sweden also has oil peaker plants, the largest ones in europe, but most of them are condemned. it's mostly hydro. we did have pumped hydro for a while but that closed in the 80s due to bad economic viability (up until a year or so ago i was paying β¬0.02/kWh)
i can answer the last one with something i learned the other week: the reason it's "a pair of pants", is that they used to consist of only the leg bits. you'd put on underwear, then leggy bits, then your jacket, then you'd tie the legs to the jacket.
i don't know if i would take this study as "knowledge". that map of the us? it's just a map of chargers, not of data from the study. reading the study, they were only measuring in one county. there's no categorisation of the type of fast charger they measured, just "a variety". the error bars overlap enough that this could all be errors. and why only measure at fast chargers and gas stations? why not at other high-power electrical systems like transformer yards in urban areas? they alno have fans, surely.
question is, why publish it if it is so obviously (and willfully) wrong?
i ripped all my dvds specifically to get rid of the menus because they were slow, hard to use, and full of frustrating animations. they usually just felt like an afterthought.
i've never been one to be swayed by extras, it usually just feels akin to jingling keys to get me to buy shit. maybe i'm weird.
then you weren't in sweden. we dont even signpost them.