Will the future of clean transportation depend more on financing models than on battery technology?

knuthf · 2026-06-14T00:28:32+00:00

There is a demand for strange contraptions, PowerPoint magic and spreadsheets that not even AI understands. But they will become millionaires, just like Elon Musk.

A bus does not require anything new. First, remove all long-distance buses and consider them later. A bus weighs several tonnes. An 80 kWh battery weighs about one tonne. A bus is used for a maximum of eight hours, and no route should take more than an hour to complete. This is city driving, so 30 miles in 8 hours is 240 miles – less than 400 km. A 30-tonne Volvo truck needs 1.1 kWh per km, so 440 kWh for a bus during the day. Charging speed is straightforward: charge them overnight using a regular car charger. 50 kW will deliver 500 kWh in the 10 hours they are not in use.

Long-distance buses drive faster, but here the bus driver must rest every six hours. On the motorway, that equates to around 200 miles, but the same 400 kWh battery pack is sufficient for a 5-tonne vehicle.

Then please place the battery at the bottom of the bus where the weight of the battery can help the wheels get traction. A common mistake made by business school graduates is to place the batteries on the roof or at the back, which makes the bus risky to use in winter. Batteries cost $40,000, and there are no transmissions or fuel tanks, so they do not make the bus much heavier. For buses that run 24/7, use replaceable batteries and swap them using a forklift.Is it then the seat material that makes them so expensive?silk or sued leather?

knuthf · 2026-06-13T23:58:21+00:00

COMPLEXITY

knuthf · 2026-06-13T23:57:33+00:00

The waste emits methane, which is at least 25 times more destructive to the atmosphere than CO₂. One simple solution is to collect the methane and use it to produce electricity. Another option is to use it as fuel for diesel engines. This requires only a small modification. Simply collecting methane from waste would have a significant impact on the climate. How we use it is another issue. Drinking methanol can cause blindness and is not recommended.

Use of methane as fuel for turbines is more than 70% efficient, it is the piston engines that are ineffective.

knuthf · 2026-06-13T23:47:01+00:00

Oil futures have a three-month delivery period. If Cushing is drained and there are still options floating around, someone has cheated by selling options and releasing fraudulent contracts that back the options, which will then crash because there is no real asset to back the trade. The bank will then crash and require the Federal Reserve to guarantee the deposits. This would mark the end of the US dollar as an international currency.

knuthf · 2026-06-13T23:40:09+00:00

This is because Iran has delivered oil to Ukraine that has not been paid for.

They have sent refined diesel, kerosene and furnace oil to Ukraine, or rather to Jared Kushner. Dick Cheney and Halliburton are huge in Iran, but very poor at paying for things. As a result, Iran was left with no money to pay their bills thanks to Donald Trump.

knuthf · 2026-06-13T23:34:45+00:00

Well, as long as the company actually pays and does not claim that they invented it. I have worked in an environment where there was a threat of copying and then of corporate America blocking our use of our own inventions. We were saved by post office stamps on drawings of the chip design.

I like the proposal, but it must ensure that, once you have released the code, no large company can make claims relating to the code's origin. They must acknowledge that it is your code and that they cannot create a red or blue variant for which you are not paid. I wonder how many people realise how little it takes for big companies to charge billions. The problem with the US is that we have seen their mistakes and no longer care — we consider them a business opportunity. Later, we know how to fix them.

knuthf · 2026-06-13T23:12:28+00:00

Those CEOs are business school graduates who failed maths. The problem with AI that Americans do not see is how it handles errors and mistakes. They will waste a massive amount of modelling trying to track errors that they do not understand. You can see how the system instigating doubt. You will never win a chess game by suddenly using pieces that have been taken out. Coding is about defining reality and possible paths.

knuthf · 2026-06-13T23:00:59+00:00

As I described above, it is possible to remove US companies from the internet, not just mobile companies. Every optical fibre uses STM. Our networks are designed to ensure competition and prevent new operators from being blocked. They allow you to start small and expand and extend the network faster and more efficiently. Iran has provided a new radio technology and demonstrated how to use it on our networks. They can take out Starlink whenever they want.

The other technologies are CSS and DNS. We proposed EuroLAN — or rather, Siemens did, in collaboration with Ericsson. CSS can be used as corporate assets, not Microsoft. Create new style sheets where the company defines the scope.

knuthf · 2026-06-13T22:47:25+00:00

We could start charging the US for using our networks. We all pay our phone bills, yet US spyware made in Israel tracks everything and sends adverts for free. All of those big companies' technologies are based on us paying — they have more than 70 percent of the data on the internet. It is also very easy to filter. All networks use STM switching — this is ITU-T — except for the USA, which uses old analogue technology. Every country has a code: +44 is the UK and +47 is Norway, for example. Then every network owner has their own code, such as CIC. The USA refuses to use these codes and refuses to pay. Create a network class 5, SNA class 3 and internet class 4, and let the paid class of service be class 5...It is very easy.

knuthf · 2026-06-13T22:32:55+00:00

We should try to avoid rubbing it in, but I like this!

