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Max power consumption of the compressor in my car is 5.5 kW (see pg. 28 of https://www.scribd.com/document/783343319/MEB-220169869 ). The blowers would draw additional power. These…

We (tall people) die sooner.

Having worked at a company that became saddled with huge debt, I am leaning to look at this the other way. The bank(s), in cooperation with the buyers, found a target to extract mo…

Depending on conditions, heat or AC can consume up to 5 or 6 kW in extreme weather and a small fraction of that in milder conditions. The most efficient speed of an EV is hard to p…

Regarding the dashboard pic - that's a trip computer display (see the "A:" and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAdzIuAB3-g ) which can display a large range of values depending on …

There are classes of motorcycle accidents that are not a function of rider speeding or otherwise being careless. The one that took the life of a coworker is described as follows: t…

I have one of the most inefficient EVs and it's only 2.4x hungrier than the cybercab. It can comfortably carry 6 adults. I've been in Tesla 3s as Ubers before. They only need 31% m…

Superbs?

>the other car in the household hasn't burned through a full tank in the months My gas car was filled in November and has half a tank. EV's are such a better experience and so much…

>Timbre itself is meaningless without a note to carry it I suppose that is literally true but I think of timbre (especially after reading Sethares who I mentioned earlier) as telli…

I can only think of examples which as you describe have accompaniment moving underneath. Neil Young's solo in Cinnamon Girl is one example. Another is Bob Dylan's Like a Rolling St…

Have you read Sethares' Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale book or the shorter paper? It gets right in on the topic of the interrelationship between timbre and dissonance. As you say, th…

So much racism.

raw milk, unpasteurized, right?

We have an EV and I figure we will save about $5k or more per 100,000 miles on the fuel costs, but that savings is flipped to a loss if I had to use fast charging all the time. But…

> I wish by 2026 society would have shaken itself out of the idea that all people are the same. If you called me woke, I would say, sure, if by woke you mean that I believe racism,…

They did become cheap for a very short time at the front of the pandemic. Specifically sales in the US hit a historic low in April of 2020, almost down to half the monthly volume a…

It is stupid to put a solar panel on top of a car. 1. The car's surface is small relative to charging needs. Both have fundamental limits (insolation and aerodynamics) that aren't …

I don't think Musk understands Musk.

I don't remember this much pain, but I was about 10 years old when I learned. On the other hand I've been learning guitar late in life and am wondering how much easier that would b…

I learned Morse code almost 50 years ago. I distinctly remember how learning progressed through stages - hear di-dah (sound), think dot-dash (printed symbols), in the table that's …

barbaric is society which has 1% of its adult population living behind bars

> warranty assumes constant unchanging weather conditions What on earth are you talking about?

LOL, 25 years ago my neighbors and I were setting off fireworks over a yet-undeveloped part of our neighborhood. We saw police pull into the neighborhood. My family were the coward…

I don't agree. I think it's a choice that each area has made between law enforcement and local governance. Regarding the St. Louis area, it really depends on which jurisdiction you…