From the summary: Since 1961, the world has lost 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, the study reported. Melted, that's enough to cover the lower 48 U.S. states in about 4 feet of water.
Well, if we "lost" 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, since 1961, and it did not melt.... and the lower 48 states is not under 4 ft of water.... where did it all go?
Area of the USA lower48 is 3.1 million square miles while the area of the oceans is 140 million square miles so 4ft of water over the USA would be only an extra inch added to sea level
"The million dollar question is: how many fanboys are there? And are new fanboys created by word-of-mouth? I certainly don't know."
Over 300,000 were fanboy enough to put down $1000 and wait 2-3 years. And it's a reasonable guess that more than 1/2 of those are still waiting and with this latest announcement will wait at least a few months more. But taken together, this raft of abrupt changes is and should be VERY worrying to any customer or stockholder. Something isn't right and when you add in that the resignation of Yoshio Ito, the head of Panasonic's automotive & industrial systems, was announced the very same day, one can't help but wonder exactly what the hell is going on.
Looks like now you can have a 1000 mile test drive before you have to commit to buy it.
7 days or 1000 miles whichever comes first but you've already paid for it by that point so if you choose to return it, you won't get your money back right away
"Real world tests show little difference in efficiency between the Kona and M3. And of course the Kona battery a lot bigger." ?? The Kona is supposed to have a 64 kWh battery & while Tesla hasn't confirmed it, Model 3 teardowns show the pack to be ~75 kWh capacity.
When it drops to 80% of what that vehicle expects, send it on to a utility storage operation that uses acres of space and doesn't care as much about power density"
Yes. New York Times had several articles on this in 2010 & 2011. Repurposing EV batteries for energy storage will extend their useful life by 1-2 decades.
He's just a step away (if he hasn't already) from SWATting someone, which can lead to all sorts of bad outcomes
Ten years taking it up the ass on a nightly basis sounds just about right, IMHO
The bad outcomes are from the jacked up glorified security guards who do criminally stupid shit like shooting from across a street at a residence. Every civilized country has SWAT yet it's only America where SWATting calls turn into civilian fatalities.
watt-hrs per kg are 1400, 8900 and 5300 while the per liter numbers are 10k, 19k and 27k Gasoline is 12,200 watt-hrs per kg and 9700 per liter. Gasoline's significant per-kg advantage is diminished by it being consumed during use. Of course there are many hurdles to overcome for molten-air batteries so they won't be commercially available any time soon.
"it was created somewhere between a hundred thousand years and a hundred million years ago"
That's a fairly vague estimate, and I understand at this time it's the best they can come up with, but I'n wondering if this estimate can be tightened with more observations and analysis.
100k years is not even wrong as an estimate in 100 million years.
Conditions are icy in this video, and while you can claim that both the truck and the car are subject to the same conditions, the most important factor in those conditions are the condition and type of tires.
We have no data on that.
Here are a few tug-o-war matches between a Model X and a Hummer & a Land Cruiser
Texas and the others states across the South / Southwest should get together and get the proposed Tres Amigas Superstation / interconnect built, perhaps more than one. That should allow for much greater penetration of renewables and less frequent curtailment as overproduction could be shifted from Florida to California
"Solar farms cover habitat.Roof top can diminish that as those roofs would already exist, but they might not be in optimal locations"
Roof tops exists where people live, work, visit or go to school. Producing power locally means less wear on or less need for the distribution network. Solar canopies for sun-absorbing blacktop parking lots would also work very well
"Using wind takes energy from the currents which impacts precipitation locally and not locally. It impacts atmospheric thermal transfer from one place to another" Not to any significant degree. And the bigger & more powerful the turbine, the more widely spaced a farm of them must be. "Wind migrates seeds, insects and other natural processes. It's not free and without impact" Wind farms have reportedly been good for some crops as the evaporation inhibits mold growth. "Remember we used to think hydroelectric damns were wonderful. Then people started looking at how they impact salmon runs and other aquatic life as well as what happens when rivers stop running their natural course" There's no one alive who can remember that because it's not true. The implications were known but it was judged to be worth the risk - when done right, unlike the Banqiao Dam
"it's just completely boring central European monoculture. Maybe I should sell my DNA to the mixed-race white supremacists" Better idea would be to challenge for leadership of Stormfront or some such based on ancestral purity. Or go after Steve King's Congressional seat
it is stupid to count per capita. The US is the #2 manufacturing nation in the world. That is why the per capita numbers are so high.
