First of all it's not just so easy to destroy infrastructure in a way that can't be rebuilt quickly; thousands of miles of train tracks would be difficult to destroy. This is happening all over Ukraine.
Second, blowing up your own country's rail infrastructure means you can't use it, either, which means you lose an advantage you have that your trains can move on your rails but your enemy's cannot.
Not everyone wants an EV, especially in America. Unless EV’s can jump to 500 mile range and ubiquitous five minute charging, a lot of people are just gonna want a hybrid.
Copper has been in high demand for centuries. Lithium might be a more similar situation to tantalum, huge spikes in demand in the last decade have absolutely floored prices
Well, this could dramatically increase the demand for tantalum, which (econ 101) could dramatically increase the supply over time? Is tantalum in much demand today?
I mean, a modern computer is operating the gigahertz range. Adding a few extra bitwise instructions might be something like a nanosecond. Which is absolutely fleeting compared to memory operations.
I’ve done this a bunch with my son. It’s not quite that simple because often times it’ll create images that have too much detail, sometimes it’ll actually include colors. But yeah, it’s not really all that complicated
I was just at a historical farm and they explained this to me! They said that it can often go badly though, like if there’s a storm that delayed shipments, they can all die, which is super sad
Obviously, but that just doesn’t seem to be doable for a huge chunk of the world, so these pills are a way out of the hell that is obesity and diabetes.
It’s also a testament to the improved efficiency of engines. Once your engine can deliver a few extra MPG, it’s easier for companies to pack more weight on.
I mean, I totally get the criticisms that you see of people having unnecessarily large SUVs, like really who needs an Escalade. But a CRV? Like a Model Y with one passenger weighs the same as a CRV with 3.
“They weigh more” is something I kinda have a problem with. People act like EVs are these behemoths, but your typical EV is hardly an outlier. The Tesla Model 3, for example, weighs as much as a Honda CRV. Yes, that’s a different car class; but nobody looks at a CRV and complains about its weight and the environmental impact of that weight on air quality nearly the same way.
A quick Google search shows that there are somewhere in the range of 20,000 electrical engineers who graduate US universities every year. Even if not all of them do electronics, and not all of the ones are considered “skilled” (by this author’s definition), there are not a “countable” amount.