It looks big to you and me. But US GDP is near 18 Trillion dollars and the net assets of USA is around 90 trillion dollars.
It is like a 9$ an hour worker spending 1.5$ on a lottery ticket. Or a poor household with just 90K in net assets spending 1.5 $ on a bottle of shampoo.
Is there any hope US will be able to control the flow of narcotics? Drones can come over the border and drop drugs and prearranged locations. There is no way to stop them.
So when government owns the resource it should not price it according to demand.
So what if businesses spread out? So what if the city center does not have lots of businesses? Its tax base would be lower and the cost of city services also will be lower. Commute time for all the people will be less, and there will be less demand for highways.
But local government is so heavily manipulated by the small companies completely depending on tax payer funds they will sell you non solutions like city-planning. City planning is completely undermined by the very same companies that stand to benefit by highways. Real estate companies buying large tracts of land zoned for agriculture and lobbying to rezone them for residential use and make handsome profit. Show them they can make even more profit by rezoning them for commercial use. They will make enough fake studies and pseudo scientific research to win you over.
It will not. All the renewables are attacking fixed point energy consumption, homes, businesses, offices and factories. They do nothing to transportation sector.
In transportation sector, (kerosene for jets, furnace oil for ships, diesel for trucks and most trains, gasoline for cars) there is no alternative in three or even 10 years. Electric trains are the only thing in transportation sector that could benefit by renewables.
Iceland has geothermal electricity so cheap that 15% of the world aluminum is made there. (Aluminum can not be separated from the ore, bauxite, by melting, you need electrolysis, no electricity no aluminum). Despite that cheap electricity, there is smog and pollution in Reykjavik, because of all the cars and trucks.
The researchers also predict America will reach its Paris Climate Accord targets in 2020 -- five years early -- simply because renewables are already becoming the cheapest option for power.
And the coal miners will be blaming EPA, regulation and government conspiracy for their loss of jobs. Their "drill baby drill" chants crashed the natural gas prices and made coal unviable economically. People who tell this stark truth unvarnished are pilloried by them.
In fact EPA is what has kept most coal jobs alive till now. All the old coal powered power stations were grand-fathered from most EPA regulations. So even when natural gas becomes cheaper than coal, the new plants have to comply with the latest standards. So the cost of gas plants were high and gas has to become significantly cheaper to make retiring old coal plants viable economically. This was the reason why the old coal plants continued to survive, at least maintaining some level of demand for coal.
Cost of new generation of renewables is within striking distance now, but gas prices can keep falling and stretch the transition period.
All these renewables have always been just one decade away from the market. Now a days they are just three years out. Great improvement. In just 50 years they will be 1 year away.
Gases expand fill the available volume. Work expands to fill the available time. Traffic expands to fill available capacity.
Tech companies would worsen the problem. They will make commute time more predictable and adjust the flow, divert in real time to reduce congestion. All this will lead to more effective road capacity. All the secondary roads that carry less traffic will be used as load balancers and fill up with traffic. All this will make people realize they can live even farther away from the city and supersize their McMansions. In the end there will be more vehicles on the road.
Real solution is allow market to determine the cost of commute. A contested valuable resource, priced at below market levels, unresponsive to rising demand will always lead to wasteful usage. Water and road access are the most heavily underpriced government owned resource. Any private company would have raised the price of accessing the prime working areas, and raised the prices over time. Businesses would respond by moving out, spreading out, commuters would pay the true cost of access to downtown and business districts and consider rational alternatives.
While taking advantage of free road access to business districts, the very same car commuters fight tooth and nail any subsidy to public transportation.
It is not a phone. It does not even have MMS, don't even think about whats app. Neither forward facing camera, nor rear facing. Absolutely no selfie mode. No wifi and no bluetooth. No calender, no apps, no games, not even snake.
At best it can do some voice communication using electric signals. How anyone would confuse this with a phone, I can't imagine.
