maybe I should have only mentioned total cost of build-out then. It is good to know that they are generally lasting much longer than their warranty, and of course we keep seeing increase in efficiencies so that older panels really are only a trickle compared to new anyway. What is truly worrying is Jevons Paradox.
while this kind of growth in renewables makes me hopeful, the total cost of build out is what concerns me, especially as solar has a lifetime of only 10-20 years. I feel like that cost in energy terms needs to be taken into account…
I think because it’s somewhat novel, and really very simple. Once you start getting into electrical energy, you add layers of complexity. Think like global supply chains are going to get disrupted, and this kind of low tech is absolutely the right direction to be following imo.
I do occasionally see other Chademo cars, and there are definitely a few that check in on Plugshare, I think we tend to be more regular about checking in as it’s really helpful to know if the Chademo port works for others.
was listening to a podcast last year where they talked about the projections the year before of who would be best for carbon emissions, Kamala Harris or Trump, and it was basically a tie. I didn’t realise the benefit to Pakistan (and Australia, where we basically got solar panels for free for the last few years thanks to government incentives too), was largely attributable to his first term policies. I’m sure he’d really hate to know he’s actually an environmental hero at this point 😂
I have a vehicle that uses Chademo, and at bigger rural charging stations, there are usually 3+ ccs chargers for the 1 Chademo. I expect most build out from here to focus on ccs, and there is the tech to convert ccs to Chademo so I’ll not be left with an un road-trip-able vehicle, so appreciate while you think they are useless, the majority of investment now is increasing ccs.
Good to hear SA is doing good work here, and disappointed VIC sucks on that stretch. There are charging deserts even closer to Melbourne over East too and that sucks.
agree about most the other points especially queuing for chargers. hope that comes!
but that uses energy you should account for, even if you don’t see it in your EV dash.
Meshcore in Australia is taking off and recently made the first Victoria - Tasmania link. Long distance comms are viable within state with many hops - if you are within range of a repeater hooked into the existing network is possible to go hundreds of kilometres quite easily. We have people participating in synchronous conversations that are occurring over a dozen hops from regional to inner urban anew back again. Yes messages do sometimes get lost but people are creating tools to troubleshoot and track. It’s genuinely doing what I had originally hoped Meshtastic would, but could never get messages far enough due to hop limits and telemetry cruft.
I love this guy.
I read more and apparently the mushrooms were picked by 4yo son and placed on table with mum assuming dad had picked them. Honestly no way of proving that, but if it was what actually happened it’s a bit more forgivable but still, dumb as hell.
I have to say the biggest warning here to me is: fucks sake people, don’t eat wild mushrooms if you aren’t an absolute fucking expert. And even then, I’m not sure they are worth the risk for the meagre calories.
my make and model is not listed (Mitsubishi Minicab-MiEV). Just FYI, these are reasonably popular in several markets globally even though they are a JDM.
On track for Handmaids Tale. I really hope this life destroying stays in the US only and doesn’t get approved elsewhere…
Ugh crap, it was approved in Australia by the TGA last year. Yaaaaay.
Very rarely. I have an older ChaDeMo vehicle (Mitsubishi Minicab-MiEV) so don’t have as much competition as the CCS chargers, though there are fewer of them I do a lot of highway driving and the waits are usually at the busiest highway chargers, especially if any ultra fast chargers are down.
PlugShare is global, we use it in Australia 😊
laughs in 20kw ChaDeMo relatively short range battery compared to modern EVs
Agree. The other part I didn’t mention in the previous comment, is that on average, “people” aren’t really much better off because we tend to ignore the extraction of wealth from the Global South: and those people certainly aren’t better off on average, the bottom 50% of which have the same carbon budget as the top 1% of global population.
Technology plays a role, but the big part of current wealth is the hundreds of “oil slaves” we each have in the West. On the downslope of the carbon pulse this is going to be extremely unpleasant to have to get used to having less of.
I’m waiting for Juice by Tim Winton to get optioned…
definitely a large concern.