This is incorrect. Lungs are efficient at mixing gases and so breathing SF6 is safe, as long as you give yourself breaks to re-oxygenate.

Yes, many times. I have a friend from Kenya, so I'm visiting Africa periodically. Solar in Africa is booming, and it's perfect for EV charging. Just like with mobile phones leapfrogging the fixed landlines, Africa will leapfrog global grids.

And the poorer countries will take more time to switch, of course. They'll need to wait for used cars to start coming from China. Meanwhile, people are switching from gas mopeds to electric mopeds. Uber in Kenya now has an option to get an EV bike taxi, for example.

Yes, it is. And Europe pushed back the full EV deadline by 10%, still requiring 90% of emissions from vehicles to be eliminated. This effectively changes nothing.

Outside the EU, EV production is growing as fast as it can scale. Asian countries are the main expansion area right now. For example, last year almost 40% of new cars in Vietnam became EVs, and this year Thailand is probably going to be 60%. Africa is next, these $10000 cars from China are going to be a smash hit there.

And the thing is, once people switch to EVs, they tend to stick with EVs.

This is like watching that section of airplane disaster re-enactment videos where the pilots are confidently flying straight into a mountain. The next section is the sound of GPWS desperately screaming "Pull-Up! Pull-Up!" just before the crash.

The rest of the world is rapidly shifting to EVs, and the US automakers are building a bigger Canyonero. Now with more dead dinosaur exhaust! And we're supposed to be calmed down by the fact that they're bringing an overpriced shitty EV pickup truck in 2 years?

In 20 years, the second Trump's presidency will be seen as the final straw that killed the US economy. Just an example, a company that was trying to make sodium-ion batteries in the US went bankrupt this summer. They had product sitting in their warehouses but were unable to ship it to customers before getting a UL certification. And they couldn't get a bridge loan from the government or investors. The end result: a company destroyed. I'm pretty sure we'll find competing interests in play there.

Ah, I see you're pushing anti-people propaganda. You want cities built for buses and bikes, not for people.

Here's a nice overview article from urbanists: https://archive.strongtowns.or...

Cars are superior to every other transit mode for commutes. It's a simple fact. They are faster, more convenient, and don't require spending time in the company of fentanyl addicts. Or wasting entire lifetimes every day waiting for bus to arrive.

This is the biggest lie from transit/bike pushers. Transit (or bike lanes) do NOT reduce the traffic. Heck, it's in the very foundation of the ideas for forced densification: induced demand. And it's also supported by multiple studies.

You can argue that forcing everyone into 15-minute concentration camps is good for them, but you don't get to claim that transit reduces traffic.

There is not a SINGLE study that proves that glyphosate causes cancer in humans. The whole 'glyphosate cancer' is just post-truth nonsense, just from greenie hippie liberals.

Well, the Ford guy toured the Chinese companies, got scared, and decided that it's a good time to squeeze the automakers for the last dregs of profits. Before they go down for good.

Meanwhile, Africa and Asia are getting flooded by Chinese EVs. That are now superior to gas cars on price and reliability. And that can be charged from local solar, not depending on imported gas. The cheapest Chinese EVs are now less than $10k, and you can get a very reasonable EV for $15k.

It's amazing seeing the entire industry self-destructing before our eyes.

It turns out that without ANY content the 8k support is not needed. And there is little content because the HDMI Forum is refusing to pull its head out of its ass and allow HDMI 2.1 to be licensed without heavy DRM and NDA requirements.

Well, the industry shot itself in the foot with 3D, by making it hard to create 3D content. The only supported way was H.264 MVC, with barely any tools that can output it. Meanwhile, saner side-by-side 3D was not consistently supported.

The Victorian Era cities were a good approximation of hell. As for "moar density" bullshit, no large city in the US, Western Europe, or Japan lowered down housing prices by increasing density. But sure, we just need to allow real estate developers run rampant. Just trust me, bro.

As a practical example: Vancouver, BC rapidly built out fully automated grade-separated transit system. It then allowed unlimited density near transit stations (resulting in nauseatingly ugly high-rises), it (effectively) banned purely investment foreign purchases. Basically, it did all the wishlist of misery pushers.

Can you guess the outcome? Hint: it's not "affordable housing for everyone".

There's one small problem: you need a lot of electricity to run this process. About 10x more than just using it for EV charging. And this is not something that can be improved with mass production, it's a fundamental limitation imposed by thermodynamics.

The cost of ST3 project in Seattle is now estimated at $180 billion. Or about $150k for each household.

Buses are not slow because of cars. Buses are slow because they are buses and have to stop on each bus stop. So they mathematically can't be much faster than they are, even on completely uncongested routes.

If you space the stops farther, this will STILL not help. People will just have to spend more time walking, so the average commute goes up.

Berlin (considered to have the best transit system for large cities): 11mph.
London: 9mph

Buses suck. Always. It's a mathematical guarantee.

So it's totally better to just wait until the cancer gets to stage 4 and then do an MRI to confirm it. Big brain. Much smart.

In reality, plenty of cancers are slow-growing and take years to spread. And of course, for more concerning cases, there needs to be a quicker follow-up. For example, another MRI in a month.

I meant that they found nothing alarming. The cysts are still there and unchanged.