Far less than we can build, as it turns out.

Can you cite a specific date (with evidence) of when there was no wind in the North Sea at 100m altitude?

Lenovo have regular sales on ThinkPads. A few months ago they had some AMD ones with nice screens, or you could upgrade to OLED for a bit more money.

Very good Linux support from the manufacturer too. You can buy them with it preinstalled.

The e:Ny1 is not Honda's EV. It's a rebadged Dongfeng.

Honda did make one EV, the Honda e. It was great. Amazing car, full of interesting ideas and tech, very comfortable and fun to drive. I wish they had developed that tech, I'd love a larger version with bigger battery. Instead they seemed to just give up.

A lot of Japanese manufacturers are struggling with EVs. They want to get as much out of their investment in hybrids as possible, and there are a lot of suppliers that they feel responsible for who make parts that don't exist in EVs. Nissan had an early lead and squandered it. Toyota seems to be waiting for it's solid state battery tech, forever coming soon.

"Manufacturers" - but manufacturing what? Between the ones making niche commercial vehicles, the startups trying to perfect some new tech and not actually in mass production, and the ones just supplying parts, there were never that many making their own cars.

This is one of those few examples where AI could be useful, if it actually worked.

In the example they give, the first direction is an improvement. The problem is that after that there is an immediate third turn that it doesn't even mention until the drive is about to make it. The way the junction is frames even hides it off screen until in the preceding turn.

With energy it's mostly the price that governs how much gets used, after efficiency. If you make a building lose less heat, the occupants probably won't turn the heat up. They will just use less energy to maintain a comfortable temperature, as long as they can afford it.

The French really screwed up. Nuclear is biting them in the arse, their promotion of diesel cars is causing pollution, and now they are in a position where EDF is a one trick pony that can't pivot hard to renewables. They have so much tied up in nuclear, all down the supply chain, that it will be very painful to abandon it now.

These are scientific arguments, but you need to make economic ones. Fast Breeder reactors aren't popular because the cost of developing, running, and decommissioning them is higher than just supplying more fuel to other types. A few countries have been trying, and mostly falling, to develop the technology, for decades.

Thorium is even worse. Every single attempt has ended in failure, and we are decades away from a commercially viable design.

SMRs have the same problem. Lots of money needed to get them to commercial viability stage, high chance they will fail to get there at all, and no clear commercial benefit beyond free money from governments who want to maintain an independent nuclear capability for other reasons.

You would be better off throwing money at fusion.

Extracting more gas in Europe will make next to no difference to energy prices. It gets sold at market rate and it's a tiny proportion.

If only there was some way to store and transmit electricity. If only there were places where it never stops blowing.

SMRs that are nowhere near prototype stage, decades away from commercial deployment.

The UK has two plants on the go, and they are both insanely expensive and 25+ year projects.

Actually Europe can't build all the nuclear plants it wants. The only supplier is EDF, assuming you don't want the Chinese to do it. EDF is quoting a minimum of 20 years after approval is given, and that's optimistic.

They can't even build very many because just the ones they have already started were enough for them to run out of money, requiring the French government to increase its stake in EDF.

The mistake was not investing more heavily in renewables. We well as putting Europe in this situation with gas and oil supplies, it allowed China to get ahead with some of the technology and all of the manufacturing.

Chromebooks serve the same function for me. They are cheaper too.

The reason this is disruptive is the Reality Distortion Field. People will want to pay more to get a low end Mac, than a decent Chromebook.

Google screwed up its streaming gaming service Stadia, and the number of games on ChromeOS is about as limited as on Mac. If they ever manage to get Android apps working seamlessly, that might give them an advantage, but it's hard to beat the RDF.

It's a gateway drug to Apple's farm, where you are the livestock.