There’s a trade off. Centralization consolidates power. Decentralization distributes it.

For example, you could have a digital ID/passport that includes your drivers license, medical and financial information etc. It would be convenient, but you’d lose your privacy and would be more vulnerable. All of your security would be bundled into a central point of failure.

This isn’t even touching the conspiracy theories.

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I said "overall" carbon footprint. The operational carbon footprint reduction of EVs over gas cars vastly outweighs any increase in manufacturing emissions, leading EVs to have a lower net carbon footprint. It's the total carbon footprint that matters, not the footprint at any one stage.

That’s what language models are best at.

That’s cute.

The leading cause of death is America is heart disease which is a lifestyle disease. It's well known how to avoid it, people just don't do it so people will continue to die.

No, I'm suggesting a semi-global organized effort to delay or sabotage anything that leads to less reliance on fossil fuels. Semi-global in the sense that the people involved are from many different countries, not in the sense that everyone is in on it. It's probably the governments/royal families of a few petro-states (Russia, Saudi Arabia, etc), along with the people who own the big oil and coal companies, along with people who are heavily invested in those companies. It's not a conspiracy in the "secret criminal plot" sense, and more like an alignment along common interests that leads to some illegal behavior and a lot of unethical/anti-free-market/imperialist behavior. It's also not a conspiracy in the "nobody knows but us" sense, because some of the groups involved are pretty open about a lot of it (e.g. Koch Industries and the Heritage Foundation).

If you don’t include the manufacturing of the batteries. If you include both the vehicle itself and the batteries, ICE vehicles take less emissions to produce.

Related

https://www.renewableenergyworld.com/solar/the-u-s-battery-energy-storage-boom-is-just-getting-started/

Once you understand the problem, you can more effectively solve it.

Make an app that overclocks a phone’s processor to generate heat so the phone becomes a hand warmer.

0.2% of the earth's surface is 394,000 square miles or 252 million acres.

Yes.. point being batteries barely make a dent in the grid in terms of energy supply.

> People charge their EV's after midnight for better TOU rates.

And that will obviously follow the availability of energy. If electricity is scarce at midnight then it will be expensive, and if it's most abundant in the day the incentive time will change.

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We can never throw holy water on the tiny demons that cause sickness. They are just too quick and small.

People charge their EV's after midnight for better TOU rates. Just look at the graph and tell me batteries can supply energy for EV's after midnight.

>you would know they typically charge in the evening, not night

I don't know about you, but in California utility rates are at least double during the evening compared to off peak hours (after midnight).

> what do you think will be used at midnight for energy?

Not much energy as we will be sleeping?

If you are talking about charging cars, you would know they typically charge in the evening, not night, and that if our energy is mainly generated in the day, we could easily incentivise charging in the day also (e.g. by requiring chargers at parking spots).

I'm talking about energy production, not voltage regulation. As more people own EV's and charge them at night, what do you think will be used at midnight for energy?

I am talking about voltage regulation, not supplying amps.

Nice cup o' demoralization, thanx.

The real problem is losses in power lines getting electricity to where it needs to be from where solar is viable. Also lots and lots of batteries on the grid for night time

They're made to help the grid during peak hours (4-8 PM), not the entire night. Take a look at the chart.. It charges most of the day and outputs all of it's capacity by 8-9PM with peaks at most 3000 MW.

I would hope so. RSS is the primary way I currently interact with it, Reddit included.

All of these apps and sites that require individual logins with individual tabs with individual notification systems are a mess. I can just get a feed, load it up with my reader of choice, and manage it on my own terms.

So you're suggesting a global conspiracy to slowly produce renewables?