Do people still remember this was the plot the villian in Batman Returns was going to perpetrate on Gotham?

To be more specific, it is a multipurpose codec, good for both lossy offline storage and real-time audio. VP9 uses it, as well as AV1.

Now, the AI stuff this time is extremely useful for VoIP over low bitrate flakey connections. This is CB radio and cell service in bad spots.

The 6kp/s is very impressive.

The ability to parse sarcasm on the internet is a lost skill.

bah dum bum

Nah, Amazon will just cut off Prime for all the ministers, and it will be solved instantly. /SNARK

I am trying to decide which is funnier, this or grown men and women responding to someone not showing up by banning them from showing up.

Its like someone sat down, then someone else pointed at them and said sit expecting everyone to believe they have the power in that situation.

I would be if Amazon came calling, this will be forgotten in less than a second.

The examples I gave, in case it wasn't clear enough, was of an EV not starting because the batteries were too cold, not that you ran out of energy. You will damage your EV if you try to charge the batteries when they are out of their safe zone, if the car doesn't have built in protection.

Now, are you saying you can run the heater from the other car to heat up the batteries? How long will that take? Even if you just have to raise the temp by 10 degrees, you aren't doing that in 10 mins.

You have a very different issue with an electric car. For a gas car in the cold, if the battery dies, you can jump the vehicle and the vehicle will run.

You can't do that with an electric car. You have to get the batteries up to temp before working which may take a while if you can manage it that day. It is still an inconvenience for the gas vehicle, but you can leave with a few minutes of finding a jump or a starter.

The electric vehicle is much more of an inconvenience and potentially more fatal. Temps that stop electric vehicles also happen to be cold enough to be deadly to humans, so if you are out in the middle of nowhere, you could freeze to death before you get help. Now, that may happen with the gas car as well, but you have better odds of finding a way to get a jump than waiting for the car to heat up to let the batteries work.

Now, this doesn't mean you can't design a better experience for the electric car. Better insulation could be used and an emergency battery of a different type that has a lower operating temperature to heat the batteries are some first glance solutions that make it less likely to happen.

Can we detect if the microwaves we recieve are interfered with in these ways? If not, how are we sure the images from our different telescopes are not reflections in this way, creating distortions in our understanding of the universe compared to the real thing.

At the same time, this metamaterial sounds like it might be enough to create a computational machine based off of light.

Why are all these options always presented as either or solutions? In terms of these smaller reactors, some advantages not spoken of are they are a great baseline power source, since they output a steady amount of energy. Dams are also of this type, they produce a steady amount of power at all times.

When paired with Solar, this makes a lot of sense, since most variability of usage occurs during the day, if you produce a reactor that covers the typical usage during the night with a little room to grow, and store any excess in batteries, then the massive increase of solar during the day allows to handle that need while saving the expense of trying to build out battery banks that could provide the energy needed at night.

You still need batteries that will smooth out the variability, but the expense is reduced, as well as the damage from batteries on the environment.

At the same time, more reactors closer to the usage area means there is less loss of energy from long hauls, making the transmission of electricity much more efficient.

It can also be paired with wind. Multiple reactors also creates multiple times high-end jobs in markets across the country.

Finally, there are some areas that are not suitable for either wind and/or solar. It is hard to use either in mountainous areas like the Appalachians, for example. Large forested areas block both sunlight and wind as well, so using such land for that purpose is also a case of not seeing the forest for the trees.

Also, this also use the ground like trees do, so how is this different than planting trees?

Finally, if it is necessary to silo the carbon rather then just put it into soil, why not use the fibrous plants in aircrete for building? or the many other uses we have already found for such materials?

Don't we have a need for carbon in other places as well?

I mean, creating a system that includes or maximizes this effect would be a step up in efficiency, however.

I didn't read the paper at the time of posting, so I find it better to make no assumptions.

If it is a particular wavelength, assuming we can reproduce said wavelength, I would think we would still use some process to convert to said wavelength. Currently that would entail converting to electricity and then back to light. A really big breakthrough would be a process in which we can efficiently ramp up or down the wavelength in light to produce the correct wavelength.

Tell me you didn't read what I wrote without telling me you didn't read what I wrote.

What part of what I wrote contradicts what you wrote?