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by audunw 3y ago
I’m surprised that you find the software to be junk.. that’s supposed to be one of their strong points. I found the software on the Model S I borrowed for a trip a while back quite nice. But I guess the issues aren’t surface level?
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by audunw 3y ago
You’re making generalisations about Europe that just don’t make sense. There are plenty of countries/regions in Europe where electricity is more readily available. You can’t even generalise about a single country. North Germany has a l
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by audunw 3y ago
Sure, bring him back or whatever. But don’t pretend it has anything to do with free speech. That’s undermining the importance of the concept free speech. Free speech has never been about forcing all (social or not) media platforms to publis
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by audunw 3y ago
What do you base this opinion on? Northern European countries consistently rank at the top of the world in ease of doing business https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ease_of_doing_business_index Some of them have more entr
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by audunw 3y ago
For LFP you can supposedly pack the cells very tight, as they require less thermal management if I understand correctly. And you’re HAVE to do this optimisation for LFP to have decent pack level energy density. For Li-ion cells, you need th
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by audunw 3y ago
EVs these days have a lot more battery capacity than many people need. Like, if my car is 50% depleted I can still use it for 3-4 days for anything I’d need to do. Main point for me if the power goes out would be to keep the refrigerator an
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by audunw 3y ago
A Toyota Corolla is a pretty basic car. You can complain about the lack of features you’d have in a SUV, a pickup truck or a van.. and rightly be frustrated that you couldn’t do a job you need to do in a Corolla… but you wouldn’t say it is
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by audunw 3y ago
Given the cost of the “wasted” electricity I think it’s reasonable to say that charging with wires could easily be more wasteful. All it takes is just that wireless charging saves ONE broken/worn-out component, and it’ll easily have
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by audunw 3y ago
You don’t need hearing to avoid freezing. You can just pump bubbles around the solar panels to prevent ice from forming. That’s what marinas do if they don’t take the boats out in winter
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by audunw 3y ago
Sold Energy Systems have been shipping batteries for good while now. But mainly to niche applications. Mercedes has a bus with sold state batteries if I remember correctly. But it needs to be heated up to a high operating temperature so it’
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by audunw 3y ago
We had a hydrogen gas station nearby. It exploded. Now there’s an EV charging station there instead. Hydrogen might be viable for trucks, ferries and ships with limited dedicated infrastructure. But it’s a lost cause for personal cars.
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by audunw 3y ago
There are probably some economic downsides, but it’s far, far less than what you’d see based on looking at the raw spending. If most of the money is going to modernise the US military while freeing up old stock to send to Ukraine, that’s ar
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by audunw 3y ago
> It’s not as fuel efficient, but that matters very little for a nuclear plant in the grand scheme of things. What matters is that the upfront capital costs of nuclear are so insanely high that any hour you’re not producing 100% you’re l
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by audunw 3y ago
It wouldn’t be hard to replace China for solar cells. Especially if the west starts to shift investments and manpower away from fossil fuels.
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by audunw 3y ago
Not sure why he’d go into the topic of a BRICS alternative to a global reserve currency. That just ain’t happening. Especially a commodity based currency. That’s just not going to scale. There’s a force aspect to the dollars role as global
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by audunw 3y ago
Feels like you’re downplaying the tragedy of a whole village having to be abandoned with no warning. Yeah a few people live there now. That doesn’t make the tragedy any better. We don’t need baseload. You can go 100% renewable just fine wit
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by audunw 3y ago
> There still needs to be a CV joint to allow steering Naw, because if you look closely in the video you can see that the motors turns with the wheel. With small EV motors that’s not unreasonable. Presumably the motor is free to tilt up
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by audunw 3y ago
In the video you can see the motors turning with the wheels. So there’s no problem there at all. I think this would make most sense with an axial flux motor. That’d keep the package quite compact. I’m guessing the camper changes mentioned c
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by audunw 3y ago
This mostly makes sense if you have four individual motors right next to the wheels, that turns with the wheel. That’s obviously also not viable with ICE cars.
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by audunw 3y ago
You can see the motors turning in some empty space in the video yes. But it’s mostly in the space that would be taken up by the CV joint. Just look closer at the animations in the video if you want to see how the space is being used
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by audunw 3y ago
As far as I know they never got a single machine. So they can’t easily reverse engineer it. They’re struggling already just to copy the previous generation DUV machines, and that’s while having a bunch of machines they can study and copy. A
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by audunw 3y ago
SMIC uses western manufacturing equipment. Though there’s efforts on that front too.
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by audunw 3y ago
Norways. With no upgrades. The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate has a study showing the details. That’s assuming that most people charge at night. But that’s already happening. Setting up a modern EV to charge based on elec
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by audunw 3y ago
The way renormalisation is mostly covered in popular media, made me think you can’t do quantum physics without dirty tricks to get rid of infinites. Then I read The Road to Reality by Roger Penrose and in the chapter on renormalisation it m
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by audunw 3y ago
Nobody is suggesting making power plants out of these panels. So not sure why you’d have that idea. If you don’t have access to the grid, like for remote sensors and such, being able to generate just a bit of power at night can let you avoi
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by audunw 3y ago
> Of course, the burning creates CO2. A trash incinerator in Norway is working on extracting and storing that CO2. So they could end up being carbon negative in the long run
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by audunw 3y ago
I think this issue is mainly about getting the right equipment and training. Since some countries are far ahead I’m sure the available training material is rapidly getting better. I’ve been saying for a while that we’d see something like a
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by audunw 3y ago
Pretty sure you’d maximise the fire hazard. You’d need a gas tank. Those contribute massively to fires in parking garages. Batteries do not contribute in those fires as Norway found out in the Sola parking garage fire. Not a single EV batte
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by audunw 3y ago
> I can't imagine what it would be with EV charging spots at those times. There will be a transition period when infrastructure is constrained. That’s true. But in the long term I think this will be less of an issue than you’d think
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by audunw 3y ago
Article didn’t seem to mention balanced ventilation. That’s another important component of keeping the house warm without excessively high CO2 levels. We have 20°C+ inside in winter and yet use very little energy to heat the home. Helps tha

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