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Comment Re: It Is A Decent Car (Score 1) 199

most of the PHEV problems they get are with the ICE power trains because people drive PHEVs around on electric all the time and don't run the ICE power train regularly

Talking to Chevy Volt owners, this was anecdotally the case as well. It would automatically engage the ICE powertrain at intervals to keep it alive or e.g. if you wanted to run the heat, but the majority of daily driving was EV-only.

Comment The cloud or the clouds (Score 1) 108

Bias warning, I work for Microsoft, but I'm ignorant of this area generally.

The vast majority of Microsoft's data centers are for Azure cloud services. These replace capacity in customer data centers. If that's correct, shouldn't we include a comparison to water and power usage in those facilities? My intuition is profit motive and economies of scale would drive cloud DCs to be significantly more efficient than enterprise DCs.

Comment Re:Way to go, Just Stop Oil (Score 1) 179

You're a bit further than I meant, and that's not your fault. It's mine; I left it open. I was specifically alluding to minimum square footage zoning regulations that prevent construction of "small" houses and the EPA regulations that permit worse gas mileage as a function of a vehicle's footprint. That perverse incentive has driven the evolution of the land yachts trucks and killed off the little ones.

Please forgive my ambiguity. The point I failed utterly to make was supposed to be "Before we die on the hill of 3-ton EVs vs 3-ton ICEs, could we take a step back to fix the paperwork that cock-blocks cheaper less-consumptive options?"

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