...oh, wait. We already have one, in a different name, and they are the one who weaponized run of the mill vulnerabilities and gift wrapped them and gave them to criminals in Ukraine...
The root cause is government pricing something in great demand too cheaply. It happens all the time, water, parking, road access,...
Government should institute congestion pricing for such districts . Vaguely recall London does this. If people are paying for passengers or renting drugged baby (just one case, despite the prominent mention in the summary) they would pay the tolls. Impose the toll on vehicle not on number of passengers. Keep raising it till employees refuse to drive to work or demand compensation from their employers. The company will pay the toll for top executives and they would never see any reason to move out of a prestigious address. If they end up paying for all employees, then it might hurt the bottom line and they will move out of the congested districts and over time the traffic problems will ease.
Let us say Apple creates a division that has access to all the security by obscurity things and even the source code. They don't report to any of the traditional marketing, sales, development hierarchy. They only report to the security chief, and their pay, bonus and career prospects depend on the bugs they find and fix. Sort of like the Military Police, or inspectorates. Would that work?
It is called slashdot effect. It used to be huge, back in the day when people were the first to welcome the overlords and talking about how the government controls commerce in Soviet Union and people had check marked lists in fixed point font describing why the proposed spam fighting solutions won't work.
The plan is to launch the first DART satellite at a binary asteroid called Didymos ("Twins"); the twin asteroids are scheduled to pass by earth in 2022 and 2024. (Neither pass poses any threat, according to NASA, as long as refrigerator sized hard metallic objects are not slamming into the agglomeration of rocks and ice held together with weak gravity ) By striking one of the two asteroids, scientists will be able to measure the impact of the collision and be the first one to hide under the desks, like school children in cold war era, if the deflected asteroids home in on us
Twice a week, volunteers can check to see if eels have arrived.
Meanwhile there are companies trying to create self driving cars on city streets. These guys would not think of creating an eel sensor using 5$ chips and automating it.
Why lift the entire holding tank? One can design something similar to the Dyson bladeless fan or design a series of holding tanks, air pumps etc and let the eels swim upstream,.
Well I can understand pure bio students/profs coming up with this idea. Showing to the engg department they might have helped design something simpler and more cost effective.
Fred6666 just said, "Not many people need two cars with more than 215 miles autonomy. " He/She did not say no one needs two cars with more than 215 miles of range. Do you think everyone needs two cars with more than 215 miles range?
"Not many" is a highly stretchable term. Given the population size of USA, not many could actually run into millions. So get off the high horse. Electric vehicles are becoming viable, they will take a while to beat gas cars in price. When that happens, we will know how many people are willing to pay any premium for the quick fill up and practically unlimited range.
Is he holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy an electric? Buy a gas burner, buy two, why skimp buy three. Why the gas burner owners fell so insecure if some people find electric cars viable and usable?
I dont have to understand you. I am not forcing you to buy an electric car. Buy a gas burner and be happy. Why should I care about what happens to you or what bothers you?
There are lots of use cases where electric car makes sense. Right now the electric cars are expensive and total cost of ownership is still higher than gas burners. Let us see when, the prices are equal, how many people value your use case scenarios.
Most people buy gas cars because they are cheaper and familiar. When electric car cost becomes equal more will switch. If, or when, electric car becomes cheaper than gas car, we will know how much people really value quick gas refills and very long driving ranges.
A well designed gas burning generator on tow would be a good range extending solution. We can set up rentals of this tow packs near highway entrance ramps. Rent one for long distance, and return it on the way back.
The once proud cultures of China and India were reduced to abject poverty.
True, but the serfs did not do much better either in Europe. But the serfs became middle class. Their oppressive and corrupt maniacal ruling class defeated the oppressive, corrupt and incompetent ruling class of India and China and sucked the wealth out of them. The serfs were their foot soldiers and they became middle class by the bones thrown to them by their masters.
