Cold weather is not moving the goalposts. If a Tesla isn't going to go even half its nominal distance during a cold snap (as happened in a well publicized recent event) then it is not only inadequate, it's dangerous to its owner and everyone else on the road.
Alkaline refers to the electrolyte. This new battery uses metals different from conventional alkaline batteries (manganese-dioxide, zinc) and rechargeable alkalines (steel, zinc). The new battery replaces zinc with aluminum (if the other electrode is in the article, I missed it.) So it is something new.
Truck tires are considerably harder than passenger car tires, and they're inflated to higher pressures. Car tires and truck tires are optimized differently, with (generally speaking) car tires emphasizing comfort, truck tires endurance.
The number under discussion was number of children per couple. You switched the subject to growth rate, and measured it with number of children per arbitrary number of people. Hooray, two mistakes in one sentence, and nasty as a bonus.
Do you not believe in the operation of moral order? The Indians screwed their own country, they should be the ones who reap the results.
Christianity? The religion that claims that God sent his only son to Earth so that he'd suffer, in order to forgive the evils of his son's moral inferiors. That's not morality, that's noxious perversion.
By your "logic", we should never mine anything because it took the universe billions of years to form copper, gold, aluminum, etc.. For that matter, we shouldn't breathe either, because oxygen and nitrogen were also formed over billions of years by the stars.
While in practice nuclear plants may have slow response to sudden underload, there's nothing to stop a nuclear plant from using excess electricity to boil water.
What on earth makes you think that 5 billion human beings can't do more than 1 thing at a time?
You have the makings of a dictator. You'll tell everyone what to do and when to do it. No thought to letting people try different things and selecting what works, as happens in freedom.
Hydropower and solar power are close to warming-neutral, assuming that carbon is driving global warming. Electricity will tend to reduce the burning of dung and peat for heat, reducing carbon in the air and reducing really nasty pollution.
In advanced societies, garbage trucks pick up trash. Harvesters and other machinery take care of many parts of agriculture. Those vehicles can be air conditioned. Also, there's this strange phenomenon called "night", when temperatures drop and the hot sun isn't beating down on you.
India's government is massively corrupt. That corruption is part of the reason that the spread of technology is slow and extreme poverty continues.
Trees are a decent way to remove carbon ( in the form of CO2 ) from the atmosphere. Wood is about 50% carbon.
[partial sarcasm] Fight global warming - buy at your local lumber yard.
You are promoting fictitious similarities and completely ignoring fundamental differences.
A corporation is capitalized by the voluntary trade of money for ownership shares. The UAW and most unions push for union shops, where every worker of certain categories must belong to the union and pay union dues, it is not a voluntary relation. For-profit corporations and for-profit companies in general earn money by providing goods and services; unions get money through extortion.
If the legal protections that allow unions to abuse people were removed, unions would evaporate like acetone.
1. Absolute safety is impossible.
2. There are dollar tradeoffs for safety, and those tradeoffs imply reasonable limits. Ask any engineer whose primary career is safety; ask any highway engineer. You don't spend $100 million to save one life because $100 million represents the efforts of (somewhere in the area of) 50 lifetimes. You shouldn't expend 50 lives to save one life.
The leaders of the UAW want unearned money and power, and have no concerns for anything that doesn't preserve that money and power. They are fully morally equivalent to Al Sharpton.
I'd be more worried about a propulsion failure. Stuck in the middle of nowhere, and if you exit the vehicle you suffer explosive decompression. If you don't exit the vehicle, you die when your oxygen supply runs out. No thanks.
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Cold weather is not moving the goalposts. If a Tesla isn't going to go even half its nominal distance during a cold snap (as happened in a well publicized recent event) then it is not only inadequate, it's dangerous to its owner and everyone else on the road.
Alkaline refers to the electrolyte. This new battery uses metals different from conventional alkaline batteries (manganese-dioxide, zinc) and rechargeable alkalines (steel, zinc). The new battery replaces zinc with aluminum (if the other electrode is in the article, I missed it.) So it is something new.
