I like to call JIT anti-insurance.
If you get rid of fire insurance, your company will make more money -- until there's a fire that causes it to go out of business completely.
My ex-company didn't even inventory the screws needed to make our products. Covid caused a shortage of screws, and exposed the shortage of brains involved in making that decision.
Last month, sodium-ion battery manufacturer Natron Energy announced it would open a "gigafactory" in North Carolina that would produce 24 gigawatt hours of batteries annually, enough energy to charge 24,000 electric vehicles. But sodium-ion batteries are still early in their development compared with lithium-ion, and they have yet to hit the market on a massive scale.
The word "charging" shouldn't have been used at all here. It implies that the factory is going to be producing energy when instead it's going to produce energy storage devices.
It's like confusing petrol with jerrycans.
The Tesla model S battery pack is 60-100kWh (depending on option chosen, YMMV)
24gigawatt hours == 24,000,000 kWh.
24,000,000 kWh / 60 kWh = 400,000
24,000,000 kWh / 100 kWh = 240,000
It's unclear from the "article" but it seems that the factory is currently in the planning stage, and is expected to take 12 years to build, once they finish designing it.
In other words, when completed (in 12-15 years), they project that the factory could produce enough batteries to equip 240,000 - 400,000 EVs every year (if it ran at maximum capacity 24/7)
Glad to hear that, in the UK at least, overpopulation is being dealt with.
Isn't Reddit user generated content?
In addition to all the other reasons this stunt shouldn't be allowed, Wyoming requires you be at least 18 to hold any public office.
If this reduces armed response by the police, I'm all for it.
When police respond to a situation, they often use lethal force when no force is required at all.
Solar panels are dropping in price, but the installation costs are not.
Citation please.
According to https://earthtechling.com/solar-energy-costs-trends/ Installation costs are dropping, and have been for quite awhile.
We haven't really explored what's possible in reduced installation costs yet.
Imagine a free standing solar-pergola -- basically a tent with solar panels for a roof.
Not because the parts are cheaper, but because installation is cheap, and easy enough that a home owner could do it themselves.
Solar panels continue to drop in price.
Batteries continue to drop in price.
It's likely than in less than a decade rooftop solar+batteries will be cheaper than just delivering the electricity.
All centrally generated power is doomed.
Not sure I agree, but it's easily fixed.
Require dating services to change a single, up-front fee with no recurring fees allowed.
Might also be a good idea to require metrics on successful matches to be published as well, despite Goodhart's law.
When you did data preservation, did you start photographing all white board contents before erasing them?
Signal works the way it works. It's at least theoretically possible that even the Signal Foundation couldn't "turn off auto delete", but if that was something the justice department wanted done, they should talk to the Signal Foundation, not Amazon.
Now if you wanted to interfere with Amazon's business by insisting they stop using Signal, then maybe there's some justification for it, but that's the sort of thing that should be mentioned specifically in the legal documents that were presented when the investigation began.
Did Amazon only start using Signal after the investigation began? Just how much help are you required to give investigators who are investigating you?
They're upset that they don't get to spy on private information because they used an ephemeral channel to send it?
Are they upset because they erased the white boards too?
If nothing else, Section 230 makes it easier to identify the enemy.
It's bad enough that you want to hold someone accountable for having an opinion you disagree with,
without section 230 you'd try and hold them accountable for other peoples opinions too.
(Even with 230 you still try, but it makes it obvious that you're in the wrong.)
NuScale was an uninteresting variant of a conventional LWR reactor that was badly planed and executed.
I'd say it was also badly built, but they pulled the plug on it before it get that far.
Instead of an unproven, piss poor design, why not look at something like the GE/Hitachi BWRX-300.
You asked me to what?
I thought that was a deep fake...
20%? About the same as the stock market then.
The percentage of robotic traders is an interesting statistic, but I think it says more about the bots than it does about the currency.
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