It was ‘07 or ‘08. I was coming from business trip from Helsinki (I live a bit more north in Oulu) on Blue1 (SAS more economical daughter company). The plane was about to start landing stuff and suddenly it went almost to 90 degrees sideways. Whole cabin made a quite a noise. The plane rightened itself and embarraced…

Hush your mouth! Don’t let our secret out. We don’t want them easterners moving here in droves.

Wow, that was a hell of a landing.

Another good tidbit about the IL-62:

That’s always been my problems with these “off-road” ready campers and overlanding vehicles. Their size and weight makes it very difficult to do a lot of backwoods off-roading, even if they have the hardware to do so. You’re wasting money, complexity, and weight on stuff that will barely be used. It doesn’t take a…

And, yet, Media Matters has tracked Tesla publicity since the beginning. Consistently ranks “93% positive”...

Actually, grid demand is flat, and energy efficiency is the key driver there. And we’re just getting started there, believe it or not. People like to save money!

Even if it’s fossil fuel, even, it’s far from a 1:1 ratio.

Not really, especially when Germany is pushing hard for energy generation from renewables

I’m sincerely tired of this argument. Eight coal mining concerns went bust just in 2019. I monitor energy industry news for work, and there’s not a week that goes by that another NG peaker gets rejected or another coal plant has a “surprise” retirement or moves its retirement date up like a decade.

My beef with the speed limit thing is that it will less and less tied to emissions as EVs and hybrids take over the motoring pool. The few sections of unrestricted autobahn do not contribute a meaningful amount of pollution to Germany’s carbon impact - they’re just easy to pick on by environmentalists. The real way to…

Give me an electric Miata with 150 to 200 mile range and optimized for handling and I’m in. A couple all electrics (Leaf, 500e) are surprisingly capable without even trying to be good driver’s cars.

Toyota could do more like join CA’s effort to increase MPG.  

Is that the new Cyber X!?

You know who is also really trying...TESLA, but everyone seems to always hate on them instead.

There are two schools of thought in those responses to your theory -

Do they want to run this down the same assembly line where they build S-X or 3-Y? Or do they want to set up a line just to do trucks? I own a wonderful set of shop tools at home, but I don’t bring them to work.

Bonus, if nobody makes babies, then we don’t need to worry about the world going to shit! 

This! Basically: see username. 

False! Not making babies is the single biggest way to reduce your environmental impact.