I knew someone would start bitching about this. Just because "all those people" you know drive a lot every day doesn't meaneverybody does. Ever heard of statistics?
Long charging times are for most people only a problem on vacation. Normally people commute much shorter distances than the maximum modern electric cars can drive and can charge their cars at night. Long charging times are for most people only a problem on vacation, when they have time to wait half an hour for their car to get charged after driving for two hours. I think this whole 'long charging time' thing is fed by Big Oil astroturfers.
I remember when I was a young boy 40 years ago the batteries in my toys would last just an hour or so, and they would start to leak a very dirty brown liquid a few days after I had put them in my toys. Back then we hadn't even heard about rechargeable batteries, let alone Li-ion batteries. Nowadays I can play around with my Lego toys for a long time before my rechargeable, non-leaking batteries go flat. Li-ion batteries pack so much power into a small volume that they are able to explode all by themselves, or power a phone with the calculating capacities of a supercomputer from the 1990s for many hours on end. So reality doesn't support your claim that batteries haven't improved over the last 50 years.
GM has managed to keep the problems with the locks on their cars under the radar for almost twenty years. People have died because of that and I don't know if it ever really got solved. So I wouldn't be so sure about Samsung being sued out of existence if they had acted otherwise. They are also rich enough to bribe the US government.
True, but windmills are not very efficient and placing windmills is just about the only thing our government does for the environment. And besides placing windmills they recently increased the maximum speed on the motorways to 130 km/h, decided not to close some coal powered power plants, get more gas from elsewhere to prevent earthquakes in the province of Groningen instead of making an effort to insulate houses and make companies more energy efficient and they want to expand Schiphol. So every effort they put into green energy is more than compensated for. Oh and they also decided to increase tax on hybrids so the difference in tax you pay on diesels and more energy efficient cars has become smaller.
40% is not zero by a very long shot. We should get rid of fossil fuels as soon as possible. Having said that, it pains me that my country (the Netherlands), which was the forerunner in nature-friendly technology in the 1990s is now way behind even the US in implementing the necessary steps to reduce CO2 emissions. We're gearing up to elections for a new parliament in March, but none of the parties that matter has even mentioned the environment in their party propaganda yet. We're a small country but one of the dirtiest in the whole of Europe thanks to the gouvernments we've had since the turn of the millennium.
Desert-dwelling sheep herders weren't ignorant! They knew all about herding and breeding sheep, what kinds of food they need etc. But they couldn't write, and therefore they couldn't have written the Bible.
That's pretty impressive and a testament to human ingenuity! If we are smart enough to destroy so much nature in so little time we should be smart enough to find alternatives to destroying it too.
Mercury doesn't actually contain much mercury so I guess they try again, and most of the rocks in our vicinity have been named already so they settled for this asteroid.
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I'm getting pretty fed up with conspiracy idiots like you.
I knew someone would start bitching about this. Just because "all those people" you know drive a lot every day doesn't meaneverybody does. Ever heard of statistics?
That's exactly why I used the Lego example.
Long charging times are for most people only a problem on vacation. Normally people commute much shorter distances than the maximum modern electric cars can drive and can charge their cars at night. Long charging times are for most people only a problem on vacation, when they have time to wait half an hour for their car to get charged after driving for two hours.
I think this whole 'long charging time' thing is fed by Big Oil astroturfers.
Most electronics are made in the Far East, so I guess most battery research also goes on there.
I remember when I was a young boy 40 years ago the batteries in my toys would last just an hour or so, and they would start to leak a very dirty brown liquid a few days after I had put them in my toys. Back then we hadn't even heard about rechargeable batteries, let alone Li-ion batteries. Nowadays I can play around with my Lego toys for a long time before my rechargeable, non-leaking batteries go flat. Li-ion batteries pack so much power into a small volume that they are able to explode all by themselves, or power a phone with the calculating capacities of a supercomputer from the 1990s for many hours on end. So reality doesn't support your claim that batteries haven't improved over the last 50 years.
There are people living close to borders you know. I'm one of them. It's neat, you should try it once.
Isn't that just the point of net neutrality? That the gouvernment makes sure the way data travels over the internet does not get regulated?
GM has managed to keep the problems with the locks on their cars under the radar for almost twenty years. People have died because of that and I don't know if it ever really got solved. So I wouldn't be so sure about Samsung being sued out of existence if they had acted otherwise. They are also rich enough to bribe the US government.
True, but windmills are not very efficient and placing windmills is just about the only thing our government does for the environment. And besides placing windmills they recently increased the maximum speed on the motorways to 130 km/h, decided not to close some coal powered power plants, get more gas from elsewhere to prevent earthquakes in the province of Groningen instead of making an effort to insulate houses and make companies more energy efficient and they want to expand Schiphol. So every effort they put into green energy is more than compensated for. Oh and they also decided to increase tax on hybrids so the difference in tax you pay on diesels and more energy efficient cars has become smaller.
Not so cool for the animals and plants living around it though.
16 bits ought to be enough for everybody.
40% is not zero by a very long shot. We should get rid of fossil fuels as soon as possible. Having said that, it pains me that my country (the Netherlands), which was the forerunner in nature-friendly technology in the 1990s is now way behind even the US in implementing the necessary steps to reduce CO2 emissions. We're gearing up to elections for a new parliament in March, but none of the parties that matter has even mentioned the environment in their party propaganda yet. We're a small country but one of the dirtiest in the whole of Europe thanks to the gouvernments we've had since the turn of the millennium.
Good riddance.
Desert-dwelling sheep herders weren't ignorant! They knew all about herding and breeding sheep, what kinds of food they need etc. But they couldn't write, and therefore they couldn't have written the Bible.
Let's wait until next week then.
That may all be true but civilized countries treat people decently whatever they have done. Torture is just not done there.
Assange knows that will never happen. Obama has trouble even treating Manning like a normal human being.
If your child finds it necessary to sue you she has seen more than enough of you already so she will be glad you don't want to see her again.
Because Trump. Or Clinton.
The worst thing is: we've known that for decades too. But nobody ever did something about it.
The most important thing is that we need to put a value on the nature that we destroy for our needs.
That's pretty impressive and a testament to human ingenuity! If we are smart enough to destroy so much nature in so little time we should be smart enough to find alternatives to destroying it too.
Mercury doesn't actually contain much mercury so I guess they try again, and most of the rocks in our vicinity have been named already so they settled for this asteroid.
It's about time. Hopefully the asteroid contains a lot of mercury.