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by audunw 3y ago
Sure, if you’ve got 10x the population you’ve got maybe ~10x the area and 10x more stuff to build. But you’ve also got ~10x the amount of capital and 10x the amount of labour. So how is this a valid argument? Maybe this is an excuse for som
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by audunw 3y ago
Electric infrastructure is not easy in Norway. You know it’s very mountainous.. right? But Norway does have the benefit that it has relied on electricity for much of its heating for a long time. So the added load of EVs is not huge relative
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by audunw 3y ago
Please don’t repeat the misconception that ACER has anything to do with electricity prices. Norway built plenty of cables before ACER and would have built the exact same cables without it. It’s a complete myth that ACER has anything to do w
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by audunw 3y ago
Do you have a source for that claim? Norwegian statistics does not agree with you here: https://www.ssb.no/transport-og-reiseliv/landtransport/stati... https://www.dagsavisen.no/nyheter/2023&#
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Aluminium is a better thermal conductor than plastic? Might help move some of the heat away from the face and take some of the thermal load off the fans? A lot of Apples decision seems to make more sense when considering how incredibly powe
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It’s not the decline in population that’s a problem for Japan. It’s that the population is ageing. There’s a lot of old people, and not enough young people. So not enough working age compared to non-working population. And they never had an
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by audunw 3y ago
When talking to people online, living in Norway feels like being from the future trying to argue with people from the past. Imagine trying to convince people from 1924 that we’re routinely flying around in building-sized planes. They might
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I think it's actually brilliant to include battery together with energy generation. We know that when renewables become more than 20% of power generation, every GW of renewables you add should be matched by a similar order of magnitude
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Looking at a single plant isn't very interesting. Solar and wind are fundamentally more distributed so you're comparing apples to oranges. That distributed nature is both a good thing and a bad thing. Having just a few nuclear rea
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At this point I think you have to take into account battery recycling. If you build a big battery storage system now, by the time it's fully degraded, battery recycling will be a massive and streamlined operation. Given the number of e
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Keep in mind that looking at the capacity factor for nuclear vs solar/wind can be misleading as well if you don't take into account even more factors. Renewables are composed of a wide mix of thousands of power plants. And these d
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by audunw 3y ago
In my area it seems that very old EVs hold their value quite well. If you get a good measure of the state-of-health on the battery, and it’s OK, an old EV can be a very reliable car, with very little need for service, compared to an ICE car
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by audunw 3y ago
Short answer: No. Will it have a role in trucks? I used to think so. But it’s also perfectly viable to do long haul trucking with a standardised battery swap system. And that’s arguably an easier infrastructure problem to solve than buildin
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I’d say there are many examples of higher salaries being zero sum or negative sum. I’ve noticed from people I’ve visited in the US with large salaries that there’s many who buy homes with swimming pools they don’t necessarily use much. It’s
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The covers is the very reason they need to be thin. Seems circular perhaps. But you really don’t want the bare metal/glass to be the thing taking a hit when you drop your phone. And lots of people like to personalise their phones with
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We had an excess of monitors at work at one point.. so I don't have to imagine. I made a challenge of setting up as many as my computer could handle. Ended up with 5 monitors. I found I could only use two actively (I guess that would b
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> but trying to go 100% renewables is very expensive. Any source for that claim? I mean, yes it’s not exactly cheap. But neither are the alternatives. Expensive compared to what? I’ve seen several studies that indicate that going 100% re
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by audunw 3y ago
I feel like it’s more or less guaranteed that Apple will end up implementing this eventually. Just as my wife and I can both connect our AirPods to the Apple TV and watch a movie while the kids are sleeping.
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Why use a custom compiler for one specific target when you could have a single compiler that support any target you want? It doesn’t look like emscripten has an integrated build system either? I think that’s the genius of Zig.. one of the m
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It begunstiget because you now have countries on both sides of the economic scale pushing to ban them. Norway being on the other side of the spectrum. EVs could be hugely beneficial to developing countries as it’s a path to energy indepen
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Do you know how fractional distillation works? Fuel doesn’t compete for oil. Fuel, bitumen and other heavy fractions is the main reason we distill oil. Those are the hydrocarbons that are actually hard to make. The light fractions used in p
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by audunw 3y ago
> That doesn't happen without a very good reason. That reason is that ASML wouldn't be in the position it is without USA's early investment into EUV technology, and ASML relies on its own imports from USA that USA could bl
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Seems more likely that those are caused by things in our environment that we know are disruptive, like PFAS and certain plastic additives. Also bad diets and ultra processed food. There’s plenty of things to worry about where we do actual
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I don’t see why Apple should ship the device with controllers when they don’t ship iPhones or MacBooks with controllers. And while many games are better with controllers on iPhone/iPad, most games work without them. And I’m sure that’s
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> (2) If you're thinking about buying an AVP ... At the low production volume they have right now they're clearly targeting the super premium market and developers who want to get in early, so they have good apps ready when th
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Obligatory Asianometry video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UdNB3ZY4Ks
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There are so many aspects of modern EVs that gas engine cars have no way of keeping up with. Like, 220V AC outlets are becoming pretty standard on newer EVs. In you can pre-heat or pre-cool the car no matter where it's parked. It'
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by audunw 3y ago
I'm guessing the parent post means volumetric energy density, and you're referring to gravimetric energy density. It's frankly inexcusable to not be specific when you're citing an article where both figures are clearly v
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Zig is trying to replace C, not C++ You can imagine someone will make Zig++ or something like it one day. But I think it’s best to get a foundation with a 100% explicit, and as simple as possible a language. There’s a bunch of features like
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Why do you mention long range flight? I don't see anything in the article saying batteries will take 100% of the airplane market. It does say batteries will start to take market share in 2030. That's almost certainly true. It&#x27

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