No, actually they can't. Go do the math and you'll find us behind, and they'll never be carbon negative, the promise of biofuels. Electric cars are nothing but another unmitigated ecological disaster waiting to happen.
And failure for the rest of us. Producing electric batteries creates a ton of CO2, and they're not economically recyclable. Then there's the whole rebuilding the electric grid to have enough capacity for everyone to charge at their homes. Then there's the whole needing more batteries because solar doesn't work at night, when everyone wants to charge their cars. Oh, and then the batteries only last 8 years, and people who buy 8 year old and older cars are well know for having four or five grand laying around to replace a battery pack. I don't see any way we come ahead on this with carbon. What the electric car is in reality is an ecological disaster in its infancy. Biofuels are and always will be the only smart way to go.
I hear they're working on a new charging device for Airpods. It hooks up to the airpod while you're using them and has a cord that hooks up to the lightning adapter. Very innovative!
Never mind that many of these fossils sit in the archives of a museum lost and forgotten for years. Perhaps a better route is to give a paleontologist an opportunity to look at it first, then pass it on to the private market.
Hardly. If I play audio over bluetooth on my car stereo, the bass sound muffled and muddy. When I use the aux in off of the same exact audio device, it sound clear and well defined.
Beat your UI over the head with an ugly stick and you lose the premium feel of the UI. Remove the standard headphone jack and you lose customers who care about high fidelity. Add a gimpy notch that makes your screen look like something from "There, I fixed it." and you no longer have a premium device. Now jack the price up and watch what customers you haven't already pissed off walk away.
Then again, Jony Ive was in charge of product development the last time Apple went downhill, so none of this should surprise anybody.
The person is making it abundantly obvious that they don't want to be tracked. Facebook (and Google) are what I've come to refer to as information rapist. A rapist doesn't understand that no means no, and neither do these two entities.
But a Nissan Leaf isn't an average car. It's a subcompact. Other cars in the same range go for a fraction of the price they cost. A Ford Fiesta costs less than half that for the base model. A Nissan Note, the equivalent gas powered vehicle, is just over half, so it's a false equivalency.
Regardless, electric cars aren't eco-friendly. Lithium mining is very dirty, produces a ton of CO2, and there's little guarantee that some change in battery technology won't make the mined lithium worthless for recycling, and you already can't make a profit recycling it. Meanwhile, Boeing found a source of ethanol that grows in the desert (think the Sahara) and can be watered with salt water -- the holy grail of biofuels. It's so efficient at releasing its sugars, it can actually be a carbon negative fuel. So basically, an ICE car becomes an actual eco car. And that's the thing: the ICE isn't the problem, the fuel is. If you're interested in more about it, google it.
Did you notice FireWire disappeared and then reappeared? Thatâ(TM)s listening to your customers. Jobs never would have approved dropping the headphone jack.
Yeah, that's the most blatant "Don't look at the elephant in the room" press release I've seen. Unfortunately, this elephant is a bit too big not to notice.
I'm starting to get the idea that he's preparing to start living in a hollowed out volcano from where he can launch rockets. Has he acquired a white cat yet?
Because that 2FA token sends info from the website you're logging into to Google. Google knows the ID of your 2FA and now knows you are a user of that website and when you log in.
Apple products are just going to continue to get worse. The last good (read: customer focused) iPhone was the 6S. Nobody was asking for the headphone jack to be removed. It was a move that was motivated solely by profit. Bluetooth sounds awful if you have a half way decent stereo or set of headphones. The UI has been ugly since iOS 7 and Macs are about to become far less useful when they switch to ARM processors, again a move solely focused on profits and not the interests of the customer. Appleâ(TM)s only saving grace on mobile is the current CEO respects privacy. If he leaves, they potentially lose that as well. On the desktop, demand will fall because few want a computer that doesnâ(TM)t do anything particularly well, and Intel CPUs can already get you through 12 hours of normal use.
