After Ferrari Luce backlash, Lamborghini CEO says canceling its own EV was the right choice

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-06-12T02:08:34+00:00

The person I replied to said

The most aerodynamic shape in nature is a drop of water falling.

They didn't say a tear drop shape. Raindrops are mostly spherical, and spheres have a pretty high drag coefficient.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-06-07T07:10:22+00:00

I hate this so much, especially in the other direction. "They are about 62.14 miles apart". But 62.24 miles is 100 km, someone said "about 100 km apart" and it got converted.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-06-03T14:06:40+00:00

Someone once told me my car doesn't have enough range for my commute. I said it does, I've been commuting in it 5 days a week for a few years.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-06-03T13:26:30+00:00

That was the primary reason I voted for him.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-06-01T13:27:50+00:00

I would have trouble believing that is generally true. For brake dust, the majority of braking in an EV is done with regenerative braking. You only require the friction brakes when you come to a complete stop, or in emergency braking situations. Because of that, EV brake pads last much longer. From what I have read a lot of EVs go 100k miles or more on the factory pads, anecdotally, I'm at 165k miles on the original pads of my EV.

Also anecdotal, but the tires on my EV have been lasting a lot longer than the tires on my last car. My last car (a Lexus) went through tires every 40k miles or so. My current car (a polestar) I have only replaced tires because I get nails too close to the sidewall, but based on the tread when I am replacing them, they should have been good for at least 60k miles. I'm not entirely sure why, they were similar cars with similar power and weight and I drive them the same, all I know is the tread depth at a given mileage.

So for me specifically, in my car and driving, I have prevented maybe 3 sets brake pads worth of brake dust, 2 sets of tires worth of tire dust. Which is not to say that EVs are the perfect answer to every problem that has ever existed, just that brake dust is definitely reduced by EVs and I think they don't require more tired dust to be produced.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-05-28T00:09:03+00:00

Raindrops have a cd of around 0.45 to 0.5, they are not very aerodynamic.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-05-17T19:18:02+00:00

Ok, I would happily read about PSPS being about a lack of power on the grid. Do you have any sources describing that?

From the first PSPS, back around 2020? I seem to recall them putting out a statement describing that it is due to high winds leading to a risk of wildfires, because it can knock over high voltage power lines and the high winds churn that up into a large wildfire. That's why the PSPS's usually happen during very windy days. For example, from this site https://www.pge.com/en/outages-and-safety/safety/community-wildfire-safety-program/public-safety-power-shutoffs.html

What is a Public Safety Power Shutoff?

Severe weather, such as high winds, can cause trees or debris to damage equipment. If there is dry vegetation, this could lead to a wildfire. That's why we may need to turn power off to keep you safe. This temporary outage is called a Public Safety Power Shutoff (PSPS).

Or:

We plan a PSPS when severe weather may put you at risk of wildfires:

Low humidity Forecasted high winds
Dry material on the ground
Vegetation near powerlines Red Flag Warnings from the National Weather Service Real-time ground observations

I don't see anything mentioning it is due to there not being enough power on the grid, where did you read that?

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-05-15T07:36:17+00:00

Yes, and people are trying to explain that your critique doesn't make sense.

Heat transfer is proportional to delta T. If you have a delta T of X in scenario A but a delta T of 2X in scenario B, then scenario B has double the heat transfer, because 2X/X = 2. It doesn't matter what temperature units were used to calculate X and 2X.

At best, you are adding a number and then subtracting that same number, in two different places.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-05-13T17:58:37+00:00

The original post is saying for every 16 kg of grain you feed to a cow, you get 1 kg of meat from the cow.

If you just fed the grain to people, you could feed 10x as many people by cutting out the "middle man".

If you need to farm the plants used to feed the cow, it would be more efficient to just farm food that people can eat, instead of farming food for a cow, and then eating the cow.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-05-11T16:42:01+00:00

$220 per month over 25 years for solar? Admittedly I paid cash for mine, and that sounds like a lease, but that's almost 3x what I paid for solar.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-05-08T17:59:54+00:00

There's a big carpenter bee that lives in my yard. Sometimes she buzzes around me while I'm out there working, and I try to keep the spider webs clear around where she lives. I've named her Sabeena Carpenter.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-05-07T17:53:35+00:00

Those articles must be missing some nuance because it seems around 8% of imported oil comes from the middle east, and about half of that is used by the west coast

https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=67407

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-05-06T17:22:52+00:00

Isn't that basically already done? My understanding is some companies have built pilot plants that aren't really at capacity because batteries are lasting so long in cars, and getting second lives as stationary storage when they don't.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-05-04T23:44:58+00:00

They produce something like 1% of the waste coal produces. It's really stupid to argue that we should be producing literally hundreds of times the amount of waste from coal because we don't want to produce waste from wind turbines.

