When I used to work on cell towers, we’d get to scrap the large copper coax running to and up the towers that we had replaced. A small pickup bed filled with chopped coax would get about $1000 cash. I also recycled stainless steel clips once and it wasn’t worth the time to collect them all. Also turned in some…

Tesla should offer this to hide those panel gap and orange peel issues.

I agree. As landmark as the Packard plant is, it’s also an emblematic reminder of the decline from long past glory and it’s time to move on. It would maybe be cool if it could be renovated into something modern and useful, but if that was doable, it would have been done and I think it’s just too late, anyway. Even…

Yeah, I keep reading different companies are close and they’re mostly companies that aren’t the type to hype up BS, so I think we’re close. This year, I’ve built an electric sit-inside kayak and I’m building an electric bike with some surplus lifepo batteries I got for a steal and I’m pretty excited to get to use them…

My ex has gotten COVID twice and she’s pretty careful. She’s been lucky to have gotten the more mild symptoms, but even that sounds like it sucks. Hope your mother recovers well.

If I learned anything from Cobra Kai, it’s that reptiles go into brumation, not hibernation.

That’s why solid state batteries would be such a big deal (which is what they’re talking about here). Many of the problems with li-ion batteries, like thermal runaway that restricts discharge and charge rates, dendrite formation that also contributes over time as well as causing fires and reducing life span would be…

He’s a virulent narcissist. They are incapable of accepting failure because their egos are more fragile than dandelions heads that have gone to seed. He can only pat himself on the back, it’s a compulsion, a need to constantly be reassured that the black hole within themselves isn’t really there. They are not human…

Probably variability in regulations. It’s not uncommon for a “motorcycle” to be disallowed to be enclosed. I tried to sort this out with the MA RMV years ago with an enclosed tadpole trike I designed and was looking to build and, too long a period of my life on the phone later, I was told: if the state trooper who…

Looks and side-by-side seating aside, I’m the weirdo that doesn’t really want a motorcycle and thinks that, since even the cheapest roadster is still overpriced and too impractical for me to use daily, if I was going that route (second vehicle as practical beater), I’d rather be all in on the impracticality, have more…

Morgans are closer to $50k.

Being a tadpole trike, it makes more sense than RWD from a practical and dynamic sense, plus I can’t imagine with its low weight and modest power that it’s a real problem in terms of enjoyment. Lack of manual, OTOH . . .

What’s the discount sans bodywork? Not so much snark as a suggestion. Wish it was central single seat, though.

Until the quicker routes leads to greater demand in the villages, which grow, then property values go up, then the tax base expands.

Not at a steady speed.

Me, too.

Even I got an offer for a $50k/yr. job on the Big Dig that only required a weekly check-in. I did not take it, but I’m sure someone else did.

In the US, that might be a solution, but they live in a place where the populace is actually smart enough to understand roundabouts and use them to the greater efficiency over lights.

And now those villages might grow, property values increase, and grow the tax base. That’s how infrastructure works. It’s not meant to be directly profitable (though this sounds like it will be), it’s meant to allow greater profits for the people that a real representative government serves. I live in US occupied New…

I’m shocked by how cheap that was! Effective government is truly awe inspiring.

Looking at it again like watching a heinous autopsy on a medical show, it makes me think it might be what a T-Rex could look like with four wheels.