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Comment Re:hello from Europe (Score 1) 40

The big delivery outfits here all have vans. The bigger supermarkets have their own, there is Royal Mail, Evri, and a few other delivery services. Then you have some independent contractors who use ordinary cars. Many of the taxis are hybrids of EVs now, due to the mileage and fuel costs, but I haven't really looked at the independent delivery people.

At the very bottom of the chain you have guys on electric bikes.

Comment Re:Why the hurry? (Score 2) 49

Manned Moon landings are only part of the current race. China has already made some early gains with robotic sample return missions from previously unexplored parts of the Moon. It looks like there might be water up there, and finding that would be a very big deal for whoever did it.

Then there is Mars. NASA has been planning sample return for a long time, but with a more complex mission that aims to get select samples found by its rovers. China is looking to just get any sample back, and is on track to do it first.

ISS is also nearing end of life, which would leave only China with a space station. And possibly a Moon station too.

Comment Re:Regarding falling solar panel prices (Score 1) 160

It's got to the point where solar panels are one of the cheapest roofing products. Protect your roof from damage, and generate your own electricity.

You would think that the rugged independent manly men would be all over solar, keeping the lights on when the apocalypse comes, not relying on the electricity company.

Comment Re:A warranty canary would make more sense (Score 1) 57

There is a third scenario. They can't force you to update the warrant canary, but failure to do so would be the same as telling everyone you received a secret warrant.

A better solution is to have someone else periodically ask if you have received any secret warrants. You can simply stop answering. The law can't really expect you to do anything else, since it's not a situation that you created.

Submission + - Falling panel prices lead to global solar boom, except for the US (arstechnica.com)

AmiMoJo writes: Solar power developers want to cover an area larger than Washington, DC, with silicon panels and batteries, converting sunlight into electricity that will power air conditioners in sweltering Las Vegas along with millions of other homes and businesses.

But earlier this month, bureaucrats in charge of federal lands scrapped collective approval for the Esmeralda 7 projects, in what campaigners fear is part of an attack on renewable energy under President Donald Trump. “We will not approve wind or farmer destroying [sic] Solar,” he posted on his Truth Social platform in August. Developers will need to reapply individually, slowing progress.

Thousands of miles away on the other side of the Pacific Ocean, it is a different story. China has laid solar panels across an area the size of Chicago high up on the Tibetan Plateau, where the thin air helps more sunlight get through.

The Talatan Solar Park is part of China’s push to double its solar and wind generation capacity over the coming decade. “Green and low-carbon transition is the trend of our time,” President Xi Jinping told delegates at a UN summit in New York last month.

China’s vast production of solar panels and batteries has also pushed down the prices of renewables hardware for everyone else, meaning it has “become very difficult to make any other choice in some places,” according to Heymi Bahar, senior analyst at the International Energy Agency.

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