It doesn't decay correctly with oxygen inside of it, and there is fungi that eats dead wood. Which results in methane release, among other things.
One would image you wouldn't need to go all the way with turning it into charcoal, but you would need to go far enough to not come back to the mine turning into one gigantic bioreactor for fungi and bacteria.

The argument being made is often that there was a very long period between wood evolving, to the period where wood could be digested by anything. Meaning there was a 60 million year period where all wood would just fall down, where erosion and flood would bury it, and keep tumbling down, and eventually turn to fossile fuel due heat and pressure.
As per wikipedia:
"One theory suggested that about 360 million years ago, some plants evolved the ability to produce lignin, a complex polymer that made their cellulose stems much harder and more woody. The ability to produce lignin led to the evolution of the first trees. But bacteria and fungi did not immediately evolve the ability to decompose lignin, so the wood did not fully decay but became buried under sediment, eventually turning into coal. About 300 million years ago, mushrooms and other fungi developed this ability, ending the main coal-formation period of earth's history."
"The conversion of dead vegetation into coal is called coalification. At various times in the geologic past, the Earth had dense forests[20] in low-lying areas. In these wetlands, the process of coalification began when dead plant matter was protected from oxidation, usually by mud or acidic water, and was converted into peat. "

Lets make a small comment to make a bit more sense of it.
In curtains parts of the EU, you have state gambling monopoly, while the neighbors do not. What do you do if a online casino with address in your neighbor countries starts buying acting services from your citizens living in your country to their bank accounts located in said country? This is not a tricky question so long it involves citizens and not expats.

A lot of US digital multinationals are buying services in EU, buying infrastructure in EU, has national sales teams in EU, they have distribution interaction, etc. Even if you ignore that for something like Meta and X.... there are still companies buying Ads and services from those multinationals
The catch here is that EU consist of a majority blocks. The Germans might follow rule of Law, the French might, but the Spanish and Italians might not. This always leads to the question: Is this EU overreach to make an example, or is it just rule of law being applied?

Look
Do you trust ChatGTP to give you data, with a poisoned data set?

I will be honest: I don't get why your post is upvoted.
Brain-Fu is saying he is interviewing people with Bachelor or Master degrees, which means they are just ONE small step away from being completely on top of the Education pyramid with a PHD. Brain-Fu is complaining that he isn't really getting anything he couldn't have gotten from taking a few people who had completed pre college and just done apprenticeships.
Brain-Fu second point, is that the skill level Brain-Fu experienced would enable him to at the least have a chance in the interviews Brain-Fu commits. Brain-Fu is puzzled over the complete breach of continuity.

But let me come back to my point:
Vocation training exist where I live. A "car mechanic" is a certified vocationship where you can do school year 11+12 in school, and year 13+14 as a minimally paid apprentice with access to student loans and grants. For all intents and purposes, a car mechanic in this system comes off the mill with 4 years of work experience under his belt with a newly minted vocationship in Car Mechanics.
This again opens the opportunity to go to get a Bachelor and then a Master, while working part time and having RL work experience under your belt, possibly even taking the next step up the ecosystem and going from being a specialized and educated tool user to getting a degree to become a Tool maker tool maker. But since this is ecosystem related, a Mechanical Engineer should at the have an idea on what a mechanic is, and what a mechanic do.
As far as I am aware, where I live, you could do a Vocationship for IT: End user hardware, customer support, light scripting. School with specialized education for year 11 and 12, and a vocationship apprenticeship year 13 and 14 in a normal enterprise. And bam, 4 years of CV experience.
Because IT isn't very super secret expensive tool intensive, these people can and will work up the ladder in their field. But you should expect anybody with work experience to at the least do light scripting, but for an engineer that should be a given.

The essence is a bit more blunt: He is interviewing people with Masters degree in art, and they have the drawing ability of a toddler.

