Yeah, the thought it triggered with me is “Where will the population peak? 10 billion? 11? More?”

Cells don’t degrade as much as they lose their ability to regenerate. Cells rejuvenating is all but what you want from printing fresh organs. Adding plastic to the mix, in my opinion, causes more problems than it solves.

That joke overshot

Yeah, if you’re talking about strategy, Sagan had both the power and the strategic insight to read the race and not waste too much power along the way.

While he wasn’t my favorite rider, I respected his qualities and he grew on me a bit.

“Why not number 1 for 20 years?”

• a helicopter parent probably

We’re talking propulsion here. I agree on the rest, but boats can’t self-rely on solar for propulsion, except for sailboats perhaps.

For the rest indeed it’s a no brainer.

Would you say you like people who weren’t captured?

Get an EV and you kill two birds with one stone

Sure. Heroes are people who kill or die, but not who defy their enemy.

You have a fucked up concept of heroism

They didn’t do enough pew-pew and bleeding for your taste?

Second and third order effects.

Johan Cruijff was very intuitive about that. He understood that the ball was the focus point for most, but that the good players understood their position and timing regarding/disregarding it were what made them good.

Seeing it as a static and judging what should have been done is Captain Hindsight territory, but I guess that’s what most commentators and spectators do.

It will be. For static applications that use excess solar energy. Once you have to move it, it’s basically over. And if you want to put it in a car, you don’t understand the physics of it, but probably like snacks from the petrol station.

They made a stand against an overwhelming force and gave hope to a nation under siege. Why do you assume there was no fight?

Why do you insist on a need for casualties?

A power plant can’t be built on rooftops. Rooftops also have less inefficiency from grid transmissions. HEMS however have lower efficiency when battery power is used. Nuclear power plants are open to attacks. So is the software of inverters. It’s a messy calculation, but below the line to me the decentralized solution, with solar energy generated close to where it’s used and excesses stored in EVs is the winning combo.

Efficiency is about getting more out of the sand amount of surface. If double the surface gives the same amount of electricity, but is 10 times cheaper, the cost per kWh drops by a factor of five.

The cost of solar has come down, because it’s price follow an observed law where a doubling in installed capacity drops the price by 20% (Swanson’s law)

Efficiency is part of that equation, but the efficiency hasn’t gone up that much. It’s mostly production capacity that accounts for the savings.

Batteries are still expensive, heavy, and motors are energy intensive. While you could replace ballast in sailboats for batteries because you use the engine maneuvering and going in and out of harbors, if you’re only using it a few weeks/weekends a year, I’m not sure it’s worth the transition. I’d stay with diesels for propulsion.

But having on board electricity taken care of by one or two solar panel will make life so much more comfortable on board.

(I’m big on advocating EV driving and home energy management systems, but I just don’t see boats as low hanging fruit right now. However, if you want to, there’s no one stopping you.)

The left has not had any significant amount of power in quite a while. There’s no way to say how they’d fare.