So far all EV fires have been in NMC batteries combined with poor battery management. Hybrids catch fire more than EVs for the same reason. eBikes built by armatures are notorious for NMC fires. LFP batteries solve the fire problem and cost less.

Generalizing fire safety to all EVs is FUD. The experience in the USA is negative since to date there are very few EVs with LFP batteries. NMC batteries use old technology and will go away as better chemistries go into production.

Even if hydrogen was affordable, cars would be the worst way to utilize it. Railroads would be more sutable. After natural hydrogen extraction comes online it might be feasible. For cars, EVs are by far the best technology going forward.

Economists are paid for by the wealthy. Their job is to say and do things to perpetuate wealth. They almost never relate to issues in a way that helps the rest of us. This makes them biased and unreliable academics as well.

Why I bought a Mazda: Not touch screen, no turbo, a real timing chain (not a rubberband), a geared transmission (not a rubberband). All this results in high reliability and low maintenance.

The nuke plant provide about 25 times the power. Depending on how you do the accounting it is conservatively 40 to 50 times the cost.

Despite the political road blocks green energy projects are expanding. It's not just green, but is also by far the cheapest and fastest way to bring new power online. It's interesting to see how fast it is growing in red states. It's bringing jobs to those areas as well.

We've passed the point of no return. From here all we can do is slow it down a little. So far little has happened worldwide. In the USA we are excited to amp it up. Pointless AI and Bitcoin data centers are making it worse. Nice job running things billionaires.

Low IQ people making bad decisions impact themselves. High IQ people may make good decisions for themselves, but screw over many. Unfortunately we let psycho billionaires run every country and corporation. They are not just worthless, but are dangerous.

MAGA cares more about being anti-green than creating jobs. They don't care about workers and have demonized climate change. Keeping $B babies happy is all they want. Not surprising they lied about bringing back industry to the USA.

The fastest solution is to build a few batteries and not NMC; use LFP or sodium. Someone could turn a profit doing that. Don't they have power engineers in the UK?

This administration is just itching to turn the USA into one of those shit hole countries as they call them. The rest of the world is fine watching the empire implode as they will do just fine without it.

Anyone saying nuclear is cheap needs to show their analysis. There are no examples of nuclear being cheaper than today's solar and wind power. Nuke plants have all been subsidized in multiple ways to make them viable. Todays and tomorrows taxpayers take the hit. Generations will be stuck with managing waste from shuttered plants along with taking on the debt handed.
Another issue is the timeline. By the time any new nuclear plant is operational we will be deep into climate change. Solar and wind can be deployed quickly. In order to delay climate effects we need green energy now.

I used to go to movie houses a lot. The always-on cell phone culture has normalized inconsiderate behavior. I also used to go to a lot of concerts and cells have ruined that experience as well. At the start of Covid got a big ass TV. I'll still go to a movie or a concert, but it better be really good.

RISC-V and its successors as an architecture perform better than x86 and ARM. Current chips are only slower because they don't use the latest fabs yet. If the west does not advance RISC-V just to be different then China will have an edge.

We got a PDP-8 in 1969 and had programmable calculators before that. We might have been the third. Before the calculators a group of us built a logic plugboard using relays, plugs, and switches from a friend's dad owned a small factory that supplied AT&T. I helped take gear to teacher's conferences for demos. Our DEC sales rep invited us to use demo machines at the regional sales offices. Myself and a friend visited several times and used a bunch of early PDPs. They had shelves of manuals and let us take any we wanted; which we devoured. Years later, got a job at DEC. I have a great deal of gratitude to the teachers that convinced the school board to fund this.