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Comment Re: Options are the Problem, Not the Goal (Score 1) 216

I was being tongue in cheek. Wild animals are indeed more sustainable using the green definition of such. But they are quite unable to sustain the market's hunger for burgers and steaks. Farmed bison is quite tasty actually, but beef seems to have won the war for public appetites and is probably easier to raise in captivity as well.

Comment Re:RIP Ford (Score 2) 88

Sometimes Lightning fails to strike even once. Way to misread your actual market.

I'm sure they will continue to make traditional F-150s, which is most of their actual market. People seem to like them just fine, so it may take a long time to find something people like better. This looks to not compete in that space anyway, being more budget oriented. Unlike the Lightning there is probably a market for cheaper trucks.

Comment Re:Clean hydrogen is a trojan horse by big oil (Score 1) 26

Big oil has been pushing hydrogen forever as you can make it with fossil fuels, and requires siloing and pipelines and refineries - all stuff oil companies have in spades.

Well we do need something to replace fossil fuels where batteries are not ideal. Long haul trucking, rail, shipping, stationary generation, aircraft, etc. Given the choice between e-fuels and hydrogen though the former seems like a better plan, not least of which specifically because it is a drop in replacement for the existing distribution and fueling infrastructure. That is actually a feature, as anyone who has trouble finding a place to charge can attest.

Comment Re:not the same (Score 3, Insightful) 104

was 535 megawatts, equal to adding a big hydro dam or a half-sized nuclear reactor at a fraction of the cost

It's really not the same, for a number of reasons.

Well, yeah, but most of the differences are advantageous. The power is basically instantaneous, can be cycled quickly, and has no ongoing environmental negatives. The batteries work as both a source and sink. Ongoing operational costs are far better. The batteries are distributed across the state, which means better robustness.

Plus someone else paid for most of the infrastructure. That's the utilities' favorite part.

Comment Re:Can we make alerts great again? (Score 1) 29

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.chp.ca.gov%2Fnews-al... An Ebony Alert is a resource available to law enforcement agencies investigating the suspicious or unexplainable disappearance of a black woman or black person.

So what do they use for Asian persons? I assumed that was going to be the yellow alert, but it looks like that was taken by something else.

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