Is this feeble attempt to gesture at Thermodynamics predictive success as doomed to frustration as the prediction that the moon should be falling into the Earth but actually it's moving away from the Earth? How does Thermodynamics predict that mere movements on a gravitaional objects can contradict the often-taught principle that a body rotating another will eventually fall into it?

Here we are saying that most Americans have houses not very different from Alec Baldwin, and yet whenever electric vehicles are mentioned on slashdot, you can just bet comments are going to say "but half of America can't charge at home!"

Which is it? We all live like Alec Baldwin, or we can't even charge electric vehicles at home.

The real reason isn't too far off - high income countries can afford healthcare. This leads to the population in general being much healthier and living longer, and the biggest reason, lower infant mortality.

In poorer countries, you need to have multiple kids - this is a requirement because most of your kids will be dead before they reach adulthood. So you need to have multiple kids to have a chance that one of them will reach adulthood.

And moms, when they aren't having to constantly pop out kids for survival get to do other things rather than incubate babies 24/7.

Richer countries also tend to have better human rights, where the woman gets to choose in the matter of kids. Granted, this can leave the men somewhat unfulfilled once the woman calls it quits, but that's a different problem.

A typical nuclear plant is sited inside a keep-out area of roughly 1000 acres. That comes to 4 million square meters. So you're saying that solar panels don't take much more area than nuclear plants. OK.

As a quick comparison, about 800 million square meters of the United States are used for cattle grazing. That's three trillion square meters. Area really isn't the problem.

That's very little waste, since solar panels are recyclable. There isn't a very big market for recycling solar panels today because few solar panels have reached their end of life, but when it's needed, twenty or thirty years from now, the materials solar panels are made from are all recyclable.

That's like saying that oxygen is one of the most toxic substances known to man, in its modification known as ozone. Phosphorus is not toxic; it is in fact one of the essential elements for life. The backbone of DNA molecules are phosphates; no phosphorus, no life.

And the amount of phosphorus in solar panels is absolutely trivial-- it's a dopant, about 100 ppm in the emitter of the cell, a layer roughly a micron thick. It is not "white phosphorus".

That's a myth promulgated by the fossil-fuel industry.

The major components of solar panels, are, by mass: glass, aluminum (frames), silicon. All of these are recycleable; none of these are toxic. After that you have the polymer attaching the glass to the cells, and the wiring.

Compared to the amount of landfill that industrialized nations produce -- 2.13 billion metric tons annually, in 2020-- solar panels are trivial.

And the restrictions you're against aren't on the GPL code itself.

GPL only applies to the code being used, and Red Hat is providing code to you. To which you are legally allowed to get the source code per the GPL. And you are also legally allowed to distribute the source code and binaries.

Red Hat is not obligated to keep providing you new binaries through - their support agreement might say you lose access to future updates, but everything GPL you have is still yours to distribute per the GPL.

The GPL is a copyleft license. It requires copyright to work. You can choose to use the GPL or not - if you refuse the GPL, the code is provided to you under All Rights Reserved, i.e., default copyright. If you wish to use the code in your projects, you have to agree with the GPL to get those extra terms that let you create derivative works and such.

The GPL prohibits additional restrictions like saying you cannot distribute the binaries further. But you can do that with RHEL just fine - Red Hat/IBM cannot sue you for posting the SRPMS and binaries online on your filesharing site (as long as it's all GPL). They can prohibit you from obtaining future versions of RHEL but that's not a GPL issue at all, that's a business issue. They can also restrict you from posting non-GPL licensed stuff like their branding and such online, because that stuff is commercially licensed as well. But you're free to do with the GPL code what you will.

Ah, kids today, leaving out the degree symbol in Kelvins because all their friends do, too. In my day, children had respect,

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fnap.nationalacademies....

Can't go lower than 0 degrees Kelvin, and I'm sure you must have hit that already.

It's why people hate using Apple Subscriptions. Because Apple makes it too easy to subscribe and unsubscribe to services - you get a neat list of all your subscriptions, and you cancel by turning off that subscription. A dialog pops up to confirm, what the end date is (your subscription is active until it expires). But it's just one click, no muss, no fuss.

Of course, companies hated it because Apple kept a lot of user details private and kept them from doing "retentions". Lots of people used it even though it was a costlier option (since most companies added the Apple tax to the subscription fee if you used Apple). It was just so easy to cancel - you do it without talking to anyone or anyone trying to get you to resubscribe.

Apple made it too easy that companies hated it, so pretty much only Apple uses it.

Apparently it's leading to a renaissance in landlines. Kids will need to communicate, but they don't need a smartphone. So some parents simply get them a landline so they can make phone calls to their friends.

