Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell is pretty close

Ice cold water with a slice of lemon.

Fuck off frog face.

Not really a controversy, just I think sometimes people assume it was just England dragging all the other countries out.

Thank you for not pretending like Wales voted remain (or was it just that they’d not qualify anyway)

Sorry for coming on a bit strong.

It had just started to feel like people were trying to say that I thought range anxiety was absolutely never legitimate.

In reality most people will do maybe one journey a year where it could possibly be. For them they’ll have saved so much from reduced maintenance and running costs of an EV that they could hire an ICE vehicle for that one trip and still have saved themselves money.

Of course if you’re way off the top end of the bell curve with your usage an EV may not yet be the best option for you.

Ok, what’s your point? Did I say it’s always and in every single niche scenario people are going to come up with a perception issue? Or did I in fact say it’s largely (as in most of the time and in most cases) a perception issue?

Sorry about the hoops issues, I clearly slightly misread

However, two can play at being pedantic. I addressed your point about range anxiety before you even made it. As I said originally it is largely perception. I even went as far as to agree with you that in the 0.000001% of journeys you identified it would be an issue.

jumping through hoops which doesn’t exist with gas cars.

You have to physically drive to a different location to get petrol. That’s a hoop. Just because you’re used to it doesn’t mean it’s not there.

What if I have 3 people driving, like in a road trip? You can’t continuously drive after refueling anymore. It isn’t just a perception thing, it absolutely requires planning and stops you wouldn’t take otherwise.

It is a perception. The vast majority of trips this won’t be an issue. In the once in a bluemoon that you’ll be driving more than the range of the car, yes, it could be. This is where it’s perception. People seem to think that they’ll run commuting to work or half the journeys they take will be affected. Whereas it’s really really rare.

On the one hand the Nokia 3310’s battery lasts a week. On the other hand the iPhone 15…

Just plug your car in when you’re not using it like you’d charge your phone overnight. It’s only a problem if you can’t charge at home (due to on street parking and no charging facilities on that street) and you can’t charge somewhere you usually take your car (eg a workplace).

When I was looking recently I was shocked at how cheap used polestars are. Such nice cars.

Range anxiety is largely a perception thing. The vast majority of car journeys are well within the range of an EV, you just need to get in the habit of plugging in like you would your phone. For journey’s long enough for it to be more than a single charge you really should be stopping for more than a few seconds anyway as you need recharging.

I think if the issues with russian gas have shown us anything it’s that energy security should be treated as being much more important than it has in the past. So maybe it should come from tax payers money and be thought of as part of a broad national defence strategy.

3.6 roentgen, not great, not terrible.

How odd, here an electric will be £100-£150 and petrol you’re looking £250+

Haha I’d missed that.

On a side note I thought it ended ok. Not great not terrible I’d probably give it 3.6.

The calypso ending was massively tacked on. Instead of putting the tech in the black hole they should have had to have Discovery itself have to hide with it. Then emotional goodbyes under pressure rather than dragged out.

And Stamets. Though, thinking about it I’ve not seen them about much recently.

I’d argue it’s not even that we don’t have a solution.

It’s we need to implement the solution. There’s absolutely tonnes to energy storage solutions ( batteries, storing it as heat, storing it as potential energy) that would work well on grid scale, just need to have their implementation catch up with generation capacity.

The post says you “you drive it” while you could say that for a push along it seems odd wording.

Before they had electric, that was the only type. It’s not fancy.

True that they did exist in the past, however unless you’ve got an old one they’re around twice the price of electric and more expensive to run. But, more than that, it points to you having enough garden to need petrol.

Oh goodness, yes you do.