It's fun seeing someone try to call someone else stupid, but then fail to write the insult in a way that makes any sense. I didn't say anyone was stupid so how could I mistake stupidity for something?

*still confused*.

So... precisely what he pushed for with every other piece of legislation?

No, he wants credit for strong enforcement. It's quite amazing that you would think Trump was in support of crediting Biden with solving the border crisis, and yet proceed to call me a dipshit. Maybe get your brain checked, it's not firing on all neurons.

I did. I just looked up actual papers instead of whatever you were reading on Facebook while taking a shit so I suspect you may have different results.

Unlike a normal car which by necessity needs to interrupt air (for cooling), EVs have a very low drag coefficient, meaning that any time you tow *ANY* load your consumption is disproportionately effected not by the weight but by the air restriction. In a normal car you can expect maybe 10% range drop in the city with a trailer or bicycle rack or something like that, and 20% on the highway. On an EV doing the same thing you're looking at 20-50% range loss.

Now maybe the OP probably could make it, but they'd probably be very uncomfortable doing so and the range estimation is likely to be quite far off adding to the stress of the trip. I haven't tried it in a Tesla so I can't speak to that but I know my range close to halves on a Polestar 2 when I have my bicycles on the back.

Future charging stations will be defined by their charging capability about as much as the average person shops for a phone today based on making phone calls.

You won’t mind hanging out so much when you’re getting a massage, watching a movie, eating a good meal, or playing a game with friends and family. In a world full of attention-addicted narcissists, entertainment options are plentiful. Especially when Greed knows you’ll pay handsomely for it. Pay a couple of supermodels to come “hang out” for a day and pretend it’s fun, and you can sell a years worth of FOMO to the addicted.

A friend of mine recently took a trip all around Australia including outback roads through the desert in a BYD Atto 3. Some of the things she came across:

Fast chargers powered by solar + batteries.
Fast chargers powered by generators running from left over cooking oil - usually attached to outback restaurants and you need to go to the bar to get them to start it for you.
Fast chargers powered by small windmills + batteries.
Fast chargers with diesel gensets behind them.

Now granted these are all small volume and won't work if everyone has an EV, but I'm genuinely surprised at the ingenuity of some of these systems, especially given that most commercial fast chargers have battery systems internal to them already to prevent a demand spike on the upstream grid. - Yes chargers aren't just rated in kW when you buy them, they are rated in kW for a given time and then a different kW rating beyond that.

I’d say incredibly viable when you consider you haven’t added any additional revenue sources planned for these sites. Most gas stations do not survive off the few cents per gallon they make at the pump. They survive off charging $3 for 30 cents of sugar water at the Wonkavator soda dispenser. Right next to the other 99 flavors of addiction.

Anyone who buys an EV in North America is screwed for at least the next 20 years.

Yay, let's all go hang out at the "oasis" and charge our cars. Sounds like the place to be.

People are still working at figuring out how AI works. What do you teach people without having learned to use it? It seems to me the idea of colleges teaching it is getting ahead of the game. The world is still working at figuring it out.

Fusion has not been "around the corner" except in the fantasy of bad journalists. It has only bceome clear in the last few years that it will be possible with regards to plasma physics and material sciences without extreme effort. Commercial viability is likely but will take aditional decades. This is what actual experts have been saying all along.

And no, these are not "yahoos" or "no-name". These are actual scientists. Your disdain for them lets me suspect you are a no-clue MAGA.

I see the denial is strong with some of the moderators. Come on, waste some more of your precious mod points on me! Not even the religious fuckups ever managed to decrease my karma and you for sure will not.

Well, in a commercial setting, several concerns apply. First, it may be illegal for you to actually have the code you work on leave your enterprise. This can be soft (breach of contract) or hard (criminal act), or in between. Second, that backend may give your code to others. That may cause a lot of issues. If you did this voluntarily, trade-secret protection may be gone. If there were vulnerabilities in there, attackers may get access to and then craft exploits. I am sure other problems may exist. And third, what if you get code that somebody else had leaking this way? Suddently, you may be using code under copyright by somebody else. Or take, for example, that you bublish the code, attackers find a vulnerability and the original source gets attacked and finds out what you did. You may be legally in the clear, but years and years of litigation could result before that is established.

So, yes, the model is a massive problem. But so is sending your code to it or getting code from it.

Why can't it be both?

Obviously, this is not "transparency" in any meaningful sense. But the LLM cheerleaders are not very smart, so it probably will convince some of them.

Not quite. There is and had been a lot of plasma physics and material science research going on, all targetted at making commercially viable fusion a reality. It has been slow going since so much of this stuff is new and requires real research not just engineering. That "detail" is an end-goal to be attained when it realistically can be. Which is not yet, but it is getting closer.

That said, this is another hurdle taken and things moved a step. It also means the understanding of things has moved a significant step forward.

I know assholes like you like to ridicule fusion research. But all it shows is that you have no insight.