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Comment Re:The only fix for vampire draw (Score 1) 424

When electric cars come down in price and there is essentially a base-model Honda Civic EV, you'll get your manual windows cranks, no power locks, etc. For now because of the inherent high cost, they have to put all the bells and whistles in so that the people with enough money who demand all those luxuries will buy their cars and keep Tesla afloat.

Comment Re:Just price? (Score 1) 499

Thanks for admitting to what I said. Seriously, crying about the website? It's like saying you want to get rid of the car because it needs a wash, but refuse to simply wash it. Let's see what criticism you have when the website is working normally. I'm sure there will be something. In the meantime, the House is wasting congressional time by pointlessly voting for the 645,246th time to repeal the ACA, the law of the land, after passing it in the first place..

Comment 7m sq ft of Greenhouse, just for Qatar (Score 0) 178

65 hectares = 7,000,000 square feet, that's a heckuva lot of greenhouse to invest in just for the tiny state of Qatar.

Looking up the cost per square foot for greenhouse construction, I got a number of $7.56. That would be a $50,000,000 up-front investment cost, not even counting the maintenance or operating costs.

Since the nation of Qatar is only 2,000,000 people, that's $25 per person to make the greenhouses. This actually isn't a lot of money.

Let's take India, with 1,200,000,000 people, roughly 500 times as many people as Qatar. The upfront cost would be $30,000,000,000. That's A LOT of money for a poor country. Also you'd have to find 4.2 billion square feet of desert to construct the greenhouses. Good luck with that. On that kind of scale, the infrastructure costs like road building, trucking, maybe even rail, etc, would far eclipse the greenhouse costs.

Basically, this makes sense for a sparsely populated region, but isn't really scalable to a larger country, it seems. I'm not saying they were claiming it to be, just making the observation.

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