if that's not hypothetical:
keto. then some IF, then some weekly fasts will take care of at least the first one.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (she's a bit "energetic" in presentation... but Dr. Boz has a pretty decent modern take on the on-ramp... esp for people who are older and larger. her book is pretty good too. )
right on!
btw, i'm not in the rust belt so haven't tried it, but last year i found out about lanolin based undercoatings or rust proofing cars and it seems pretty darned cool. This as distinct from the "skip it" rubberized ones that trap water and make things worse. If i ever move back to salt areas i'm def. trying it (well prob. finding someone to do it ).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... (this same guy https://www.youtube.com/@Repai... has other videos showing his like 7 year old midwest pickups with no rust on them )
(might help resale value if you're not keeping it to the end
rav4 PHEV has a 0-60 of 5.5 seconds. it's Toyta's i think 2nd fastest car to 60. and has like 42 mile all electric range. and mid 30s MPG on gas only. out of a midsize suv. it's no track monster, but it's pretty neat.
For the more bizarre performance oriented electrification at the supercar and hypercar level... check out some of @EngineeringExplained 's videos like this one on electric turbos in the new 911 https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
or this one from 10 years ago on the 1500hp Koenigsegg Regera on a hybrid system with a gas engine with NO gear shifting! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=naRY3knqFYU )
The Koenigsegg Regera debuted at the Geneva Motor Show, and uses a system called Koenigsegg Direct Drive. This car has no transmission, and instead has a direct link between the engine and the rear axle (through a hydraulic coupling). The car features a 5.0L twin-turbocharged V8 engine producing ~1100 hp and 3 electric motors with a peak power of ~700 hp. The peak for the combined system is about 1500 hp. This video explains how Koenigsegg Direct Drive (KDD) works.
There's actually already a big used EV market ( at least in the blue states where they've been around for a few years). One problem is that technology has advanced relatively quickly and old EVs. This is pretty good i guess from the buyer side. Also, various of them have had various quirks that make them break and some have been abandoned by manufacturers and it's fairly hard or expensive to get parts and get them service serviced even if they're only like 10 years old.
Alex at OutOfSpecRenew channel on YT has some cool stuff https://www.youtube.com/@Outof...
(he runs an ev repair shop in Portland https://www.wattworks-ev.com/ )
but basically it takes "enthusiast" type behavior to deal with these older cars and you have to be near a shop like that or really want to DIY this stuff. So it's def not great for your only car that gets you to work kind of thing.
i'm pretty good at writing ranty complaints... and usually there's at least some level of anger even if i write it over days or "leave it until tomorrow". but i'd surely make more mistakes than that if i were drunk.
on the "flips a field in the JSON"
things that don't ring true to me:
"human assets" (that’s literally what they call drivers in the database schemas).
That just seems to wordy / lofty to me... i'd guess... it would be "driver_id" with a foreign key to account.account_id or something. also does anyone find that actually offensive even if true? i mean HR has been HR for decades. and "Resources" is not that much better than "assets". And you know what from an accounting or any other pov i don't think the companies actually look at drivers as "assets" anyway. More like "necessary temporary annoyances until we get the robots up in here".
also:
in reality, that money goes straight to a corporate slush fund used to lobby against driver unions. We have a specific internal cost center for "Policy Defense," and that fee feeds directly into it.
this claim that the "regulatory fees" line goes straight to some separate fund for lobbying seems highly unlikely:
For one thing, a credit card payment afaik has to go to a single account. It's not like the main amount goes one place and sales tax go to some other account. So at that basic level it's just going to some generic merchant account.
Now from an accounting pov and segregating or transferring money after the fact there's no reason why the company would tie the money they spend on lobbying to these specific fees. what would be the rationale or advantage of doing so?
Hybrids are legacy auto companies trying to remain relevant.
By this point all (?) the legacy auto companies also have had at least some BEVs for 5+ years and HEVs for longer. As massive corporations they're relatively soul-less and are going to sell whatever sells and they can money on. on BEVs apparently even what they can't make money on...
The Toyota / Ford hybrid (and phev... they're basically the same) power train are really cool and surprisingly simple mechanically.
probably the pinnacle of ice gas engine application. Atkinson cycle engine and eCVT (with no belt and relatively light use of clutches)
Sting?!?!