> Smarter lighting (daylight harvesting, occupancy sensing) can reduce energy usage by 20% or more right off the top regardless of lighting type. (The now enforced 2016 ECC goes absolutely bonkers with this kind of stuff)
You're assuming that people don't already turn off the lights when they leave a room and that one isn't already installed. If they do or one is, there's no gain in a situation where you're mandated to cut energy use by 60%.
> Replace older AC units with more efficient heat pumps.
Heat pumps don't work well in cold climates as they can't generate enough heat. They do work in more moderate climates such as in the mid-Atlantic states, however we're discussing New York City. A lot of apartments in NYC don't have central AC or even AC at all, and a heat pump is just central air AC running with an inverted cycle. In places that do have central air, you're looking at the cost and pollution of manufacturing all of those replacement units vs just keeping what's there. In the places that don't, you're looking at a huge project to install AC units in every apartment, and now more people are running their AC in the summer, so your energy consumption goes up. Also, never mind that a lot of these same apartments are cramped and don't have a lot of space to put an AC unit.
I can go on about it, but that's one of the main flaws of the flaw of the bill: if you're already using energy efficient technologies, there isn't a lot to do but you're still required to cut usage by 60%. Even if you do put in some energy saving technologies in an inefficient building, though, it's going to be very difficult to hit close to 60%.
As a non-vegetarian, I don't see the point in eating imitation foods. I can, however, see the need for developing ways to grow real meat without the need to farm animals as we venture out into space, as carrying 10 cows in a rocket isn't exactly practical.
Never mind the fact that electric cars are snake oil. Lithium ion production from the batteries produces a ton of CO2 and the batteries become toxic waste afterwards. Want an actually environmentally friendly alternative? Check this out.
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No, actually they can't. Go do the math and you'll find us behind, and they'll never be carbon negative, the promise of biofuels. Electric cars are nothing but another unmitigated ecological disaster waiting to happen.
And failure for the rest of us. Producing electric batteries creates a ton of CO2, and they're not economically recyclable. Then there's the whole rebuilding the electric grid to have enough capacity for everyone to charge at their homes. Then there's the whole needing more batteries because solar doesn't work at night, when everyone wants to charge their cars. Oh, and then the batteries only last 8 years, and people who buy 8 year old and older cars are well know for having four or five grand laying around to replace a battery pack. I don't see any way we come ahead on this with carbon. What the electric car is in reality is an ecological disaster in its infancy. Biofuels are and always will be the only smart way to go.
So now videos of 9/11 are illegal in Australia?
And women are proportionally much more likely to be in the social sciences than men, yet there's no big push to get more men into the field.
I hear they're working on a new charging device for Airpods. It hooks up to the airpod while you're using them and has a cord that hooks up to the lightning adapter. Very innovative!
Never mind that many of these fossils sit in the archives of a museum lost and forgotten for years. Perhaps a better route is to give a paleontologist an opportunity to look at it first, then pass it on to the private market.
Meh, I've had it running on my Next for years.
Hardly. If I play audio over bluetooth on my car stereo, the bass sound muffled and muddy. When I use the aux in off of the same exact audio device, it sound clear and well defined.
Exactly. Let kids know from an early age that it's uncomfortable and smelly and they'll seek high paying jobs so they can afford a car.
Beat your UI over the head with an ugly stick and you lose the premium feel of the UI. Remove the standard headphone jack and you lose customers who care about high fidelity. Add a gimpy notch that makes your screen look like something from "There, I fixed it." and you no longer have a premium device. Now jack the price up and watch what customers you haven't already pissed off walk away. Then again, Jony Ive was in charge of product development the last time Apple went downhill, so none of this should surprise anybody.
The person is making it abundantly obvious that they don't want to be tracked. Facebook (and Google) are what I've come to refer to as information rapist. A rapist doesn't understand that no means no, and neither do these two entities.
