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The world’s first fossil-free steel ready for delivery
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The first PC I had access to was a "French SMT-Goupil G4" with a 80186 inside: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_80186
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Also on phoronix : https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=AMD-Linu...
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Ubuntu certified AMD-based Industrial Pi
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I did the computation because I just learned about this cobalt use for fossil cars (thanks to HN !) and wanted to check if it was significant or not. On your comment: - Cobalt (and CO2 and other chemicals) from fossil car is lost as polluti
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"kg per millions of litres of fuel" we consume lots of fuel, if 1kg per million liter that's between 5 and 6 thousands metric tons of cobalt per year. number two cobalt producer is russia with 6 thousand metric ton per year (
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If I follow you maximum demand to buy labor is at $0/hr. But if don't pay labor, no one is going to buy your product at the end of the day. If you pay more for labour, that's more money to spend on product and services. There
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On the last point: https://electrek.co/2020/09/22/taycan-electric-car-porsches-... https://insideevs.com/news/517601/us-porsche-taycan-sales-20...
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Yes up to a point where it gives up and asks the driver to take back the wheel. But at this point you really see nothing and you'll limit your speed to 10-40 km/h by yourself. I used it in those situation on my tesla model 3 to be
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Yes we agree. It's just that in France "only" 20-25% of fatalities are for people not wearing seatbelt. Observation statistics are at about 98-99% of front seat users wearing seat belt in France. Seat belt in front is mandato
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There is about 36000 death on the road per year in the USA for 280 millions vehicles, that's 128.5 death/million vehicule/year If we assume the number of tesla autopilot death double this year to 8 (from 4 at the time of prob
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Interview with Paul Smith from Plasmakinetics link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brEm4mEizns "This BANNED Technology Could Push Hydrogen Cars Over BEVs" by E for Electric A few links: https://plasmak
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I don't know if the consensus on this will stand very long: https://www.dietdoctor.com/red-meat-is-not-associated-with-h... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YG81VK6co8
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Filling your tank with fossil fuel is 5 minutes wall clock but also 5 minutes where you can't do anything else. If you need to pee or eat that's a few more minutes. Filling your battery might be longer 10-15 minutes, but (at least
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Insulin resistance slowly builds up with age.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cement_kiln 1400 degree to make the cement part of concrete. You could may be reach this by solar concentration, but currently we do burn stuff to make concrete.
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Quick search gives a study on a subset of car fires: https://www.usfa.fema.gov/downloads/pdf/statistics/v19i2.pdf "Each year, from 2014 to 2016, an estimated 171,500 highway vehicle fires occurred in the
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Also here: https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/26/22594235/toyota-lobbying-...
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Toyota has stepped up lobbying to preserve its investments in hybrids, hydrogen
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My TM3 SR+ (USA made in 2019) latest supercharge was 10 minutes to add 17 kWh going from just under 20% to 54%. Charge started a 143 kW (on a 150 kW unshared charger) and I ended it 10 minutes later while it was at 80 kW. This was enough to
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Thanks for your reply. Is the Hornsdale Power Reserve "participating" in this mechanism? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hornsdale_Power_Reserve Since it's a Lithium battery I assume it's "invert
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Inertia is always pictured as a "good thing", my (very limited and probably wrong) understanding is that when production drops abruptly because of a failure inertia of rotation based generators serves as a temporary battery to cov
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Hi, is the paper "Transient Simulations With a Large Penetration of Converter-Interfaced Generation: Scientific Computing Challenges And Opportunities" available in PDF without paywall? https://doi.org/10.1109/
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I think most countries have laws to handle archeology on building sites, in France it's called "archeologie preventive": https://www.culture.gouv.fr/Regions/Drac-Grand-Est/patrimoin... Then of cours
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On aliexpress you find LFP at about 130-140 USD/kWh https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005002625171294.html (random link, never tested this vendor). Prices have gone up a bit in the last few monthes. Good source of
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Offshore capacity factor can be very high: https://www.equinor.com/en/news/20210323-hywind-scotland-uk-... "With an average capacity factor of 57.1% in the twelve month period to March 2020, the floating offs
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The french equivalent of IRS provides citizens with a pre-filled tax return form with information from employers, banks, etc... You can fix it on the web, add stuff not known by IRS, simulate tax level, and then validate it on the web. You
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For tab search in firefox do Ctrl-l (to go to the URL bar) then type %xyz will list tabs with xyz in it, select the tab you want and done. Eg to list your HN tabs and go quicky to one of them: ctrl-l %new.y (use arrows then enter)
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Paris has a large cold water network: https://www.climespace.fr/en It's used by some datacenters IIRC.
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On 3. note that carbohydrates are the only of the three macronutient we don't need to eat at all (see eskimo). Also we're very very good at fasting (using our fat store): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angus_Ba
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