They use coal for what they have not yet been able to replace with solar, wind, hydro, and nuclear because coal is their most abundant, accessible, and cheap domestic fossil fuel.
Exactly the same reason the US uses a huge amount of natural gas for producing electricity: it is their most abundant, accessible, and cheap domestic fossil fuel.
The US was doing a "yes to all" approach, and it still somewhat is due to market forces, but the federal government is trying hard to but the brakes on the solar and wind parts of that, and also trying hard to encourage more fossil fuel use.
> The Biden family received over a million dollars from Chinese state energy company State Energy HK
...at a time when no Biden family member held elected office or was running for elected office and no Biden family member worked for the federal government.
Are you seriously going to compare that to things the Trump family does while Trump is President?!
What about the things Hunter did while Biden was SoS? That's a pretty direct link given Biden pressured Ukraine to fire a prosecutor that was entangled with his son's business dealings.
But when I buy stock it doesn't give money to the company. It gives money to the previous stock holder that I bought the stock from. From the company's perspective all that happened is that a small share of the company has changed ownership.
You probably talking about publicly traded companies: If you buy stock at IPO, direct listing or any other follow-on offering -- it goes directly to the company.
And the price you pay then already accounts for your future ability to resell your stock to anyone else later, stocks would valued way less if you could only sell it back to the company.
But also don't forget that public trading is only one market, there's also a huge market for private companies stocks. Those go directly to the company for its operations.
It's also a meaningless metric because most manufacturers sell multiple models of the same type. Toyota has Corolla, Prius, Camry, Crown, Mirai, Ativ, Century, Belta - all small-mid sized sedans. Add them up and they outsell every Tesla model put together.
BYD has 61 different models in its lineup compared to Tesla's 2.
If you would be using it just locally, as opposed for road trips, note that it has an LFP battery. LFP batteries are perfectly happy to be always charged to 100% and discharged down to 10% (lower is OK but most people want to keep some spare in case they aren't able to charge when they expected to).
Lithium nickel batteries suffer accelerated aging at high charge and at low charge, so it is usually recommended to stay in the 80-20% range, only going to 100% shortly before a road trip.
A Slate with a 200 mile range operated 100-10% would give you 180 miles between charges. That would be the same range as a lithium nickel battery EV with a 300 mile range operated 80-20%.
I only have one car at a time (not married). I frequently visit family that lives about 80 miles away that live in a charger desert. I used to own a Chevy Bolt and it could get me to those family and back on one 100% charge with a little bit for grocery runs etc. while there. Even that I wish had like maybe another 20 miles of range lol.
If you use Fastmail for mail you may also be able to use them for a static blog. The file hosting that is included with a Fastmail account supports serving folders on the web.
Basically you can pick a folder in your file sharing area, map it to your domain or a subdomain of your domain, add an A record at your DNS pointing that to an IP Fastmail provides, and select whether you want it published as a website, a photo gallery, or a redirect to somewhere else.
If you are using your own domain for the website and accept the default of HTTPS Fastmail will deal with getting and deploying a certificate (from Let's Encrypt, I believe).
(BTW, you don't have to have your own domain for this. If you aren't use a custom domain with Fastmail apparently you can still publish static websites from your file hosting space. It will just be on one of the subdomains).
Fastmail accounts also include DNS hosting. If you use them for your DNS then all of this can be managed from the settings in the Fastmail client, which is convenient.
On the other hand, assuming you are in North America or Europe in a typical urban or suburban environment, somewhere around 30-60% of the bird species in your area will be non-native.
At bird feeders the percentage of individual visitors that are non-native is often much higher. The non-natives tend to be more generalist eaters, whereas the native specifies tend to stick more to their native diet which isn't as well served by most feeders.
By drawing in these generalist non-natives feeders tend to actually displace native birds from the surrounding area.
That's why when I was feeding birds I didn't really worry about cats getting into my yard. I couldn't think of a way to make a good argument that the line of how much harm it is OK to do to the native environment for your enjoyment is somewhere between the harm feeding non-native birds does and the harm the neighborhood cats do (especially since I've never seen a cat catch a bird in my yard).
> Remember, no one gave a shit about datacenters until the AI race began
That's because before the AI race began (1) no one was trying to build more data centers in a couple years than had previously been built in the entire history of civilization, and (2) the new data centers are an order of magnitude bigger than pre-AI race data centers.
Also (3) the people involved in those data centers were not also constantly bragging that they would use the data centers to replace everyone's job guy for pennies on the dollar.
> US should also abolish stupid daylight savings, but northern politicians do not want while there is bipartisan agreement to make the savings time permenant.
That bipartisan agreement will evaporate after the first winter on permanent DST and either DST will come back or we'll switch to permanent standard time. That's what usually happens when people try permanent DST.
Saskatchewan has been on permanent DST for a few decades now and no sign of them planning to go back. (They call it standard time, but it is standard for one timezone over, so effectively DST for their geographical location).
It should be noted that is for their E-GMP platform, which is their 800 V system. Their older 400 V platform, used on the Kia Niro and Hyundai Kona, has a completely different ICCU which has not had those problems. The first generation had some coolant leaks in the DC-DC converter housing and sometimes did a bad job keeping the 12 V battery charged but they seem to have got it all worked out for the second generation in 2024.
Exactly the same reason the US uses a huge amount of natural gas for producing electricity: it is their most abundant, accessible, and cheap domestic fossil fuel.
The US was doing a "yes to all" approach, and it still somewhat is due to market forces, but the federal government is trying hard to but the brakes on the solar and wind parts of that, and also trying hard to encourage more fossil fuel use.
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