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Here's my original comment: >It's funny how people don't associate the endless stream of shiny gadgets they own, that are stuffed full with the latest and greatest in rare minerals…

>How many hundreds of smartphones do you think it takes to make up the resources consumed by one car? Interesting question. According to this source[1], a car, weighing 20,000 time…

>If you did, you would know that embodied energy of all you electronics in a couple 1000 megajoules. A very quick Google will tell you that a laptop alone is 4500MJ, or about 4 tan…

Then don't live in London if you are concerned about feeding your child.

Ah so I'm a shill for the fossil fuel industry, because I believe in the power of individual choices? Fantastic. FWIW I had made no mention of emissions - I was talking purely abou…

Well, here we've just picked a different set of winners and losers. Can you imagine the outcry if here we changed our benefits system to something like that Germany? "I've been out…

>given what I pay in income tax and NI That's how socialised safety nets work - those who earn more, pay for those who don't. Otherwise, it would just be a savings account ;) Who e…

>Jobseeker’s Allowance is one forth of the average rent in London Tricky issue. I do know that where I live (Wales), there are huge numbers of people living relatively comfortably …

Of course they didn't suffer during the Covid lockdowns. Only those who obsessively consumed news and social media suffered.

I don't disagree at all with you pointing out the plight of families and children less privileged than OP (where I am, there is now a steady stream of truly awful stories about wha…

It's funny how people don't associate the endless stream of shiny gadgets they own, that are stuffed full with the latest and greatest in rare minerals, with the destruction of the…

The article you linked makes my point: "an average ICE vehicle will emit around 69 metric tonnes in its lifetime. But an EV, in a state like Wyoming which is almost completely powe…

If you're doing ~30 EV miles per week, sounds like a bicycle would be a fantastic addition to your personal transportation plan.

>Hybrid batteries which minuscule compared to EVs, put out 25kw+ instantaneous power. Which is exactly the problem with hybrid batteries - the peak power demanded from them is abou…

Doesn't save much space or weight - the car will still be larger and heavier.

>This is a good thing. Why?

>An EV is already cleaner burning coal than a petrol vehicle That is a patently ridiculous claim. The most efficient coal power stations approach 50% thermal efficiency. Near 15% o…

How does that make any sense? What those people need is a cheap EV with 50km range, and then rent a lnog-range vehicle for those few annual long trips. Why load your EV with severa…

Hybrids have a much smaller battery, which will make them cheaper.

Yes. The EURO emissions regulations will make it essentially impossible to sell a new, purely ICE-powered car in the near future (in Europe). Every new car will be a bloated hybrid…

Possibly. History may remember our response to Covid as the last great and destructive folly of a dying civilisation.

Which studies? >All that being strongly dependent on picking a mask that has decent filtration though Like I said, masks rated for the job will do the job (of filtering the air you…

I see a lot of comments conflating the mask types, and exactly who is being protected. Just to put us all on a common footing, here is a reminder of what the public messaging (at l…

At least where I live (UK), seems to me that we all sat confined under house arrest while all of the vulnerable old people were discharged from hospitals (presumably, to make space…

>Omicron and Delta were both more deadly Just goes to show the difference in public messaging. Where I live, all the headlines said that Omicron and Delta were less deadly (but mor…