SmolderingSauna

Had anyone actually seen him since the mutiny? Or is this just Russian way to tie up loose ends…

Trump gutted the EPA. Chevron is, it seems, taking full advantage of the weakened watchdog.

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BBC article dances all around but does not say it was suicide. No outlet has said it was suicide. (It was most probably suicide.)

The Age of Plastics, y’all.

aka The End Time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/End_time

That ship has sailed … it is this way. Adapt or die.

This is how you fix stupid amirite?!?

CNN’s credibility is pretty questionable these days … I’ll wait for better vetted evidence, thanks (and, from the sounds coming outta Mr. Smith’s office, there’s plenty).

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They build, sell tickets, and launch from somewhere … OceanGate is run from offices in Everett, Washington, USA.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OceanGate

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It should have been avoided. Facts tell us very clearly it could not have been: there has been zero regulatory appetite for this activity, in the U.S. or elsewhere. And adventure-seekers will amuse themselves even at the expense of other’s lives. Amoral profiteers abound. Caveat Emptor.

Any vehicle with two power sources is, by definition, exceptionally inefficient and therefore, unnecessarily expensive. I personally am eagerly awaiting safe hydrogen storage so vehicles can truly be zero emission. Toyota just announced they’re close; GM tried for decades and gave up. We’ll see…

I’m coming from a vehicle OEM. Down cycling isn’t recycling: we can’t decompose EV batteries and reuse/recycle like we can, say, steel.

Max Bazerman is a towering giant in the field: for him to be a co-author of a suspicious publication is beyond scandalous.

Nothing less than the APA itself must intervene to definitively discover what happened and identify all involved (a host of PhD graduate students know and/or were participants). Censure must be from the highest levels if these allegations prove true.

Then we can have an infinitely robust discussion about the ridiculousness of publish or perish in academia…

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Would the difference, even considering a somewhat larger battery, be that significantly different compared to an EV or an ICE?

A missing, but important, element in this discussion is vehicle disposal/recycling capability and environmental impact. The current state of battery recycling adds another layer of complexity to this equation.

https://www.autoblog.com/article/electric-car-battery-recycling-reuse-storage/

They’re included … middle of the pack, still pretty grim statistics.

Publicly funded but not for the public.

And before anyone makes a comment about the unhoused probably not paying taxes … neither do any of the children or retirees who use the service every single day of the year.

We’ve pretty much just abandoned any concept of citizenship or civic responsibility…