Truck tires are considerably harder than passenger car tires, and they're inflated to higher pressures. Car tires and truck tires are optimized differently, with (generally speaking) car tires emphasizing comfort, truck tires endurance.
The number under discussion was number of children per couple. You switched the subject to growth rate, and measured it with number of children per arbitrary number of people. Hooray, two mistakes in one sentence, and nasty as a bonus.
Gee, I must be living in squalid misery. (Looks around.) Nope. You must be a humanity-hating liar.
Do you not believe in the operation of moral order? The Indians screwed their own country, they should be the ones who reap the results.
Christianity? The religion that claims that God sent his only son to Earth so that he'd suffer, in order to forgive the evils of his son's moral inferiors. That's not morality, that's noxious perversion.
By your "logic", we should never mine anything because it took the universe billions of years to form copper, gold, aluminum, etc.. For that matter, we shouldn't breathe either, because oxygen and nitrogen were also formed over billions of years by the stars.
While in practice nuclear plants may have slow response to sudden underload, there's nothing to stop a nuclear plant from using excess electricity to boil water.
What on earth makes you think that 5 billion human beings can't do more than 1 thing at a time?
You have the makings of a dictator. You'll tell everyone what to do and when to do it. No thought to letting people try different things and selecting what works, as happens in freedom.
History says you're wrong. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_Without_a_Summer
That's because his standard is dim bulb.
That's what the wall is for.
Hydropower and solar power are close to warming-neutral, assuming that carbon is driving global warming. Electricity will tend to reduce the burning of dung and peat for heat, reducing carbon in the air and reducing really nasty pollution.
In advanced societies, garbage trucks pick up trash. Harvesters and other machinery take care of many parts of agriculture. Those vehicles can be air conditioned. Also, there's this strange phenomenon called "night", when temperatures drop and the hot sun isn't beating down on you.
India's government is massively corrupt. That corruption is part of the reason that the spread of technology is slow and extreme poverty continues.
Transmission line losses for 1 GW over 1000 miles at 765 kV range from 5% to 11% (extrapolated from wikipedia).
Trees are a decent way to remove carbon ( in the form of CO2 ) from the atmosphere. Wood is about 50% carbon.
[partial sarcasm] Fight global warming - buy at your local lumber yard.
It rains if there are lots of particulates for water droplets to form around.
The Charlie.
You deserve to experience actual slavery.
You are promoting fictitious similarities and completely ignoring fundamental differences.
A corporation is capitalized by the voluntary trade of money for ownership shares. The UAW and most unions push for union shops, where every worker of certain categories must belong to the union and pay union dues, it is not a voluntary relation. For-profit corporations and for-profit companies in general earn money by providing goods and services; unions get money through extortion.
If the legal protections that allow unions to abuse people were removed, unions would evaporate like acetone.
If true, the reason that senior employees are the ones pushing for a union is that they're the ones too incompetent to be promoted.
"Workers working together to improve conditions and wages" is the fraud that unions promote. Employees don't need a union to achieve those things.
Unions have a history of extortion, criminal trespass, battery, and murder. They haven't changed.
1. Absolute safety is impossible.
2. There are dollar tradeoffs for safety, and those tradeoffs imply reasonable limits. Ask any engineer whose primary career is safety; ask any highway engineer. You don't spend $100 million to save one life because $100 million represents the efforts of (somewhere in the area of) 50 lifetimes. You shouldn't expend 50 lives to save one life.
The leaders of the UAW want unearned money and power, and have no concerns for anything that doesn't preserve that money and power. They are fully morally equivalent to Al Sharpton.
"They" being the union, of course.
I'd be more worried about a propulsion failure. Stuck in the middle of nowhere, and if you exit the vehicle you suffer explosive decompression. If you don't exit the vehicle, you die when your oxygen supply runs out. No thanks.