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My mother passed away
Thanks all for the heartfelt condolences. Nearly two months later, I'm still in a deep depression. It's not easy losing a person you've lived with for all of your 61 years, barring 3 semesters of college. It should be a release but so far it hasn't worked out that way. It may well be over a year... -
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True cost to run EV like paying $17.33 per gallon if not for $22 billion in government subsidies.
Thanks for the compliments. I do try to see both sides in a debate. Here I think the low hanging fruit is getting ICEs out of population centers where their pollution causes the most harm. I won't shed any tears if some people are still driving ICEs in rural areas in 2100. That's where they do... -
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True cost to run EV like paying $17.33 per gallon if not for $22 billion in government subsidies.
And this has me very worried. Now that my mother passed, I can't use being her caretaker as an excuse to get out of serving. -
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LED technology hasn’t progressed in 10 years or so?
The real progress has been in CRI and cost. Now you can get 90+ CRI at over 200 lpw. Mid-power LEDs are now under one cent in large quantities, basically not much more than commodity parts like resistors. Maximum efficiency for commercial LEDs is around 230 to 240 lpw. This hasn't gone up much...- jtr1962
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- Forum: LED Flashlights
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My mother passed away
As some of you may know, I've been care taking for my mother for about the last decade. Things got more involved when she stopped walking about 6 years ago. I had to bathe her, put her on the toilet, move her from her bed to her recliner, and so forth. I semi-retired in 2018, both to take care... -
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More EV negatives
We could make those things here but we're choosing not to. We already missed the boat on becoming a major manufacturer and end user of high-speed rail. We're missing the boat now on solar, wind, EVs, geothermal, and nuclear, just for starters. We'll need to mine oil regardless even if we get... -
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More EV negatives
Two things. That battery doesn't cost $60K. It probably costs them under $5K to make, certainly under $10K at current prices of less than $100/kW-hr. They're just gouging people. Except for Tesla and BYD, none of the automakers can get past the ICE model where you make several times as much... -
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Canada to go to all zero emission passenger vehicles by 2035
More like a drink the way this thread is going. -
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Canada to go to all zero emission passenger vehicles by 2035
Problem is people nowadays take offense way too easily, sometimes even when the "offending" person didn't intend any malice. Also, so many things suddenly become offensive that it's a full-time job keeping track of it. For example, calling someone "homeless" suddenly became offensive. Instead... -
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Canada to go to all zero emission passenger vehicles by 2035
Well, absolutely nothing good came of 9/11. The Patriot Act, TSA, $8 trillion on war, militarization of our police forces, etc. The specter of nuclear war lessened by the time I was in high school, but it was my fear as well. "The Fate of the Earth" is a good, factual description of the end... -
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Canada to go to all zero emission passenger vehicles by 2035
Very true. Until the 1960s, WWII gave the US a virtual monopoly in so many areas. It wasn't until Europe and Japan rebuilt that we had serious competition again. Had the US not gotten involved in WWII, it's likely the eastern half of the US would belong to Germany, and the western half to Japan... -
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PAYPAL what a disgraceful company
Besides that, there is a huge variability in the carbon footprint of any given type of activity, making this tracking feature pretty useless. This wasn't something mandated by government, was it? I can't imagine why a bank would feel the need to tell its customers their carbon footprint. -
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Canada to go to all zero emission passenger vehicles by 2035
It's good to inject humor occasionally to lighten up the tone sometimes. We're all guilty of taking some topics too seriously. In the end, nobody here is going to make public policy. For my part, a lot of my posts are just practice for when I do communicate with people who are involved with policy. -
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Canada to go to all zero emission passenger vehicles by 2035
I'm glad you get it. Let's not let the perfect be the enemy of the good. -
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Canada to go to all zero emission passenger vehicles by 2035
No, I didn't research anything you wrote which was UK policy specific. Since you live in the UK and I don't, I took everything you wrote which was specific to the UK at face value. I'm not about to debate the wisdom or folly of what they're doing over there. I'm not sure exactly what kind of...