Rajendra Chola conquered the maritime kingdom of Burma and reached Indonesia from peninsular India in 1100 CE. If he had turned West and rounded the tip of Africa, history might have been different. But there is no guarantee he would have been any more kinder or gentler than Europeans. That was a brutal time. All the rulers were brutal. Some were incompetent on top of that. Their countries were devastated.
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It is like a 9$ an hour worker spending 1.5$ on a lottery ticket. Or a poor household with just 90K in net assets spending 1.5 $ on a bottle of shampoo.
Is there any hope US will be able to control the flow of narcotics? Drones can come over the border and drop drugs and prearranged locations. There is no way to stop them.
So what if businesses spread out? So what if the city center does not have lots of businesses? Its tax base would be lower and the cost of city services also will be lower. Commute time for all the people will be less, and there will be less demand for highways.
But local government is so heavily manipulated by the small companies completely depending on tax payer funds they will sell you non solutions like city-planning. City planning is completely undermined by the very same companies that stand to benefit by highways. Real estate companies buying large tracts of land zoned for agriculture and lobbying to rezone them for residential use and make handsome profit. Show them they can make even more profit by rezoning them for commercial use. They will make enough fake studies and pseudo scientific research to win you over.
In transportation sector, (kerosene for jets, furnace oil for ships, diesel for trucks and most trains, gasoline for cars) there is no alternative in three or even 10 years. Electric trains are the only thing in transportation sector that could benefit by renewables.
Iceland has geothermal electricity so cheap that 15% of the world aluminum is made there. (Aluminum can not be separated from the ore, bauxite, by melting, you need electrolysis, no electricity no aluminum). Despite that cheap electricity, there is smog and pollution in Reykjavik, because of all the cars and trucks.
Good, it worked out for you. Will remember this if I consider an oil heated property.
The researchers also predict America will reach its Paris Climate Accord targets in 2020 -- five years early -- simply because renewables are already becoming the cheapest option for power.
And the coal miners will be blaming EPA, regulation and government conspiracy for their loss of jobs. Their "drill baby drill" chants crashed the natural gas prices and made coal unviable economically. People who tell this stark truth unvarnished are pilloried by them.
In fact EPA is what has kept most coal jobs alive till now. All the old coal powered power stations were grand-fathered from most EPA regulations. So even when natural gas becomes cheaper than coal, the new plants have to comply with the latest standards. So the cost of gas plants were high and gas has to become significantly cheaper to make retiring old coal plants viable economically. This was the reason why the old coal plants continued to survive, at least maintaining some level of demand for coal.
Cost of new generation of renewables is within striking distance now, but gas prices can keep falling and stretch the transition period.
All these renewables have always been just one decade away from the market. Now a days they are just three years out. Great improvement. In just 50 years they will be 1 year away.
Tech companies would worsen the problem. They will make commute time more predictable and adjust the flow, divert in real time to reduce congestion. All this will lead to more effective road capacity. All the secondary roads that carry less traffic will be used as load balancers and fill up with traffic. All this will make people realize they can live even farther away from the city and supersize their McMansions. In the end there will be more vehicles on the road.
Real solution is allow market to determine the cost of commute. A contested valuable resource, priced at below market levels, unresponsive to rising demand will always lead to wasteful usage. Water and road access are the most heavily underpriced government owned resource. Any private company would have raised the price of accessing the prime working areas, and raised the prices over time. Businesses would respond by moving out, spreading out, commuters would pay the true cost of access to downtown and business districts and consider rational alternatives.
While taking advantage of free road access to business districts, the very same car commuters fight tooth and nail any subsidy to public transportation.
You could "upscale" plain old DVD to 4K. It is not 10 times sharper than DVD.
At best it can do some voice communication using electric signals. How anyone would confuse this with a phone, I can't imagine.
...oh, wait. We already have one, in a different name, and they are the one who weaponized run of the mill vulnerabilities and gift wrapped them and gave them to criminals in Ukraine...
