Aside from the regularly cited (and very real) bloat in administration in education, there's another important factor driving up education costs: productivity gains in areas like manufacturing and technology tend to drive up prices in services sectors like education and healthcare. When productivity rises in some parts of the economy wages ultimately end up rising across the board, but for sectors (particularly in services) where productivity can't rise as fast, those wage increases turn into real value price increases for those services. A hairdresser can't increase the rate of delivering hair cuts the same way that car makers or electronic gadget makers have increased their productivity, and the same goes for the productivity of teachers (or nurses, or firefighters). So even without the bureaucratic overload of extra administrators, the price of education would be rising compared to the price of "stuff".
One sliver of hope is that recent advances in AI might offer a way to increase productivity in education. If we can do that then's a chance to reverse some of these rises, especially if we can get rid of some of the administrators!
And how many charging stops to drive it back the other way up the mountain?
One.
The dry weight of a Lucid Air Grand Touring is 2,360 kg. Add a couple of occupants at 80kg each then you're lifting 2,520kg up 1,300 meters. Gravitational potential energy e = ghm = 9.81 * 1300 * 2520 which comes out to just over 32.15 megajoules and very close to 9KWh. This is the baseline energy that is gained coming down hill and used going up hill. If we assume that the efficiency of the regeneration and the utilisation are about the same then you're going to gain less than this going down and use more than this going up, but the net difference is still going to be about 18KWh.
The nominal battery capacity of the Air Grand Touring is 112KWh, with the usable capacity probably several percent less, so you'll need about a 20% to 25% charge en route going back up the hill. Even if it's twice that, I don't think you're going to need to stop more than once.
In rural Virginia where my parents live, their only non-wireless internet service is from Brightspeed. It's 1.2Mbps/256Kbps DSL that is offline more than it is online. And they have to pay $90/month for it...
While I am no fan of the largest shareholder, if they are in a rural area and already paying $90/month for terrible internet, Starlink would be worth a look, especially if they are on a large plot with unobstructed views of the sky. If 'Residential Lite' is available in their area it would actually be lass than what they are paying now and still delivers 50MBs most of the time.
China has vast industries to apply research which simply can not be applied in the US any more
America has vast industries that can apply research too, and they're very good at it. The idea that US manufacturing production is in decline is a total myth. US manufacturing output has been trending consistently upwards (with the exception of 2020) for decades. It has declined as a fraction of GDP, but it has still grown in real terms. The reason that so many people think that it has declined (aside from propaganda from populist politicians telling them so) is that manufacturing productivity has been growing even faster, so US manufacturers are building more high value products with fewer people.
Now, if you want to stop the US from continuing to increase the value of the products it produces then a good way to do that would be to stop investing in long term primary research. Less new technology in your products will mean that they won't offer new value propositions. Is that really what you want?
By 2080 we can have banana farms in Seatle and vineyards in British Columbia.
There are lots of vineyards in British Columbia, especially in the Okanagan Valley, and some of them are really quite good. The difference will be that by then they will be growing cabernet, zinfandel and tempranillo instead of pinot noir and riesling.
Notwithstanding the contrary evidence from the tariffs, I believe that some people in the current administration are capable of doing math. As a result I think that it's fair to conclude that this is not just an attempt to make EV owners pay their share but is in fact a punitive attack on cleaner vehicles that don't buy their energy from Trumps donors.
because the bbc is a gear source of facts.
I appreciate that disparaging news sources that don't align with the MAGA narrative is part of the MAGA playbook, but has it ever occurred to you to look into articles that go against what you expect, rather than just writing them off? Irrespective of if you disagree with their editorial leaning, the BBC is generally an excellent source of facts because they name their sources. With only 60 seconds and a search engine you can track down the US DHS web page that is shown and do a reverse search of the image to see that it was indeed originally posted by the account of a Nottingham, UK, based tattoo artist. Maybe that's all too much work for you, and just slagging off news sources that don't repeat that sounds of your echo chamber is much easier, but if you try it you might learn something in the process.
The solution is pretty easy: the OPM could do a PIA. The problem is that this is likely being put in place to spot âoesubversiveâ civil servants who donâ(TM)t sufficiently by in to the new regimeâ(TM)s agenda, so a PIA (which would need to be published) would be damning.
Disclaimers on the websites of both the $Trump and $Melania coins said they were "not intended to be, or the subject of" an investment opportunity or a security.
Chemist who falls in acid will be tripping for weeks.