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Comment Urban permaculture (Score 1) 186

Is the answer. Hydroponic roofs, green walls, can reduce energy usage (due to increased insulation of the plants themselves), make growing food more local (grow the food where the people are, instead of trucking from many miles away) and actually look better than traditional landscaping around brutalist architecture.

Comment Also not unprecedented- this is Galileo (Score 1) 272

Had to change the subject line- the parent is correct, the right way to deal with this sort of thing is to *show your evidence* and take the lumps in criticism to your methodology one by one.

Galileo made the same mistake. When he didn't have enough evidence to prove his theories (because his circular orbits were actually wrong, we now know) he wrote a very insulting and imaginative dialogue explaining his ideas- while making certain church officials look stupid. In response he was tried before the Inquisition and, in one of those examples of the Inquisition being more merciful than the modern court system- was found guilty, sentenced to a lifetime house arrest in a 47 room villa with a fully equipped laboratory, with his only time out to keep going to Mass and attend church. And losing his ability to publish papers.

Somehow I don't think the current DC court is going to be so generous to either side.

Comment Re:If only someone could have seen this coming... (Score 1) 426

3rd option- realize that for the majority of roadtrips in an electric vehicle will require type II slow charging at hotels, and get the big hotel chains onboard to designate a number of rooms linked to charging stations (preferably the ones on the first floor next to the parking spaces).

Then sell room service to subsidize the price of charging and make it even more reasonable.

Who wouldn't want a two hour break after every 350 miles of driving?

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