Become a fan of Slashdot on Facebook

 



Forgot your password?
typodupeerror

Comment Re:Seriously (Score 1) 24

The Switch 2 pricing was announced well after Trump was elected, and undoubtedly included *some* additional markup for tariff increases from the get go, since he had been talking about tariffs the whole campaign, even if it has been a continual game of roulette trying to predict the *exact* tariffs. So it makes sense that the Switch 1 prices would be more sensitive to the tariffs than the Switch 2.

Comment One Sided Contracts (Score 1) 24

They sell these price lock contracts as being in the customer's favor, however the ISP continues to raise prices whenever they want. Comcast/Xfinity is by far the worst at this. I've found Verizon to be much more honest by comparison.

Comment Re:Long, long way to go (Score 1) 76

Yes, and when they get to a power gain of two orders of magnitude they will have generated (but not extracted) as much energy as it took to fire the lasers that created the implosion since these use 300MJ/shot only delivering ~2MJ to the pellet.

...or they could use more efficient lasers.

Whereas NIF’s 1990s-era technology is only 0.5% efficient, Campbell says that modern lasers can get as high as 20%.

-Physicsworld

Comment Re:Chicken vs. Egg (Score 1) 275

Everything you said is true for an individual, but misses the point the parent was making regarding the total number of charging stations needed.

If an EV needs to charge 20 minutes every 200 miles, and an ICE vehicle needs to pump gas for 5 minutes every 200 miles, then you will need 4 times the number of public level 3 chargers as gas pumps to serve the same number of cars. In fact if roadtripping EVs are mostly charging at normal meal breaks, then you will need even more chargers, since use will be more clustered compared to gas stops.

On the flip side, the public chargers will only be used by people on road trips or who don't have a home charger which will decrease their volume. Still I would expect you to need more chargers than gas pumps along highways, and fewer in the middle of cities.

Comment Only Level 3 Matters (Score 0) 275

First of all, nobody gives a shit about level 2 chargers, and we should just ignore level 1 completely since they are so slow. They're destination chargers and you should have at least one for every EV on the road. Touting these as viable public charging only causes confusion and distrust among the general public regarding EVs.

Level 3 is what everyone cares about, and that's what needs some level of parity with fuel pumps. Lack of level 3 charging is what leaves people with EVs stranded, and stranded EV owners is bad news for EV adoption.

Furthermore, it's not enough to have level 3 chargers installed. They have to be maintained, and that's the biggest issue with charging right now, broken chargers!

Slashdot Top Deals

Imitation is the sincerest form of plagarism.

Working...