It does, but in the context of this whole thread H2 is being seen as a way to deliver the energy for these powerful new motors but the fact is the power does not come from nowhere and an H2FC cannot deliver the current needed to generate the levels of power that are required and you needs batteries. Any vehicle where weight is a factor is going to have to choose, H2FC for quick refuelling or batteries for high power. In racing, I think we are seeing with Formula E that batteries are the best choice and they deal with refuelling by switching out the car for an identical model that is fully charged. Racing will cope with a switch to electric motors and batteries just fine, it is unlikely to be hydrogen because the weight of the combined H2FC and batteries really make it uncompetitive if the motor power has to be restricted, and the idea of handling hydrogen in a pit stop just gives me the willies. Formula E is great fun to watch to be honest and the challenges of handling energy make for a fantastic competitive field.

Hydrogen is a bad bet because fuel cells struggle to deliver sufficient current so you will need a battery or super capacitor to provide short bursts of power. As for the power of these motors, theyâ(TM)re OK but the combined output of the two motors in the Tesla Model 3 performance is 500bhp compared with the similar weight Toyota Mirai HFCEV which sports 182bhp and does indeed include a lithium ion battery to allow this. The next generation batteries are getting lighter and denser so fuel cells really have nowhere to go.

I am yet own an M1 Pro/Max machine but I do already have an M1 Mac mini I bought for desktop use and to see how well the transition was handled. Things that have stunned me are that it runs Intel native code faster than a real Intel i7 and it does so without the fan running like a leaf blower and the CPU temps sitting comfortably around 40C. Intel chips typically run in the high 60-90C range - my i7 runs around 80C when under heavy load even after I did the thermals again because the fans were running so loud I could barely hear people on conference calls. The M1 series chips run so cool and quiet and they donâ(TM)t thermal throttle, plus you get all the performance even on battery. That is what Intel needs to worry about and I cannot wait to see what Apple does with the Mac Pro.

Apple adopted USB-C on their laptops very early. My MacBook 12â has one from 2015. I can remember everyone lambasting Apple for going with an unproven standard and people even claiming it was proprietary and shouldnâ(TM)t be supported. Today, Iâ(TM)m using an 11â iPad Pro and guess what? It has a USB-C port, not lightning. Theyâ(TM)ll add the port to other parts of their lineup as they refresh them although Iâ(TM)m somewhat surprised that the new iPhone 13 doesnâ(TM)t have it but thatâ(TM)s likely due to the dock ecosystem based on lightning so it was probably a decision they made to limit early obsolescence as you said.

I ran Windows NT 4 on an Alpha UDB box back in the day and while it was 32 bit on a 64 bit platform, it performed pretty well. The x86 emulation was there and it worked but as MS stopped supporting the Alpha over the years I found relying on x86 emulation became a significant impediment.

Yesterday I got Windows 10 ARM64 running on my M1 Mac mini following the instructions on the web and it is lightning fast compared with my work i7 Windows 10 laptop. More shocking was that the x86-64 emulation actually wasn't too bad either. I installed Chrome which isn't available for ARM and it fired up fine and span along at a decent pace being quite usable.

If MS would support ARM64 long term they could keep up with Apple but if they stick to the tired old x86 platform they're going to keep churning out hot noisy devices which chew through their battery in hours, not days.

"their Blu-Ray players have significant quality and reliability issues along with poor service."

You're not wrong. I bought a Samsung blu ray player and they put out a firmware update that knocked the audio out of sync. I waited for a fix which never came so I returned the player as faulty and they replaced it with another one which was fine until it did the same firmware update. Samsung had moved on to another model and weren't updating their previous player so I was stuck with a 6 month old player that didn't work. I ended up returning it as faulty and replacing it with a Panasonic which has been faultless. My wife works for a white goods repair man and he won't service Samsung gear because their parts availability is atrocious. Samsung just doesn't care it would seem.

It would be more accurate to say ARM is returning to the desktop market. The original ARM (Acorn RISC Machine) based Archimedes was a very fast 32 bit desktop machine released in the mid 1980's and I remember being amazed at the performance which utterly trounced anything Intel could produce at the time. I even used an Acorn R540 in 1990 which was running a nice UNIX environment and could even run a software PC to emulate both DOS and Windows on top of that. It took years before Intel was even in the same ballpark as the ARM from those days and even through the 90's there were plenty of chips that were much faster than anything Intel could make (Alpha for instance, what a joy!) and it is a shame that in the last 20 years or so we've seen most of these die off. Time for some new blood.

The shorts have borrowed shares and sold them. Their problem is they have to buy them back to return them and they were hoping the price would go down so they could pocket the difference. This isn't investment, it is parasitism. They gambled and the share price hasn't gone down, that's life.

Share prices rise and fall on all sorts of information and I don't think Musk would have said what he did without having the finance secured and his tweet was to alert all of his actual investors of what he was planning. Shorts aren't in on this, they don't have any shares.

"So for me $.15 for electric, for Gasoline up to $2.35 a gallon, 41 MPG is the same price."

