quietly forgetting the cold dark calm days in winter.
This and similar arguments are brought up all the time with renewable energy. But it ignores the fact that while wind and solar may be intermittent energy sources they are still cleaner and more efficient while they are working.
Just because they cannot produce 100% of the energy 100% of the time does not mean they shouldn't be used/preferred for the times they do produce cheap and clean energy.
If I get free electricity and hot water in the summer from my solar electric and water panels, I'm not going to say no to that just because I still pay for gas to heat in the winter.

You just don't know statistics very well. This is only an average, and if you do the math it means there will be about 8.4B/4200=2M people injured by the falling spacecraft. ;-/

That is one reason why Tesla is so popular. It has the best charging network around, and all the other manufacturers in North America are jumping on that bandwagon as well. You just plug in and charge. No card, no app needed.

So dark energy is invented to correct for some discrepancies in observation and theory, but not it is shrinking and might become negative? Seems like a swag based on a swag. Recent research suggests that "dark energy" isn't needed to balance the physics because in fact there is a huge amount of actual dark matter in the universe. Not some unknown particle, but just regular matter that is cold and hard to observe between galaxies. https://www.science.org/conten...

If they are smart, the chargers will just have the plug and not the cable, and it will be up to the EV owner to supply their own cable. That avoids the high risk and cost of replacing stolen/cut cables, and reduces the cost of installing each unit to begin with.

Then the virus can be shared in (obfuscated) source code, maybe with randomly generated variable and function names to avoid detection, and it will compile and install natively in every target platform. "It's a victory for crypto botnets everywhere", stated an unnamed Russian source.

My 9-year-old Sunnyboy SMA3000 and SMA4000 inverters can each run a 1500W 120V plug if the grid is down. It isn't automatic (I need to turn off the power main and turn on the inverter), but it would be useful in an emergency to power my freezer and water pump if the power is out. Having a PowerWall or two would be more convenient, but we don't have enough blackouts or any time-of-use pricing for this to be worthwhile yet.

There are single Lustre filesystems that are 700PB in size...

There are already industrial-scale battery recycling plants in the US, because the metal in those batteries is valuable, and extracting it is more efficient than mining it new: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=...

There are lots of trucks doing short-haul deliveries that can get by without a huge battery. Truck drivers also have legal maximums to the number of hours they can drive in a day. Stopping for an hour in the middle of the day to recharge the batteries and eat lunch doesn't impact the total distance a truck can travel in a day.

One of the issues with the Leaf is that the battery packs don't have active cooling like most modern EVs, so they degrade a lot faster than a Tesla with coolant in the battery to maintain the temperature (not too hot or cold). Partly that was for cost reduction, but partly it was also because the Leaf was one of the first mass market EVs and a lot has been learned since it was designed. So yes, Leaf resale values are not great, but they shouldn't be held up as how all EV market resale values will be in the future.

Gas cars catch fire far more often than EVs, even compensating for prevalence in the marketplace, according to industry statistics: https://www.autoinsuranceez.co...

What is the difference between an "aftershock" and just a smaller "earthquake" on the same fault line? Clearly there will be some ongoing "settling" action on a fault line after a huge quake, but to say that seismic events 100 years later are "aftershocks" of the original event and not just events themselves is belittling the destructive efforts of fault lines across the planet. They deserve recognition on their own and not be overshadowed by seismic events of the previous generation.

In other news, the excessive recycling of stories on Slashdot continued unabated, with billions of clicks wasted each year when the editors didn't care enough to read their own website and filter out duplicates.

One longtime Slashdot reader even went so far as to write a self-referential tragi-comic comment in the vain attempt to reduce such events, with the full knowledge that this too would be doomed to failure.

If this has been a Tesla, they would have shouted that right at the beginning of the headline "Tesla Endangers Millions of Lives" or similar, but the make is barely mentioned in this article. Just sayin'...