My 3 mile bike ride takes 2 minutes longer door to door than driving.

As has been repeated a few hundred times in this thread already, the part that makes it takes so long is car centric infrastructure. If you live in suburbia where you have a population density of 1k/mi2 (400/km2) you will have to travel a much more significant distance than if you live in a place that has 9k/mi2 (3500/km2)

Then with less car centric infrastructure the benefit of having parking right next to work starts to go away and the extra space can be used to shorten commutes as well

Wasn’t he a groper who disliked him because of his pro Israel stance?

The fact we haven’t heard anything else from him kind of cements that as well as the current fbi would clearly politicize it if they could

It’s not a joke if you hit boron with a neutron it releases the energy in the form of an alpha particle which is just a helium atom.

So take some boron-10 put it in a neutron flux and you get helium. This is being done in nearly every nuclear power plant in the world every second

Helium may not be renewable but we can manufacture it from things like boron

You know they give nitrous to people intentionally during surgery and dental work?

Like you can wear an O2 monitor while you take a whip it and track your oxygen level and I have never seen it drop below 85% which is the level where they start to get concerned in a hospital

Taking opiates cause you to just stop breathing and I had to have a breathing device following a surgery because my O2 levels couldn’t be maintained… and people get prescribed opiates and take them at home all the time with no monitoring

Don’t asphyxiate yourself, don’t do it a bunch of days in a row, and eat some food with B12.

There are also different standards when you care about the environment. Old school fridges used incredibly bad greenhouse gasses (R22 and R142B) and were significantly less efficient using approximately $250 MORE energy per year than a modern fridge (1750 kWh vs 450kwh) so only factoring in your electricity bill you could buy a $2500 fridge every 10 years and break even and if you got a cheaper fridge like a whirlpool you could get a new one every 5 years for 50 years

Don’t get me wrong there is still planned obsolescence but a lot of the older designs aren’t as perfect as people like to remember them being

https://www.freon.com/en/industries/refrigeration/residential-refrigeration

R134 was the “safe” refrigerant to replace R-12 because R12 is 11000x more potent of a ghg than co2

There are some new refrigeration units that use R600 but the vast majority of refrigerators are still R134

R600 being a highly flammable gas (it’s butane) has slowed its rollout a lot. Hence why a solid state non volatile refrigerant is still a cool development

Old school refrigerants were absolutely horrendous ghg even modern ones are pretty bad with R134 being 1430x worse of a ghg than CO2

If we can reduce that, that’s good! And metals like titanium are recyclable so yes initially extracting them is bad but the full lifecycle isn’t as terrible

I woke up to my cat laying on my chest gagging with eye contact, luckily she didn’t puke but puking on hard floors is quite the luxury

LSD prevents you from sleeping and your brain gets used to it where if you try taking it every day there are vastly diminishing returns

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They are claiming a weight of 400Wh/kg so the extra weight should be at least another 70lbs if it didn’t require any extra bracing which it probably does that while it may not be a lot for a 3000lb car it is sizeable for a 400lb bike

it’s a lot worse than other EV makers misleading claims, because 12mph is literally a joke of a speed to test at considering that’s slower than a cyclist on a non motorized bike and it is not even considering a fast speed to run at.

A still misleading but at least defendable claim would be if they did one at 25mph and called that their city range but 12mph is just an insulting claim

Adding the extra weight of the battery will reduce the range but more importantly going 12mph is not a way of rating a street legal vehicle… it’s like bragging about a laptop having a 30 day battery life when it’s in standby. Drag is a function of velocity squared which means that going at even 45mph you are experiencing 14x the drag and at 60mph it’s 25x the drag

Well your pupils dilate like crazy which is pretty obvious

The last line mentions not using it as a step so maybe someone was stepping on it and after a while it broke down and they fell and sued

If Steve O didn’t end up in a wheelchair from his nitrous use, then I think that might be a hyperbole…

How would they start considering how expensive it is and with the additive?

Like nitrous canisters are decently cheap

I wrote a school report about iter back in middle school or high school when it was still in the design process and still occasionally check their job listings because I would love to work there and on fusion but we still don’t know if it will ever work like we hit the scientific breakeven with inertial confinement but the scaling on that is terrible and I don’t believe we hit even the scientific breakeven with magnetic confinement

Then we still need to harness the energy from that turn it into work, turn that into electricity and distribute it with enough excess to pay for the whole system which is still a lot of hurdles we need to climb

I heard it in the same vane that I heard that we would have a moon base by 2020 a mars base by 2025 and nuclear fusion in just 10 more years