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NickB79's Journal$45K EV smuggles a 620-mile solid-state battery out of the lab
https://newatlas.com/automotive/im-ls-lightyear-solid-state/The 900-V Lightyear pack has a capacity of 130 kWh for a total range estimated to exceed 1,000 km (620 miles) on China's CLTC testing cycle. Just as impressively, it's said to be capable of adding 400 km (249 miles) of range in just 12 minutes when wired up to a properly quick ultra-fast charger.
Canadian study throws ice water on idea that fans can effectively cool you down during extreme heat
https://m.jpost.com/science/article-795787Fans provide even less cooling benefits in older adults who may have a reduced ability to sweat,” Meade explained. “In fact, even in younger adults, fans provide only a small fraction of the cooling power of air conditioning.”
Something to keep in mind as the planet warms.
Tesla is abandoning their plan for a $25,000 EV
https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/tesla-scraps-low-cost-car-plans-amid-fierce-chinese-ev-competition-2024-04-05/?fbclid=IwAR0QdykjowjkA8Ndy88VIuwO4vpoDAuMp4CgHslppZBGAEWub6Hq8x3NVpkThe automaker will continue developing self-driving robotaxis on the same small-vehicle platform, the sources said.
The decision represents an abandonment of a longstanding goal that Tesla(TSLA.O) Elon Musk has often characterized as its primary mission: affordable electric cars for the masses. His first “master plan" for the company in 2006 called for manufacturing luxury models first, then using the profits to finance a “low cost family car.”
Stick a fork in him, he's done.
The 'growing crisis of the young American male' could send home prices falling for years or even decades
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/growing-crisis-young-american-male-185400449.html“You have men staying single longer…and then you have what I call a growing crisis of the young American male…they’re twice as likely to live at home than women. So one out of five young men live at home with their parents, and these aren’t young men going to college and coming home for holiday breaks, these are young, grown men choosing to live at home,” Whitney told CNBC this morning.
The outcome could have profound effects on the housing market, she said.
“I think you’re going to start to see housing prices begin a multi-year/decade decline, just due to supply/demand dynamics,” Whitney said. “So you’ve had a demand, supply imbalance: more demand, less supply. And I think that’s going to invert.” So what that means is supply will then outweigh demand, which is why she sees home prices falling for years.
I had a case of COVID in July 2022. Since then, every single cold seems to turn into bronchitis
I was a healthy, athletic 42 yr old man, regularly lifting weights and working on my hobby farm, fully vaccinated, and had every booster available to that point on schedule. I was the kind of person who bounced back from colds in a matter of days. But after a 4th of July get-together, I came down with COVID. I was in bed for a week, horrible headache and lack of strength. Afterwards, I had shortness of breath for a few weeks, and eventually ended up in urgent care with a bad case of bronchitis, bordering on pneumonia. I was told that, were I any worse, they would have sent me to the hospital. I was given an inhaler, antibiotics, and a nebulizer. I recovered quickly after that, but now every little cold I get seems to progress to bronchitis. And my daughter is 13, so she regularly brings home stuff from middle school. I'm currently hacking up mucus for the second time this year alone. I still get every COVID and flu shot available every fall, and am otherwise a healthy person. It's just so weird how a little sniffle one day progresses so rapidly to violent coughing the next.
Is this permanent? Is this a long COVID symptom? The last case I toughed out and it took 3 weeks to resolve itself. I just started coughing yesterday night, and I'm not doing that again. If I'm still coughing by Friday, I'm going back in. But I can't help but worry that this is my future now. And God help me if I ever get a case of the flu that the vaccine doesn't stop.
Truth Social made $4 million last year. That's the same as an average McDonald's franchise
https://www.franchisechatter.com/2023/09/25/fdd-talk-mcdonalds-franchise-costs-fees-average-revenues-and-or-profits-2023-review/Yet they tried to value it at $8 BILLION?!?!
Ozempic maker Novo Nordisk facing pressure as study finds $1,000 appetite suppressant can be made for just $5
https://fortune.com/europe/2024/03/28/ozempic-maker-novo-nordisk-facing-pressure-as-study-finds-1000-appetite-suppressant-can-be-made-for-just-5/The blockbuster drug could be manufactured for 89 cents to $4.73 for a month’s supply, figures that include a profit margin, researchers at Yale University, King’s College Hospital in London and the nonprofit Doctors Without Borders reported in the journal JAMA Network Open. That compares to the monthly US list price of $968.52 for Ozempic, a weekly injection.
Pharmaceutical companies gouging patients again.
Justices seem skeptical of challenge to restrict access to abortion pill
https://www.npr.org/2024/03/26/1240915498/supreme-court-abortion-pillSolicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar said the plaintiffs, the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine, do not come "within 100 miles of the kinds of circumstances" needed to show standing.
Justice Elena Kagan, appointed by President Obama, asked Erin Hawley, the lawyer for the anti-abortion group, who was injured by the pill. "You need a person," she said." Who's your person?"
ISIS releases bodycam footage of Moscow terrorist attack
Source: Yahoo
The Islamic State on March 23 released footage of the March 22 Crocus City Hall terrorist attack in a Moscow suburb.
The video was released through the Amaq News Agency, which is affiliated with the terrorist group.
Several gunmen opened fire at the Crocus City Hall in Krasnogorsk, a Moscow suburb, on the evening of March 22, killing at least 137 people and injuring at least 140, according to the latest updates by the Russian authorities.
Read more: https://www.yahoo.com/news/isis-releases-bodycam-footage-moscow-162732464.html
Looks like ISIS really was the perpetrator.
Why is US energy demand soaring - putting climate goals at risk?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/21/why-is-us-energy-demand-soaring-climate-crisisAfter more than 30 years of falling or flat demand for electricity, forecasts say the nation will need the equivalent of about 34 new nuclear plants, or 38 gigawatts, over the next five years to power data centers and manufacturing and electrify buildings and vehicles, according to filings made to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and compiled by Grid Strategies.
Since those filings, several utilities have said they will need even more power.
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God. Damn.
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