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Comment Re:My elected leaders are stupid/evil (Score 1) 374

Honda does make a 4-stroke lawn mower engine. Though its pretty expensive and most people buy the cheapest lawn mower they can find and just throw it away every few years.

I have an electric mower that is reasonably powerful for my small yard, still running on the original batteries after 4 or so years.

Comment Re:Batteries (Score 1) 271

"Rare Earth" elements are indeed not all that rare in the Earth's crust. However they are expensive and dirty to extract and process. That expense keeps their supply rare.

And we are not talking about buying a pack of AAs in a store. Enough batteries to power an entire house for an entire day someplace where they need air conditioning is going to be in the tens of thousands of USD. A small price to pay for energy independence, but it puts it out or reach of 90% of the western world and 99% of the entire world.

Comment Not a dichomoty (Score 1) 271

It isn't an either/or situation. Most people in the world simply can't rely on rooftop solar for all their power needs. Either they life in a place where it has weather, too far north, or simply live in an apartment.

The good news is, there is no need for a one-solution-for-all. People that can afford solar (either the requirements or the price) can do so, and get hooked up to the grid.

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