Mostly I enjoy the knowledge that marketers are getting an earful of my fax machine.

I’m less worried about the idiots *buying* it.  Than the rest of us having to try and not die from it.

AI driving is as almost there as is nuclear fusion. The last 15% takes orders of magnitude more work because it just can’t be done wrong.

Lead in the environment. We fixed it mostly.

Won’t someone think of the sheeple????

one critique is that currently EV batteries aren’t all that easily recyclable. Demand isn’t there yet to really have developed it, but it will come.

I can say, with certainty, we have not learned our lesson. But that’s why government was invented - to create a mechanism to do things *before* they become *must do*s.

ICEs are woefully inefficient. Wastes something like 60% of the energy input.

Assuming batteries are always made with lithium...which is already changing due to it’s shortages. Other chemistries exist that can provide similar performance/storage and more are being researched

BEV’s running off of a full coal grid are basically the same in terms of CO2 release as ICEs. Marginally better, but mostly a wash.

I think the issue with China is they have subsidized the lithium production below what is profitable for other sources.   US has resources but currently you’d lose money mining it.   US needs to start subsidizing as well.

While true, the bigger ICE vehicles use more gas so a bigger battery cost is basically negated.

For CO2 cradle/grave, it’s basically a wash if the BEV is powered by 100% coal, with BEV being a few percent better....in the worst case scenario.

Also why we shouldn’t be *increasing* truck freight. Rail is woefully behind unfortunately.

Fission nuclear is the democratic gov’t of CO2 free energy production.

“it’s more than 86 times more potent than CO2 over a 20-year period”

They weren’t wrong. The (nolongerreally)perma-frost is gonna be a serious kick in the teeth climate wise.

maybe we need better marketing for feedback loops...

My cousins have a throne version of this.  There’s literally a pyramid of steps up to the toilet so you can gaze upon your kingdom!

Ah right, my brain was thinking about it being *any* network packet...but that would result in a severely over-caffeinated computer!