Is it possible it would been cheaper to have cleaned the tank very well and filled it with gravel or something and left it in place?
... why are the so against being filmed by others?
Government should institute congestion pricing for such districts . Vaguely recall London does this. If people are paying for passengers or renting drugged baby (just one case, despite the prominent mention in the summary) they would pay the tolls. Impose the toll on vehicle not on number of passengers. Keep raising it till employees refuse to drive to work or demand compensation from their employers. The company will pay the toll for top executives and they would never see any reason to move out of a prestigious address. If they end up paying for all employees, then it might hurt the bottom line and they will move out of the congested districts and over time the traffic problems will ease.
Let us say Apple creates a division that has access to all the security by obscurity things and even the source code. They don't report to any of the traditional marketing, sales, development hierarchy. They only report to the security chief, and their pay, bonus and career prospects depend on the bugs they find and fix. Sort of like the Military Police, or inspectorates. Would that work?
It is called slashdot effect. It used to be huge, back in the day when people were the first to welcome the overlords and talking about how the government controls commerce in Soviet Union and people had check marked lists in fixed point font describing why the proposed spam fighting solutions won't work.
The plan is to launch the first DART satellite at a binary asteroid called Didymos ("Twins"); the twin asteroids are scheduled to pass by earth in 2022 and 2024. (Neither pass poses any threat, according to NASA, as long as refrigerator sized hard metallic objects are not slamming into the agglomeration of rocks and ice held together with weak gravity ) By striking one of the two asteroids, scientists will be able to measure the impact of the collision and be the first one to hide under the desks, like school children in cold war era, if the deflected asteroids home in on us
Fixed it for NASA.
Twice a week, volunteers can check to see if eels have arrived.
Meanwhile there are companies trying to create self driving cars on city streets. These guys would not think of creating an eel sensor using 5$ chips and automating it.
Why lift the entire holding tank? One can design something similar to the Dyson bladeless fan or design a series of holding tanks, air pumps etc and let the eels swim upstream,.
Well I can understand pure bio students/profs coming up with this idea. Showing to the engg department they might have helped design something simpler and more cost effective.
"Not many" is a highly stretchable term. Given the population size of USA, not many could actually run into millions. So get off the high horse. Electric vehicles are becoming viable, they will take a while to beat gas cars in price. When that happens, we will know how many people are willing to pay any premium for the quick fill up and practically unlimited range.
Is he holding a gun to your head forcing you to buy an electric? Buy a gas burner, buy two, why skimp buy three. Why the gas burner owners fell so insecure if some people find electric cars viable and usable?
Rent a gas burner.
Tesla has already sold several years worth of production.
There are lots of use cases where electric car makes sense. Right now the electric cars are expensive and total cost of ownership is still higher than gas burners. Let us see when, the prices are equal, how many people value your use case scenarios.
Most people buy gas cars because they are cheaper and familiar. When electric car cost becomes equal more will switch. If, or when, electric car becomes cheaper than gas car, we will know how much people really value quick gas refills and very long driving ranges.
A well designed gas burning generator on tow would be a good range extending solution. We can set up rentals of this tow packs near highway entrance ramps. Rent one for long distance, and return it on the way back.
The once proud cultures of China and India were reduced to abject poverty.
True, but the serfs did not do much better either in Europe. But the serfs became middle class. Their oppressive and corrupt maniacal ruling class defeated the oppressive, corrupt and incompetent ruling class of India and China and sucked the wealth out of them. The serfs were their foot soldiers and they became middle class by the bones thrown to them by their masters.
Rajendra Chola conquered the maritime kingdom of Burma and reached Indonesia from peninsular India in 1100 CE. If he had turned West and rounded the tip of Africa, history might have been different. But there is no guarantee he would have been any more kinder or gentler than Europeans. That was a brutal time. All the rulers were brutal. Some were incompetent on top of that. Their countries were devastated.