They want to wind down sales and not have to invest more money into EVs. The Lightning had been a serious contender for my next vehicle, once it switched to NACS, but now it is just abandonware.

Intel is improving for sure, as is AMD and Micron. Nvidia though is still just a rockstar on all levels. Happy to hold and aquire a "laggard" like Nvidia...

So drop it down in scale: if you get a home equity line of credit does that mean you should pay an asset tax on the value of your home? Sure, it is just for billionaires. Just like the Alternative Minimum Tax.

Something needs to be done with income inequality but I'm not sure this type of strategy will work as intended.

It doesn't matter if it is new or existing; if you need 200A of continuous load you have to install a 600A electrical service... and never load it over 200A. All the Span panel can do is work within your power envelope to leverage that excess capacity... but you can't avoid the 30-40% cap on sustained load vs service capacity.

Residential electrical utility connections are only sized based on 30-35% of the nameplate service size by the utility. Add an extra 100A to a "200A" service and you will be burning out infrastructure right and left,and likely a few homes too.

If the house has sufficient solar and battery it can work, but most jurisdictions it is not legal to have that much of either.

That's a really bad idea. The fact that loans aren't income is pretty critical for businesses and essentially that is what a wealthy individual is. Would you want mortgages to be taxed as income?

An asset tax makes sense to a degree, but the evasion risk/likelihood is so high that enforcing it is going to come down to goodwill.

There are limits to how effective fire proof designs are. If you have enough fuel then the temperature x time can make everything inside a home burn; likewise concrete explodes in high enough temperatures as the trapped water turns to high pressure steam. Fire resistant designs help reduce the spread of fire which buys time for suppression, evacuation, and other strategies to rob fuel, but it is not a panacea if you have enough fuel.

My theory is obviously violating a law would make him an easy mark for Democratic impeachment and (bipartisan) conviction after the midterms.

I think the idea of power plants being "profitable" is part of the problem. Collectively Europe needs more winter generating capacity, preferably not reliant on imported energy. Your choices come down to coal or nuclear. If you are using them as low capacity factor sources, either is going to be expensive to run. A potential advantage of existing nuclear plants is that you have a 4-7 month window every year to phase upgrade projects. As upgrade requirements drop you have the potential for low-to-zero cost energy which can stimulate other industries such as vertical farming.

But long term one thing is clear for Europe: importing gas and oil are huge strategic risks that need to be addressed.

I find the repetitive, flowery crap that claims to be a website today to be quite useless. Multiple sites on a subject have carbon copied content (or at least lead-ins). It is the quintessential enshittification of the web.

Curious what this brings us next...

Honestly at this point what the countries achieve for themselves is likely more meaningful. Gaining energy independence is an optimal long term strategy.

Have you read a newspaper lately? The coverage and quality isn't what it used to be. I subscribe to two, and donate to a nonprofit newsroom; the latter and one of the subscriptions are local and the other is a "highly regarded" national paper. I can't read the last one after dinner as it is just too depressing. Across the board though, there isn't much real national coverage of things that might anger Trump.

So I switch to Colbert for my evening news capsule. There is enough humor to make up for just how deeply troubling some things are. No, it isn't a primary source of information but it can be a nice way to expose yourself to the pollitics without getting too stressed.

Not really. I was in a factory in Shenzen 25 years ago that was able to spit out ~20 5MVA transformers per week with basic equipment and minimal staff. The only components brought in from outside were bolts and insulators. Doubling capacity only required equipment worth roughly the cost of one transformer.

Solid state solutions are an order of magnitude more complex.

The last time I looked into this for a personal research project was around 2016 related to the ports of LA and Long Beach. At the time, about 30% of all container traffic moved via rail, at least going out of the port. The distribution centers in the inland empire (at the time) mostly had rail spurs, but that was before the big boom, especially with Amazon. I am sure the number is lower today given Amazon's business model on contracting, and also just how many different locations in the region host >>1 million square foot warehouses. The endpoint logistics are what screw up rail more than anything.

Where does rail stop on I10? I know it is still quite active through California to (IIRC) Phoenix.