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Comment Re:What does the science say? (Score 1) 85

drone application (spot application) Ag-Chem companies have been doing the last several years

Even that is probably more than needed. Ground-based drones could just trim back anything that isn't your preferred crop to near the ground. Leaving a short trimmed layer of weeds would probably help with soil erosion problems.

Comment Re:Ideologically fueled insanity. (Score 1) 285

requirements that electric companies *must* buy all electricity solar/wind farms produce

National infrastructure is a natural monopoly and should never be in the control of any corporation. I get your point about the free market, but why are we still leaving it in the hands of whichever company got there first? The grid should be just a transit network and the "buying." There is no "market" because it isn't economically feasible to build multiple sets of infrastructure.

We don't have state/federal highways that are run by private companies. Actually, that's not true. The Chicago Skyway is a "toll bridge" that is still considered as part of the federal Interstate highway system. There are a handful of others.

Comment Re:what's the government to do (Score 0) 122

This is already why the US went after Iran. Economic stability in disguise. Population growth is slowing to the point that Social Security and Medicare will collapse under its obligations unless we can just continue to inflate our way out of things. And inflation only works for the US because the dollar still has value outside of the US because people are trading with it and holding it.

Comment Re: Let's eat Grandma, shoots, and leaves. (Score 1) 168

That makes no sense - we don't know the capacity of the fast-charge battery, and we don't know the charge time of the long-range battery. And the cost of the battery pack is a huge part of most EV pricing, putting two full-capacity but different battery technologies in one car would adds thousands and thousands to the sales price and would push vehicle weight to new, unbelievable, heights.

Putting two batteries in an EV makes as much sense as putting both a diesel and a gasoline engine in a vehicle, because 'one's good for long-haul driving', the other runs on cheaper gasoline and better for 'start-stop' driving in, say, a city-setting.

You've made it make no sense by making specifically the worst assumptions possible. Two batteries. One long haul and one fast charge but sized based on a reasonable usage pattern. Why would anyone mean two full capacity batteries? When the fast charge is topped off, it will run the vehicle while slow charging the long distance battery. Once that is full again, it switches to running off the long distance battery unless you plan on making another stop in a certain amount of time. That way, you can take the largest fast charge possible if you need to pay the higher price to reach your destination or you can switch batteries if you will be able to slow charge later.

Comment Re:Go watch the Patrick Boyle YouTube video (Score 1) 74

SpaceX is a scam. The too long didn't watch is they don't have any more customers.

Maxing out growth isn't a bad thing if you want to be a stable business. If you want eternal growth and to attract gambling on the stock market, that's of course a problem. They don't even know what to do with the successes they do have.

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