of heavy things, and a mechanism to move them up and down to store electric energy. We already have most of such a mechanism. They're called elevators in skyscrapers (or other high-rise buildings.) Some are already designed to capture energy this way!

Now, one could leave a weight in one elevator all the time, but that's not very efficient. We need a way to move heavy objects about the size of a person in and out of elevators. Well, Amazon designed little round robots to move things shaped that way around. It shouldn't be hard to make them work with elevators.

So, at night, robots can shift stacks of weights to a high floor.* The work day is when energy needs tend to be stable; they peak in the evening after the work day. So at that point, the robots can shift the stacks back to the basement.

* Be sure to consult your building's structural engineer before trying this!

Bezos Reliable Orbital Oxidizer Mixing System

Jeff is supposed to be providing the engines for Vulcan, replacing a rocket that used Russian engines. But he's way behind schedule.

One I've seen before makes me think it's a crypto ad every time, but it's for Salesforce. Otherwise I missed the crypto ads too.

I'd say both approaches have a place. The government approach is a backstop. No matter where you are, if you're near an interstate, you will know there's a serviceable charger within 50 miles of you. That's peace of mind, even if you think the government chargers are terrible and avoid them like the plague.

Meanwhile, chargers for restaurants can keep advancing. In ten years you might see an ad for a fast food place include, "700KW 800V wireless charger. Order in the app, charge while U wait!" Or icons to that effect.