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This has been proven false back in like 2008. Even if electric cars were to run off coal plants, they would still be more efficient because the plants can capture and reuse heat with boilers.

That being said, coal has to go anyway. I run my electric car from 98% hydro power and 2% wind power and I pay 6,9 cents per kWh, and that's Canadian money, pretty cheap.

Paperclips 9 years ago

I took too much processor and not enough memory, it would take age to get to 70k...

How do I reset and start over?

Solar Roof 9 years ago

If you are really serious, your goal should be to be net positive, downgrading won't get you there, never.

Right now, even with surge, they seem to be a bit cheaper than the normal city taxi but I would bet that as soon as there will be no more competition they will raise the price AND still do price surge. In the end, we will pay more than we used to.

Uber seem to be always on the edge between aggressive profit and shady business.

EDIT: Don't think by my comment that I meant the taxis are better. I was just saying that right now, this is a great deal in most cities where Uber does offer their services but seeing how hungry they are for max profit, I doubt this will last and eventually we will realize that a broken system was replaced by another broken one.

Every two or three months we see this same headline based on the same studies or have new numbers. We all know that other methods had very low success rate yet we never see a healine about Nicorette or patches.

A large number of "vapers" have reduce or even stopped smoking, including myself.

My goal was to stop smoking, goal achieved.

As the article state clearly, this is to address consumers concerns and not facts based on science. Aspartame has been accused of so many things yet so few credible scientific paper has really blamed it for anything major.

IMHO, RHEL is by far the most popular within large business in production environment.

Despite the huge popularity of Ubuntu, I see very few of them compared to RHEL / CentOS.

Tesla chargers are only for Tesla, sadly. As much as I love them, I cannot use them either with my Nissan Leaf.

And yes, central and the lower states of US are behind in term of sales AND charging options available.

Hopefully this will change!

Currently technology is OK.

Your reference to 300 miles is probably based on your most extreme situation when you go on a long trip. If the charging network (DC fast charging, in under 30 mins) is there, 300 miles isn't a problem.

I have a Nissan Leaf with 160 km range and it has never been a problem yet. Home charging is perfectly fine, every morning my car is full. I will never need a faster charger at home. Fast chargers are useful on the roads near highway exits for when you do long trips, much like with gas stations.

95% of the time, my travel distance is under 120 km per day so for only 5% of the time I need to plan a recharge or swap car with my parents, sisters or friends or rent a car for very long trips.

For people with a Chevrolet Volt, they don't even have this issue, when they go on long trips, they simply charge when they can and run on gas for most of the trip.

Personally, I am fine with current technology.

I have a Nissan Leaf so yes, there is no fake engine sound, only a sound in front at low speed to warn pedestrians.

Not only I would not want a fake engine sound but I would be willing to pay more to have my car sound proof, with insulation or something, it would be quieter, colder in the summer and warmer in the winter.

Problem isn't with kids but more with teens. Instead of trying to ban it, just talk about it.

Banning it would only make it slightly harder to find and would make parents believe their child/teen is "safe" and will never see porn... WRONG. Kids have plenty of time to find what they want.

Sex education is the only solution.

If I had to do it i would probably look at getting a VPS with Linode.com or something.

Price is low but has to be maintained by you.

i am not aware of commercial or paid service for yum repositories.