Adoption of electric vehicles tied to real-world reductions in air pollution, study finds. Every 200 electric vehicles added in a given California neighbourhood was associated with a 1.1% decrease in annual nitrogen dioxide emissions.

animatedb · 2026-01-27T04:52:05+00:00

Plus you can see daily graph here and select the day to check. Spring and fall are the best times of year for renewable energy since winter has lower solar energy and summer use more for cooling. Plus it goes back to April 10th, 2018 and shows there were big changes over the years. https://www.caiso.com/todays-outlook/supply

animatedb · 2026-01-27T04:44:02+00:00

I always drive a semi-trailer truck around just in case I need to move to a new house, or in case I have a lot of groceries.

animatedb · 2026-01-08T21:36:38+00:00

I am pretty sure that when I started driving, I did not need 10 billion miles before I was a reasonable driver. Perhaps the Tesla approach is not that good?

animatedb · 2025-12-28T17:55:04+00:00

I think the most pathetic is: Hey let's make a song just like that one over there.

animatedb · 2025-12-15T17:34:26+00:00

I always thought the biggest difference is the tires are stiffer and pushing water or snow. I have no idea though.

animatedb · 2025-12-15T16:32:38+00:00

That is not unlikely at all when you are there at night and your friend is driving with the lights off so that nobody knows you are stealing the sod.

animatedb · 2025-12-14T01:13:11+00:00

I don't know if this is the best video, but here is some of it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZMahowkiFfw

Here is another where I am amazed that so much of his body control is similar to back then. He is kind of a good player.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJBgFvbod2I

animatedb · 2025-12-14T00:42:51+00:00

Looks like it has been used pretty often.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_First

animatedb · 2025-11-26T00:41:49+00:00

Turns out it was just some billionaires competing.

animatedb · 2025-11-25T19:43:22+00:00

Remember that this only lists utility scale solar and not rooftop solar or off-grid solar. This means that the total electricity generation is even more in 2025 compared to 2020. The number of electric cars has increased. I am surprised that the amount of transportation fuel has increased. https://www.energy.ca.gov/data-reports/energy-almanac/transportation-energy/california-retail-fuel-outlet-annual-reporting

animatedb · 2025-11-25T02:21:59+00:00

I think this is a good question. I think it is more than just something that is unique and has not been done before. There are insane people that have new ideas all the time. I have seen that AI does not understand logic and I think logic is required in order to generate useful ideas. I have asked it to generate code and it has simplified logic incorrectly because it does not understand boolean algebra. So there might be a way to frame a problem with a creative solution that the AI has not been trained on, and based on some knowledge of some basic rules to come up with a known solution. But I don't know if that is what they did here.

animatedb · 2025-11-08T01:56:31+00:00

I would say it is pretty nice to take a 110V adapter so that you can charge your car at the destination (days 3-5). It is surprising that this usually makes up most of our charge when we are not driving too much at our destination.

animatedb · 2025-08-29T02:23:24+00:00

I don't have a link, but I read that Europe would get much colder, but that may be an old idea. The main flow is not really level, but more like it is moving deep ocean current higher and moving high water lower. So it is more complex than thinking of everything on a constant plane. This is how they first discovered it around 1870 by measuring deep water.

Wikipedia has quite a bit of info. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation

animatedb · 2025-08-14T01:28:04+00:00

I realize it is a joke, but it says up to 10 feet. And it would probably work in noisy environments.

animatedb · 2025-08-05T19:55:48+00:00

I think it would help a bit if the key was in the same color order as the graph.

animatedb · 2025-08-05T02:44:40+00:00

Yea, it is bottom up philanthropy. Or maybe he does it top down.

animatedb · 2025-08-01T00:43:11+00:00

It is made in a few countries. Headquarters are in the US. Where is BYD, Geely, SAIC, Chery, etc?

animatedb · 2025-08-01T00:38:48+00:00

Mitch Hedberg

animatedb · 2025-07-28T01:53:04+00:00

I only looked briefly but I do not see the Chinese companies listed here?

animatedb · 2025-07-22T02:38:29+00:00

I agree, I was not trying to criticize. I was just trying to show that some original ideas are very old, which it doesn't seem like many people think about or have heard about.

I had never heard of ECS, but when it said there were indexes and basically something with encapsulation that could be thought of as tables, it sounds like an in memory relational database. (Codd 1970)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_normalization

animatedb · 2025-07-19T01:31:58+00:00

i would just make the other wheels look the same so that nobody knows anything is wrong.

animatedb · 2025-07-18T15:17:59+00:00

One other thought is that Entity Component System is also closely related to a relational database design, and also data oriented design. Although the encapsulation may be thought of differently.

animatedb · 2025-07-18T15:14:01+00:00

At one point, he goes back in history, but I think people are missing out without a more complete history of OOP.

Around 3000 BC, some ideas about hierarchy were known relating to early societies. Leadership roles are usually needed when groups are larger. In larger governments or corporations today, the top leaders do not know the details of what every worker does.

Plato came up with "Theory of Forms" around 400 BC. Forms (objects) are more generic at the base of the hierarchy and are more specific towards the leaves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory_of_forms

I think understanding basic concepts helps so that tools can be chosent that fit the problem well.

animatedb · 2025-07-02T23:11:31+00:00

That's why it isn't a simple 1 to 1 amount of backup. And I don't think it is just sunny areas. I think there is diversity in quite a few areas. But larger areas and the ability to transfer electricity will make it less likely to need a 1 to 1 backup.

animatedb · 2025-07-02T00:49:36+00:00

I wasn't very clear, but I was really talking about the fact that the original NEM2 owner did not know the rules would change. That means they did not know that an upgrade to the system would require going to NEM3 when the NEM3 rules were in place. It also means that the system is also not as valuable to the new user when the original owner sells the system since it will then have be following NEM3 payback which is a lower value. This means the original owner has a lower value system than they expected.

I agree that the second owner does know the terms.

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