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by 2trill2spill 5y ago
I think your looking at this all wrong. Why would I or any other person spend $30,000 - $50,000 on a vehicle that is less capable then the vehicle I currently own? I cant charge at my apartment so I'm totally dependent on charging infr
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by 2trill2spill 5y ago
What about a long day trip or a weekend camping trip not in a cabin, which I do all the time. For the day trips I will be sleeping at home, so I don't want to have to take an extra day to charge my vehicle overnight. And for weekend tr
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by 2trill2spill 5y ago
Ohh so I need a specific brand of car so I can use a specific charger, and If I leave the interstates I have to be very careful about where I can charge? Also I'm not counting anything that is not a fast charger, I don't want to h
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by 2trill2spill 5y ago
> This is like asking how to tow the Space Shuttle with your pickup truck. It can be done (Toyota did it with a Tundra pickup for marketing), but no one is selling into a market to do so. Sorry but that's a ridiculous comparison, I
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by 2trill2spill 5y ago
> Define "middle of nowhere", I guess? Not a lot of places, even in Utah and Wyoming, are more than 100mi from an interstate. In Utah and Wyoming you can be on the interstate and still be far from a gas station[1]. I don't
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by 2trill2spill 5y ago
Exactly, I want to go visit the Deep Creek Mountains in western Utah, and I've heard that bringing your own gasoline is a good idea because of just how far the Deep Creeks are from a gas station or civilization for that matter. I love
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by 2trill2spill 5y ago
15 year old cars might be better economically. But if your in a car accident, your definitely going to want to be in a modern vehicle.
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by 2trill2spill 5y ago
You know you can stop in a gasoline powered car and take breaks if you want or feel tired. But I cant imagine being forced to take an extra 1-1.5 hours whether I want to or not.
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
According to the Bloomberg tracker[1] the United states has given 24.9% of the population at least one shot and 13.5% two shots. The EU has given 8.7% one dose and 3.8% two doses. The United States is administrating 2.5 million doses a day
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
> It must be far less than is needed for mining the uranium needed to generate the same power. Think about it; the copper required for the wind turbines is a fixed one-off cost that lasts the lifetime of the turbine, and can be recycled.
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
What are you talking about? Wind turbines use substantial sums of copper and that requires mining on a scale much larger than uranium mining.[1] [1]: https://copperalliance.org.uk/knowledge-base/education/educa...
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
> Your points about mining are a bit beside the point. I don't actually disagree that the mining sector needs to be cleaned up. But our economy generates demand for lots of things we dig up out of the ground. If anything, it seems t
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
> What about the hidden cost of nuclear? The waste storage. The security measures (can't have terrorists walking off with the nuclear waste). The constant need for inspections, audits, etc. And that's before you consider the co
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
Uranium mining seems hell of a lot better than Copper/Nickel mining[1]. Not only is the scale of copper and nickel needed for wind and solar vastly greater than the amount of Uranium needed, but Copper/nickel mines have all the sa
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
Wow, what a simplistic look at nuclear vs renewables. They don't even begin to look into the "hidden" costs of renewable energy. They fail to mention or include the costs of new transmissions lines, bringing new mines onboard
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
> So what is cheaper? Manufacturing, setting up, operating, and securing 1000 5 MW plants or one 5 GW plant? It seems like the 5 GW one might be cheaper. It's not 1000 5MW plants vs 1 5GW plant, each SMR plant would have dozens of s
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
I don't know, the idea that mass manufacturing wouldn't lower the price of something seems kinda ridiculous, you have any examples of a product where mass manufacturing didn't lower the price? If you said something like &quot
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
The SMR community does have a lot of hype, but the general idea seems fairly sound. Instead of building huge reactors on site, as basically big one off projects. Instead, mass produce a bunch of smaller modular reactors at a factory. That d
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
> Hell their API’s are providing a longer forecast than the actual website. That’s silly. forecast.weather.gov doesn't show longer than 7 day forecasts because forecasts beyond 7 days are not very accurate[1]. So why show something
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
> Their website only publishes a subset of their API data so that missing data is provided to 3rd parked and curious users but not the public. The majority of the data available to download is superfluous to most people hence why only a
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
> Didn't downvote myself, but if I had to lay money on it, I'd guess that you got downvoted for not providing links to the raw NOAA data? Sources FTW. Yeah probably true, I didn't post a source because I thought it was com
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
> The first link is useable but hardly designed to maximize views by the general public. So you admit that forecast.weather.gov is usable to the general public, but because it "doesn't maximize views" its some how invalid
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
> By use I am referring to people directly using NOAA or other government apps/websites to directly access it without intermediates. Other companies repacking that same data bring very little to the table. Huh? Did you even look at
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
Why are people downvoting my comment above? It's true you can download the raw NOAA data, just go here if you don't believe me: https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/data-access/model-data/model-datas... And if your
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
Silly Accuweather, I've heard meteorologist refer to anything beyond 10 days as "fantasyland", because forecast that far out are not really accurate.
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
I just use https://www.weather.gov/ because its not bloated. Unfortunately it doesn't have 10 day forecasts and I believe the reason they don't show 10 day forecasts is because they are not very accurate. That far
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
Why would you pay for Accuweather forecasts? You can use their website for free, they just have a bunch of dumb ads. Although I agree I like NWS way more than Accuweather or weather.com, etc, and I would be sad if NWS were forced to take it
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
You can just go to national weather service site which uses NOAA data and it's quite human friendly[1]. Also I don't understand how you can call the raw data not very useful, when it's literally the backbone of weather foreca
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
NOAA already provides the data to the general public, its all there, so I'm not sure about the "if" in your first sentence.
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by 2trill2spill 6y ago
Did any non island democracy do well? Also just to note I'm including South Korea as an "island" as its effectively one being a peninsula and its only land border being with North Korea. Edit: Also, one of the main reasons va

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