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Article is paywalled. Any of the authors engineers?

I had Grok help me look at California Cars from 2019-2024. (2025 data not out) California tracks number of new ICE cars and number of EVs sold. Cars in the US are kept about 14 years. It turns out that the cars from 14 years ago put out more NOx than current cars. Therefore, when one buys a new car in California, NOx production goes down. According to Grok - a 2012 car has a NOx of 0.083 grams/mile, 2026 ice car has 0.20 grams/mile, and new EV 0 grams/mile.

New Vehicle Registrations (2019–2024)Total new light-duty vehicles: ~10.39 million

New BEV + FCEV (true zero-tailpipe): ~1.383 million

New PHEV: ~0.295 million

New ICE (gasoline + diesel): ~8.708 million

Decrease due to ICE vehicles - 7.83 billion grams/yr, BEV 1.63 billion grams/yr, and PHEV .315 billion grams/yr.

Therefore 80% of the decrease was from newer ICE cars replacing older cars.

I did ignore the growth of the California vehicle fleet from 2019 to 2024 but this was only about 1%.

1% of all cars in Texas are EVs. 10% of the apartments available for rent on Apartments.com have EV charging. Seems to me there is plenty of EV charging available here. This is a problem the free market will take care of itself.

I would say no. If you reduce competition, you will ultimately have higher prices. The more groups competing, the cheaper the prices. If you stopped here - you would have to declare SpaceX the winner with no one else allowed to compete? If there are too many system launched than can be sustained, then groups will go bankrupt. Someone will either buy them on the cheap and make them competitive or not. Better to implement rules behind the ability for all satellites to deorbit in a certain length of time so when folks go under, they can be forced to deorbit their satellites.

Stroke rate doubled over 30 years in India. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/p...

California will just raise the state gasoline tax by $1 per gallon per year until everyone stops driving ice cars.

The two claims, if true, that I can see no defense for are 1) storage of SSN’s and 2) lack of consent tor taking nude photographs.

SSNs have not been needed for several years. I think taking nude photographs would need an extra consent. Hard to imagine this was not done.

I am surprised the platform appears to have no water cooling system. This test fire was more heat stress to Stage 0 than would be in a real flight.

Can’t wait to drive and see one of these live.

Starlink is owned by SpaceX. SpaceX is even launching competitor satellites. SpaceX is private. We do not know how much additional funding - if any - has been used but it’s possible, even with a per flight price way below the historical competition, they are making enough money to build Starlink. What is your point?

Once the amyloid is gone - you can probably stop the drug. That Amyloid accumulated over decades. The question is who will do the study to show stopping it is ok.

You really only need to cover about 4 hours with batteries for demand to fall sufficiently for the black outs to stop. In Texas, we have almost no residential customers with any electric plans that vary with time of day. This needs to change to encourage demand shifts. This would reduce peak need.

Radian in Brown County https://www.apple.com/newsroom...

At this point, new nuclear is useless. Battery technology is coming along fast enough that it will supplant the need for new nuclear plants. Westport has already demonstrated an LNG type engine running on hydrogen. Shutting down nuclear before it’s time, completely stupid.