This works for younger kids to keep in touch, but who don't wander too far away from parents, so likely adolescents in elementary school. Instead of a smartphone, they get a landline.

Older kids like teens get old school flip or feature phones. This lets them talk to their friends, make and receive calls so parents can keep track of them, etc. They can get the smartphone once they turn 18.

Actually, Funai (the last maker of VCRs) greatly simplified the VHS tape mechanism over the 30 years they made it. The last machines they made in the 2000s are extremely simple mechanically and since Funai was the only maker of them, they are practically all identical.

So if you gather a few of the new old stock players still available you have a collection of players with spare parts. And they are very mechanically simple - sure there's some oddball shaped cogs and sprockets and gears that perform the complex operations in a simple way. but they beat what an 80s era VCR had in mechanical complexity.

The last VCRs often only had 3 motors - the one driving the rotary head, one driving the capstan roller and the takeup spools (and do the fast-forward/rewind). The final motor handles the tape insertion, loading and threading, and ejection of the tape. All of it done with precisely engineered injection molded gears designed for easy mass production.

An 80's era VCR has easily a half dozen motors more with dozens of switches, limit sensors, and other things. The gears and cogs are much simpler, but the mechanism and timings are so much more complicated and has to be coordinated by a processor.

And head cleaning is easily done with the lid off - you can easily clean the heads on the drum with a little isopropyl alcohol and a q-tip.

It's a magic of mass production that the final VCRs gave great performance and everything had been simplified to a single sided circuit board and a mechanism consisting of only a few gears and motors. The complexity of operation has been simplified to a plastic gear that choreographs the operation.

If you didn't have an interest before in eating tinamou, why would you develop one just because some company makes them big?

I mean, there's literally photographs. Here's another shot of the NACS charger. Here's one of a Tesla plugged in, to a NACS connector. Here's another.

I mean, you're asking me to not believe my own eyes.

Literally, the other drivers leaving reviews at the site disagree with you. When was the last time you were there? Here's all the reviews:

Feb 28, 2025
MKF
Tesla Model Y
NACS (Tesla) 16 Kilowatts

Dec 8, 2024
ProphetM
Tesla Model 3
NACS (Tesla)
Another great charge under the windmill at this wonderful museum!

Oct 1, 2023
SJacks
Fiat 500e 2013
We have a standard J-1772, and there was none of this plug type supplied at the ~4 charge stations (2 plugs each). Most if the plug-types were the CCS-Type 1. This station info should be updated.

Sep 9, 2023
tesla3joe
Tesla Model 3
Tesla
After hours use the service entrance. Charger is under the big windmill.

Jun 9, 2023
TessieK
Tesla Model S
This place is open and working! I called first to make sure the gate was open. Andy answered and was so sweet. He greeted us at the gate and took us to the charger.

Nov 24, 2022
rsager
Tesla Model 3
Arrived when museum was closed and the gate was locked so there was no access to the chargers. their phone message said their hours were Friday through Sunday? But that we could arrange visits to the museum on other days.

Aug 27, 2022
AmericanVanilla
Tesla Model Y
Tesla 6 Kilowatts
Maximum 24A Charger

Aug 27, 2022
blackmamba
Tesla 6 Kilowatts
We were in a pretty tricky situation in this area on the way to Vegas. Charging facilities are fairly limited in this area but this location helped close the gap to get to the closest super charger in needles. It seems that the charger can be accessed at any time of the day. The location is scenic with art installations by the host museum. Watch out for wild life. Leave a donation this service is seriously needed (and appreciated) in this area.

Mar 1, 2022
Sperry
Tesla Model 3
Great stop
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Dec 30, 2021
EVJerry
Tesla Model X
What a neat Historic Route 66 spot where my Spirit of Tesla - 2017 Tesla Model X used the service entrance to get to the windmill for a Level 2 Tesla destination charger (5 kW atv240 volts)...along with 120- volt Level 1 outlet. I will be back to visit this exquisite "Study The Past" historical site.

Dec 13, 2021
Nyroc
Chevrolet Bolt EV 2017
Tesla
Nice place to go back in history. Very enjoyable
The Tesla Destination is now housed in a shelter. I didn’t test it with my adapter but looks in great condition.

Nov 21, 2020
bee_harris
Tesla Model 3
Tesla

Apr 28, 2019
ProphetM
Tesla Model 3
Tesla 239 Volts 24 Amps 5 Kilowatts
Inaugural charge from their new Tesla Destination Charger! Output is 24 amps max (30 amp breaker).

Mar 12, 2019
ProphetM
Tesla Model 3
Wall 118 Volts 12 Amps 1 Kilowatts
Great historical museum on Route 66! Just 120v right now but 240v planned soon.