Improves somewhat, wiki says the coast guard has 243 cutters which are 65' or more in length. Even adding the 243 to the 553 possible in service for the US, 1033 is larger, as is the sum of actual in service 243+233 vs 1033 for China. I'm assuming all the coast guard cutters are in service which probably is not true.

US is burying its head in the sand though. China is building new vessels at a much more rapid pace than the US. US may be trying to improve its rate, it just isn't close to achieving that goal. We (US) gave up on building ships that were not military vessels and lost a good bit of expertise as a result over the decades. Asia builds both types prolifically. And not just China. SK also builds at a fast clip. To the point the US Navy has started to use them. https://www.navalnews.com/nava...

It is a common theme for the US. Actual making of stuff is not encouraged. Just the money side of things to outsource to other countries for actual physical work. It has taken decades to get here, and it will take decades of reduced standard of living in the US to get back. Hard sell. And would require a plan for the decades, not the next quarter.

Not a good analogy. A dog doesn't come with a warranty of purpose. If I buy a self-driving lawn mower that is geofenced, and it goes on a tear down the street and mows down my neighbors flowers, I got a feeling the courts are going to partially blame the lawn mower co. I might get some culpability as well. As an example, tesla got stuck with a 243M dollar judgement because its self driving car didn't work as advertised. So I expect any litigation claim will closely examine the advertised and legal fine print associated with the purchase of the ai agent.

The official ring time for the SU7 bests all EV sedans I believe. https://www.topgear.com/car-ne... When they stripped one down, it beat the 911 GT3 RS. I don't know if the stripped down SU7 would have been street legal, but as I said, China is offering serious competition at roughly 1/2 the price point. So even a 50% tariff puts them way below the competitors.

Yes and gm got caught reporting data to LexisNexis without telling customers. One guy got a literal book when he asked for his lexisnexis report. It detailed everywhere he had driven in his onstar car. gm settled and supposedly stopped doing it.

I think you missed where China is growing their fleet much faster than the US. Here are the latest stats. https://www.globalmilitary.net... The highlight is "China operates a fleet of 1033 ships compared to 553 for United States. Of these, 1005 and 233 are in active service respectively." Now we have bigger ships and more aircraft carriers. And carriers are better at world strength. So world wide, I'd say US advantage still. BUT, and big but, note the active in service numbers. Roughly 1/2 the US fleet is in repair.

Good reminder, I'd almost forgotten that was today too. UK apparently isn't sucking up quite enough like Argentina, so now drumpf thinks the Falklands should go back to Argentina. I just can't keep up anymore there is so much wrong with the man.

Unfortunately true. One would think once again today would be reason to impeach/convict the guy. Telling the fed to drop rates or nananer I'm stopping imports from countries with a surplus trade balance. Nananer, take that disloyal fed. But nope, crickets.

You mean how tesla is anything but. It took a hacker to get the data from the florida crash that ended in trial and tesla losing. The hacker has said tesla has fixed the software so he can't access the data anymore.

So I agree with you 100% and it must include all cars sold in the US. Part of that is the crash data info must be accessible to anyone and must not be able to be deleted with telematics by the manufacturer. Deleting data results in the assumption the fault was solely with the manufacturer.

I've friends from Taiwan and China. Both expect the most likely thing is Taiwan will be taken back to China without a shot fired. It will be economic reasons they return. When I mention the sabre rattling always brought up, they just don't see it likely. And if I were Taiwan and saw how the US just abandoned SK with just military drills, I'm not positive I'd be counting on the US for help. I could see a sea blockade. Not a shot need be fired.

I'll add it is nonsensical to believe that China subsidizes everything. They seem to be a net exporter, a buyer of our T-Bills amongst other things, and yet are not starving themselves like NK. In fact they seem to be propping up several other countries with investment via their belt and road. What they are is a no nonsense manufacturing powerhouse. They are what the US was in the 1950's.

I'm not positive, I think on /., a German guy in China who had the Taycan and drove the SU7. His take, the SU7 was a better car and significantly less. He sold the Taycan. Not all Chinese cars appear to be inferior to the western ones. I expect some are, especially those selling for around 10k USD. But to be fair, in the US, a golf cart or those ranch vehicles are more than 10k.

I'll also add Jim Farley, president of Ford has driven a SU7 for 6 months and loved it. I think the west should be afraid of the Chinese makers. They have first market advantage on EV's as they scaled them quickly. The US in particular can't seem to make up its mind about whether or not to go EV. Obama, Trump, Biden, Trump. Whiplash.

Utilities are regulated entities. State lege's can direct a utility to do something like allow for backfeed. The lege could fine the utility if they fail to obey the law. Laughable that you as a individual residential customer is going to be able to tell the utility how it will operate. I've got panels, they have never asked me when they unilaterally make a change to the tariff structure for solar tariff structure. They just do it. Moreover, because it is a city owned utility, the city requires houses to be hooked up to maintain the certificate of occupancy. Although I did hear the state lege is considering forcing the city owned utilities to sell them. There are several in the state. If the state does that, the city might have no reason to hold that rule and I could go off grid if I wanted.

Again, you are wrong. Dynamic pricing != ERCOT cutting you off which was your claim. If you want to reduce usage based on price, you can. ERCOT will not do it except in an emergency. And if you think a DC, a auto assembly line, a smelter, a hospital, a ... is going to reduce usage because the price went up, you are living in a altered reality. And really most of that price variation is to bring generation to match demand, not the other way round. It also allows for that utility scale battery to get paid for. Buy low, sell high.And as I mentioned with near 20GWh of battery now, that investment needs a return. It is slurping down 6GW of excess solar juice at the moment to sell high later today.

Your utility. Anything you hook up to the utility power that can backfeed is their playground. The lege in this case directed the utility by law to allow backfeeds up to 1200W. I've got a larger system installed, and the utility had to sign off AND inspect to ensure it was in compliance with their requirements. Then there is the whole matter of how much the utility will pay you if you backfeed, Again their playground, their rules. I'm not sure if the Cal lege mandated the backfeed rate. Wasn't in the summary. Summary sounded like they cannot end up net positive for the billing period, so possibly basic net metering.

And that first statement is just jibberish. I just noticed. Commercial generally does not go offline unless ERCOT declares an emergency. Last one I remember was the big freeze. ERCOT keeps somewhere between 10-15GW ready to spin up. They plan the day before for the next day and if you look at the graphs, they are usually within a gw or 2. Generation is balanced by consumption. ERCOT tells generation what they need and generation complies.