They could also fire you for living out of a car. Fun choices!

I would never call you a liar about arable land being covered in PVs.
It's true. Arable land is covered in all kinds of things, every day.
PVs. Houses. Trailers. Shopping malls. You name it.

A tiny amount of the US' arable land is required to feed the country several times over.
It gets more interesting if you include "range" land, but that's also arguably one of the worst uses of land there is.

The flip side of that, is that converting arable land to PVs does have a one-time carbon penalty that is not insignificant.
Of course, if that displaces fossil demand, then it pays for itself eventually.

A lesson you learn when you start extrapolating percentages out to the entire world, is that the world is very edgy.

There are over 800k people who fit your edge case.
Given the nature of this particular edge case, it's probably 800k a year.

The better direction to go with this, is to simply admit that, yes, if the range of your EV does not include both your commute and any emergency runs you may need to do in the evening, then perhaps they're not for you.

There's an opposite to contriving situations to make a point, and that's trying to argue that any point is a contrivance, which is what you do.
I'm not really sure which of you is worse.

No, I'm not. You're trying to move the goalposts until the comparison is meaningless.

Not only that, but it can be transferred obscenely faster on a kWh/h basis.

Indeed.

Where as the gasoline vehicle with the 1000km range will require 0 fractions of an hour.

How many times 0 fractions is a few fractions?

There is no way you can swing this- it takes much longer to charge a battery per mile, than a fuel tank.
You're trying to argue that "it's not that bad", which I'm not arguing with.

Yeah, and check out the list of tallest bridges: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Most of them are in China. There's a bit more competition for the longest bridges: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

More underground rail than the rest of the world combined, built in less than two decades. More high speed rail than the rest of the world combined, similar timescale. They do not mess around when it comes to infrastructure.

It's not just them though. If you look at some of the Nordic countries and the tunnels they build, for a fraction of the price we pay for a feasibility study... Something has clearly gone badly wrong.

Capitalism is all about the bureaucratic barriers because capitalists long ago figured out that they help maintain monopolies and allow them to charge even higher rates for work. Regulatory capture is just one of many examples.

Because housing is a special case. Without housing, you are homeless, and that's a huge problem for both you and for society. Having lots of homeless people creates problems and cost for everyone else.

That's why civilized places have protections for renters and mortgage payers to make sure that temporary problems like losing your job don't destroy your life and make you a burden on the state. Of course it wouldn't be so bad if people could put away money for a rainy day, but we decided that many jobs should pay barely enough to survive on, and this is the consequence.

No normal by any means.
But that's why generators exist, and why no reasonable solar installation is an actual replacement for, unless we start saying, "well, it's a replacement for... 90% of the time"

12kW of panels!
You're pitching this horse shit with 12kW of panels!
On a cloudy day, you get what... 14kWh? For the entire fucking day?

You'd be called a liar less if you weren't full of shit.

That's why I choose not to become a landlord. To me, the obligations and responsibilities that come with owning someone else's home are too great.

If it's too much for you, sell up and get into some other business.

Businesses don't care about maintainable, that's why Slack and Teams are so shit. All they care about is shipping something that barely works and leveraging their dominant market position to ram it up your arse.

I should declare that I'm not a fan of Teams.

In case there was any confusion, a 200kW charger can move 200kWh of energy to a system in an hour.
A fuel pump can move 7.34MWh of usable energy in an hour (~32% efficiency)

These things are not even in the same ballpark.

That in itself is not some reason to shun EVs, by any means. They're different.
But they will never be as good at "recharging" their battery as a fuel tank.

You said:

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This is an indisputable fact of physics.
Trying to make the comparison as apples to oranges as you possibly can, you can try to squeeze the numbers closer, but it's fact. Deal with that fact, don't try to bullshit your way out of it.

No.

Yes.

Quickly isn't always the right tool for the job.
I have several Python code bases that I maintain that have become so large that they're effectively undebuggable. They literally take ~5-15 minutes to start.

Quick can be good, particularly when the project is small- but there is a technical debt incurred using Python for large projects, and people who do so should be beaten senseless with a wet fish.

I don't bother, there is plenty of changing and multiple days between charges at the destination. At most I might check if any hotels have charging, for convenience.