Comment With luck I will never see it in person (Score 0) 34
I haven't ridden the NYC subways in many years and hopefully never will again.
Comment Re:Interesting conjunction (Score 1) 30
I wonder what the economics are really like though. Musk asked on Twitter if people would ditch their broadband if Starlink was available for $10/month. Heavy discounting, but of limited help because Starlink just doesn't have the bandwidth to serve all that many people.
It's possible that the economics of space based internet access just don't work. It's also possible that it becomes obsolete for broadband use as terrestrial bandwidth increases and it can't keep up.
I would ditch FIOS if Starlink was $10/month
Comment Re:She's here on a visa - and visas can get cancel (Score 1) 56
There's due process for doing so, and that has not been followed. This is probably because in similar cases going back decades, when that process was followed, the courts (including the supreme court, including in cases of actual communist rabble rousers), has ruled that free speech is free speech and doesn't depend on one's visa status.
So, if this plays out as it has repeatedly in the past, her visa gets un-canceled. But, the point wasn't to get rid of one student who wrote an article. The point was to inflict fear in all the other students who might one day think about saying something out of line. The government using extra-legal fear as a weapon... that's the scary part for all of us.
This is really about the mess of protests and harassment that happened on college campuses last year where the college administrations did little in response. They are sending a message that guests in our country who misbehave can and will be sent home.
Comment She's here on a visa - and visas can get cancelled (Score 1) 56
She's here on a visa - and visas can get cancelled. I doubt she will win this.
Comment Every day is April Fools day at The Guardian (Score 1, Troll) 119
April Fool's Day jokes are indistinguishable from regular The Guardian content.
Comment Re:Chicken vs. Egg (Score 1) 274
It will depend on the site size. For smaller sites you are not going the get 60 parks, but I could see that for some of the larger sites typical along major routes.
60 EV spots in the same footprint as a 6 pump gas station? Not a chance.
Comment Re:Chicken vs. Egg (Score 1, Insightful) 274
The goalposts are not absolute. Not everyone is doing long haul trips regularly.
If you're going a long way at once, fully recharging doesn't make sense. The time you'd spend on that last 20 percent charging at a lower speed you could spend driving on the remaining 80%.
For longer distances, we need DC fast charging (Level 3). We need better battery chemistry for this to really work well long term but getting to 80% in 20 minutes is perfectly fine.
For everyday commuting, you might never even need a public charger. The slowest home charger would take care of all of your needs at a very low cost of electricity.
Everything you just wrote is true but irrelevant to the comparison of the capability of the devices. People could buy 2 gallons of gas too but why would they when a full recharge takes a few minutes? I'm not knocking the EV tech, I'm saying the comparison the article makes using numbers of devices is just wrong. The point is capability, not number of units.
Comment Re:Chicken vs. Egg (Score 1) 274
EV charging is far more space efficient. You can fit 60 EV chargers on the footprint of a typical 6 nozzle gas station.
That's quite a claim. Are you stacking the 60 EV's vertically? Is there no access road so cars can come and go?
I'm guessing the real number is closer to 16.
Comment Re:Chicken vs. Egg (Score 1) 274
And just when I thought there was nowhere else for you guys to move the goal posts...
Not moving the goal posts at all. The article is making an inaccurate comparison.
The purpose of a charger or gas pump is to refill a car with energy.
A single gas pump can fully recharge about 12 cars/hour.
A single level-2 charger can fully recharge one car in 8-10 hours.
Even where there are high-speed electric chargers the charging speed often drops when multiple cars are being charged concurrently. This is not the case with a gas station. Pointing out that these devices have different capabilities is not "moving the goalposts".
Comment Re:Note the start and end elevation (Score 1) 94
This trip was largely downhill, they're trying to boost the range numbers.
Starting in Flagstaff and ending in a valley should have been obvious. LOL
Comment OMG they literally drove down hill! LOL (Score 1) 94
"They drove on highways to Lake Havasu, and then to California's Imperial Valley — starting in Flagstaff, Arizona on symbolic Route 66"
Flagstaff elevation - 6821 '
Lake Havasu elevation - 735 '
Imperial valley elevation - 235 feet below sea level
LOL
Comment Re:We've seen this playbook. We know what will hap (Score 0) 84
Still didn't answer the question
Question is "If the climate change report is $2M in the USDA you oppose that but if they swapped that $2M to the EPA for the study you then support it?"
That's not the question. The question is, why is USDA spending $2m on climate change studies at all when this is the responsibility of a different department which probably has spent the same money doing similar studies already.
Comment Re:We've seen this playbook. We know what will hap (Score 1) 84
Maybe, you can make that argument and you'd have to prove it but you didn't answer the question.
Yes I did. If this was the private sector and one department started treading on the responsibilities of another they would get smacked down hard. Obviously they have too many employees because they have enough free time to branch out. That's what's going on here. This combination of layoffs and realignment is way overdue.
Comment Re:We've seen this playbook. We know what will hap (Score 1) 84
Are you opposed to these studies or just who is doing them?
If the climate change report is $2M in the USDA you oppose that but if they swapped that $2M to the EPA for the study you then support it?
The scope creep leads to duplicate efforts and costs. Great for the departments, bad for the taxpayers
Comment Re:We've seen this playbook. We know what will hap (Score 0, Offtopic) 84
From your article: "During the Trump administration, U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers published and funded objective analyses of issues such as climate change, the efficiency of food assistance programs, and tax cuts that mostly benefit the richest farmers. "
Scope creep is why these agencies all need to be pared back
Climate change reports should be handled by the EPA.
Food assistance programs should be handled by HHS.
Tax policy falls under Treasury
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