The answer seems to be large, lightweight sunshades to protect the radiative coolers. That would avoid the degradation due to UV radiation mentioned in the article and would also increase the efficiency of the coolers.
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They weren’t “trafficked”, they were “relocated”.
SpaceX has more future upside than any company I can think of…
I’ll be interested to see how the quality of these compares over time with Tesla etc…
You also get regenerative braking with hybrids.
Until charging times get better at most chargers, many people will prefer the convenience of gas fillups.
It is worth saying that vehicles sporting next-gen solid state batteries are available right now.
Ever since the Goodenough solid state battery announcements years ago, I’ve been anticipating the benefits. According to his team’s research, they had the following attributes:
- Higher energy density than the best liquid electrolyte lithium cells.
- Non flammable.
- Much better resistance to cold temperatures.
- A sodium option that should be much less expensive.
I’m not sure where the Goodenough battery tech is at right now, I’ll have to do some searching and see if it’s progressed…
Time will tell!
It’ll be interesting to see the official findings.
Life on Earth is about 3/4 of the way through its existence…
I think you’re also exaggerating those issues considerably.
I also think Mojo is more focused on being an industrial strength language. I was shocked to see the first iteration of Julia ahead of time compilation did not provide file I/O.
22 LR is no slouch either. The Alaska state record brown bear was killed by a 22 round through the skull.
Um, no. His popularity comes from a willingness to actually do the things that many other politicians said they were going to do, often while campaigning, and never did.
Another one: Is this newly discovered particle stable, or does it only exist for a short time before transforming in some way? I didn’t see any mention of that in the article.
Is it theoretically possible to have atoms with 4x the proton mass, starting with hydrogen at atomic weight 4? Pu-239 could theoretically have an atomic weight of 521 instead of 239… Wild!
One hopes that will be a moot point once the Islamists fall in Iran.
Still, I think overall it’s a good thing.
Our “models of climate change” have regularly been falsified at this point. It is absolutely unknown how much “climate change” is attributable to humans right now.
Nor is it actually known what the net favorability of mild warming might be…including the possibility of mitigating the next Ice Age!
Check your news sources…
We’ll see…