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Delta_V ,

USA did it in 1991, day one of Desert Storm

Delta_V ,

There’s no reason EVs have to be heavier forever

That's a bit of a stretch, unfortunately. The energy density of batteries is nowhere close to that of gasoline - joule for joule, gasoline weighs about 100 times less than batteries. Also, a fuel tank big enough to give its vehicle a 400 mile range will get lighter over the course of the trip, as the liquid fuel gets converted into polluting gas and exhausted into the atmosphere - batteries don't get appreciably lighter as you discharge them.

Agree that 400 miles range with charging stations as ubiquitous as today's gas stations would help EV adoption. I do worry about the rollout of charging stations being slowed down by competition with expensive and fragile hydrogen tech (keep the hydrogen on boats and trains pls).

Delta_V ,

So this big breakthrough in tire technology is . . . making them harder and reducing their grip?

Delta_V ,

That extra weight will also mean that more force is required to accelerate and change directions.

The nimbleness of a vehicle can be expressed as the ratio:

(Tire Contact Area * Tire Stickiness) / Vehicle Mass

Increasing the vehicle's mass while making the tires harder will lead to longer breaking distances and will cause a vehicle to understeer at lower speeds.

HydroRide: These e-bikes do not require a battery and are just as efficient ( www.notebookcheck.net )

Electric bikes have become popular in recent years. One manufacturer now hopes to sound in the next generation of electric mobility with a relatively new type of energy storage and energy generation.

Delta_V ,

just plug in the hydrogen generator for 5 hours and you're good to go, no batteries to charge

Delta_V OP ,

add that shit up

Delta_V ,

There's an app installed on your phone and a separate bluetooth device you keep in your car.

By default, it assumes you're the driver of your car, but you can use the app to claim someone else was driving your car during a particular trip.

If you're in someone else's car, the app assumes you're not driving because the bluetooth device in your car isn't nearby.

Delta_V ,

I wish the Democrats would lay off the gun control.

Regarding taxes, both parties fail in different ways. Democratic tax policy fails at the Federal level - low/zero taxes at the Federal level makes sense because the Federal government hasn't needed to collect taxes since establishing the Federal Reserve banking system and moving off the gold standard. Republican tax policy fails at the State level - low taxes at the State level makes less sense, because the states actually need the money to pay for programs that market forces do not provide for.

Neither party is doing enough to make our military industry more efficient, less organizationally top heavy, and less corrupt. Spending resources on war is bad, but losing a war to tyrants like China or Russia would be worse. I want USA to have more weapons for less money.

Both parties fail when it comes to welfare programs. Republicans would implement sadistic and self-destructive abolition of all safety nets. Democrats craft welfare programs that pull the rug out from under people as soon as they start down the road toward financial stability, trapping people in poverty by removing the safety net too soon. For example, Medicaid is the only good healthcare available in this backwards nation, but you need to stay poor to get it - earn too much money and you'll end up poorer than when you started.

Delta_V ,

that would threaten Monsanto’s patents

Its the other cancer peddling shitheel this time. Syngenta owns the patent, making it completely justified for Greenpeace to prevent them from gaining control of the food supply, even if they have to use BS arguments about food safety to do so.

Israel Responds to Move to Recognize Palestinian State by Withholding Funds ( www.nytimes.com )

Israel will not transfer much-needed funds to the Palestinian Authority in the wake of the decision by three European countries to recognize a Palestinian state, the country’s finance minister said on Wednesday, as its foreign minister denounced the European moves as giving “a gold medal to Hamas terrorists.”...

Delta_V ,

As far as I can tell, Israel does not actually collect money from people living in Gaza or the West Bank. The local governments of those places collect taxes themselves.

Israel taxes imports into Israel, and made a deal with PLO in 1994 to gift them some of that revenue. That deal expired in 1999, but until now Israel kept giving them free money anyway.

Delta_V ,

There are no left wing political groups in the US. Closest thing we've got is a centrist named Bernie who has no political party supporting him, and a 'squad' of Democrats pretending to be progressive while they support culturally conservative politics, virulent ethno-nationalism, and violently ignorant theocracy in other countries.

Delta_V ,

This article is easily falsifiable bullshit. Just ask google a question and you'll get the same kind of search results as you always have.

Delta_V ,

Yeah, there's no way all those seams are gonna hold in the AC/heat, and I would bet there's sub-optimal insulation in all the floors and ceilings exposed to outside air.

Delta_V ,

Wise words from SatansMaggotyCumFart.

Delta_V OP ,

thank you

Delta_V ,

Missed opportunity: "Standard Missile" is an actual weapon, deployed and in use today.

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