You mean you don't use oil to generate electricity.

Some nations do.

This is slashdot, not Podunk Illinois.

No, not really.

PACCAR (just a few miles away) is already making all-electric and fuel cell (H20 split) trucks, as well as hybrid trucks and biodiesel trucks.

Boeing is already making jets and planes that use 1/2 to 1/10th the fuel to move people and goods. China and almost all First World nations are making high speed trains, and Canada has used fuel cell trains powered entirely by wind and solar along train lines (using battery swap modules) as well as biodiesel ones.

Tractors in the EU and various other nations are made to use biodiesel or fuel cells. We sell it from US/Canadian plants overseas.

We have the technology and the large-scale production capacity to make it.

You just don't get that the 20th Century is over.

Wake up and smell the Adapt Or Die change.

Adapt. Or die.

Exactly. People who profess a desire for a free market, have never actually seen one.

Evil knows no limits.

Those who profess Good in actions, rarely practice it, unless jailed repeatedly for high financial crimes and assets liquidated and given away to the poor.

Solar is already cheaper than oil. And passive solar and cogeneration are cheaper than coal and gas without direct subsidies.

Adapt. The time for excuses is over.

Wrong. Look, some of us work at universities where we MAKE things that don't need fossil fuels, and produce them worldwide.

Adapt or die.

It was simple. And, if done, it would literally cut 80 percent of GHG carbon pollution worldwide.

Your problem is you don't want to do it, because you live in Fear, or in Subsidy.

Nothing wrong with that, other than the Tragedy of the Commons.

4. Spel real good

What we have to do is fairly simple.

1. Stop using fossil fuel. Fairly easy to do this, just end all tax exemptions and artificial subsidies for coal oil and gas. All of them. Then start phasing in retrofits of existing coal plants to use cogeneration (waste heat) and cut coal use in half. Use oil for lubricants. Cut jet fuel use in half using 787s (half fuel use) and turboprops (even less fuel use). Use high speed trains and then battery EV trucks fed by local wind/solar storage for short runs. We know we can do this, we just subsidize the old 18th century methods.

2. Cut energy use in heating/cooling buildings. Efficiency. There's most of your energy use. Passive solar design, put solar cells on roofs, use shades and ceiling fans. We know how to do this and have for half a century. Just expire tax subsidies and exemptions for buildings that don't do this, phasing them out 10 percent a year.

3. There is no 3. It's that fracking simple.

You're assuming I don't work for the government.

I can neither confirm nor deny why I use we in referring to actions taken in prior decades.

actually, when you buy in bulk TBs are cheap, and mem prices drop, especially when you have 100 GB/s pipes

Mostly yes. It depowers the cell and wireless circuits, which is why it gives you longer battery life.

Assuming there isn't something running on the device level that wakes up the wireless or cell circuits for an ID ping every so often.

Not true.

The basis of triangulation is you get pings on multiple cell tower logs, it decides which cell tower serves you, but you show up in all of the traces.

With three or more point sources it's fairly easy to pinpoint your location, and when you turn on Bluetooth and wireless we get additional data that allows us to locate even your elevation.

And there's more, but I'm not supposed to talk about what we can do to your actual phone.

Now, in my day, we got root in the core admin servers and we used it.

Seriously, amateurs.