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by linksnapzz 7mo ago
It's the correct argument. Bob Lutz deals with it in one of his books. The EV1 was a evaluation exercise/hedge against regulation; the impetus was a lunatic assertion in 1990 by the CA gov't: they wanted 10% of cars sold in t
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by linksnapzz 7mo ago
The easiest way to make EVs more attractive is to have a battery w/ the power density of a 14-gallon stamped-steel tank filled with gasoline, at no more than 10% of the total BOM cost of the vehicle.
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by linksnapzz 7mo ago
Eventually, near the end. The first run of them was lead-acid; the battery was about 60% of the weight of the vehicle.
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by linksnapzz 7mo ago
Do you know of a bank willing to make a loan for...startup capital in the amount necessary for a mass-market automaker?
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by linksnapzz 7mo ago
(2018) Also, the old picture shown on the page wasn't the State Prison on Smith Hill (where the mall is now); it's the Adult Correctional Institution in Cranston-the octagonal stone building from 1878 is still used as a maximum-s
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by linksnapzz 7mo ago
If there's no problem w/ improper voting, then why would anyone object to measures intended to verify that the proprieties involved are being followed?
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
What game are you playing, where the provision of electricity for industrial use isn't a goal? Again-I have been hearing for 25 years about the infinite potential of solar energy in CA-and yet, even now, you need to play games as to wh
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
I wonder how cheap one would have to make electricity to make up for CA's silly regulatory environment and confiscatory taxes. Places like California, which is right up there w/ Tunisia as the best-case scenario for solar, will ha
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
$900 for a 1-bdrm in Providence (not between Main St. & Gano) is ...ludicrously expensive historically speaking. Part of that is RI salaries being terrible, and another is that to get a cheaper place you have to live in the shootier nei
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
...and, oddly enough, coal provides over half of China's electricity supply. I suppose nobody told them about the future, where bauxite reduction can be done w/ wind energy.
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
People said the same thing about many gas & oil fields in the Permian Basin back in the '70s. How'd that work out?
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
"Cloudy days are solved by wind, ocean energy, geothermal, storage," Or, as Homer Simpson famously put it..."I dunno; Internet?" But seriously, there's no significant recycling of solar panels, coal extraction is a
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
Rankine cycle efficiency can be up to 45%; monocrystalline solar panels ~25%? I suppose you aren't paying for the sunshine, but if cloudy days affected coal power, James Watt wouldn't be famous.
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
Coal is cheap and abundant in the English Midlands, which explains much of the industrial revolution starting there. Said collieries, which if put back into service, would be able to cheaply get coal to Ireland via barge at no great cost or
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
This box needs an official retirement ceremony when the database is migrated.
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
Once upon a time, down the street from where Junie Speakman (sponsor of the legislation) lives, there was an SRO hotel called the Harriet Bradford Inn. About 25 years ago, it got sold, and turned into ~12 condos w/ an average price of
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
I read Hyperion in hs; and so much of what I read afterward (Chaucer, Boccaccio, Shakespeare, Keats, Eliot, Valéry) was influenced by Dan Simmons writing about it/quoting it. At this point, I doubt I could tell you where his influenc
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
Neither should banks, but that ship has sailed.
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
There's a book; Ghosts of Evolution, that discusses this in depth. Wasn't dinosaurs, it was probably some kind of proboscidian gompothere.
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
These aren't the Limulus Polyphemus of the North Atlantic, I think they mean one of the other (Pacific?) three or so species of horseshoe crab. Though, were I a crab of any sort, anywhere, I'd live in terror of a hungry Cantones
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
It's not the sarcotesta, the butyric-acid filled dogshit smelling thing, it's the "seed" (it's not really a seed, morphologically as I understand it...), the sclerotesta that's edible.
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
There used to be a time in history when a system administrator had to know all this shit in order to keep their job. I guess nowadays devops just means dev as we furiously pump tokens into the AI Wurlitzer whenever we dont know how to do s
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
When using the the term 'OpenBoot' in the context of a Mac, ppl are going to think that you're talking about the Fcode-based PROM environment common to PPC macs of yore. I know I did...
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
Assuming you're asking in good faith, the parent could be referring to the 'market for lemons' in employment, where in lieu of being able to easily determine worker quality, employers start using second- or third-order- proxi
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
No, their quality has been dropping since the acquisition; it's just now gotten to the point where it cannot be explained away.
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by linksnapzz 8mo ago
Most developers won't know if they're touching it or not, given their market.
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by linksnapzz 9mo ago
<wanking motion intensifies> Ah, the heart of an industrial 21st-century economy. Grocery delivery.
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by linksnapzz 9mo ago
I believe that in Acts, His followers were told to “go out into all nations”, not “invite all nations back here to Roman Judea, the Romans will be totally cool with that!”.
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by linksnapzz 9mo ago
I’m sure Norway is reducing plenty of virgin aluminum using rooftop solar.
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by linksnapzz 9mo ago
So, uh, where precisely are you finding a sufficient # conservative professors to make that kind of statement? I'm curious as to where they're hiding...

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