Hogwash. Japan is no slouch when it comes to manufacturing and their CO2 emissions spiked after they shut down their nukes. Yet it's per capita numbers, while high, are still well below America's. Find other excuses.
Germany has been increasing their CO2 output year over year and is spinning up coal plants. Nice "targets" but the US has more installed solar and wind and renewables than almost any country in the world.
Per capita, per tonne of CO2 emitted and considering the impressive resources of both solar and wind, what the USA has done so far is not that impressive. China leads the world in solar heating for hot water with 70% of installed systems of the global total. America is now in 2nd place but with only 4.5% but Germany & Turkey were at that level nearly 10 years ago.
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From the summary: Since 1961, the world has lost 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, the study reported. Melted, that's enough to cover the lower 48 U.S. states in about 4 feet of water.
Well, if we "lost" 10.6 trillion tons of ice and snow, since 1961, and it did not melt.... and the lower 48 states is not under 4 ft of water.... where did it all go?
Area of the USA lower48 is 3.1 million square miles while the area of the oceans is 140 million square miles so 4ft of water over the USA would be only an extra inch added to sea level
or desktops
now they'll be significantly adding to the junk in space
Its hard to find someone that makes you feel warm and fuzzy for Bill Gates.
And yet Larry Ellison almost makes it look easy. That's quite a talent.
"The million dollar question is: how many fanboys are there? And are new fanboys created by word-of-mouth? I certainly don't know."
Over 300,000 were fanboy enough to put down $1000 and wait 2-3 years.
And it's a reasonable guess that more than 1/2 of those are still waiting and with this latest announcement will wait at least a few months more.
But taken together, this raft of abrupt changes is and should be VERY worrying to any customer or stockholder.
Something isn't right and when you add in that the resignation of Yoshio Ito, the head of Panasonic's automotive & industrial systems, was announced the very same day, one can't help but wonder exactly what the hell is going on.
Well played
Looks like now you can have a 1000 mile test drive before you have to commit to buy it.
7 days or 1000 miles whichever comes first but you've already paid for it by that point so if you choose to return it, you won't get your money back right away
"Real world tests show little difference in efficiency between the Kona and M3. And of course the Kona battery a lot bigger."
?? The Kona is supposed to have a 64 kWh battery & while Tesla hasn't confirmed it, Model 3 teardowns show the pack to be ~75 kWh capacity.
When it drops to 80% of what that vehicle expects, send it on to a utility storage operation that uses acres of space and doesn't care as much about power density"
Yes. New York Times had several articles on this in 2010 & 2011. Repurposing EV batteries for energy storage will extend their useful life by 1-2 decades.
"guy"?
https://model3ownersclub.com/m...
Not cool at all. Don't be a dick.
He's just a step away (if he hasn't already) from SWATting someone, which can lead to all sorts of bad outcomes
Ten years taking it up the ass on a nightly basis sounds just about right, IMHO
The bad outcomes are from the jacked up glorified security guards who do criminally stupid shit like shooting from across a street at a residence.
Every civilized country has SWAT yet it's only America where SWATting calls turn into civilian fatalities.
"The basics of chemical storage of energy means that no battery can ever be as energy dense as gasoline"
Molten-air batteries of iron, carbon and vanadium boride have impressive numbers
https://phys.org/news/2013-09-...
watt-hrs per kg are 1400, 8900 and 5300 while the per liter numbers are 10k, 19k and 27k
Gasoline is 12,200 watt-hrs per kg and 9700 per liter. Gasoline's significant per-kg advantage is diminished by it being consumed during use. Of course there are many hurdles to overcome for molten-air batteries so they won't be commercially available any time soon.