But a Nissan Leaf isn't an average car. It's a subcompact. Other cars in the same range go for a fraction of the price they cost. A Ford Fiesta costs less than half that for the base model. A Nissan Note, the equivalent gas powered vehicle, is just over half, so it's a false equivalency. Regardless, electric cars aren't eco-friendly. Lithium mining is very dirty, produces a ton of CO2, and there's little guarantee that some change in battery technology won't make the mined lithium worthless for recycling, and you already can't make a profit recycling it. Meanwhile, Boeing found a source of ethanol that grows in the desert (think the Sahara) and can be watered with salt water -- the holy grail of biofuels. It's so efficient at releasing its sugars, it can actually be a carbon negative fuel. So basically, an ICE car becomes an actual eco car. And that's the thing: the ICE isn't the problem, the fuel is. If you're interested in more about it, google it.
We had. It's part of the basis of having the first amendment in the US. We're regressing, though.
Did you notice FireWire disappeared and then reappeared? Thatâ(TM)s listening to your customers. Jobs never would have approved dropping the headphone jack.
Yeah, that's the most blatant "Don't look at the elephant in the room" press release I've seen. Unfortunately, this elephant is a bit too big not to notice.
I'm starting to get the idea that he's preparing to start living in a hollowed out volcano from where he can launch rockets. Has he acquired a white cat yet?
Because that 2FA token sends info from the website you're logging into to Google. Google knows the ID of your 2FA and now knows you are a user of that website and when you log in.
Apple products are just going to continue to get worse. The last good (read: customer focused) iPhone was the 6S. Nobody was asking for the headphone jack to be removed. It was a move that was motivated solely by profit. Bluetooth sounds awful if you have a half way decent stereo or set of headphones. The UI has been ugly since iOS 7 and Macs are about to become far less useful when they switch to ARM processors, again a move solely focused on profits and not the interests of the customer. Appleâ(TM)s only saving grace on mobile is the current CEO respects privacy. If he leaves, they potentially lose that as well. On the desktop, demand will fall because few want a computer that doesnâ(TM)t do anything particularly well, and Intel CPUs can already get you through 12 hours of normal use.
Yep. Donâ(TM)t think for a second that this isnâ(TM)t another way to track you online.
This is where it always starts. Next thing you know, it's a public health crisis followed by a ban.
Besides, prohibition has proven to greatly increase the risk of death. Just ask the North Side Gang of Chicago.
> Smarter lighting (daylight harvesting, occupancy sensing) can reduce energy usage by 20% or more right off the top regardless of lighting type. (The now enforced 2016 ECC goes absolutely bonkers with this kind of stuff)
You're assuming that people don't already turn off the lights when they leave a room and that one isn't already installed. If they do or one is, there's no gain in a situation where you're mandated to cut energy use by 60%.
> Replace older AC units with more efficient heat pumps.
Heat pumps don't work well in cold climates as they can't generate enough heat. They do work in more moderate climates such as in the mid-Atlantic states, however we're discussing New York City. A lot of apartments in NYC don't have central AC or even AC at all, and a heat pump is just central air AC running with an inverted cycle. In places that do have central air, you're looking at the cost and pollution of manufacturing all of those replacement units vs just keeping what's there. In the places that don't, you're looking at a huge project to install AC units in every apartment, and now more people are running their AC in the summer, so your energy consumption goes up. Also, never mind that a lot of these same apartments are cramped and don't have a lot of space to put an AC unit.
I can go on about it, but that's one of the main flaws of the flaw of the bill: if you're already using energy efficient technologies, there isn't a lot to do but you're still required to cut usage by 60%. Even if you do put in some energy saving technologies in an inefficient building, though, it's going to be very difficult to hit close to 60%.
After you've replaced your bulbs with CFs or LEDs, there's not really a next huge leap you can take.
As a non-vegetarian, I don't see the point in eating imitation foods. I can, however, see the need for developing ways to grow real meat without the need to farm animals as we venture out into space, as carrying 10 cows in a rocket isn't exactly practical.
Never mind the fact that electric cars are snake oil. Lithium ion production from the batteries produces a ton of CO2 and the batteries become toxic waste afterwards. Want an actually environmentally friendly alternative? Check this out.