tmellon2

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by tmellon2 9d ago
You have a point. However, the requirement estimate of 45000 acres is off by 10 times ! I have seen some of these tanks - even accounting for spacing between them; at best one needs maybe a total of 5000 acres. BTW - If everyone followed El
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by tmellon2 10d ago
Hmm...The Math does not hold up. 300 feet diameter circular area is 1.62 acres. So at max you would need about 1130 x 2 = 2260 acres and not 45000 acres as projected ! From the post : "300 feet in diameter..." "To hold 714 mi
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by tmellon2 3mo ago
Totally unnecessary : I did the Math to cross-verify - Elon Musk is 100 % right ! Just ONE square mile of batteries and a TOTAL of 100 x 100 square miles of Solar can power the entire USA 24/7. Area required will be much lesser for Can
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BYD files 52 patents every single day. 700 km charge in 9 min. Available Today [video](youtube.com)
4 points by tmellon2 5mo ago|3 comments
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by tmellon2 5mo ago
Oil is totally cooked. Bloomberg reports an automobile that Fast charges 700 km in 9 minutes flat that is available today. One can imagine that charging can be done during the day from excess Solar. As Elon Musk puts it - just a total of 10
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by tmellon2 5mo ago
Oil is cooked. BYD is filing 52 patents every single day and has a 700 km in 9 minutes vehicle available TODAY ! Charging by Solar is going to be the norm. Watch : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgCYYrhL-kE
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by tmellon2 7mo ago
Thank you. I was not aware of prior references especially that it could be done with 10K square miles, until media reports of Elon's speech at Davos recently.
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by tmellon2 7mo ago
Elon Musk mentioned that just a 100 square mile grid of Solar can power the entire USA. I did not believe it; a simple calculation later, I was convinced. The USA of yesteryear would have done this already and more. Sure other sources are r
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by tmellon2 1y ago
The De Minimis loophole is highly significant with FOUR Million packages per day (What ???). The clause to address this loophole needs to be stated more accurately - It should be clearly defined to be higher or lower of 30 % of the value
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by tmellon2 1y ago
The De Minimis loophole is highly significant with 4 Million packages per day (What ?). The clause to address this loophole needs to be stated more accurately - It should clearly define it to be higher / lower of 30 % of value of shi
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Want a Million Dollars? Get Busy Deciphering This Ancient Script(nytimes.com)
2 points by tmellon2 2y ago|1 comments
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by tmellon2 2y ago
There is sufficient scholarly published work but the script lacks the equivalent of a Rosetta stone. A prize offered by an Indian state leader is intended to shed light on a Bronze Age civilization — and settle a cultural battle.
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by tmellon2 2y ago
1) EVs are not significantly heavier https://thedriven.io/2024/05/03/are-evs-really-much-heavier-... 2) One must also factor in the vast surface fleet that moves Gas and crude oil around : https://
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by tmellon2 2y ago
Not necessarily in this scenario - if net manufacturing and battery costs were to fall - given the IC engine requires so many parts. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-28/china-s-e...
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by tmellon2 2y ago
Every EV that is used to replace personal transport of individuals with long (necessary), regular commutes each day will help in alleviating global warming : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-28/
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by tmellon2 2y ago
Could Elon pay the 10 % of his staff by taking a personal paycut from 56 Billion to One Billion USD ?
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by tmellon2 2y ago
Incredible. If all governments are serious about global warming, they would move all public transport buses to this battery (and hook it up to Solar farms directly, when parked in terminals between break shifts). Public transport buses are
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by tmellon2 2y ago
If planting two billion trees has so many challenges in a sparsely populated country (considering Canada's land area) - how is the One Trillion trees project supported by the likes of Marc Benioff (Salesforce) even possible ? For the r
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by tmellon2 3y ago
It is because you are using your dominant hand. Try switching the mouse with your non-dominant hand.
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by tmellon2 3y ago
Data would not get automatically contributed to research unless you explicitly gave informed consent for research studies. All researchers now require to maintain official records of informed consent given by patients or research participan
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by tmellon2 3y ago
So be it, if Germans want to continue to be dependent on dictators and kings for their energy.
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by tmellon2 3y ago
If people can connect small scale renewable power grids (think solar powered grids of a few acres) present alongside highways to charging facilities the revolution would truly happen especially in sunny places (think Texas, Africa, South As
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by tmellon2 3y ago
You could request your city council to attach a magnet to the ends of their sweep trucks. This would remove all nails and sharp ferromagnetic debris from the bike paths at no additional cost. They do this in certain countries to avoid flats
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by tmellon2 3y ago
I will be interested in results of a control group which did 90 minutes of weight training and cardio under similar conditions.
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by tmellon2 4y ago
I'm perplexed how come the larger CA reservoirs are nowhere close to their storage capacity : https://cdec.water.ca.gov/resapp/RescondMain
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by tmellon2 4y ago
Question : Are there any technical challenges in building 100 acre x 300 feet deep concrete storage tanks to store the water run-off ?
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by tmellon2 4y ago
Generally speaking the average annual wage of corporate workers (mostly engineers) will be in the six figures. Hourly wage workers take home (on average) median US annual wages. So laying of 10000 engineers (in terms of immediate $ costs) i
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by tmellon2 4y ago
Does someone have a better sense of economics of charging $8/Month ? At best assuming approximately the 420,000 [see Ref.1] folks currently on twitter will pay $8/Month - which gives about $40 Million in annual revenue. Will th
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by tmellon2 4y ago
Does someone have a better sense of economics of charging $8/Month ? At best assuming approximately the 420,000 [see Ref.1] folks currently on twitter will pay $8/Month - which gives about $40 Million in *annual* revenue. Will the
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by tmellon2 5y ago
Does anyone know how fast does M1 Max perform on Deep Learning training tasks compared to NVIDIA 3080Ti ?

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