The last car I had with that was a 2004 Ford Focus, and those things were made cheap. Like afraid it would snap off on a cold winter day kind of cheap. In fact, the gas cover did exactly that one very cold morning.

This thing is built very cheap, so I wouldn’t get too excited.

Best as a supplementary power source for charging your phone on a trip. If it gives you enough range to go to the grocery store and back on a sunny day, that would be a lot.

There’s also electrical properties, such as capacitive coupling between the layers. FR4 circuit boards have known properties that electrical engineers can use in cases where it matters. RF design, in particular.

This isn’t insurmountable, of course, and there’s plenty of designs where it doesn’t matter much. These sorts of things have to start somewhere.

For that matter, there is probably better sources of copper in that scenario.

The people deploying it. If you don’t want that to be a big utility company, then look into community solar.

Hmm? Solar and wind are at their most cost competitive when deployed in one big field. They’re at their worst when deployed on individual houses.

If you’re cooking by electricity, it’s all roughly the same. It’s all running close to as efficient as it possibly can be. In theory, some kind of heat pump could do better, but that’s not really viable for this use case. It’s hard to make them both compact and provide enough heat for cooking.

If you’re cooking in a pot on a stove, an induction stove top will do better. As far as dedicated rice cookers go, though, they’re all the same. Might be more efficient than any stove top because they lose less heat to the surrounding area during use.

I don’t know if France is the example to go by right now.

Just to pick out one thing, Iraq was very deliberately setup by the Bush Administration. They put specific effort into falsifying evidence to support an invasion. There’s no particular reason to believe Iraq would have been invaded by Gore.

A major issue in the run up to 9/11 was a coordination failure due to a delayed Administration transition. It’s hard to say for sure, but it’s quite possible 9/11 doesn’t even happen if it’s a direct transition between Clinton and Gore.

Oh, and we’d probably be in the ICC. The treaty was finalized towards the end of Clinton’s run, he was in favor of it, but he left it to the next Admin to decide what to do with it. Bush Admin canned it.

That’s fine; there’s always special accommodations needed. Can we stop making it the default?

We make a 2 ton metal box, cruising at 70mph, and driven by basically anyone. The only way to do this while having a reasonable level of safety is to cram it full of features that make it heavy and expensive. This is fundamentally terrible.

If it’s a community being built out along solarpunk lines, then there’s likely other infrastructure that has to be laid in the ground, like power and water. That being the case, you should be able to wire up most dwellings and not have to deal with the issues around wireless networking.

Then there’s external connections from that community to others. It shouldn’t be difficult to get 1Gbps within a community, but it’s going to be far, far less between communities. The idea of a CDN helps here, but in a mutual aid way where everyone pitches in to cache content locally.

I’m currently getting through to the site, but if you’re seeing that, it might be DNS. I recently switched providers and not everything might have propagated yet.

It’s also the lithium, or at least it is how it’s done now. Big shallow ponds of water in regions that are already strapped for water.

Several EVs are already cobalt-free.

That said, California’s salton sea is a very promising source of lithium. It’s already an industrial waste zone, but one we can make use of now.

Lithium Phosphate, yes. Most EVs don’t use that because it doesn’t do as well as full Li-ion. LFP is a safer chemistry, though.

Ebikes are where I hope this gets a lot of use. That and stationary applications.

Possibly also good for some cheap cars or e-bikes, as well. Save lithium for the use cases that really need it.

Thank you. I try to keep that same message out there. Yeah, headlines make outlandish claims all the time, but they’re all based on something, and every single one you heard in the last 20 years have added up to a revolution.

I have yet to hear of a possible use of NFTs that would actually be useful. Stuff that was floated like in-game purchases or concert tickets don’t solve any problems compared to the current system.

NFTs died out because scamming was the only thing they were useful for.