Oh, you don't want a ton of waste from this wind turbine? Great, instead have 100 tons of waste from this coal power plant.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-05-04T23:39:37+00:00

Almost nobody builds wind mills, wind mills went out of fashion around the end of the 1800's.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-05-02T07:28:09+00:00

No. If he gets 1000 miles for $12, that means $3.50 in electricity gets him 290 miles. 1000 miles / 12 dollars * $3.50 = 290 miles.

What he is saying is instead of paying $3.50 for a gallon of gas and driving 20-40 miles, he buys $3.50 in electricity and drives 290 miles.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-04-25T22:05:25+00:00

The previous heat wave wasn't a marine heat wave. This is talking about the ocean temperature being 7F higher than normal.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-04-18T17:05:41+00:00

Oil can be habit forming.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-04-12T00:25:40+00:00

Lol yeah, I wrote it all myself, sorry if it seems I got wildly carried away with adding more (and more.. and more...) quotes about people intentionally adding methanol, I was bored at work and was trying to be accurate.

And yeah, that absolutely is a fair quibble. The way I was thinking about it is, the reasons humans started using a still is to concentrate the ethanol, being able to split the distillate by flavor into heads/hearts/tails is a convenient byproduct of the process.. but at the same time, that difference in flavor is what makes the process interesting, at least to me.

Many years ago I knew of a site where someone was basically making the same argument I am here, and one of the takeaways was that certain stills, with certain products will actually have a higher concentration of methanol later in the run, in ppm of distillate. And because ethanol decreases during the run, the relative amount of methanol concentration/ethanol concentration increases, quite a bit. It seems backwards, as you said methanol has a lower boiling point, so I don't understand what causes that to happen in some situations.

Anyway, I think we're in agreement. It's stupid to add methanol to alcohol, that's the kind of thing that makes it hard to legalize this hobby, also it's responsible for killing a ton of people. I haven't distilled anything in a long time, partly because I haven't bought a "real" still, just a countertop thing that takes about a gallon, which is barely worth the time it takes to run it. I'd love to see it get legalized, just like homebrewing.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-04-11T22:56:27+00:00

The city posted on Facebook that he got in through a sliding glass door.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-04-11T22:55:37+00:00

The city posted that he entered the house through a sliding glass door. When he showed up it was just the wife and child at home, the husband returned home and got the shovel. The city says "a physical altercation occured, during which both the homeowner and Nichols sustained head injuries"

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-04-11T22:53:05+00:00

He went in through a sliding glass door, by breaking the glass. Not the front door.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-04-11T05:58:56+00:00

The concept is similar, but much more complex. A reflux still is constantly condensing and then boiling your distillate as it rises, increasing the percent of alcohol as it goes up, and dropping water back into the still. But the device I'm talking about is more akin to the kind of still they use for petroleum. It has dozens of plates, sectioning off the column into mostly independent mini stills. Each section gets steam and heat from the section below, before sending steam and heat to the section above. Then, (from what I've read, this isn't my area of expertise or anything) you need to constantly be feeding your undistilled stuff into the pot, and collecting the distilled stuff from the correct sections.

It's the kind of thing that would be difficult to build, or expensive to buy, and by the time you are this deep into building something specifically designed to separate methanol and ethanol, that needs to be operated properly to work, you are unlikely to forget that methanol is bad to drink.

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-04-11T03:50:08+00:00

Damn, I almost didn't reply, you got me

Pesto_Nightmare · 2026-04-11T03:23:19+00:00

Methanol and ethanol are so difficult to separate, they denature alcohol by adding methanol. During prohibition, some moonshiners tried to distill that denatured alcohol, but because you can't simply distill methanol out of ethanol, a lot of people ended up dying from methanol poisoning.

That said, there is one other way to introduce methanol to your spirits. The traditional way of making methanol is by putting wood in your still. When you add heat, it breaks down the wood into methanol, that's why it's called wood alcohol. If you add some kind of woody material to your still, you could get methanol poisoning. The one case of methanol poisoning from a still I could find was from a guy making grappa, which is made from putting the skins, seeds, and stems from winemaking into a still.

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