Yeah but it didn't whip a lamas arse so no one remembers it.

The reason it was cancelled is irrelevant. The point is a sanctioned project under construction was halted by a different government. That is a demonstration of investment instability and risk.

The USA is now considered a far higher risk for investment than it has ever been in the past, it doesn't matter who is in charge of it now or in in 2029. It'll take a demonstration of stability to reduce that risk, and that will take multiple election cycles to happen. Trump has done some serious lasting damage.

No sarcasm isn't lost. Communication skills are. There's no reason for anyone to think your post was sarcastic. Not in 2025 where there's so much stupid shit posted on the internet. Sarcasm isn't dead, it's just statistically not likely to be so when it isn't obviously marked as such.

By the way I'm Gen X. So you can't even communicate with your own generation properly, let alone "kids these days" (yeah I shake my stick too just thinking that phrase).

Also a Gen X person popularised the emoji (which was invented by a boomer). Presumably he got sick of people not being able to understand his sarcastic posts on the internet, maybe look that up ;-)

And now you realise why communication is a skill that is dying. There's no reason not to take it seriously other than the belief that we don't have religious nutjobs on this site (we do, no I don't keep track of their UIDs). You want to be sarcastic make it obvious, we invited emojis 45 years ago for this very reason. ;-)

And there's also stupidity. It's 2025, I have stopped attributing sarcasm to anything I read online that isn't obvious so because of the sheer number of stupid people on the internet (including on Slashdot). We have a fuckton of religious nutjobs on this site.

Also the internet loses some 90% of communication cues thanks to it being solely text. It's one of the reasons fucking emojis were invented. If I don't see a wink emoji or a /s, I will default to the post being stupid rather than sarcastic. Statistically I will be correct far more of the time.

Errr no they were not. Maybe they are now, but LLMs were largely pulling numbers out of their training data, not deferring to some non LLM algorithm to answer the question. It's one of the reasons they suck at math so bad and can't count the number of 'r's in raspberry.

JS pseudo random number generation isn't remotely as bad as what LLMs spit out.

Oh so Slashdot should change the text in the articles so you don't think it is on the take? If you wanted to talk about the article (on an Apple only reporting site) then talk about the article. You're the one who claimed "Apple have Slashdot in their advertising pocket"

Now that I realise what you're taking about your post looks even dumber than it did before.

I know there's a typo in the title, but it's not in the word "new". Please re-read what this article was saying and then post statistics relevant to the article rather than the completely different thing you are talking about.

It's a little surprising that this doesn't happen more in the US, where some people seem to like being rugged and independent.

It is very viable to go off-grid, or at least have enough backup energy storage and generation to survive days of no grid power.

You don't even need to deal with regulations, there are products that allow you to have it all isolated to your own home, or simply plug critical appliances into a box of batteries and solar panels when needed.

You may want to note that this Youtube's guy primary complaint was about the poor customer service, that seems to be quite regional, and that he very much still is a fan of his Ioniq 5 with the strongest comment being that until this is fixed it is "a bit harder to recommend [the car]. Still consider it."

This got a lot of bad press this year so I suspect if the OP's next car will come sometime next year it's likely not going to be a problem anymore. But ... they have been working on this issue a while already so there is that.

The world doesn't care about American stupidity, and no even if no EVs were sold in the USA after September 30th, global EV sales for 2025 were sill ahead of 2024.

Tesla has been announcing and promising a cheaper version of their car since the Model S first took pre-orders. Literally. They have yet to deliver a car that meets their promised budget goal for the last 15 years. Your claim makes zero sense. Also this is a company that amid the Cybertruck sales slump, and the inability to sell Cybertrucks decided the best option was to include mandatory features in several Wankpanzer trims increasing their cost, so even without Tesla's promises they have shown to do the exact opposite of what you claim for the exact reason you claim it.

Oh is that the "buht the tire particulates" moron? Or the one repeating early 2010s era coal power plant emissions bullshit? Or the "but lithium mining causes huge CO2 emissions" bullshit?

Batteries are catching up faster than it will be cost-effective to build nuclear in the US. A month ago, Bremen Airport announced they had integrated a new sodium-ion battery with a 400 kW output and 1 MWh capacity into its infrastructure. The entire thing apparently fits in roughly one twenty-foot shipping container, and there is almost certainly room to expand that to additional batteries to provide power through the night and beyond.

Beyond that, Peak Energy just signed a deal to build up to 4.7 GWh of sodium-ion batteries by the end of the decade. This follows a successful 3.5 MWh demo project in Colorado. Time will tell if they can successfully scale up and avoid the fate of Natron energy, which just ceased operations.

But the market does appear to be moving rapidly in the direction of battery storage regardless of individual solutions, with BNEF forecasting another 92 GW of output and 247 GWh of capacity just for batteries in 2026, almost a quarter more than 2025. They expect growth of 2 TW/7.3 TWh by 2035. Some people think that's conservative, similar to how solar has blown past everyone's expectations from even 2015. I think if the iron- and vanadium-based flow battery demos work as hoped, that could let cheap grid-level battery installations soar beyond anyone's expectations. Whether lithium-ion, sodium-ion, or flow, they will land far sooner than we could build equivalent nuclear plants. It will be better to greatly expand solar, like over parking lots, irrigation canals, and other places where they can lower heat and supply energy to the batteries. It's politically easier and can provide more jobs in more areas that don't require college degrees. Many more winners than sticking with nuclear or fossil fuels.

It may not be for you Mr Rich Westerner. But you come from a world where shared pooled resources optimised the delivery of infrastructure. That is far less ambitious than tens of millions of people working to build their own.

The entire railroad industry during construction of the railroad employed only a small fraction of the people compared to what is being discussed in TFA.

Power plants are lucky to be the work of a workforce more than a couple of thousand people strong. It's not ambitious or difficult in the slightest, even the first ones. You're looking at this from the completely wrong angle. The ambition here is related not to how it gets power to people, but rather how it does so given the insane inefficiency of everyone doing it themselves. Building one powerplant is easy. Building 10s of million tiny ones... that's an ambitious project.

The correct answer exists between your post and the GP's. Yes some regulation is important, like the ones you list. In other cases it's just completely pointless bullshit. My example (not America, so be happy you aren't the only special ones) we had dormers installed. The one on the front roof required council permit approval. They insisted the dormers have white frames and rejected our desire to make it in anthracite on the basis that both our neighbours are white and wanting a "consistent look". They only looked at the houses either side of us. The rest of the street is a fucking rainbow already. It is *less* consistent now that there are three houses in a row with the same colour façade *** just on the dormers.

Please don't dismiss the GP's complaints are irrelevant. There are really very many rules which are just outright silly to EVERYONE.