Bezos is funding this:
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Notice you didn't question what the gender of the grandchild.
“We will get people housed. We will get them off the street. We will get them into temporary housing, address the reason why they were unhoused and get them into permanent housing.”
Does not sound like much of a plan & is not very reassuring.
I frankly expect they will push or bus people out and call it a day. Out-of-sight out-of-mind solution.
"As of 2023, the global average replacement cycle length for a smartphone is 3.6 years."
I'm not disagreing on a technical level. I agree. I use a pretty cheap ass phone myself that I bought off the rack.
I think it's clear though that phone makers and telecom companies are more than happy to sell people a new one every few years and intend to continue doing that.
There are several hospitals around me. Endless amount of doctor offices. There are several health insurance companies I can choose from. There is competition. Yet, prices are not affordable for most.
How is that not an oxymoron?
Surely those that do not win in a competition are losers. How is that a benefit to them?
"Light-weight, high-strength, aluminum (Al) alloys have widespread industrial applications. However, most commercially available high-strength Al alloys, like AA 7075, are not suitable for additive manufacturing due to their high susceptibility to solidification cracking."
It appears that Palo Alto has elections for city council every 4 years.
Here's an election guide:
https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/City-Clerk/Munici...
https://www.cityofpaloalto.org/Departments/City-Clerk/Munici...
You can help get people elected into local positions that align with your interests. AND some of those people will continue to build their career in politics and may become Senator or Governor someday.
That's influence. That's buying into the system to make it how you think things will be better.
your argument stopped having any semblance of merit at least decade ago. Now it is laughably unbelievable.
Now, ought there be more direct representation? Of course!
Should we have more than two major parties? Of course!
Guess what, a lot of people on this forum I am sure make plenty of money to be able to afford going to a few fundraising events for local politicians that they favor.
Y'all have influence here if you want to use it.
Combusting may save on some of the complexity fuel cells but you are losing efficiency in heat losses, both from the act of combusting and with gears that deliver the power to your wheels or propeller.
If you compare rural living to urban living, then maybe you could say latrines and baths contributed to increase in parasites.
However that's a bad comparison.
What would be better is compare similar levels of urbanization (population density) with and without latrines & baths. I imagine the latter may be more sanitary.
If people are maximizing return with the system the way it is, where is the incentive to actually change this on a large national scale?
Who's going to fund this change?
A few with populist rhetoric getting power is not achieving what you want.
Whom is going to fund multiple executive and legislative candidates to get this done?
Not trying to dismiss your point outright, just while it's a good notion, I for one do not see a practical way of changing towards that on a large national level across multiple industries.
Or for Erdös, amphetamine.
Also I find it ironic to fro them to gripe about alleged "hyper-specializatiin" given that part of the beauty of Math is discovering how seemingly unrelated areas are in fact connected AND discovering generalizations that can be easily applied.
Caveat, I am no where close to being a mathematician.
Market forces naturally determined this outcome though. If you're big companies you naturally want to limit the threat of new competition. Making compliance more costly achieves this.
The point that you're missing is that you can extend a packs life with a secondary application. That secondary application can make the cost of its first use lower making EVs more easier to adopt.
This requires more and more material. However we can recycle this material back through tearing it apart, which is a costly process.
It would be better to recycle a pack to its base material later than sooner. So the second life use allows for delaying the teardown & reclaiming process.