I'm guessing they can think outside the boxy coordinate system that our regular Cartesian bears use.

I wonder why in 2024, 92% (yes, ninety-two) of all power added to the grid worldwide was Wind and Solar, if it has so many disadvantages. And no, this was not mandated by some government. It was people in countries like Kenya or Pakistan buying some solar panels, loading them on their motorcycles and riding to their villages to mount them on roofs to get power independent from the big utilities. That's something you can't do with nuclear or geothermal.

If you want fast and cheap energy added to the grid, go Solar and Wind.

But cats would not be considered obstacles.

Is the law also valid for windows? Or trees? Windows are the most common obstacle for birds do die on, and single trees in a meadow are second.

Replying to myself for a post script:

A Kia EV3 would be the more likely equivalent to a Volkswagen T-Roc, and it comes in at 36,000 Euro. If you configure the T-Roc to be more close to the EV3 in amenities, you need to look at least for the T-Roc Life, which includes a rear view camera and adaptive cruise control. It's already above 34,000 Euro. If you want front seats to be adjustable for height, you need the Style line, and you are at 38,000 Euro.

Not exactly, as Chinese EVs are only a miniscule part of the European car market. But cars like the Hyundai Inster (Korean) or the Dacia Spring (Romanian) are less than 20,000 Euros.

In Europe, the price of an EV is on par with a gasoline car right now, and in East Asia, EVs are cheaper than gasoline cars.

Yes, that was one of the main solutions. Better battery management systems including cell balancing helped too.

But you don't get an 8 year warranty either. In general, car batteries seem to keep up much better than expected. With cars like the 1st generation Nissan Leaf having problems with fast aging batteries, there came the impression that this would be a general problem. But nowadays, those problems have been solved, and batteries age much less, and an 8 year old battery electric car like a 2017 Tesla are running fine on their first set.

We even have the reverse problem. With Lithium prices skyrocketing a few years ago (and returning to normal now), lots of businesses popped up to recycle used car batteries to sell the lithium for a profit. Most of those businesses struggle now, because there are not enough batteries to recycle, because they are still healthy and going strong.

So you are saying that the U.S. is severely lacking in charging infrastructure, compared to other countries, even the hellhole countries?

Slovaks don't pay 33% taxes on their electricity, and they don't pay 24% for the grid. Only 42% of the price of electricity in Germany is actually the generation and distribution of electricity.

Baseload is Schmaseload. The main problem with the baseload argument is that none of them bringing it up asks what happens to baseload if there is enough other energy available. Baseload means I can't power it down easily. Baseload means that I have to dump energy somewhere. Baseload means that I have to switch off other, cheaper alternatives because baseload floods my grid. How much time does it need to switch off a solar panel? A microsecond. How much time does it need to switch off a wind turbine? A few seconds. How much time does it need to switch of a nuclear plant? Many hours.

No to both questions. How retarded are you? I didn't say anything at all about the standard to convict him, except to say that I don't trust China (to give him a fair trial or in just about anything else). But most people would respond to that kind of question by saying that they didn't steer business to friends or family, or something like that. TFA just says that his people don't deny having done that kind of thing -- the lack of a stronger response is what suggests he did it.

PBS is primarily (85%) privately funded. It will continue to produce shows like Masterpiece, Nova, Frontline, and Sesame Street and people in places like Boston or Philadelphia will continue to benefit from them.

What public funding does is give viewers in poorer, more rural areas access to the same information that wealthy cities enjoy. It pays for access for people who don't have it.

By opting out, Arkansas public broadcasting saves 2.5 million dollars in dues, sure. But it loses access to about $300 million dollars in privately funded programming annually.

He is criticizing an evil regime for doing evil things, but that doesn't mean he is entirely innocent or pure in his motivations. I trust China exactly as far as I can throw it, but it is entirely possible that both (a) China is unfairly prosecuting this guy and advising him off things he didn't do and (b) he used his government position to help his family before he retired. The paragraph I quoted strongly suggests that (b) is true.