"it was created somewhere between a hundred thousand years and a hundred million years ago"
That's a fairly vague estimate, and I understand at this time it's the best they can come up with, but I'n wondering if this estimate can be tightened with more observations and analysis.
100k years is not even wrong as an estimate in 100 million years.
The UK will cuck itself and find a way to stay in the EU.
A bunch of UK cucks who've quietly faded into the background helped their nation cuck itself by Brexiting.
"no definitive proof"
Hey! Good enough for me! Hang the bastards, right??
This is sick! "no definitive proof", but let's put it in the headline anyway. Sells more papers. The entire "news' scene has become tabloid gossip!
Read the article. It may not be "definitive" but it's well beyond merely plausible
Cool, but the test is not that clear.
Conditions are icy in this video, and while you can claim that both the truck and the car are subject to the same conditions, the most important factor in those conditions are the condition and type of tires.
We have no data on that.
Here are a few tug-o-war matches between a Model X and a Hummer & a Land Cruiser
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
Really-- call a tow company in there, block them in, and hook up towing gear, and charge them a stiff fee.
If it isn't a tow away zone then somebody screwed up.
They don't need a tow truck. Teslas have a lot of low-end torque and a Model S or X could easily drag those pickups out of the parking spots.
Texas and the others states across the South / Southwest should get together and get the proposed Tres Amigas Superstation / interconnect built, perhaps more than one.
That should allow for much greater penetration of renewables and less frequent curtailment as overproduction could be shifted from Florida to California
"Solar farms cover habitat.Roof top can diminish that as those roofs would already exist, but they might not be in optimal locations"
Roof tops exists where people live, work, visit or go to school. Producing power locally means less wear on or less need for the distribution network.
Solar canopies for sun-absorbing blacktop parking lots would also work very well
"Using wind takes energy from the currents which impacts precipitation locally and not locally. It impacts atmospheric thermal transfer from one place to another"
Not to any significant degree. And the bigger & more powerful the turbine, the more widely spaced a farm of them must be.
"Wind migrates seeds, insects and other natural processes. It's not free and without impact"
Wind farms have reportedly been good for some crops as the evaporation inhibits mold growth.
"Remember we used to think hydroelectric damns were wonderful. Then people started looking at how they impact salmon runs and other aquatic life as well as what happens when rivers stop running their natural course"
There's no one alive who can remember that because it's not true.
The implications were known but it was judged to be worth the risk - when done right, unlike the Banqiao Dam
But then she wouldn't be an idiot, and we would be living in a different reality.
It's all Warren's fault we're living in a reality where Trump has shown us for decades exactly the kind of person he is and still became President
Very close to the average UK citizen.
Isn't the average UK citizen nowadays 7% Asian or something like that?
Isn't more like 30% Pakistani? That's what I've heard from some *white* friends
"it's just completely boring central European monoculture. Maybe I should sell my DNA to the mixed-race white supremacists"
Better idea would be to challenge for leadership of Stormfront or some such based on ancestral purity.
Or go after Steve King's Congressional seat
"He has bigger tits than Elisabeth Warren anyway."
And a much wider ass
it is stupid to count per capita. The US is the #2 manufacturing nation in the world. That is why the per capita numbers are so high.
Hogwash.
Japan is no slouch when it comes to manufacturing and their CO2 emissions spiked after they shut down their nukes.
Yet it's per capita numbers, while high, are still well below America's.
Find other excuses.
Germany has been increasing their CO2 output year over year and is spinning up coal plants. Nice "targets" but the US has more installed solar and wind and renewables than almost any country in the world.
Per capita, per tonne of CO2 emitted and considering the impressive resources of both solar and wind, what the USA has done so far is not that impressive.
China leads the world in solar heating for hot water with 70% of installed systems of the global total.
America is now in 2nd place but with only 4.5% but Germany & Turkey were at that level nearly 10 years ago.