Economics: When there is no scarcity
The reality of life today is that life is actually quite good - compared to the past. (Poverty is at a global low point, for example. Literacy is at a…
Space: SpaceX, OneWeb and Amazon may be ruining night sky
SpaceX may launch 30,000 more low altitude satellites added to the 12,000 it already plans to launch. OneWeb is launching 900 satellites and Amazon is planning over 3,000 satellites. There…
Energy: Utilities experiment with automatically adjusting your thermostat to throttle demand
Utility companies want to be able to make the demand go up and down just as much as the supply fluctuates. Source: How utility companies lower electricity use by controlling…
Transportation: Apparently EPA range figures for EVs are useless, suggests Car & Driver
The vast difference in EPA figures didn’t amount to much in the real world. … When the Porsche Taycan‘s first EPA range figure exposed itself to the public, the outcry…
Transportation: Tesla deletes car features via software update, after cars are sold, used
Should Tesla be allowed to remove features from a vehicle that’s bought secondhand? Source: Tesla yanks Autopilot features from used car because ‘they weren’t paid for’ | ZDNet This is…
Transportation: Congress proposing an annual Federal tax on electric vehicles
Source: Congress could make EV drivers pay – POLITICO My state, Oregon, introduced state fees for fuel efficient vehicles, beginning January 1, 2020. These fees are added to existing annual…