You might wanna double-check that, bro!
i was right there with you... but then:
The song features a guest appearance by Sting, who sings the signature falsetto introduction, background vocals and a backing chorus of "I want my MTV" set to the same notes as the chorus of the Police's hit "Don't Stand So Close To Me"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
(and it does sound like him...)
and you have to dig into each one to see how much was spent and where it came from like:
Pequannock received $10 million from FEMA, including a grant to
purchase for Severe Repetitive Loss properties. The $10 million provided the bulk of the funding
for the buyouts, which were used to purchase 55 homes.
it solves a problem... in a rather expensive way.. but it's better than what FEMA (and HUD) normally does
In FEMA’s case, we find that just 14 percent of the 81 billion dollars in total disaster grant funding spent since 2005 have gone to programs that aim to advance resilience to climate related disasters—smart building and rebuilding. Outside that tiny fraction, most of FEMA spending has gone into activities, such as rebuilding, that have the unintended effect of encouraging risky siting decisions and other behaviors that may discourage those best prepared to address these risks from being fully responsible for adverse outcomes.
( https://www.brookings.edu/arti... )
(and i'm somewhat ok with the flood insurance program... even though that too is subsidized... but at least provides some strong market signal of the risk. but the rebuilding grants (e.g from HUD) for people who don't even pay in... less of a fan. )
eh... it definitely leans left, and you see that in various ways, but it's still does decent on basic factual reporting afaict.
did you argue the same when the Obama administration approved Keystone XL pipeline only to then unapprove it. Going so far as to veto a bill on the subject?
On January 20, hours after swearing his oath of office, President Biden took unilateral action to rescind a presidential permit for the Keystone XL pipeline.
(https://web.archive.org/web/20250309133053/https://www.rpc.senate.gov/policy-papers/biden-resurrects-failed-obama-energy-strategy )
You may well have. But after reading about these kinds of things for decades and green tech and loggers vs owls (remember those?)
overall no particular project is a hill worth dying on. Just try to position yourself to profit, or at least not lose too much money, on whatever it is and then ride the waves... it's not going to save/destroy the world one way or the other. And w/ your political speech cash support your PAC of choice.
btw, re owls... here's where we are now:
The plan calls for killing up to 470,000 barred owls over three decades after the birds from the eastern U.S. encroached into the territory of two West Coast owls: northern spotted owls and California spotted owls. The smaller spotted owls have been unable to compete for food and habitat with the invaders.
The new plan follows decades of conflict between conservationists and timber companies that cut down vast areas of older forests where spotted owls reside.
Early efforts to save the birds culminated in logging bans in the 1990s that roiled the timber industry and its political supporters in Congress.
Yet spotted owl populations continued to decline after barred owls first started showing up on the West Coast several decades ago.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/n...
i challenge you to cast this one in a "moral environmentalists" vs "evil corporates" or any such easy frame.
Third explanation: Putin's pawn is continuing to damage the United States at Putin's behest.
Do you actually believe this ? or, what chance do you think that this statement is true: "Pres. Trump banned off shore wind at Putin's behest in order to damage the United States" or maybe differentially w/ and w/o the "to damage the United States" part.
Makes no sense to build natural gas generators which aren't 100% hydrogen ready though. Costs very little extra and if there is some breakthrough in low cost electrolysis, it can come in handy to use intermittent power in the future.
right so the capability is nearly fluff...
like flex fuel vehicles, remember those?
burning green hydrogen is even less cost effective than our seldom mentioned E85 push from like 20 years ago.
I'm still eagerly awaiting that enzymatic ethanol from grass that was right around the corner. instead of distilling corn.
(and of course holographic solid state memory with thousands year stability).
the issue with these power guys is that they're committing to pay for this hydrogen starting next year. not "when it's cost effective" or even "when it's less than 2x the cost of gas" or whatever.
Before WASM there was asm.js (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asm.js) which is an efficient subset of js used as a target for "transpilers". Yes it's "code" is legal javascript, but it's not something people would actually write to.
as to TeaVM it describes itself well as:
TeaVM is an ahead-of-time compiler for Java bytecode that emits JavaScript and WebAssembly that runs in a browser. Its close relative is the well-known GWT. The main difference is that TeaVM does not require source code, only compiled class files. Moreover, the source code is not required to be Java, so TeaVM successfully compiles Kotlin and Scala.
As to why you'd want to use one... well maybe you want to package existing logic. Or you just want to write some complex stuff but not deal w/ the hell that is maintenance of a large JS project. and by "some complex stuff" i mean idk... like a game engine or a simulator or fancy graphics / video processing; not just a DHTML type app. And then you use the browser as a convenient distribution method / "zero footprint" scheme.
isn't all that revolutionary now that ng is relatively cheap.
These new units currently run on natural gas, but they're designed to burn a blend of natural gas and up to 30% green hydrogen, and eventually 100% green hydrogen. LADWP plans to start adding green hydrogen to the fuel mix in 2026.
and green hydrogen is still something of a mythical beast... where they're going to get it and how much it'll cost...
https://www.nature.com/article...
And that's on top of how inefficient it is to generate electricity by burning any type of hydrogen. CA people will cry even more about our electricity bills.
Innovation is hard to schedule. -- Dan Fylstra
