For trucks and buses that can follow the wires. They can be powered and "recharged" as they move, as well as following the wires automatically.
Also, electrified freight rail.
"Charging" vehicles while on the go is a solved problem and doesn't require production of large, environmentally-costly batteries.
Electrified rail is still the most efficient way to move freight. US should be moving in that direction. Steel-on-steel = less friction. Power from overhead wires = no environmentally costly batteries. No charging/discharge losses either.
Far better than electric long-distance trucks would be getting the freight OFF the roads and onto rail. Ideally highly-automated. Use smaller electric engines to pull shorter trains that can be directly routes from points A to B using highly automated switching control software. Then load it onto electric trucks for the last 25-50 miles or so.
The purchasers, which are part of the "cash economy", whose existence I fully support. (And yes, I'll take increased crime as a price for private and anonymity.)
"Doing Black Friday" and shopping online aren't the only two alternatives.
One can buy holiday gifts any time before the holidays, in brick-n-mortar stores, and skip the madness. As far as things like electronics, the market is so saturated that you can buy 95% of what you need on Craigslist, for cash, at a substantial discount from new.
Last year's TV? Who cares? It still works fine. Same with last year's phone, laptop, or iPad. By re-using, you're also minimizing e-waste.
If the world economy is based on debt-bondage of workers and constant expansion at the expense of the environment, then maybe it deserves to crash and burn...
I agree that a cashless society would be terrible, but I also think this was a genuine error -- Macy's wouldn't give up a significant % of their sales on a busy shopping day nationwide just to run a test.
If stores get the majority of their payments by cashless means, they'll drop the option of paying in cash. This is bad from a privacy, anonymity, and economic class (immigrants and the poor are more likely to be un-banked) perspective. This also puts more power to track purchases in the hands of governments, banks, and marketeers.
I think of the slight inconvenience as doing my part to slow down the slow erosion of privacy in the US.
No, to clean the floors and counters. Because the US hasn't invented "wet" bathrooms and kitchens yet -- proper design would allow the kitchen to be basically hosed down and drain down the tiles to a floor drain.
Metal or plastic faced drawers, tile floor with a drain in the middle. You can hose down the floor, countertop, and drawer faces, same as a restaurant kitchen.
Kitchens and baths with drained floors are very common outside the US.
Driverless vehicles could follow specific routes and get power from wires -- they could have almost no battery capacity. Minimizing the meet for batteries could be environmentally great.
Basically trams without the rails.
Not going to cry for Amazon. If it were a major health care system as opposed to a slinger of poor-quality Chinese junk and destroyer of local economies, then I might be sad.
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are currently up on gawker.com itself. Don't let Thiel delete them, make copies.
Gawker didn't slander Thiel by outing him -- the news was true. His revenge campaign is petty and should be thwarted by all means available.
Yep, trolleybuses and electrified trains work fine in cold, snowy, rainy climates like Boston, Seattle, or parts of Eastern Europe and China.
Is it supposed to use Li-Ion tech, or something exotic like flywheel storage that might be able to be charged more quickly?
For trucks and buses that can follow the wires. They can be powered and "recharged" as they move, as well as following the wires automatically. Also, electrified freight rail. "Charging" vehicles while on the go is a solved problem and doesn't require production of large, environmentally-costly batteries.
Electrified rail is still the most efficient way to move freight. US should be moving in that direction. Steel-on-steel = less friction. Power from overhead wires = no environmentally costly batteries. No charging/discharge losses either.
Far better than electric long-distance trucks would be getting the freight OFF the roads and onto rail. Ideally highly-automated. Use smaller electric engines to pull shorter trains that can be directly routes from points A to B using highly automated switching control software. Then load it onto electric trucks for the last 25-50 miles or so.
Not the stores.
The purchasers, which are part of the "cash economy", whose existence I fully support. (And yes, I'll take increased crime as a price for private and anonymity.)
"Doing Black Friday" and shopping online aren't the only two alternatives.
One can buy holiday gifts any time before the holidays, in brick-n-mortar stores, and skip the madness. As far as things like electronics, the market is so saturated that you can buy 95% of what you need on Craigslist, for cash, at a substantial discount from new.
Last year's TV? Who cares? It still works fine. Same with last year's phone, laptop, or iPad. By re-using, you're also minimizing e-waste.
If the world economy is based on debt-bondage of workers and constant expansion at the expense of the environment, then maybe it deserves to crash and burn...
You often do get a discount for cash for certain things ... certain mom 'n pops and gas stations come to mind.
Wouldn't a business card scanner work to collect an image of a CC and driving license?
I agree that a cashless society would be terrible, but I also think this was a genuine error -- Macy's wouldn't give up a significant % of their sales on a busy shopping day nationwide just to run a test.
Always carry a few hundred ... problem solved. If you're making impulse buys of over a few hundred dollars, that's your problem right there...
If stores get the majority of their payments by cashless means, they'll drop the option of paying in cash. This is bad from a privacy, anonymity, and economic class (immigrants and the poor are more likely to be un-banked) perspective. This also puts more power to track purchases in the hands of governments, banks, and marketeers.
I think of the slight inconvenience as doing my part to slow down the slow erosion of privacy in the US.
It's only illegal if you get caught :)
Not on the floor -- just unplug what's on the counter or trip the GFCI before washing the counters.
(I meant "per day", sorry)
Exactly -- yes.
For a private kitchen that's used for a meal 2-3x per year, such a design would be near perfect.
2 dishwashers. Store your dishes in one of them, load a second one for washing as you use them...
No, to clean the floors and counters. Because the US hasn't invented "wet" bathrooms and kitchens yet -- proper design would allow the kitchen to be basically hosed down and drain down the tiles to a floor drain.
Metal or plastic faced drawers, tile floor with a drain in the middle. You can hose down the floor, countertop, and drawer faces, same as a restaurant kitchen. Kitchens and baths with drained floors are very common outside the US.
Fixed route in a city with no snow would be a nearly perfect test application. Basically a tram without tracks.
Driverless vehicles could follow specific routes and get power from wires -- they could have almost no battery capacity. Minimizing the meet for batteries could be environmentally great. Basically trams without the rails.
Not going to cry for Amazon. If it were a major health care system as opposed to a slinger of poor-quality Chinese junk and destroyer of local economies, then I might be sad.
Ethanol makes me drunk and hangover. t-amyl alcohol is 20x more potent than ethanol and doesn't cause hangovers. Methanol just makes me blind