No it isn't. A banana poses little risk. You can choose to eat it, and your body will make sure the potassium doesn't harm you. Some unknown element in the environment, however... A lot of the stuff that gets emitted from nuclear plants can be quite nasty if it gets inside you, or even on you.

Clearly there is some escape of radioactive martial.

But as has been pointed out numerous times here, the banana scale is flawed because your body regulates the amount of potassium it absorbs, and keeps it away from areas where it could do damage. That's very, very different from something in the environment causing a random wasps nest to experience this amount of exposure.

Because home owners are more sensitive to up front costs. You can see it with lightbulbs. When LEDs first appeared and were expensive, consumers baulked at the idea of a 30 year bulb that cost 5x as much, but businesses could see the long term cost saving from the lower power consumption and reduced maintenance.

Yup. Probably the dumbest fucking thing the asshat in the Oval has done.

Don't know what "true patriots" have to do with anything, or what the wants of this particular polity matters.

Times change, as do political leanings.
US hard power, and US economic power will rebuild its soft power once fuckface is gone.

Ask yourself, did the Great Depression remove America from its status as the largest economy on the planet? Did it make us no longer the wealthiest country on the planet?
No. It didn't.
The US will survive Trump just fine.

The doom & gloom and all this worry about US soft power, or de-dollarization is just fetishizing that there are going to be some kind of long term consequences for the US public being dumb enough to elect this asshole.
But the bad news for them, and the good news for us, is realistically, there aren't any.

The US is not the largest economy and military power on the planet because we're the reserve currency. We are the reserve currency because of those reasons.
Not even the instability inherent in Trump can come close to threatening the stability of our economic power.

Yeah. I think the most likely outcome is that we see sodium used for some applications where a business looks at the cost over the long term, maintenance, that kind of thing. For home batteries people will be buying mostly B grade or used cells. B grade are already cheap and completely fine for that application, and reuse of used cells is ramping up.

Eventually, not today. Maybe not ever, it depends if the economies of scale are enough. A lot of tech has failed to catch on simply because lithium batteries got so cheap so fast.

It will depend what the updates are for. Shoving more ads in the car wouldn't void the warranty if you skipped it, but adjusting the engine parameters to avoid premature wear on some component might. The problem is they won't separate the two things, you have too have the adware to get the genuine fixes.

Shame they seem to be fossil trucks though. Maybe they are working on autonomous charging too. We have had wireless high power, low loss charging in Europe for a while. All it needs to do is park in the right place, and of course the parking area can have lots of assistive markers to make that easier.

More importantly these trucks have Lidar. It has proven essential for safe self driving systems. Cameras alone are inadequate.

You would want pouch cells though. 18650 is just not very space efficient, and only really needed in some very specific applications. That's why most home batteries and most EVs are using pouch cells now.

There are much better options that Tesla Powerwall though. Better capacity, lower price, better reliability.

Such small batteries don't usually need any active cooling either. There isn't much benefit moving to Sodium-Ion, LiFePo cells are cheaper and pretty much ideal for home use.

Oh no, I'm not losing in the slightest- but yes, you are a dumbshit.

I fall neither into the camp of "anybody should be able to play in any sport as the gender they identy as", or "reducing humans to a binary classification is useful".
The latter- your camp, is definitely dumber than the former camp, though they're dumb too.

There are women with naturally more testosterone than some men, and some men with naturally less than some women.
The solution to this problem, is to fuck you bigoted shitbags in the ass, remove the sex classification altogether and use one that is more scientifically sound, and not stupid.

As for why the progressives are losing? No, that's not why you blathering fucking moron.
I demonstrated a decline in the publicly held belief in the progressive's belief system on the matter. Their position didn't change- the public's did.
That's how culture wars work.

It really is disappointing that people as stupid as you exist.
I'd like to dump you and the progressives on to an island and drop a fucking nuclear weapon it.

I get a new one.

I'll continue this line of stupid reasoning for you.
What happens if I can't get a new one?
Then I get Medicaid.
What happens if you become disabled and the Government doesn't recognize it and you can't for some reason look for a job?
Well, then I'm fucked, going into debt, and using the Emergency Room which can't deny me as my healthcare.

You see- I'm in no way defending our system which has a very visible gap that leaves ~10% of the US without medical insurance.
I'd love to see that gap zipped right up.

Now, since the discussion was literally about how defining the US by what 10% of it deal with is stupid, why have you constructed this particular strawman?

But also kind of awesome.