If they are smart, the chargers will just have the plug and not the cable, and it will be up to the EV owner to supply their own cable. That avoids the high risk and cost of replacing stolen/cut cables, and reduces the cost of installing each unit to begin with.

Then the virus can be shared in (obfuscated) source code, maybe with randomly generated variable and function names to avoid detection, and it will compile and install natively in every target platform. "It's a victory for crypto botnets everywhere", stated an unnamed Russian source.

My 9-year-old Sunnyboy SMA3000 and SMA4000 inverters can each run a 1500W 120V plug if the grid is down. It isn't automatic (I need to turn off the power main and turn on the inverter), but it would be useful in an emergency to power my freezer and water pump if the power is out. Having a PowerWall or two would be more convenient, but we don't have enough blackouts or any time-of-use pricing for this to be worthwhile yet.

There are single Lustre filesystems that are 700PB in size...

There are already industrial-scale battery recycling plants in the US, because the metal in those batteries is valuable, and extracting it is more efficient than mining it new: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

There are lots of trucks doing short-haul deliveries that can get by without a huge battery. Truck drivers also have legal maximums to the number of hours they can drive in a day. Stopping for an hour in the middle of the day to recharge the batteries and eat lunch doesn't impact the total distance a truck can travel in a day.

One of the issues with the Leaf is that the battery packs don't have active cooling like most modern EVs, so they degrade a lot faster than a Tesla with coolant in the battery to maintain the temperature (not too hot or cold). Partly that was for cost reduction, but partly it was also because the Leaf was one of the first mass market EVs and a lot has been learned since it was designed. So yes, Leaf resale values are not great, but they shouldn't be held up as how all EV market resale values will be in the future.

Gas cars catch fire far more often than EVs, even compensating for prevalence in the marketplace, according to industry statistics: https://www.autoinsuranceez.co...

What is the difference between an "aftershock" and just a smaller "earthquake" on the same fault line? Clearly there will be some ongoing "settling" action on a fault line after a huge quake, but to say that seismic events 100 years later are "aftershocks" of the original event and not just events themselves is belittling the destructive efforts of fault lines across the planet. They deserve recognition on their own and not be overshadowed by seismic events of the previous generation.

In other news, the excessive recycling of stories on Slashdot continued unabated, with billions of clicks wasted each year when the editors didn't care enough to read their own website and filter out duplicates.

One longtime Slashdot reader even went so far as to write a self-referential tragi-comic comment in the vain attempt to reduce such events, with the full knowledge that this too would be doomed to failure.

If this has been a Tesla, they would have shouted that right at the beginning of the headline "Tesla Endangers Millions of Lives" or similar, but the make is barely mentioned in this article. Just sayin'...

One of the main reasons that Tesla is dominating the EV market is that EVs are not an afterthought for them, like all of the big ICE manufacturers that were dragged kicking and screaming to the table.

Tesla had 10 years to ramp up their EV/battery design and roll out the supercharging network, before the Big 3 even thought about it.

Now that they are trying to ramp EV sales they realize they need chargers or customers won't buy. Tesla has chargers all over NA, and all the ICE latecomers have their balls in a vise because they cars need to use NACS (Tesla) chargers to be able to sell, but also know this will just entrench Tesla more and allow them to expand their charging lead even further.

LOL. We run at least hundreds (if not thousands) of ext4 filesystems that are 1 PB or larger. If bcachefs is struggling with 50TB today, it has some pretty serious design and/or implementation issues.

"Amazon's Project Kuiper also plans to use Blue Origin's rocket New Glenn for at least 12 launches between 2024 and 2029" is a joke. Just over 2 launches per year is not enough to get a constellation going.

SpaceX has averaged more than one launch per week over the past two years. That is why Amazon has been trying to win in the courts, since they certainly can't win from the launchpad.

While not a huge part of global energy production, the 1% growth in global energy consumption likely misses entirely the energy that is produced and consumed on the edge or off-grid by micro-generation sources (solar, wind, micro-hydro), given that population growth was 0.83% in 2022 and energy usage per person is almost certainly not going down. Edge/off grid is growing in under-served 3rd-world markets where it is cheaper to truck in some solar panels once instead of paying for expensive (and easily stolen) copper wiring and be at the mercy of unreliable grid providers.