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  • Because digging up ore with lower energy density than coal that spreads heavy metals everywhere is totally safe. /s

    When oil barons, Putin, far right grifters, and coal barons are all suddenly spouting the same lines about nuclear it's definitely because they know it's a good way to get rid of fossil fuels /s

  • I think it’s really interesting how people who aren’t familiar with computers never think to themselves, “there has to be a better way to do this.”

    Sort of a communal learned helplessness. Years of abusive user interfaces and faceless corporations providing an all or nothing platform instead of modular tools leads to a mindset of "that's just the way it is and I have to deal with it".

  • These ones cool stuff in the short term (and cause acid rain, ozone depletion, famines and long term warming; and there'll probably be a new thing this time around where some countries have reduced solar output).

    They also ground planes and cancel road trips.

    This volcano might even save us from a blue arctic event for a few extra years, so it could be a wash in terms of climate (although definitely not for europe's ability to feed itself)

  • Sounds amazing and I hope one gets invented, but there is another solution as well:

    You could make the wheels out of steel and run them on a narrow road also made of steel instead of oil byproducts, so they would wear out much slower, and any dust would be similar to naturally ocurring iron oxides (becoming relatively inert once it mixed with mud even if there was still some respiratory risk). It would be better suited to higher speeds and big loads and would compliment the other invention (maybe you could even put the small two wheeled car on the big steel wheeled car). Some kind of self-driving system would also be necessary to keep everyone safe

  • If we correct for toyota falseadvertising range estimates (-10%), assume they mean 90km/h at similar consumption as a model 3 in ideal coditios (around 120Wh/km), and take "a charge" as 10-80% then it needs 90kWh or about half a megawatt.

    So still not within current chargers, but well within what a megawatt charger would provide (and there are four standards basically ready to roll out).

  • MCS and other standards in consideration are all around the 1-3.5MW range.

    Most of the absurd luxury/sports EVs output 500kW-1MW at full acceleration (they can only keep this up for 5 minutes though). It's not a huge leap from existing production stuff.