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by wumpus 4y ago
It's sort of 50/50 within the community, actually. I don't want to eat fake meat. But folks who are avoiding meat on Fridays and during Lent are different from me.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> I was tricked into buying vegan sausages. I hope you weren't ill for too long.
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by wumpus 4y ago
It appears that every satellite with spot beams does that.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Ha ha busted! Thanks. As an astronomer I think everything beyond He is a metal.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> batteries need rare earth metals "Rare earths" are a column (edit: ha ha see below) in the periodic table, and are not used in batteries. Some types of electric motors use rare earths, others do not. Here's a primer: ht
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by wumpus 4y ago
There are multiple kinds of grid storage. Australia, for example, wants these batteries to provide fast-acting frequency stabilization... in addition to stabilizing the output of various wind and solar facilities.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Many electric cars have limitations on acceleration when the battery is cold.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> Texas allows information to be suppressed when the suspect is deceased Which is backwards. Dead people don't have any privacy rights.
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by wumpus 4y ago
https://www.redwoodmaterials.com/join
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by wumpus 4y ago
Don't forget all the people claiming that Tesla just buys batteries, they don't know anything about them.
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by wumpus 4y ago
I've seen one Mirai in Palo Alto. It exists!!!
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by wumpus 4y ago
My car heats its battery below 60F, and it takes about 10 minutes.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> why hasn't Toyota made longer-range plugin hybrids with these batteries Because even Toyota found the Lithium works better for that application.
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by wumpus 4y ago
That's confusing.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> because my foot is basically in the same position with or without it. Do you think that's true in general? I've never left my foot hovering over the pedals, back to when cruise control first became popular. I rest my foot ful
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by wumpus 4y ago
> and saying that it doesn't happen? Why yes, that is a strawman. I know a bunch of people who think that voter fraud is rare. Clearly it's not zero, because a few people get caught double voting every year.
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by wumpus 4y ago
There are a bunch of different plugs in houses in the US, look at electric stoves and clothes dryers.
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by wumpus 4y ago
My colleagues who do this work probably disagree. This particular paper and technique is something they aren't already using.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Thank you for illustrating how toxic many political discussions are.
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by wumpus 4y ago
"all the nuclear waste" ? You only referred to one small part of "the nuclear waste".
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by wumpus 4y ago
Assuming they can figure out which brand of kitty litter to use?
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by wumpus 4y ago
It makes sense that there's an economy of scale, and standardized designs are good, but the number 4 doesn't seem to be special in any way.
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by wumpus 4y ago
> they're not anything special when it comes to toxic materials You have to actively cool them for 5 years before putting them in a dry cask. If you fail to keep them cool, they will release a lot of bad stuff. One big potential dis
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by wumpus 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that it's OK to criticize words even when used correctly.
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by wumpus 4y ago
That used to be true, before automation showed up.
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by wumpus 4y ago
Looks like there are several examples that don't have anything to do with the Middle East in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Single_combat
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by wumpus 4y ago
Lots of parts of the US already have time-of-day electricity rates.
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by wumpus 4y ago
My apartment complex already has chargers. Eventually most or all will.
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by wumpus 4y ago
That's pretty confusing. Chargers don't naturally come in multiples of 4. Sometime hardware is multiples of 1 or 2.
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by wumpus 4y ago
4 chargers per location?! That's not a good way to have reliability.

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