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Comment Re: "Fuse" is the wrong word here. (Score 1) 45

Those are your assumptions. A fuse is nothing more that a part that becomes open circuit when exposed to over current. This makes it useful in protection circuits, but that's not the exclusive application - internal fuses have been common in semiconductors for a long time as one time programmable indicators of state.

Comment Re: It'll happen faster than that. (Score 1) 196

The only benefit to charging at home is economic. People don't refuel their liquid powered cars at home, so don't expect to charge at home (a luxury).

I know someone with an electric car that doesn't charge at home because she can't. 800v systems are very quick to charge these days, sure the charge points are expensive but still cost less per mile than petrol/diesel.

EV owners in this situation will likely "graze charge" - that is, plug in at every opportunity, EG go shopping, use the charger at the car park to top off to minimise using more expensive fast chargers.

Property prices will be influenced by the luxury of home charging, expectations will change.

Comment Re: Good threads on bitcoin (Score 1) 49

"Unlike other economic activities, the bitcoin scheme produces absolutely nothing for all this waste. It is a pure speculative activity of people gambling on the random movements of prices and the only output is simply shuffling numbers around in a computer at insane cost."

Two things, my salary and expenditure are just numbers in a computer.

"insane cost" is also more numbers in computers, big ones that we collectively agree on being big.

Resource consumption, definitely, but if energy was cheap and prolific, the limit would be the cost (more esoteric numbers!) of the technology and its production, and consumption of material resources.

Comment Re:Biggest problem with EVs (Score 1) 314

London is addressing the problem of power distribution:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/...

As other have mentioned, street light conversion is an option if supported by this infrastructure going into place.

In the future, driveways and street parking with access to charging will influence house and rental prices. I'd want somewhere with decent internet access, preferably a home working office, and somewhere to charge my car. If I lived (now) without the latter, or the scope for it, I'd be considering moving before it started cutting into the worth of my house. At least with rented landlords will have the incentive to do something about it if they want to keep tenants in place.

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