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by ztakeo 3y ago
Throwing a couple more recs in here: - American Sign Museum in Cincinnati ( https://www.americansignmuseum.org/ ) - not sure what qualifies as a museum but the City Museum in St. Louis is incredible ( https://www.ci
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by ztakeo 3y ago
“Balanced moderation” lol. Well you’re in luck. Folks have been digging through her likes and follows on Twitter and it looks like she’s leans fairly right.
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by ztakeo 5y ago
Here's a good reference https://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlelanding/2015/ta/c5ta0...
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by ztakeo 6y ago
Well if you want to see one way the battery swapping model can fail work, check out the book Totaled, which is about the Israeli EV startup Better Place that tried battery swapping before Tesla was a thing. Granted there were a lot of compl
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by ztakeo 7y ago
Recently switched from Safari to Firefox because of the awful extensions environment in Safari but definitely missing the battery life. Really wish one browser could just get everything right
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by ztakeo 9y ago
The upfront cost is no longer prohibitive with all-electric buses realizing savings in the form of reduced maintenance and fuel costs that exceed the initial investment discrepancy [1-2]. On your second point, a bus doesn't necessarily
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by ztakeo 9y ago
Not sure if by "converting" you mean retrofitting old buses or replacing diesel buses with new electric buses. If it's the former definition, it's non-trivial from a safety and engineering standpoint to integrate a high-
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by ztakeo 10y ago
While I agree that some of the blame falls on the PIs, it should fall on the university system as well. My PI recently read his mid-tenure review to our group, noting that there are explicit publishing metrics evaluated by the department wh