Rational … hahahahahahahahahhehehe hoo hohoho hah haha hah hah hahahahahah aha haha. Sorry, where were we again?

Oh ok. I have no idea what the situation here is for bidirectional charging. It’s not common yet.

And yes, we’re trying to work out common payment systems, but as far as I know, that’s just software. Historically chargers required you to register and pay through the manufacturers app, but that’s unscalable when you have many possible charger manufacturers supporting a common standard.

One of the requirements for US incentives to build out chargers was mandating credit card readers so anyone can drive up and charge without a proprietary app. Of course that was cancelled in our chaotic political situation, so will take more years to happen

I believe EVs are being harmonized, although separately….or is that what you meant?

Don’t EVs in EU have a standardized charger and negotiate voltage and current?

In the US, we have an old standard that needs to go away, a newer standard that is going away, and Tesla’s standard which seems to be on the way to the winning standard. But the handshake is already compatible: switching between systems just requires a physical adapter. I believe the car and charger negotiate for the best voltage and current it can use

And of course level I and II charging use residential electrical standards, so already must be as standard as you can get. No one wants to try resolving those

Of course, but there’s also the matter of the degrading battery with much shorter life, the peeling handle, the worn head. Yes, I can put up with the battery for longer, but it will need to be replaced and it may not be any cheaper than replacing the toothbrush. I could just deal with the peeling handle, but it’s not hygienic. I could buy more replacement heads but it’s throwing more money after an appliance whose time is nearing its end

So we have hope, that will make it here as well.

Plastics

green alone isn’t going to support our society

Let’s find out. When I started advocating for increased renewables, the expected limit was the grid destabilizing at 30% renewables. Now many places are there. I recently read a piece expecting the limit to be about 95% renewables based on scalability of todays grid storage. Were a long way from that, so let’s work toward it and see what improvements we can make along the way

Note: one of the more difficult areas to greenify will be the military, but imagine instead shrinking that as we no longer have to defend petrostates or fossil fuel trade routes

Many states have very regulated utility prices: you may need just a half dozen buddies and get appointed to the oversight board that approves rates

Imagine the savings to society with the energy independence from green energy

• shut down most of the continent wide natural gas distribution infrastructure
• shut down most of the continent wide gasoline distribution infrastructure
• cut way back on the military when we no longer have to protect oil kingdoms

Turkey-Havarti on Amtrak Acela! The bread wasn’t memorable and the sandwich was small, but it tasted good and Acela is a great way to travel

If you grade Amtrak food relative to airline food, it’s outstanding!

A motor block is also not a good crumple zone. I’m happy not to have that in front of me.

Battery fires are much less likely than people fear, even in accidents, although obviously horribly bad when they happen. More importantly this is currently popular battery technology, not endemic to EVs. There have been announcements for newer batteries that prevent this

You can see your blind spot if

1. Your side mirror is adjusted properly
2. You look

Blind spot monitoring helps alert you in case you didn’t

Why not? A crumple zone is a crumple zone. To the extent EVs facilitate steer by wire so we don’t need a steering column is even better

Member ls of the face eating leopard party being surprised “I didn’t mean violence against my political party”

Admittedly CVS eggs, since that’s the only 24hr store near me and I was desperate

Clippy was always the symbol of my hatred toward technology companies . How did he get redeemed?

Eggs at $7.99/dozen.

Kind of puts into perspective civilizations ending from climate change in a century vs in 30 minutes. By the time we would have learned about world ending nuclear war, we’d already have ended. For climate change there’s still hope we will do something

Think of that but continuous. Sure there seems to be to be more environmental disasters than ever but each is a one off.

• Dead lakes and crumbling masonry from acid rain were continuous. For years
• BP having an oil spill eventually goes away, but rivers were toxic for decades, repeatedly starting on fire