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Comment Re:But the real cost is increased service prices (Score 1) 69

Also, anything sounds big when you put it in gallons. Doesn't sound so big when you mention that's 92 acre feet, the amount used by less than 20 acres / 8 hectares of alfalfa per year. Or when you mention that a typical *closed loop* 1GW nuclear reactor uses 6-20 billion gallons of cooling water per year (once-through uses 200-500 billion gallons, though most of that is returned, whereas closed loop evaporates it)

Comment Re:That makes sense. (Score 3, Interesting) 68

I don't think it has anything to do with that. As soon as I saw the headline, my mind went "cohort study". And sure enough, yeah, it's a cohort study. Remember that big thing about how wine improves your health, and then it turned out to just be that people who drink wine tend to be wealthier and thus have better health outcomes? And also, the "sick quitter" effect, where people who are in worse health would tend to stop drinking, so you ended up with extra sick people in the non-wine group? Same sort of thing. This study says they're controlling for a wide range of factors, but I'd put money on it just being the same sort of spurious correlations.

Comment Re: All according to plan. (Score 1) 212

No. The point is that CCS and NACS use the same protocol, they are just different connectors, and interchangeable with cheap passive adapters. The OP thinks it's a deal breaker to have to use a CCS to NACS adapter. That strikes me as odd. There are still plenty of chargers with only CCS or only NACS connectors, so it's best if you buy and carry such an adapter if you are using public chargers, regardless of what type of connector your car has.

Chademo is different in that no simple passive adapter will help you. Apparently, active adapters do exist now. That is a recent development. They cost a lot more. They max out at 50 kW, even though some Nissan Leafs have been made that can use up to 100 kW. There seems to be concerns with safety certification for these adapters, also. That is quite a different situation than having to use a passive adapter.

Comment Re:Stop purchasing Bambu products (Score 2) 105

They've made a nice easy-to-use ecosystem. For $400 you can get a P1S that supports adding an AMS, auto bed leveling, enclosed-chamber printing, high precision, high print speeds, and 300/100C nozzle/plate temps, and has an easy cloud print service and a robust ecosystem of models you can just download and print with no extra config straight from the app.

But yeah, their behavior is increasingly entering bad-actor territory. I wonder how long it'll be before they lock entry-level printers into their branded filament?

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