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Comment Re:Wondering (Score 1) 185

Two life-cycle things I have seen:
  • Old EV batteries with reduced capacity have a useful second life for home electric energy storage, typically combined with solar panels so you can use the power when you need it.
  • The Lithium can be recovered and used in new batteries, rather like the way lead-acid batteries are recycled for the lead, I guess.

Comment Re:UBI is a wealth transfer to the elites (Score 1) 497

The real perpetrators are the wealthy elite who plunder and pillage companies, amassing enormous wealth while exploiting their workforces. The politicians and bureaucrats you speak of so derisively are or last defence against those who would rob us blind.

Right about the wealthy elite, but unfortunately they are now so wealthy and powerful that the politicians and bureaucrats are in their pockets and cannot provide that defence.

Comment Re:Thus, perfectly good hardware goes to scrap (Score 1) 111

Those netbooks were fucking garbage when they were first built. Do yourself a favor and throw it in the trash. I can buy a $50 tablet that runs faster.

They were garbage running Windows, but generally worked a lot better if you replaced that with a not-too-bloated Linux installation.

And I'd rather have xterm and mutt than a tablet for reading and managing email. But I guess that puts me in a minority...

Comment Re:Alternatives (Score 5, Insightful) 718

Assume the CEO goes from $21M to $0 and redistribute among the 235,000 employees. Everyone gets less than $100 a year.

That's not the point.

What the inequality of wealth brings is inequality of power. Those at the top of the food chain can make and enforce decisions that benefit them financially. They can get laws passed, tax breaks, government restrictions lifted and politicians elected to suit their needs, and the resultant damage to everybody else is worth far more than $100.

Comment Re:more good news for EV's! (Score 1) 72

The best thing for EV batteries when they are no longer good for EV use is second life battery projects reusing them for less demanding applications like static energy storage. When they can no longer deliver bursts of high current they can still hold lots of charge and be useful for years, for example balancing supply and demand in a house running on solar electricity. Maybe after they're no good for that either they'll be worth dismantling and recycling.

Comment Re:How very Google of them (Score 1) 282

You simply CANNOT have enough fast chargers around to reasonably accommodate everyone who needs to fuel up in a day.

When just about every parking space has a charger (not necessarily a fast charger), the demand for fast chargers will be less.
Many EV owners now only charge at home (typically overnight) or only very rarely on a fast charger.
Also longer EV range and faster fast chargers (so you don't have to be on for so long) are coming.

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