I don’t think the point is to perfectly or even closely replicate living grass, it’s more that grass happens to be green so we made some green carpet stuff for outside. Where I live turf lawns are always small and almost always surrounded by living landscaping. Aesthetically, I’ll take the turf over dryscaping every…

There are plenty of alternatives to a grass lawn other than a giant sheet of plastic.

Amen. There's a movent to do away with the European aristocracy-style turf lawn because it's a plant desert that sucks up a lot of water. Natives with low water requirements are the way to go. And have you been on an artificial lawn on a hot day? It's miserably hot. As in competing with concrete or asphalt hot. That's…

Lawns: a self-indlicted environmental disaster.

What about the aesthetics of synthetic lawn? I have yet to see a single synthetic lawn product that looks remotely realistic, much less inviting or attractive. A much more attractive alternative (in my opinion) is xeriscaping or drought tolerant landscaping (including native ornamental grasses, lavenders, succulents, r…

Yeah, let’s just cover all of our lawns in plastic. This is definitely better *rolls eyes*

As they should.

You seriously need to recalculate your payback.

so if the power goes out in your neighborhood your house also loses power.

1st Gear:

We’ve been leasing a Nissan Leaf for $99 a month for the last 2 years. So this credit definitely helps middle class people at least.

If the demand and the amount of “beta testers” increases for electric cars that will force the development of better batteries because the market for these cars will increase and gain the attention of capitalists.

Based on the video’s average of 120,000 miles after 10 years, according to this 2017 chart from Green Car Report, while some drop off early on, those are probably the earlier production packs, it appears you can expect 90%+ capacity after 120k miles. As the technology improves, that will increase significantly;…