Turskarama

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by Turskarama 3y ago
Here's my prediction for this: you need to have input with the same fidelity and ease of use as a mouse and keyboard. The mouse input analogy is probably pretty close with eye tracking, but text input? I can't even imagine what
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by Turskarama 3y ago
The problem EVs are trying to solve is weaning ourselves off fossil fuels. If EVs are more expensive, less reliable, and a hassle, then in the end that doesn't matter because continuing to use ICE cars doesn't solve the problem a
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by Turskarama 3y ago
You're within the stated range, do you think you have the most expensive electricity in the world? 25c/kwh isn't unreasonable. Ireland pays 52c/kwh. https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/
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by Turskarama 3y ago
<10 minutes? If I think the conversation is going to take more than 30 seconds I am taking that thing off. Care to imagine how much extra cost this gimmick adds to the device? A high definition second screen just so you can make "
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by Turskarama 3y ago
Mobile OS's have the worst case of the chicken and egg problem. Nobody will buy a device with your OS unless there's apps for it, and nobody will make apps for it unless there's users. How do you solve this problem? Mozilla
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by Turskarama 3y ago
It is literally because it's cheaper, but ironically my Kia Rio, one of the cheapest cars on the road, has physical buttons.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
That's the driver, but I've had similar problems with the car yelling at me when I put a sufficiently heavy bag of shopping on the passenger seat. The only seat where the weight is guaranteed to be a human is the drivers seat. By
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by Turskarama 3y ago
- Slight reduction in transmission and distribution costs, since more electricity is generated directly at the site of consumption The generation being at the site of consumption has another big benefit: one of the largest roadblocks in the
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by Turskarama 3y ago
That's a good point, the depreciation is high but so is the depreciation on a BMW or Mercedes.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
The overbuild isn't free but the cost of (renewable) generation is so cheap compared to storage that it's most often cheaper to just build too much.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
Desalination is a different process to heating though, for instance the sea won't lose excess salt to the atmosphere.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
Hybrid can make sense _if_ there are scheduled in person activities on the in office days. If you're coming in to the office just to work by yourself then it should have just been a work from home day.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
Cheaper maybe, but the weight is significant to the point that federal laws have to allow higher weights for battery electric trucks to make them viable. The biggest problem isn't the truck itself though, it's charging it. A sing
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by Turskarama 3y ago
I suspect modern diesel electric drivetrains are probably in the low 90's, especially with a lithium battery in the middle acting as a buffer so there's never any over-production by the generators. Even if trucks do spend the majo
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by Turskarama 3y ago
I'm pretty sure it IS actually diesel electric, the engine is only used as a generator with no direct connection to the wheels. It's a full time battery-electric drive with a range extender.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
Did you copy paste this from an argument about abortion? There is a big difference between dictating what can be done to your body and dictating what can be done to the moon.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
As the customer of a builder, I would very much approve of someone making sure said builders work wasn't dogshit. Seriously, who in their right mind is going to deny entry to an auditor making sure that your builder isn't an idiot
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by Turskarama 3y ago
For you to own _nothing_, it must apply to _everything_.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
You make it illegal to do the wrong thing and have surprise audits. Losing your license is a pretty strong motivator to do it properly.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
But if you charge every day (at home) you still wouldn't ever need to supercharge, so it's still enough range for 95% of driving.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
I feel like you're mixing up points now, running 48V is fine _because_ the voltage is low enough that it's unlikely to kill anyone if you mess it up. The 400V system in the meantime has a lot more care taken and limiting the syst
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by Turskarama 3y ago
Ok fair enough, it is hydraulic assisted instead but for the point I'm trying to make it's essentially the same thing in so far as it requires power.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
Two motors is great and all, but that only provides motor redundancy and won't help if something happens to the electrical system. Planes are fly by wire but that's because they literally have to be, no amount of gym time will let
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by Turskarama 3y ago
The mechanical backup for a drive-by-wire system is different to all those other things in that it's a critical safety issue. If _anything at all_ happens to the electronics while driving then it's important that you can stop the
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by Turskarama 3y ago
They're getting mixed up, the 400-800V systems are _only_ for the motors, everything else in the car still uses low voltage. In fact, afaik every single electric car has two separate systems. There's a high voltage system (the mai
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by Turskarama 3y ago
It's absolutely baffling, their share price already dropped a fair bit but I'd say it's still massively overpriced. How any professional trader can justify holding Tesla shares right now is beyond me. Maybe people are think
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by Turskarama 3y ago
This analysis only looks at vehicle batteries, but there are a ton of technologies that aren't suitable for vehicles that _are_ suitable for the grid due to weight concerns and a lot of them have room to become significantly cheaper th
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by Turskarama 3y ago
Given that heat is a store of _energy_ rather than power, I don't think there's another reasonable interpretation of the _power_ of the core other than the amount that leaks.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
Why would you be surprised? Even in my lifetime the number of kids you see out and about has decreased dramatically, there's both a lot less to do outside and a lot more to do inside.
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by Turskarama 3y ago
Not really, gasifying the coal means you capture all the products, so the carbon is captured by default instead of released into the atmosphere which is what would happen if it were burned in a coal power station instead. The ideal would be

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