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There’s nothing in your comment that actually backs the idea that EVs will make the problem significantly worse. Yeah, batteries weigh a lot, but everything else weighs less. A battery can be a structural component, an ICE engine cannot. I
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I’m sure blue light isn’t particularly bad. But there’s another side to this: in the late evening/night I set all lights (Philips Hue colour lights) in the bedroom and hallway around the bedroom to go to the darkest orange (no blue). T
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Can’t wait to hear what sabine hossenfelder has to say about that
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Generally the worst case scenarios for covering all our energy needs with renewables end up with using around 1% of a country's land area. Which is already a small fraction of the land we use for farms. But compared to the worst case s
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Do you mean inversely? I’m not sure I see the connection. Norway is an oil country, and has a huge EV adoption rate. Though to be fair it’s also one of the few oil countries that have managed to keep its oil/gas industry from taking ov
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She does say that the long term future is probably BEVs. There is a good point though, since battery production is still limited it’s good to make hybrids that get a lot of efficiency improvements for a small battery. But it doesn’t make se
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SMIC has been forced to focus only on DUV technolog, and take that as far as it can go. That’s not bad for the short term. DUV is actually just as good if not better than EUV for the nodes they’re working on. TSMC is putting a lot of their
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You're both missing one of the more likely explanation.. that nobody gave much thought about how long the device would last. "It's solid state electronics, it'll probably outlast the warranty anyway".. I can imagine
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20 times less likely compare to an ICE vehicles of similar model and age. The amount of EVs on the road in Norway is fairly close to the number of ICE vehicles. So the statistics coming from those areas are very robust.
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Not really. If there’s thermal runaway you may have to douse them with water for a few hours. But there’s equipment now that can help with this, letting the firefighters walk away while the car battery safely dissipates its heat.
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Give it up. It’s over. HFCVs and BEVs got the same benefits and incentives in Norway. We even had several hydrogen furling stations around Oslo. (Though one blew up in a spectacular explosion) BEVs won. Hydrogen stations are closing down. W
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What utter nonsense. EVs are already extremely wide spread in many parts of the world, and the statistics clearly show that they’re far safer than ICE when it comes to fires. Even when people routinely charge their car at home overnight. Th
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Why imagine? If you’re genuinely curious then ask the firefighters in Norway. In urban areas around the third of the cars on the road are EVs. And there’s probably a wider range of models than anywhere in the world. When asked firefighters
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> it just has no reason to exist I’ve seen plenty of people who have found a legitimate use for it. And as many have pointed out it serves as a dev kit that also happened to be sold to consumers. It helps Apple and developers figure out
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Wireless charging can be surprisingly efficient. You should check out this video where wireless charging beats wired charging in end to end efficiency: https://youtu.be/AE1gaNO9nj0?si=E3y_y28lpCXU_WLt In that case it’s prob
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It should be said that, whether these are really problems depends heavily on how animal agriculture is done. In many cases animals graze on marginal land that can’t be used to grow human food directly. In these cases the alternative ways
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The materials will probably be recycled
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The conclusions of the article is very good. I mostly agree with them. But there are two major flaws in the article: 1. “we need more like 25 TW”. That seems too high to me. Is that based on a direct conversion of the primary energy consump
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Space based solar might not take a form where we just put mirrors in space to boost the output of existing terrestrial solar cells. The benefit is that the receivers on the ground can receive energy directly from the sun when the sun is up,
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I’m not so sure alcohol is really helping us enjoy life that much though. I’ve had periods with all kinds of different drinking patterns, and it always feel like alcohol always takes away from you as much as it gives. Even when I drink so
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Mouthwash with alcohol isn’t good for your oral health though. Uncles you’re fighting some kind of infection I suppose, but then there are better solutions. To add your point: there have been times when drinking alcohol was safer than drink
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You should take a look at how they dumped the earlier waste. It’s not something I’ve seen mentioned in these discussions: https://amp.dw.com/en/germanys-leaking-nuclear-waste-dump/vi... After learning about Asse I
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That claim is obviously absurd. If solar power now is cheaper than fossils then it’ll be cheaper to make them with solar energy going forward. Maaaaybe that’s why China itself is building an insane amount of solar energy within their own co
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Do the pipelines want to explode? How high is the pressure? There’s no oxygen there so the gas itself won’t explode. The pipeline must be fairly heavy duty to handle pressure and rough conditions on the seabed. And punching a small whole is
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The idea of going all-in on renewables doesn’t seem like such a bad idea these days. It’s fairly obvious where things are going. Most countries won’t bother with nuclear. The countries that become experts at renewables and battery solutions
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The goal is to get rid of coal around 3034-3038, and the goal seems very achievable given recent trends: https://www.cleanenergywire.org/factsheets/spelling-out-coal...
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What makes you think it’s not legal? You can almost certainly make something like Wine for iOS legally. But it’s a huge undertaking. It took years (decades?) for Wine to become solid. And it’s a constant battle with new OS updates with new
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I agree that Apple should be pressured to allow alternative modes of payment and/or lower fees in more cases. The duopoly problem you talk about is a real and serious issue. But on this point: > often with the implicit suggestion th
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Did you read the README at all? I thought it was extremely precise about what exactly is meant by the claim in the title. Not much room for misunderstanding. The title is totally fine. There is no title with zero room for misinterpretation.
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You could argue that the purchase of the device should cover the OS delivered with the device. But you certainly can’t demand that it must cover OS updates, at least not updates that add new features. There was a time when major OS updates

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