Could be decent. Has about 20-25% energydensity of a modern NMC EV battery. While that isn’t incredibly groundbreaking, keeping a building sized battery of this kind in an industrial area sounds pretty feasible.
Probably won’t ever hear about it again, but fingers crossed it’s a good product.
While big cars do more damage than small cars or a bike. It’s seriously negligable compared to any sort of goods transport vehicle
Sure, but there’s a big difference around the world wether you can live comfortably as a grocery worker, a construction worker or a teacher.
The oceans won’t be warming equally everywhere if there isn’t a proper current to tranport the heat around. The oceans will warm a lot by the equator, and freeze around the poles.
Many cars that can tell that, senses wether or not you give any resistance whenever it corrects the lane position. If it doesn’t feel any resistance, it’ll assume you’re not actually holding the steering wheel. Try keeping a firmer grip of the wheel.
Sure. But don’t forget this cunt thinks work is going golfing, calling his secretary to get more coffee, or go to expensive dinners.
While that is true. If the Atlantic ocean current stops, the poles will freeze, and start a new ice age in northern Europe and North America, while also boiling the equator.
Who is this fantasy person who told you anyone is going to criminalize people for buying cigarettes?
It’s incredibly clear if you bothered to read the article, that the retailer selling cigarettes to someone under the permitted age will recieve a fine. No one is going to prison for this. It will not be a criminal offence. The buyer won’t even face any consequenses, except maybe having their smokes confiscated.
Sure, but a lot has changed since then, and while that totally could happen, I’m doubting it’ll be widespread in any way.
There surely will become somewhat of a black market, but not in the same way as weed or harder drugs. Smoking doesn’t really give you a buzz except for the first few times, so people won’t go to the black market for the effect, but rather to keep the withdrawels at bay. It would seem incredibly silly to buy cigarettes like people buy weed, when all it really does for a first timer is taste horrible, make you cough, and if you actually manage to inhale, make you a bit dizzy. Sure, some people from 2009 and onwards will start to smoke, but it’ll be a whole lot less people than today.
Also very likely he was going to sell it.
I’m for legalising weed, but trying to import it to a country that is notorious for executing people for even small amounts is fucking moronic.
Sure, pilots want to talk to people, but so do everyone else calling customer support.
People are expensive and capitalists want to eliminate every expense to maximize profits. Anything short of a mass strike by pilots every time they want to replace workers will not change that.
You seem to have a problem with my comment?
Depends on the freedom.
Great, now everywhere else is going to be overrun by british porn-tourists, locking themselves in their hotel rooms for their entire stay, looking to masturbate to lame incest porn.
Would be great. Never going to happen in a capitalist society though. No private company is going to allow it to happen. So governments would have to make their own and outcompete the private companies.
Not even European countries, or for that matter my own country, Denmark, is going to do that, because competing against private companies is seen as a bad thing for some stupid fucking reason.
No but I heard about an electric car burning once, and none of my ice cars have ever combusted, so CLEARLY, electrics are deathtraps
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If they had to delay every time some rando had a bad feeling they’d never launch…
Probably not, but it isn’t impossible. USA spent the cold war trying to make super small nukes, to send paratroopers in with nukes, which they’d plant to sabotage shit. They were called Green Light Teams, and seemed somewhat successful.
Possibly, question is which one fits a given area the best. Pumped hydro needs some place high to pump it. Many places are incredibly flat, but in hilly or mountainy places it has some clear advantages. Thermal has the issue of losing the heat. You need to insulate a “battery” a lot, and at some point it just becomes incredibly expensive for very little results. It’s not impossible, but it can be a very expensive solution. LiFePO4 has the drawback of needing lithium, which is pretty rare in most of the world. If what the article says is true, the “water battery” seems to be pretty inexpensive to build with quite available ressources, but the drawback is that it likely needs more space than other options.