So Germany, Austria, Belgium, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Switzerland AND Holland has a population of 135 million together. That is including ignoring South Africa, for a lot of reasons.
That IS the Dutch market. What you are saying is a lot like saying "Texas is only a market of 31 million, surely they can't develop anything".

One of the great struggles with the EU project, is that it used to be what you said: Internal economies, language barriers, trade restrictions.
But there is a point here: What remains is that when it comes to large projects such as replacing the entire dominant OS stack and software.... somebody has to foot t he bill, and that somebody always has to be somebody else. Or a region tries to get away from paying the MS tax, only to discover that its competing with more than a decade of cumulative high end software, alongside the actual internal tech debt inside of each IT department and vendor.

I don't think anything will come of it. There is just something nice about precompiled binaries, MS computer fleet management systems, good software support, lack of broader vendor lockin on the upper layers, and using a HTML5 browser.

After a few rounds of driving the Tesla with phone key setup, i disagree.
You enter the car, and set it in gear, and drive. And maybe use the right side of the screen to add a address, where you get to see the car load in satellite images instead of the google maps UI. If you are going further than the range of the car, its going to plan out charging and manage battery pre heating to keep charging to a minimum.
And the only thing you would use the app for would be..... starting the car before you go out to it, such as heating the interior? Or sending in service requests, and see if its possible to remote diagnose it?

You have high tech and sleek, and high tech and clunky. The latter i don't really mind for industrial machines, but i really dislike it for home use, appliances and cars.
The Tesla is very close to the ideal. Seamless keyless experience, good follow distance on the cruise control, and no fiddly manual management of battery pre condition for charging for longer distances.

Partially agree, but here is the problem: Musk is by this point at his what... 5th good high tech venture?
Zuckerberg has bought a lot of IP, but has nothing to show for it beyond the continued operational capacity.

A small caveat: There isn't a "next cheap country" because the CCP bulldozing and industry of scale is keeping the costs reasonable.
"Move" and the Chinese will just keep the factory going and sell a competing product. Or the production line is China remains competitive because the infrastructure around it works, and the bribes needed to keep it running for import and export isn't a hassle.
And I find this.... very interesting.

At the current iteration of slashdot, your argument won't be challenged. Not because its wrong, but because it fails to address there is a even easier chink in the armor to aim for:
Aptera has still NOT shipped a "production vehicle".

Use case? Cost? Driving dynamics? Unsprung weight?

" sixth prize for Economic Sciences, endowed by Sweden's central bank, Sveriges Riksbank, and first presented in 1969, is also frequently included"

Sometimes, you do not pay for the service or parts. You pay for the possibility of buying another product down the line.
Sometimes an entire industry will collectively pay, to make sure their supplier will exist in a decade. And with the market slowly shrinking due changes in technology... you either got bankruptcies, selling IP, or success stories like Leica.

If any comparable organization is counted by region/city, then yes. But that is just splitting hairs.
Its also a matter on if you are just counting the doctors and technicians, nurses, low level healthcar staff, and the janitors.

At the same time, as a counterpoint... one could always just post the real world charts of what the actual real world wattage is for cars: The measure method is using the defined speed(90kmh or 120km/h, a few on 200km/h) via cruise control at highway, in similar weather conditions, blasting the climate system.
https://docs.google.com/spread...

A quick peak will lend such insights as: The refresh 64kWh Nissan Leaf has the same power consumption at 90km/h as a Tesla Model 3 Highlander at 120km/h.
There being a correlation between lower rim size and lower power consumption, Horsepower do not correlate with power consumption
This is all current consumer level technology, available right now even 2nd hand.

Its almost as if this kind of things define the difference between first and third rate OPSEC.
Why buy from a distributor instead of buying directly from China? Why not verify the logistic route? Why not verify the parts? Why not dismantle a few completely to verify integrity? Why one brand of pagers, not several?

>clearance to allow for tire chains
Isn't that like 1/20 of the suspension travel? What kind of question is that?