That was the whole reason. A lot of people don't know that.

That's why Elon left and made Grok.

It certainly does make sense. After all, mosquitoes primarily look for flower nectar and only go after blood for egg production. The two signals getting crossed just makes you look even better to them.

They might be talking about a laser powered one. I'm talking about something not much more complex than a robot lawnmower plus a couple cameras to make sure it's not trimming crops. Blades are cheaper than lasers.

Glyphosate is cheap enough, but are the resistant seeds?

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.

Most of that electricity gets converted back to heat. One thing that temperature differentials do is create wind. It doesn't really get completely taken from the system.

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.

They're producing solar panels faster than they can use them domestically. Their energy needs are still rising faster than they can build out solar so of course they would need more coal too. They are maximizing their energy output, not prioritizing one type over another.

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.

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.

That would be OK if a car had both working together.

Discovery often goes both ways, which is why a lot of seemingly baseless things end in settlements anyway.

Much like recent backlash against routine vaccines, preventative care looks expensive until you slowly find out what the real costs are without it.

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.