Maybe in Northern, but most are crowded in Southern. Last time I had phone conversation they were talking about water restrictions and some copters going over to spy who's lawn is too green;)))
As for the employment, it depends what kind of work you do. Unqualified work is cheap in California and unemployment is high. Most likely you will get about the same close to minimum wage if you work in some retail position like Target or Walmart whatever state you are in. In Southern CA metro areas you would need to live in a shack then, and send your kids to similar public school. Sure you would earn somewhat more in Silicon Valley IT position comparing to most other places and would have bigger employment choice. But most likely not more enough to compensate for higher taxes, living costs and time spent in traffic jams.
Yes sure, it is better in California, with 11-13% extra state income tax and bubbled out to stratosphere real estate prices:/ At least in Florida they have such natural phenomena as "RAIN" that makes local vegetation green. You probably are not aware about such thing in CA:/
Try buying Tesla directly and see how cheap it was and how cheap its maintenance was, just some $600/year vs $30 for Chevy, and how cheap are repairs when no repair manuals or more complicated spare parts are sold to you and you don't have "right to repair" laws on your side as Tesla doesn't have independent dealers.
Whoever sells the car, it needs to compete by price, whatever your conspiracy theories. Now Sonic is $14,000-$22,000 MSRP, similar size Volt twice as much. It means you are going into niche market and selling to few enthusiasts, wasting all your work time and loosing money. You may save for fuel a bit if your electric rate is low, but it isn't low for everybody, and people take loans to buy cars or houses, and with extra high payments you simply will not qualify by Debt-to-Income ratio, as banks don't look into fuel savings, they will need fixed payment each month no matter if you drive or not.
Many idiots are routinely kicked out of planes without any devices, just because of stupid and annoying jokes about bombs they have. They never intend to harm anybody, and nobody seriously believe they can. But they are still kicked out and arrested just to be safe, for good reason. I never heard any of them getting any compensation. It is airline who would be getting compensation from them if they have to delay or divert.
We already have one real giant fusion reactor. Its energy is easy and cheap to convert straight to electricity, no expensive heat conversion is needed. It is called Sun.
$44,000 list price was quoted to some guy in around 2013 who was upgrading his battery. He got credit for old battery. Maybe it is lower now, but used Model S batteries in junkyards go for $15,000-$20,000 without any warranty.
Yes it is very silly to talk about $2/gal fuel economy and ~$100k car;) No, oil is not going anywhere close to $100/barrel bubble again any time soon. Especially if battery cars are going to get significant market share.
Another silliness is to talk how much you can save for 10,000-15,000 miles synthetic oil&filter change that costs $30 when your yearly battery car maintenance cost is $600 at monopoly service center.
What is the point of bloating drivers with some social networking crap when you are unable to get simple things like reliable HDMI sound after windows wakes from sleep?
It can be sold for a lot more only after it liquefied, shipped to other continent, and regasified again. The extra cost comes at around $2.15 per Mcf and it leaves no room for raising US domestic price significantly.
Big commercial customers typically don't have smooth pricing. But still, it is more profitable to sell electricity when price is up in afternoon or around sunset, not just at random time when it may be cheapest. The price difference may be big enough to justify extra investment into molten salt storage.
You can only fix something stable. You can't fix something that gets new features each week. New features, new bugs. It is your choice - constant updating with new "great" features that you can boost about, or something stable that can be more reliable (or not). Both are impossible.
EU has higher requirements for CO and in general lower requirements for NOx, except maybe very latest EuroN test that raises a bar closer to few years old EPA test. NOx is what matters for smog. Paris at times is no better than Chinese cities and now they try to prevent diesels entering downtown. Maybe they should not have allowed them on the roads in the first place. European annual road tests are BS in most countries except Germany, Switzerland and few others that take them seriously. Especially anywhere to the East of Western Europe. First, you don't need to pass new test with old vehicles. You need to meet only some old BS test. Then, you can just quickly tune the system to produce better results before the test at the expense of efficiency, and tune back as soon as you leave testing facility. Many older cares on the road have catalytic converters removed - they cost money to replace, but you can actually sell them for small money for precious metals inside. There is no practical way to control all old car emissions on roads EU wide.
It isn't the law in most places. The law is that you are likely will get life sentence if you shoot somebody just for trespassing. Just entering without invitation do not pose a danger to you.
You had bad luck or are in some specific business. I wouldn't work for such employer unless I really have no choice. My limited experience tells me that if employer, or client, or business partner is "cheap", he/she is cheap on everything and it is pain to deal with him and not in my interests.
Lisco Gloria in Baltic Sea was totaled because of bad VW Transporter battery charging connector that most likely caused the fire. It is not EV, but still electric battery related. Good thing that the ship was close to the coast, fire was noticed early, and everybody has been evacuated in time.
