joshhsoj1902
@joshhsoj1902@lemmy.ca
- Comment on US grid adds batteries at 10x the rate of natural gas in first half of 2024 2 months ago:
We don’t need to even do the math ourselves. It’s already be done countless times and the results are always the same.
BEVs over their lifespan in the worst case scenario produce less than half as much CO2 emissions than a similar sized ICE vehicle.
iea.org/…/comparative-life-cycle-greenhouse-gas-e…
energy.gov/…/fotw-1357-august-26-2024-small-elect…
www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/electric-vehicle-myths
…mit.edu/…/are-electric-vehicles-definitely-bette…
I’m surprised you struggled with this, with so many creditable sources available this was a really easy thing to look up.
- Comment on Spy.pet is harvesting your Discord history with no ability to opt-out 7 months ago:
If they could somehow make this data available to search engines. Maybe we can start being able to google random problems and actually find solutions again.
- Comment on X removes support for NFT profile pictures 10 months ago:
Keep in mind that buying photos isn’t the only application of NFTs. People stopped buying valueless photos, but other implementations of NFTs kept on being used.
- Comment on U.S. battery storage capacity expected to nearly double in 2024 - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 10 months ago:
Battery degradation isn’t as much of a concern in these cases. Batteries that are designed for grid backup use a more resilient chemistry which makes them heavier, but also last longer.
Consumer whole home backup batteries advertise the batteries having over 90% capacity after 10 years.
In a grid storage application, 90% of the original capacity is still fine, and as other commenters have pointed out, the batteries are recyclable.
- Comment on U.S. battery storage capacity expected to nearly double in 2024 - U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) 10 months ago:
Lithium based batteries are also extremely recyclable.
- Comment on The most exciting 2024 tech isn't AI 10 months ago:
I work on an ARM Mac, it’s fine. If you’re just doing light work on it, it works great! Like any other similarly priced laptop would.
Under load, or doing work outside what it is tuned for, it doesn’t perform spectacularly.
It’s a fine laptop, the battery life is usually great. But as soon as you need to use the x86 translation layer, performance tanks, battery drains, it’s not a great time.
Things are getting better, and for a light user, It works great, but I’m much more excited about modern x86 laptop processors for the time being.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
Rural does mostly mean farmhouses and houses in the woods. And yes small villages should get a train connection. But remember you’re suggesting this is a cheap and easy solution when compared to EVs, what you’re suggesting would be very very expensive.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
Every country I look up has at least 15% of their population loving in rural areas.
Yes this means that ~20% of most countries live outside low density towns or high density cities.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
This is where I think you have a skewed picture of reality.
In North America 20% of people live in rural areas.
As much as I wish that was “vast majority” it isn’t.
Your simple view of public transit doesn’t line up with the realities in North America. I wish it did, but it doesn’t. And unfortunately your uninformed arguments are the fuel actual opponents of public transit use to justify their position.
It doesn’t help the cause to spread uninformed arguments
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
You’re suggesting that teams and EVs solve the same problems. But they don’t.
EVs replace ICE vehicles. Public transit replace cars in areas that are dense enough to make them viable.
The reason public transit isn’t everywhere because they are expensive to build and maintain.
Yes build them, but suggesting that teams and trains are a replacement for EVs today is completely false and is only hurting your argument overall.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
I guess if you don’t include buses in public transit. And pretend that all people live within a 5km walk of existing public transit. You’re right.
But otherwise you’re just oversimplifiying the situation and vastily underestimating how much it actually costs to build a full team network through rural areas.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
Roads don’t really go away with public transit, they might need less maintenance overall, but they still need to exist in some form, and roads lasting 10% longer doesn’t seem like a huge savings
Parking is mostly privately owned, so saving money on parking doesn’t really make more money available to invest in public transit.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
Which car infrastructure are you talking about in this case?
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
While public transit is great. It’s a lot more expensive to setup, and even more expensive to make convenient if the city wasn’t built with public transit in mind.
It’s just not a medium term solution for most north american cities, I do desperately hope that cities will start investing more in public transit, and encourage more dense housing, but realistically that is a 30-80 year timeframe. And that’s assuming 100s of municipal governments all get on board. The political lift here is also very large.
The reality right now in North America is, if you’re heavily advocating against electric vehicles, all you’re really doing is adding support to the oil and gas industry trying to stop the outright ban of ICE cars.
We need to do more public transit, and we need to stop using ICE vehicles.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
The mining only happens once. The materials in batteries are infinitely recyclable.
Oil is single use and the impacts of mining it has caused sooooooo much damage, news agencies don’t even both covering it anymore.
- Comment on YouTube’s Loaded With EV Disinformation 11 months ago:
Not really though.
If the grid is powered completely by coal, and the government has no plans to phase out said coal and the grid is going to stay all coal for the next 30 years. Then yes, in that case EVs aren’t a great choice.
But like anything else and the “but the grid is currently not clean” arguments don’t really hold water.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
I’m not sure I agree there is a massive infrastructure need. The average American could keep their EV charged today with a standard 120v outlet.
I don’t have numbers for how any car owners park their car overnight somewhere that has access to a 120v plug, but it would surprise me if it was less than 50%.
Batteries are fine today and I lay getting better, fast charging is nice to have, but definitely not needed.
- Comment on Car dealers say they can’t sell EVs, tell Biden to slow their rollout 11 months ago:
This isn’t an unsolvable problem though given demand.
Assuming you’re in an appartment with dedicated parking, it’s not crazy difficult or expensive to install some lvl 2 chargers, the real blocker here is demand, if residents aren’t demanding it the building isn’t going to supply it.
If you’re stuck with street parking, you’re right, your use case isn’t best suited for EVs right now. But this case also isn’t a huge portion of vehicle owners, so it doesn’t seem like justification to stop rollout.
- Comment on Scottish couple facing $33k repair bill after driving Tesla in heavy rain 1 year ago:
Where on earth are finding decent vehicles for under 8k??
Unless your current truck is 10-15 years old and has over 250k km on it…
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
Both can be true. And YouTube premium also addressed that issue.
- Comment on YouTube isn't happy you're using ad blockers — and it's doing something about it 1 year ago:
Part of the reason YouTubers have 3rd party sponsor spots is because viewer an blocking makes their Adsense revenue unreliable.
YouTube premium helps address that for creators.
It wouldn’t surprise me if some sponsors already demand viewership data to know how many people are skipping baked-in sponsor spots and uses that to pay creators less.
Finding more ways to avoid compensating creators isn’t going to make the situation better.
- Comment on Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold 1 year ago:
If you have a gas stove you really shouldn’t be using it without the fan running.
A power outage is one of those times as people are tempted to use it more and for longer if it’s the easiest source of heat.
- Comment on Oxford study proves heat pumps triumph over fossil fuels in the cold 1 year ago:
Thankfully heatpunlsbhave gotten better since your father’s day. And natural gas is only going to keep getting more expensive. For a price of equipment that will last you 15-25 years it’s becoming harder to justify gas heating.
For new builds ground source heat pumps should become more standard, they cost more, but they’ll save a lot in the long run.
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
Fixed it for you…
- Comment on What are the connotations of Joe Rogan? 1 year ago:
Basically even if someone it talking about the previous acting career, which on the surface should seem credible. It’s really hard to properly judge if the person actually is creditable because of how often Joe will interview uncredible people and spin them as creditable.
Basically Joe’s creditability has be harmed soichbits hard to trust anything or anyone he talks to at face value