Very market dependent of course. For me, I have my own solar panels on my roof and the power I generate earns me $0.07/kWh whereas I pay $0.20/kWh for power I buy. That makes it nearly 3x more cost effective for me to prioritise charging my Nissan LEAF from our solar when the sun is shining than the export power to the grid. In addition, fuel here is around US$8 a gallon. This means that even the most efficient hybrid is still way more expensive than an EV to run even if you just use grid power rather than solar as I do. Comparing a Tesla to a Prius isn't really fair since the Tesla is a much more expensive car, but comparing it to a LEAF makes more sense and here, the LEAF is way cheaper than the Prius for both fuel/charging and servicing, not to mention they're actually about the same price to buy. If you can work within the range limitations of the LEAF it is by far the better car.

"Tesla's cost more to charge than high MPG gas cars."

No, they don't. For the sake of argument, a high MPG gas car here would have to do more than 50MPG and you would have to always charge the Tesla using a supercharger and you would have to pay the rate that some superchargers charge if you don't get free supercharging. Charge your car at home and you pay far less. Get free supercharging by ordering and using a referral code and you can't even compare it with a high MPG car because charging costs zero at that point. 90% of charging is done at home at night rates, not the 25c/kW this whole argument requires just to get a 50MPG car in the same ball park, and it also requires the cost of fuel to be less than $2.60 a gallon which it isn't in many places and even if it is that low it can easily get higher quickly and make this whole argument completely irrelevant because it won't take much before you need a car that can do more than 100MPG and those simply don't exist.

"This is still great news, and hopefully there will be new breakthroughs on the dry side soon. AMD affects more than 10 million people just in America, roughly 3% of the population"

True, but this is a product of socialist medicine in the UK so that's what, communism? Or something? I'm sure Americans would rather stay blind than endorse such an anti-capitalist system of medicine.

"Plus gas is really $2.50 per gal. So assuming a 30mpg car it is $2.50/30 = 0.08. For Tesla you get 3 miles per kWh so it is .26/3 = $0.08/mile."

Of course price of fuel is only part of the equation. Servicing costs for an EV should be much lower than for an ICEV too although I believe Teslas are a little pricey for servicing, but when you take a more normal EV like my Nissan LEAF versus my BMW MINI the cost differences are stark.

Last year I charged my car at home or on free chargers at carparks mostly and I also had the 30,000Km full dealer service done. Total running cost for the LEAF over the year works out at $300 including servicing. My MINI covered about the same distance last year and here the price of fuel is $2 per litre so around $8 a US gallon (NZ$) and it costs me $100 to fill that car which will do 750km per tank. That's $4000 in fuel alone this last year, plus there was some fairly serious servicing that needed doing such as new brakes and discs, clutch, drive shaft and tyres, plus all the usual fluid changes and that lot adds up to another $3500.

The LEAF likely won't need new discs or pads for a long long time due to regenerative braking but the tyres are close to needing done so we could add say $800 for a new set of boots on the LEAF and still be over $6000 cheaper to run in the last year than the MINI which is a fuel efficient little car. Having both certainly brings home the marked difference in costs and while the cost of entry to the LEAF was higher, the annual running costs bring it to parity within three years of purchase and after that the LEAF is much cheaper.

My iPhone 6 has optical image stabilisation and it makes a huge difference compared with footage I made using my earlier devices (cameras or phones). I'm sure the later phones are even better but my footage looks very smooth and stable and nothing like your typical found footage stuff. Where I would worry more is in how the phone handles lighting conditions.

Personally I don't eat meat any more but you just have to look at the trends of the last few decades and the increasing availability of cheap mass farmed meats and the death of the traditional butcher shop to see the impact our current eating habits have on us. If we returned to meat being more of a treat we would be a lot healthier than we are but the meat industry has convinced everyone that they must eat far more meat than they actually should and worse, they have scaled up production to appalling levels inflicting terrible short lives on the animals people are eating.

I visited the USDA-MARC in Nebraska some years back and they are busy breeding animals to produce more meat with less food input and in shorter time because that's what the farmers want. The product of this intensive farming doesn't taste good compared with grass fed animals but people want (or have been convinced they want) a lot of cheap meat. Whatever technology can do to improve our diets and reduce the mistreatment of animals has got to be good. I wouldn't go so far as saying people can't eat meat, but I have to say that the amount of abuse I get from people who do eat it because I won't shows that they clearly know they're the ones on the wrong side of the fence.

I'm a daily user of Mac OS, Windows and Linux. Of the three, Mac OS is still the best option. Windows is and always has been horrible and the UI changes that keep coming along are terrible, plus they keep rebooting my machine for updates. Linux is reliable although having upgraded my machines to systemd I don't really think Linux users can cast stones anywhere.

The main advantage of Apple has always been the tight integration of hardware and software and I have to say that having used Macs for nearly 20 years now, we're in no way in some terrible low point in Apple software quality. It has always been a bit variable. I remember complaining to Apple multiple times about Terminal.app on Tiger which wouldn't open bash about 50% of the time you started it. Took them until 10.4.6 to fix that one I believe. Every time we have one of these articles people proclaim that it is because Jobs is gone but there were issues when he was around. It really isn't all that different to how it was except that they have a lot more users today than they did back in the PPC days and yet for all that success we still haven't had the promised plague of viruses and malware that Windows got despite the switch to Intel and the increasing user base. I'd say it works well enough and I'll keep buying because it saves me time and money in my business.