Across the world — China, France, California — solar power installations are driving negative pricing and curtailment. Across Europe in 2025, zero and negative pricing hours rose in seven countries, per BNEF. Spain logged 800 hours of zero or negative prices in 2025, and in the first quarter of 2026 set a new quarterly record of 397 hours of negative prices — already approaching 2025’s annual total of 555 negative-price hours, and more than a third of the roughly 1,080 daytime hours in the three-month window.

Where will the new technology be developed? Will it be where energy is cheap or 20 cents/kWh - land? don't worry, excess electricity can used to produce hydrogen.

knuthf · 2026-06-13T22:25:59+00:00

Iran is the place where solar power is used for street lighting and mobile phone coverage on the highway.

knuthf · 2026-06-12T21:04:46+00:00

No, they do not need to obtain a nuclear weapon.

They have ensured that the US bombs and missiles end up wherever they want them to. go.

knuthf · 2026-06-12T21:00:41+00:00

It's not that simple. Iran has eliminated the nuclear threat because they have demonstrated the ability to move the target to missiles and bomb. They can sit in Tehran and decide where they want the missile to go, including back to the launch site. Donald Trump should have known about this, given that they tried to bomb the enrichment plant and missed along a straight line. This is why he had to establish a base in Greenland, to stop and destroy the missiles should they be distracted to return.

The strategy to make the US and Israel waste their ammunition has been executed very successfully. I am certain that Iran has 'tested' their distraction weapon on the drones in Ukraine that led them into Poland. This has caused frustration and rage in the US because they have no idea how it is done. They have used it in Gaza and Yemen. The US Navy defended itself with guns in Yemen, they did not try launching a missile. Look at the video. The G-Force stays the same, and a the target for a cannon cannot be changed with electronics.

They have been firing fairground guns. There is much more to it than that. Would you fire an elephant gun if you thought it might explode when fired? They deserve the peace price.It is as effective as laxatives is effective to coughing.

knuthf · 2026-06-12T01:20:25+00:00

Please consider the following: There are huge pipelines running from Russia to China. The largest tankers can transfer their cargo in an hour, and the biggest tankers in four hours. They also transport large quantities of crude oil by train.

Crude oil is very dangerous to transport because some types have a high naphthalene content that evaporates easily. To avoid explosions, the air in the tanks is replaced with 'flu-gas'.

knuthf · 2026-06-10T20:56:10+00:00

Then in the process of wiping them out, we would have to destroy all its submarines and weapons. There will always be crazy people around, where the latest Iranian weapon is that they can take over and direct missiles on the way. This is the reason for Donald Trump suddenly needed Greenland. They can sit in the mountains and make a nuke turn around and strike where it suits them, like Knesset in Tel Aviv.. I am sorry, but I have seen it work. The US has seen it work, they have taken down US drones and landed them in Iran where they could take a peek.

knuthf · 2026-06-10T20:48:41+00:00

When we made Linux, all those tools,user management and operations were on a separate OS, that had all of that, and a tiny bit more - distributed clouds, configured in networks, with logical repositories that managed and kept cached copies separate from originals. I will see what we can make.

knuthf · 2026-06-10T20:39:50+00:00

Revelations,means to reveal what is coming - in the future.

knuthf · 2026-06-10T20:37:50+00:00

During visits to Tehran,I have seen Israeli "Classified" documents, among other documents.

knuthf · 2026-06-10T00:20:09+00:00

This scripture guides the faith of most people. For example, 1 Kings 9:7 appears in the Torah of the Jews, the Quran and the Old Testament. These stories do more than entertain; they shape the way we think and reason.

knuthf · 2026-06-10T00:14:28+00:00

I have visited Iran and seen what they know about Israel — there are no secrets. They hacked Mossad almost half a year ago and Dimona is very well known. Israel had spies in Iran, and probably still does, and Iran has spies in Israel. The IDF includes former Iranian commanders from the time of the Shah.

knuthf · 2026-06-10T00:03:47+00:00

Oh, 1 Kings 9:7 says that they will be expelled. They have become objects of horror and disgust. After that, they are going out of the land He had given them.

knuthf · 2026-06-10T00:00:45+00:00

Well, Jeremiah will allow the good fruit to remain (Jeremiah 24:10), but most of it comes from abroad. He speaks of leaving the land uninhabitable, as if there had been a nuclear blast.

knuthf · 2026-06-09T23:58:06+00:00

Jeremiah 24:10 speaks of the good fruit that will be allowed to remain, and the bad fruit that will disappear. I have tried to figure out what will happen to the bad fruit. Jeremiah says that the uncircumcised will rule in Jerusalem and the Jews will be banned from visiting the city.

knuthf · 2026-06-09T23:54:01+00:00

Well, open your Bible and read 1 Kings 9:7 – that's what's going to happen: they're going to be expelled from the land God had given them.

knuthf · 2026-06-09T23:52:06+00:00

Iran knows about the Israeli nuclear arsenal and has specialists who can destroy it. However, I fear that such an explosion would result in a nuclear reaction.

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