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Comment Re:A sad day (Score 2) 181

No it does not seem promising anymore that was 20-30 year ago. Hydrogen is dead for personal transportation, not just automakers big oil companies have killed their hydrogen projects. These existing cars may not even be able to find fuel anymore. I thought toyota owners sue toyota because they are left with undrivable cars with zero resale value since stations are closing or just out of service all the time leaving them with unusable cars. A small toyota or Hyundai costs over $200 to fill up (if you are lucky enough to find one working station), so a hydrogen truck or SUV would be $400-500 per tank ? Who's going to want to that when just putting in gas is 4 times cheaper or you can charge an EV at home for a few dollars.

Comment Hydrogen died years ago (Score 1) 181

There is zero infrastructure, besides a few fulling stations in parts of California so these cars can't be sold anywhere else. And the sales numbers are terrible, spend billions to sell 200 cars a year. And why would anyone even want one ? You can't take it on trips, costs 4 times more than filling up with gas or 20 times more then charging an EV at home.

Comment I would guess they will put it back on the grid... (Score 1) 104

for a very high price during periods of extreme cold or heat. What's wholesale power usually go for 3 or 4 cents / kwh ? (we pay around 8 cents total power and delivery near Tacoma WA) . They could wait until near blackout conditions and say sure pay us $1 kwh and we will save your town.

Comment Not suprising they were some of the worst chargers (Score 1) 101

I saw a guy who had 3 or more fail and luckily bought it from costco so he kept returning it and getting a new one. Others said they had similar expectances and many returned them and bought a different brand. But they will keep working and may be even more reliable without their bad app. I have a cheap no name charger I got on amazon and it's been working great for nearly 2 years, it has an app but I rarely use it.

Comment Maybe someone will ask Why ? (Score 1) 34

Why do all these companies keep forcing AI in our face ? I don't want AI on my desktop or built in the OS, on every facebook ad, on my phone, in my car, in my browser. Has anyone really said...... Meta, Can you please add AI to nearly every post and ad with autofilled stupid questions about the post that I can ask your AI ? How do Meme's work, who invented Meme's, why are Meme's so popular, are cats good pets, why are cat Meme's funny......

Comment They work as they are supposed to (Score 1) 98

We put 2 mini splits in our house and they go a great job, today it was 96F and the house stayed 74. Much better then the old window ACs we use to use plus they are very quiet and it's best to just leave them running 24/7, so it's always cool (or warm) when you get home. We also have an EV now and our power bill (and power use) is less than it use to be. Going to EV's won't take down the grid as some people say since you can do upgrades to offset the power use.

Comment $900k for possibly unlimited shows,maybe on demand (Score 5, Interesting) 73

Eventually when computers get powerful enough they will be able to generate content on demand.... Netflix, make me a comedy movie about dinosaurs who run a home cleaning business.. Ok got it, I will let you know when your dinosaur home cleaning movie is available to view.

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