I have no idea what you are spouting off. It had Cherys on board, not Chevys. It was transporting Chinese-made and Chinese brand EVs that most of us have never heard of to Mexico, where they can be sold because of their much more lax standards in what can be sold there. Hence a very strong likelihood of why the deck of the ship carrying vehicles caught fire. If their EV batteries are anything like those Chinese scooter batteries that kept spontaneously catching fire, then there will be lots of vehicle fires in Mexico.

The problem with being on the cusp of something is you still are totally not there, and no guarantee you will ever be there.

I'm not sure if this is the same article verbatim as the fully-paywalled Financial Times, but it is definitely the same topic.
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/mone...

This town is on an interstate, so we actually have a Tesla Supercharger station in a hotel parking lot, a Sheetz that has 4 EV chargers, and apparently the Nissan dealership has a charging station as well (just googled my town because this made me curious).

I live in a small southern rural town, like good ol' redneck boys everywhere, 1 hour drive to the nearest mall / shopping area, 75% of votes go republican. I've seen more EVs bought here in the last year than in the last several combined. At least two cybertrucks, many Tesla cars (even seeing them at low-budget apartments now, and not just upper-middle class), plus other brands of stuff. They are totally commonplace here now. Maybe we're behind the curve and it's just now getting popular here, but EVs are definitely being sold.

This is a huge thing, and I learned about this decades ago in UI / UX design. It's the exact same thing between the mouse and the keyboard.

The mouse is a virtual representation of our world within the computer - the pointer on the screen represents where the mouse is in our space. This is BACKWARDS from the ideal interface, as it requires visual processing and synchronizing in our vision and mind where the virtual pointer is each time we need to use the mouse.

The keyboard is the opposite. It is an extension into our world of the computer. Each key exists in our world, and performs just a few functions. We can reach down and automatically "sync" with the keyboard (without even realize we do so) by tactile sense and touching it in certain ways to where we know exactly our hand positions relative to it. No visual distraction required.

So to this day anytime I use software, or visit some poorly constructed web page that REQUIRES mouse input, it annoys me greatly.

Here in the US most of the coal mines, like in WV, are extremely rural and nowhere close to where the power demands are. The coal is shipped via rail and then barges (like on the Ohio / Kanawha rivers) to power plants. That infrastructure investment for transporting the energy in that manner is already in place. It doesn't make any sense to convert these mines (or what used to be mines) to solar if it requires spending a fortune on power transmission lines (which that entire process incurs conversion and transmission losses).

Just build solar farms closer to where power demands are. At least that is the better option in the US.

They miss the simple, social message free films of old like Citizen Kane, The Great Dictator, Mr Deeds Goes To Town, 12 Angry Men. . .

In the awesome movie Contact (based on Carl Sagan’s novel), the ultra-rich Hadden lives out the remainder of his life on a space station to prolong it because he has cancer.

You're a little bit ahead of things here, considering that is not slated for completion until 2040.

https://www.nationalobserver.c...

This will be the nail in the coffin for coal plants, and probably a fair number of natural gas plants as well. Once this AI bubble bursts, coupled with the ability to process AI demands much more efficiently (on silicone designed specifically for this purpose, instead of using much less efficient GPUs and the like), there will be a huge surplus of power. The shiny new, and extremely expensive to build, nuclear power plants certainly won't be the things shutting down when there is too much energy.

The environment will be much better off for this.

You must be new to this. This kind of sentiment has existed since computers have become prominent around the globe.

William Shatner has equivalent scientific credentials to Katy Perry, yet he receives no criticism for taking the same ride.

Sure, Shatner is a better vocalist, but that’s hardly the point if you’re talking about qualifications.

Chronic fatigue syndrome from the vaccine cancelled out my ADHD, now I’m neurotypical.