I would guess it makes little sense for employee charging spots in most case. You already pay that employee at least hundreds of dollars each day, and provide free parking anyway. Electricity costs just couple of extra dollars. It is like starting to charge for coffee or water in the office. Accounting time also costs money/time. If there is shortage, you may just add more outlets, unless you need to upgrade whole building grid connection to do that.
It is just that charging electric car is still a huge hassle and problem. It takes too much time and/or places are few, and even these few places got fragmented by competing automaker alliances in case of fast charging. And people get desperate and frustrated over it when they need to charge. The same happens everywhere without EVs when people get desperate and frustrated, like traffic jams, fights over limited parking, gas stations in few cases when too many people want to fill at once and so on.
You may read about similar screenings in different areas, not related to Fukushima. The suspected case rate is lower near Fukushima. Suspected case doesn't mean full blown cancer. It may be just some cista for further monitoring. So these rates are not comparable at all. Typical Japanese diet is already rich in iodine. It is unlikely radioactive iodine would have much effect because of this. It was different after Chernobyl. Radiation levels were higher, typical diet was not iodine rich, and most important Gorbachev tried to hide it until radioactive cloud reached Scandinavia, so most people didn't take any precautions and were receiving full dose of radiation on first days. Some people are just paranoid or ready to lie to push their agenda.
Following orders do not remove criminal responsibility from you. You are still member of the gang if you follow them.
And couple of rogue software engineers is complete crap. They pass EPA tests with diesels without urea, everybody in the industry wonders how it can be possible, and nobody in the company knows but couple of engineers? I wonder if there is practical liability for lying to Congress.
You also need to calculate wind load if you are in windy area of the country, not just slap on your panels and hope they don't fall down with your roof. Custom engineering done by person who really knows what he is doing may get expensive. You need to avoid roof leaks, it may be simple for shingle roof or more complicated for tile roof.
Inverters, mounting hardware, roof engineering, installation cost - all these things are not directly proportional to panel wattage but depend on panel count/covered area too. More efficient panels may make whole system cheaper even if panels are more expensive per watt. Especially in the US, where residential solar is not mainstream and installation still costs a lot comparing to places like Australia.
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Maybe in Northern, but most are crowded in Southern. Last time I had phone conversation they were talking about water restrictions and some copters going over to spy who's lawn is too green ;)))
As for the employment, it depends what kind of work you do. Unqualified work is cheap in California and unemployment is high. Most likely you will get about the same close to minimum wage if you work in some retail position like Target or Walmart whatever state you are in. In Southern CA metro areas you would need to live in a shack then, and send your kids to similar public school. Sure you would earn somewhat more in Silicon Valley IT position comparing to most other places and would have bigger employment choice. But most likely not more enough to compensate for higher taxes, living costs and time spent in traffic jams.
Yes sure, it is better in California, with 11-13% extra state income tax and bubbled out to stratosphere real estate prices :/ At least in Florida they have such natural phenomena as "RAIN" that makes local vegetation green. You probably are not aware about such thing in CA :/
In Florida you pay sales tax when you register car if it isn't paid already. So much for the tax evasion schemes.
Try buying Tesla directly and see how cheap it was and how cheap its maintenance was, just some $600/year vs $30 for Chevy, and how cheap are repairs when no repair manuals or more complicated spare parts are sold to you and you don't have "right to repair" laws on your side as Tesla doesn't have independent dealers.
Whoever sells the car, it needs to compete by price, whatever your conspiracy theories. Now Sonic is $14,000-$22,000 MSRP, similar size Volt twice as much. It means you are going into niche market and selling to few enthusiasts, wasting all your work time and loosing money. You may save for fuel a bit if your electric rate is low, but it isn't low for everybody, and people take loans to buy cars or houses, and with extra high payments you simply will not qualify by Debt-to-Income ratio, as banks don't look into fuel savings, they will need fixed payment each month no matter if you drive or not.
Many idiots are routinely kicked out of planes without any devices, just because of stupid and annoying jokes about bombs they have. They never intend to harm anybody, and nobody seriously believe they can. But they are still kicked out and arrested just to be safe, for good reason. I never heard any of them getting any compensation. It is airline who would be getting compensation from them if they have to delay or divert.
So what. Energy storage is nothing new and easier than anti-gravity.
We already have one real giant fusion reactor. Its energy is easy and cheap to convert straight to electricity, no expensive heat conversion is needed. It is called Sun.
They would need to build these "peaker" plants even if they will be used once a year only. Random supply of solar/wind doesn't help that much here.
$44,000 list price was quoted to some guy in around 2013 who was upgrading his battery. He got credit for old battery. Maybe it is lower now, but used Model S batteries in junkyards go for $15,000-$20,000 without any warranty.
