I’m a technical kinda guy, doing technical kinda stuff.
Link the east and west coast grids to let afternoon solar on the west coast flatten the evening east coast peaks, pick a big old chunk of desert in South Australia for wind and solar, throw in a few gigabatteries and tart up some hydro systems, done.
Probably only be $10-15 billion or so.
Assumption:
Someone crams a 300 watt solar panel onto the roof of their EV and manages to integrate it into the charging system so that it’s pretty efficient to use that power.
Numbers:
One hour of good sunshine on the 300 watt panel = 300 watt-hours (Wh).
Average EV energy usage : 200Wh per kilometre these days. Maybe a little more, maybe a little less, depends on how and where you’re driving.
Result:
One hour of perfect sunshine hitting the roof of your car equals 1.5 kilometres of extra range, or you can drive your car in a steady-state fashion at a 3-5 kilometres per hour because an EV is more efficient than the average usage at lower speeds.
Conclusion:
Probably better off increasing the storage capacity of the battery as a full day’s sunshine will get you about 10 kilometres of range.
I don’t know about you, but I just swiped my way through the first sentence off this reply with Google’s keyboard and all I had to do was select swiped instead of the suggested settled.
They do remember common words that you use, so if you have accidentally “approved” a few misspellings they’ll be suggested/given to you more often so a drastic solution to that is to clear your personalised data from the keyboard.
I can’t speak for the popularity of TurboVPN, or the probable ease in which companies can manipulate download numbers, but note the “+” on the end of each number.
NordVPN could have 99,999,995 downloads, TurboVPN can have 100,000,002 downloads, but one would be 50M+ and the other would be 100M+.
I prefer the H.G. Wells The Time Machine style of time travel , where you affect the flow of time instead of a discontinuous jump.
You’re still attached to your current location, things just happen faster (in forwards or reverse). It also means that time travel takes time, which can be a handy plot tool.
Edit: grammatical swipe keyboard errors
I can read and skim documents for salient details at 500 - 800 words per minute.
And then someone links me to a twelve minute video on YouTube where 800 words are spoken in total , 300 of those words are “um,so”, and all we’re looking at is either the narrator , or possibly a static slide with a few paragraphs on it… and also an inset of the narrator, narrating.
Similar things have worked in countries that aren’t so under the thrall of the mighty corporation. I recall some guy in … Russia? who struck out and reworded a bunch of penalty clauses for a credit card offer he got and mailed it back to the bank, which accepted it and issued the card. Cue much hilarity as he racked up a bunch of charges and then got it thrown out in court. (Actually, here’s a link.. They eventually settled out of court for an undisclosed sum.)
Anyway, I live in Australia so my response to all these kinds of attempts at removal of my consumer rights is a drawn out “yeah, nahhhh”
Send them a letter via registered mail stating that upon receipt of said letter they waive their right to waive your rights.
It’s the responsibility of your provider.
Cellular coverage isn’t a public service so while you might be able to get your MP to apply some pressure, it’s an entirely commercial decision.
I’m on the Vodafone network
InB4 the “well there’s your problem” comments.
This was well understood 20 years ago.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chart_Throb
Reality television has always been manipulated for the most draaaama otherwise it’s just hours of people sitting around.
For a bit of an experiment, try watching it with the sound off and just subtitles. The music and staging absolutely are used to control the narrative to paint whoever they want as Public Enemy #1.
I guess in that sense reality television accurately portrays modern media.