This is double bad in a green energy and EV website: On one hand, they admit they don't now why that happens, but on the other hand, they also didn't research just a bit more on that, and that's bad journalism.
Most of the comment threads in this HN post are a lot more informative than the article
I read Electrek daily and find it very useful. They cover a broad range of topic with more insight and voice than the usual crappy blogs that just rewrite press releases or someone else's articles. I particularly like the articles (like this one) that have "Electrek's Take". The Weird Alibaba EV articles are good fun too: https://electrek.co/guides/alibaba/
No, they said “not sufficiently qualified to explain”. Which is not the same as not knowing, given that the same phenomenon can be explained on a lot of different levels depending on when you get tired of asking “why?” - see this video of Richard Feynman “explaining” magnets: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MO0r930Sn_8
The writer isn’t publishing false information, and it’s good that the comments are able to add more value! It’s a casual style that has humility and a touch of personality. That’s ok!
To be fair, how many commenters on HN would accept a job in journalism if it was offered to them?
We're lucky that so many qualified people share their takes for free on this website.
Looks like he understood it the entire time :)
> Higher voltage systems experience lower power losses over the same distance compared to lower voltage systems. This is due to the fact that power loss in a conductor is proportional to the square of the current. By using higher voltage, you can transmit the same amount of power with less current, reducing resistive losses in the wires.
48 Volts is 48 Watts per Amp.
(V^2)/R
I like Ars Technica's car coverage: https://arstechnica.com/cars/
The labels we give to others to divide us
They gave the label to themselves
It doesn't appear to be something anyone tries to get normal citizens into, despite the fact that we constantly try to convince people to learn other stuff with much less individual scale value, sometimes even somewhat crazy stuff like home chemistry experiments with lead salts.
I always thought that's what I'd want to do with my life if I wasn't coding, and maybe I'd be happier if I had gone to college and studied journalism...
https://en.wikinews.org/wiki/Main_Page
Unlike Wikipedia, Wikinews allows and encourages original reporting. You don't need a journalism degree to contribute an article.
This happens frequently with new political parties: Someone starts an organisation, it get some amount of traction. Suddenly a lot of new people join and turn the whole thing into a tool to spread their views.
AFD in Germany started like this, it almost happens to The Pirate Party, one can argue that Green Parties tend to suffer from this phenomenon.
Labels are an optimisation, an imperfect shortcut. They are a way we represent ourselves to others. If you don't tell me you're an engineer, I have to ask a ton of questions to assess your area of competence and skill. If you tell me you're an engineer I can save minutes or hours by putting you in a rough box. If that box is unnecessarily constraining it'll become clear as we spend more time together.
The point stands. People who DGAF about their jobs are going to lose them, and that's not a bad thing.