That’s the thing, though, they aren’t different. If you want to do a propane tanked stove, I guess that’s your option. The issue is new development has or does not have gas...and once it does, it’s 50 years before it can really change. At a *minimum* new housing reg’s should require a 240 drop for a stove, so it can…

I can see the argument but for the same reasons you say it can’t work, I say the specs would be lowered to allow slower lower draw charges without needing super duper jigawatt charging, even at 12 ports.

it also means you never need to sit for a full charge. A 10% charge every few days means shorter times and less raw draw needed.

Hydrogen is that ‘almost’ wonder solution. Storage and leaks are significant issues. Car fires happen now. Will hydrogen based ones be more or less common? More or less dangerous? I’m not sold on it’s combustion vs fuel cells. combustion is just so wasteful energy wise but don’t know if fuel cells can scale enough.

I’m entirely not following.  Why is a dealer making their new cars ‘used’ and then selling them?  Who is paying ‘more’ for a used car than new?

China makes it work by absolutely not caring about the environment.

Kinja mobile less than useful... ugh

I mean we all have ‘proof’ we can drive a car based on a single test 30 years ago.  So sure, that temp vax you got 2 year ago is plenty!

We’ve got a 2012 and 2011 respectively and am NOT looking forward to the new car buying experience...they all have touchscreens at this point I think.

That’s actually a major selling point of some of these. They literally have no key slot to bump.

A really interesting point. To really make forests work we’d need very specific types. Vast vast swaths of monoculture.

https://climate.mit.edu/ask-mit/how-many-new-trees-would-we-need-offset-our-carbon-emissions

Does MIT count?

We could probably tell with a close fly by, but it also raises a scenario where a big solid asteroid has a very soft outer coating of debris.

Yep, I used my HVAC stack space, have a portal door in the front hall closet and master bdrm closet for mid floor access as needed.

Another major feature of wired, while definitely advanced lvl, is power over ethernet.   If you want security cameras, you can run ‘only’ the ethernet cable and not need a power source for the cameras.

Certainly reasonable, and cheap!, initial step. But the wifi reliability issue remains. It’s just variable by design, especially if you have just one central wifi point. As long as hiccups in signal are acceptable wifi is a fabulous solution.

Straw man arguments are generally frowned upon by actual engineers, so I’ll leave you to your straw

For the love of god, can we get normal wheel sizes again?   When *range* is a concern, sacrificing 10-15% because wheels seems really f’n stupid.

nah it’s missing that extra special feature.   We’ll make it *raised*