That is what they do for solar farms. Due to low volume connection issues and its financially more attractive to feed power in the evening/ sun down as prices are higher at those times.
I‘m not sure how viable this is for loading stations. They volume a truck needs is quite massive. However, Im still not sure if you ever need a truck full charge. Typically, long distance trucks stop at night for a sleep. This 8 hrs can be used for loading the battery.
Something like a five minute charge would be quite something, perhaps makes long distance EV travelling more comfortable.
Or the batteries are getting bigger (which they do). But in this scenario there won’t be a business and money to earn. Many people would fuel their car with cheap solar power produced by theirselves.
ROFL a typical marketing stunt.
Here in Germany that won‘t work as the bottleneck is the connection to the power grid. Especially when it comes to high power demands. You need thick cables for those power volumes. And those cables do not just arrive over night magically.
The specialists for those connection are rare and we have a hige waiting queue until 2030 for solar parks, battery parks, and some new electricity stations. Was the high demand foreseeable? Yes. Unfortunately in capitalism scarcity increases value which is good for the stakeholder/ doormen of utility companies.
Unfortunately, I have to second this statement. I think humans just can’t anticipate well. In combination with money, a rare event will be neglected or ignored. Think of IT security or pandemic countermeasures for example.
I live in Germany. Europes devil is water. Lots of water from the sky. Rain the volume of an entire year within 2-3 days.
In 2021, in a hilly area many small villages were washed away from a used to be small tiny river. Did people learn? No.
Since that event, we had several more heavy rain events in Europe that either flushed town or drowned entire areas. Last one this summer in Spain Castillia.
Do people learn? No, still the right-wing parties in Germany are on upswings. And so the Governments.
Other earthquake regions in the world build their houses with concrete and cement as well. It‘s possible.
However, structures that are resistant against fire and earthquake might be costly.
Godd old games was also the time, where you paid once for playing. This should be added to the initiative as well.
I second you. Let’s start a YT channel and contact Pastor Duffy for a ticket later.
Btw we‘ll take our biggest fans with us. Join our channel
OpenAI started as open as well. Sadly
I issue with subscriptions and pay later schemes is, that you loose sight of what you have paid, will pay next weeks/ months and what amount of money you still have left.
Taking inflation into account for anything that is below 100k and over more than 5 years, is just ridiculous, to say it in plain words, sry.
In short you live day to day with your money without any planning if you let your cash flow out by itself (subscriptions, loans)
Sorry for this long list. It’s just a terrible place for kids
Just a few in the US - and they were all different at that time. They were all intertwined with politics at their time. Quick google search though, not sure how good the sources are:
Railroad: https://digfir-published.macmillanusa.com/roark7e/roark7e_ch18_4.html
Steel, oil, and tobacco: https://19thcentury.us/19th-century-monopolies/
Or just recently: take a look at China. How Chinese Big Tech influence on society was crushed and control was taken back by the Communist Party in the past 5 years.
Because it happened in the past as well. And the big tech companies were split, cut down, and destroyed. Big tech was not IT in the past but other “advanced technologies” at their time.
Fortunately, there’ve been successful Monopoly destroying actions in the past. When money power/ capitalists get too much influence political power strikes back.
Lawyer sues tech company
But we asked for the birthday
Lawyer points to law text
Company fined
So, this entire article is based on Twitter posts from random people to prove? Mmmm, I don’t know. Feels not very reliable
„A specific technique on how to achieve it“, it usually a process patent. This can be circumvented and erases the protection. If the defined process is A>B>C>D and your process is A>E>C>D, then this does not touch the patent as it’s a different process.
Also I second your comments that patents often block innovation if not used or licensed too expensive, imI would like to share a different perspective on this.
In pharmacy, the research, development and testing of new medication takes years and costs tons of money. If a drug is out of patent, generic drugs made in India for a fraction of the costs in developed countries. Typically the original producer stops the production as they can’t succeed the race down.
If there won’t be patents that protect inventions, there won’t be medical research in developed countries. Antibiotics is one example where the broken incentive for medical industry to invent already became obvious. There are no new antibiotics anymore. Since years.
Imho, it’s not this good/bad thing with patents. It’s rather a „how you use it“
Still, we have to manage the waste of former years. Needs money for ages.
Just stumpled upon this BBC article https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/23/sellafield-cleanup-cost-136bn-national-audit-office Cleaning up Sellafield, Europes biggest nuclear dump costs now up to 136.000.000.000 £ That’s the cost of nuclear. The dangerous rests of the power creation.
I‘m German. Sometimes in my childhood I asked myself how could that happen. I asked myself when reading and watching about Hitler and Nazis. Why didn’t people stopped the craziness? Why were just a few standing up against the Nazis? Why were no masses on the street expressing their displeasure?
Today I know why. What I read today about the US reminds on the rise of Nazis in Germany. I hope for you dear US friends that you‘ll find a way out of this mess.