Yes it is very silly to talk about $2/gal fuel economy and ~$100k car ;) No, oil is not going anywhere close to $100/barrel bubble again any time soon. Especially if battery cars are going to get significant market share.
Another silliness is to talk how much you can save for 10,000-15,000 miles synthetic oil&filter change that costs $30 when your yearly battery car maintenance cost is $600 at monopoly service center.
What is the point of bloating drivers with some social networking crap when you are unable to get simple things like reliable HDMI sound after windows wakes from sleep?
It can be sold for a lot more only after it liquefied, shipped to other continent, and regasified again. The extra cost comes at around $2.15 per Mcf and it leaves no room for raising US domestic price significantly.
Big commercial customers typically don't have smooth pricing.
But still, it is more profitable to sell electricity when price is up in afternoon or around sunset, not just at random time when it may be cheapest. The price difference may be big enough to justify extra investment into molten salt storage.
No, it is not innovation. It is called "consumptionism" and it is exactly what makes this planet a junk yard.
You can only fix something stable. You can't fix something that gets new features each week. New features, new bugs. It is your choice - constant updating with new "great" features that you can boost about, or something stable that can be more reliable (or not). Both are impossible.
EU has higher requirements for CO and in general lower requirements for NOx, except maybe very latest EuroN test that raises a bar closer to few years old EPA test. NOx is what matters for smog. Paris at times is no better than Chinese cities and now they try to prevent diesels entering downtown. Maybe they should not have allowed them on the roads in the first place.
European annual road tests are BS in most countries except Germany, Switzerland and few others that take them seriously. Especially anywhere to the East of Western Europe. First, you don't need to pass new test with old vehicles. You need to meet only some old BS test. Then, you can just quickly tune the system to produce better results before the test at the expense of efficiency, and tune back as soon as you leave testing facility. Many older cares on the road have catalytic converters removed - they cost money to replace, but you can actually sell them for small money for precious metals inside.
There is no practical way to control all old car emissions on roads EU wide.
It isn't the law in most places. The law is that you are likely will get life sentence if you shoot somebody just for trespassing. Just entering without invitation do not pose a danger to you.
You had bad luck or are in some specific business. I wouldn't work for such employer unless I really have no choice. My limited experience tells me that if employer, or client, or business partner is "cheap", he/she is cheap on everything and it is pain to deal with him and not in my interests.
Lisco Gloria in Baltic Sea was totaled because of bad VW Transporter battery charging connector that most likely caused the fire. It is not EV, but still electric battery related. Good thing that the ship was close to the coast, fire was noticed early, and everybody has been evacuated in time.
I would guess it makes little sense for employee charging spots in most case. You already pay that employee at least hundreds of dollars each day, and provide free parking anyway. Electricity costs just couple of extra dollars. It is like starting to charge for coffee or water in the office. Accounting time also costs money/time. If there is shortage, you may just add more outlets, unless you need to upgrade whole building grid connection to do that.
It is just that charging electric car is still a huge hassle and problem. It takes too much time and/or places are few, and even these few places got fragmented by competing automaker alliances in case of fast charging. And people get desperate and frustrated over it when they need to charge. The same happens everywhere without EVs when people get desperate and frustrated, like traffic jams, fights over limited parking, gas stations in few cases when too many people want to fill at once and so on.
It sounds like stealing gas on somebody else credit card, not exactly like gas owner was giving it for "free" ;)
You may read about similar screenings in different areas, not related to Fukushima. The suspected case rate is lower near Fukushima. Suspected case doesn't mean full blown cancer. It may be just some cista for further monitoring. So these rates are not comparable at all.
Typical Japanese diet is already rich in iodine. It is unlikely radioactive iodine would have much effect because of this. It was different after Chernobyl. Radiation levels were higher, typical diet was not iodine rich, and most important Gorbachev tried to hide it until radioactive cloud reached Scandinavia, so most people didn't take any precautions and were receiving full dose of radiation on first days.
Some people are just paranoid or ready to lie to push their agenda.
Following orders do not remove criminal responsibility from you. You are still member of the gang if you follow them.
And couple of rogue software engineers is complete crap. They pass EPA tests with diesels without urea, everybody in the industry wonders how it can be possible, and nobody in the company knows but couple of engineers? I wonder if there is practical liability for lying to Congress.
You also need to calculate wind load if you are in windy area of the country, not just slap on your panels and hope they don't fall down with your roof. Custom engineering done by person who really knows what he is doing may get expensive. You need to avoid roof leaks, it may be simple for shingle roof or more complicated for tile roof.
Inverters, mounting hardware, roof engineering, installation cost - all these things are not directly proportional to panel wattage but depend on panel count/covered area too. More efficient panels may make whole system cheaper even if panels are more expensive per watt. Especially in the US, where residential solar is not mainstream and installation still costs a lot comparing to places like Australia.