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Electric price in the uk on an off peak tariff overnight is about 7p/kWh, or about 2p/mile, so charging your car overnight with the average electric mileage (10,000 miles a year - higher than the average mileage) costs £200, about
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> PH = Plug-in hybrid (Same as a hybrid but you can charge up the hybrid battery at home) Surely that's the "same as a battery but you can use petrol on long journeys" The only energy input for a "hybrid" is from
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by iso1631 6mo ago
Fuel in the UK is £1.58 a litre (£1.48 at one garage I passed today, £1.61 at another, some garages are certainly profiteering) In 2022 is was £1.89 a litre and spent most of the year over £1.60 a litre Adjusted for inflation that would be
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Pretty much every country is in debt. China itself owns over $18t > Government debt is not like personal debt, for a lot of reasons that I am not smart enough to explain. One big reason is that governments print their own money. Another
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Who is the debt owed to What will they do if it was repaid Why do people keep lending money to the US government if they think it's a problem
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Nuclear power is a solution to labour shortages? Because of powering AI?
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Renewables and storage are cheaper and faster. I agree that Europe needs to be energy independent. And population decline is a global problem. Nuclear was the correct solution in the 90s. It's not now. Arguably you need to keep a small
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Or perhaps take that large railway car, put a few together, and run then on or through the ground direct from the airport to a few downtown locations every couple of minutes. The efficiency per person would be ridiculously high (20,000 an h
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behind a cloudflare block, not worth the fight
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I found it interesting but a honeypot would have been interesting -- how long do they spend trying passwords for example.
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In Europe you get about 1000kWh a year from 1000kW of solar panel A plug in solar panel and microinverter at the local supermarket is about €1k/kW. 9kW of solar for €9k/£8k/$10.5k to power an average US car and an average US
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That's the entire point of the trillion dollar advertising industry
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Github outage? Must be a Y in the day
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> the future really should be federated The internet should not be centralised, but you can't make a billion dollar company without capturing the world and selling your company to a trillion dollar company
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> . We should put a radio telescope on the far side of the moon [0] to benefit from the thousands of kilometers of lunar material separating Earth's emissions from telescopes. Do you really think a starlink style installation won&#x
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Hardly first time -- https://archive.is/KZ0sy
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More so than say Afghanistan and Sweden?
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It does seem the idea is to get the Taiwanese people to want to choose to rejoin China by making China far better for people to live than Taiwan. Maybe that will be via democracy (i.e. China manipulates the people of Taiwan), or perhaps it
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The origins of this war date back decades, arguably far longer.
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Nobody cares that politicians don't keep pre-election promises. And in most cases they shouldn't, circumstances change. You can have no intention of doing something, then something else happens, and you change your mind. The probl
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> When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure The measure is the number of votes. "What shall we have for dinner" measures things, there's no target in a "curry vs pizza vs thai" poll, and it
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I checked a machine this morning and it had updated itself at Apr 23 1715G I've purged the snap. Really should purge snapd completely.
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Slightly exaggerated The top 10 individually have more wealth than Iceland, which is 83rd. The top 25 combined have a wealth of $3.2t, more than Belgium, which is 20th.
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America is swinging even more towards theocracy -- the Military Prayer Meetings say killing people is a mission from god, the White House Faith Office 1) exists, and 2) says that saying no to the rapist running government is "saying no
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Not really, you are asked who was driving. If you are driving: You say "Me", then they give you the points You lie, say it "Bob", then you're guilty of perverting the course of justice. They then write to Bob, If Bo
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> Bicyclists must be mandated to wear light-colored high-visibility clothing, reflective gear, and a helmet, otherwise their bicycle should be confiscated. The leading cause of death for car occupants is head injuries, I assume you belie
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> Since 2022, traffic cameras have caught his pickup truck blasting through school zones or running red lights more than 547 times in that one borough In the UK speeding tickets get you 3 points (or more if you're really over like 5
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Have you seen the logistics required to move the output of 15,000 acres of food to the consumer? A 15,000 acre solar farm generates 6000GWh a year, which can be moved via a single high voltage pylon. Of course you don't need to move it
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Technology Connections covered this a few months ago https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KtQ9nt2ZeGM - from about 22m to 38m
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The more acres you have, the more kWh you can generate each year Why wouldn't land owners want to farm the sun?

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