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Comment Add a $500 non-occupied commercial vehicle fee (Score 1) 72

Or make it $1,000. Or higher (I'd say higher, $2.5k, it's commercial, make it hurt and pay).

If a company a "abandoning" 30k+ assets in public areas, it should be retrieving them. It is THEIR problem.

If a tow action is needed, but a human is not there to manage the transaction, the fee hits.

Any commercial vehicle, doesn't have to be autonomous.

Done.

Comment One month a year- for 24 Hours of Lemans (Score 1) 70

I join to watch the 24 Hours of Lemans, over several days. During that month I may binge a show or watch some movies, then done.

Same with Peacock, I join for July to watch the Tour de France. Their other programming is tremendously terrible (and commercial laden), and who has time for that when the tour is 4-6 hours a day... (great background noise)

Comment Let's make all the water warmer! (Score 1) 12

I'm sure there won't be knock-off impacts of things like this (the example provided is heating the Seine to 30C from 27C).

Aquatic life has to love a good hot bath as much as I do!

The oceans appear to have a new average high area the last three years:
https://climatereanalyzer.org/...

Comment Compare an acre of biofuel corn to acre of solar (Score 2) 224

Chat-GPT says solar is extremely more productive in terms of energy opportunity per acre compared to corn for biofuels.

There are over 29 million acres farmed for biofuel production.

https://arevonenergy.com/news/...

Anyway, this is very unintelligent, all around. And that is polite.

Chat GPT Answer:
Short answer: solar absolutely crushes corn-for-ethanol on an energy-per-acre basisâ"by roughly 35â"45Ã-- each year.

Why (using U.S. medians):

Corn â' ethanol: Typical yields are ~460â"480 gal ethanol/acre/yr (e.g., 462â"484 gal from University of Nebraskaâ"Lincoln extension). Ethanolâ(TM)s energy content is ~76,000 Btu/gal. Thatâ(TM)s about 10.3â"10.8 MWh (thermal) per acre per year.
Farm Energy
CropWatch
Integrated Pest Management

Solar PV: Utility-scale solar delivers about 394â"447 MWh of electricity per acre per year (nationwide median energy density from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory / DOE).
The Department of Energy's Energy.gov
Energy Markets & Policy

Comparison (annual, per acre):

Corn ethanol: ~10â"11 MWh (thermal).
Farm Energy
Integrated Pest Management

Solar PV: ~400â"450 MWh (electricity).
The Department of Energy's Energy.gov
Energy Markets & Policy

Ratio: Solar yields â 35â"45Ã-- more useful energy per acre.

Notes:

This ignores ethanol co-products (animal feed) because the question is about energy per acre.

If you convert to miles driven, the gap widens further because EV drivetrains use electricity much more efficiently than internal-combustion engines burning ethanol. (Same acreage â' far more vehicle miles with solar-powered EVs.)

https://chatgpt.com/share/68a7...

Comment Re:another design that never made it (Score 1) 39

So you're saying some guy visited and had a complete laptop "mounted" to his front side so he could stand and use it?

I'm imaging a conversation with such a person. Or seeing someone waiting for public transit, standing there using a computer (one would probably get accosted doing this).

As I figured, everything you can think of exists, here's something like you described:
https://www.bhphotovideo.com/c...

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