70 Wh/kg is from a 2022 news article. Literally the first half of the sentence you got that number from says we do not know what the Wh/kg of these cells are yet...

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Nothing sneaky about it.

The law in question is the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023. Title III is Permitting Reform. Section 321 is the relevant part where permitting reform is laid out.

The actual law - not a news article, but the actual law - merely says that (page 137) "A lead agency shall prescribe procedures to allow a project sponsor to prepare an environmental assessment or an environmental impact statement under the supervision of the agency."

The law puts some restrictions on, but does not abate, the requirements for environmental reviews. Permitting agencies are still required to work with builders (sponsors) to determine the impact of a project on the environment, and the law explicitly says the government agency that has jurisdiction is to come up with its own method for how to do that. Part of this is actually removing "red tape" by creating "categorical exclusions" which are explicitly required by the law.

Government agencies are part of the Executive Branch. the White House is the head of the Executive Branch. The White House, therefore, has issued instruction to the various federal agencies to guide them in developing their procedures.

Here's The final rule that came of it.

Everything is in accordance with both the original NEPA law and the FRA2023 tat modifies it. It's the LAW that requires extra review for "projects that could harm the climate or their surrounding communities" (to quote the Times article) not the White House directives.

Where's the overreach? In what way has the letter or intent of the law been perverted or overstepped? It hasn't; you're just salty that something got accomplished under a Democrat executive administration.
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> It is a bit strange, TFA says, "between Shanghai and Nanjing", which are "coastal cities".

I'd be really impressed if a container ship of any size made regular voyages to land-locked cities. :)

Digging a little deeper;

"Captain Wang Jun told CCTV that with 24 battery boxes, the vessel can complete a trip that consumes 80,000kWh of electricity. A standard container ship would use 15 tonnes of fuel for a similar journey.

The electric vessel is around 120 metres (394 feet) long and 24 metres wide - about the size of 10 basketball courts. Its maximum speed is around 19km/h (12mph)."

That is a very small ship, at most 1000 TEU. (For comparison, the largest container ships in service today are just over 24,000 TEU). Let's put an upper bound on that and call it a Handy class vessel which, based on some searching, will burn about 35 metric tons of fuel per day running 24 hours cruising at 20 knots... about 37km/hr. 888km per 35 tons. So at 15 tons of fuel that's a distance traveled of about 380km.

But the ship's top speed is only 19km/hr so there's a modest increase in efficiency by cruising slower, so let's call it 400km.

Interestingly enough it's about 400km from Shanghai to Nanjing, following the river...
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Congress: "Streamline the approval process so permits get issued faster."

Biden administration: "Okay. Here's a memo to our various agencies on how to do that."

Where's the overreach? It's literally the purpose of the Executive branch to implement the laws that Congress passes. Offering instruction on how to expedite green energy projects in addition to the other streamlining measures is 100% within the letter and intent of the law.

They didn't alter anything; they did exactly as was required by law. Sucks for the people paying you to shit on anything that's bad for the fossil fuel industry it I guess?
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E-commerce is buying something off of a website. Search and view items or options from a list, select what you want, enter payment info, and they send it to you.

Virtual E-Commerce is sorta like that, but the convenience of browsing things on a website is replaced with the inconvenience of having to hold "W" on your keyboard while your virtual avatar slowly glides through a 3D rendered space at 10 FPS looking for the items you want, which may be difficult because instead of being a nice photo they're shittily rendered 3D objects that vaguely resemble the item in question using low resolution textures that you can't see properly unless you're looking straight at them from up close.

It's not E-Commerce, it's virtual E-Commerce!
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The same people who paid for all the infrastructure you use and benefit from today, but the cost of which is not fully accounted for in your utility bills:

"Everyone."

(...and I am okay with that because I enjoy living in a technologically advanced civilization.)
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The things you're talking about don't exist yet. There is theory, a few pilot programs using electrolysis powered by nuclear reactors, but the number of nuclear reactors generating hydrogen through thermochemical processes is currently zero. Even if the tech is proven, it takes decades to build a nuclear plant so we're at least 30-40 years out before this becomes a thing.

We simply can't wait that long. By the time any of that technology actually exists, the entire market will have transitioned to BEV out of necessity if nothing else. And of course, both BEV technology and supporting infrastructure will also be improving over that time so it's not clear nuclear hydrogen will ever be competitive.
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Why? Edison and Tesla never had beef with each other. Tesla had revered Edison and Edison, in like the one or two times he ever put Tesla's name in writing, seemed to have nothing but good things to say as well.

(Edison and Westinghouse, however...)
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Apparently someone thinks shit like this happens on a whim.

For example, the non-compete rule was first proposed in January 2023... 15 months ago. God only knows how long it took to get through review committees or whatever other red tape it takes to get to that stage. That's almost certainly been cooking for at least two years.

The process of this current ruling to restore Net Neutrality started at least with Executive Order 14036... which was 2021.

Controlling insulin prices? There was movement on that last year as part of the Inflation Reduction Act (itself introduced in 2022) when it was added to the list of pharmaceuticals Medicare is allowed to negotiate prices for.

But sure, it's because it's an election year. That's gotta be it. No way were these things and more being quietly worked on for years...
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Just so we're clear, the ruling in that case is not so much "overreach" since it explicitly acknowledges the threats of pollution spreading between surface waters and affirms the EPA's role in protecting those waters, but rather is entirely hinged on a technicality in the definition not being strict enough. The EPA has jurisdiction, and therefore it's not overreach, but the wording defining what qualifies as protected wetlands isn't lawyer-y enough for SCOTUS.

THIS is the best argument you have?

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The one pure EV that Toyota makes was co-developed with Subaru and is in fact a terrible EV by current standards. It would have been a mediocre EV 10 years ago.

Perhaps "disappointing" is more appropriate? For a company that has decades of electric drivetrain experience is is perplexing that Toyota could produce something so subpar. They rode their battery patent exclusivity for so long they forgot how to be competitive in an evolving market.
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> Please explain how it raises money with a tax rate that's below the existing corporate tax rate

15% minimum. You're a fool if you think a large corporation pays anywhere near the corporate tax rate. 15% is much more money than these businesses are paying now.

Some of them are so good at the game that they effectively "pay" a negative income tax. To pull the first example from that link; AT&T earned $29.6 and the Feds effectively paid them another $1.2B - effectively a -4% income tax. Under the IRA their tax bill goes from getting paid $1.2B to paying $4.4B

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All I see there is a reason to regulate crypto bullshit, if not ban it entirely. Can't afford to be wasting that much energy on fraud.

In any case; No, "it" can't happen... assuming by "it" you mean a return to coal as the dominant power source in the US. That ship has sailed.
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Which is strange because the "coal plant next door" is more than likely decommissioned. The share of electricity generated by coal in the US is about 16% right now annual average, down from roughly 44% just 15 years ago.

Guess it's time to get a new snarky comment!
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Beyond the TOS, there are actual laws that might apply to this situation.

First thing that comes to mind? Depending on the method used, it might fall afoul of the The Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. Not all Discord messages are public, and if some technical abuse was involved in accessing messages in an unauthorized manner (peeking into DMs, servers you've not actually joined, etc) then that could be grounds for criminal prosecution.

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