Hot take: tire particulates are a conservative anti-EV talking point. “My V8 mustang weighs less than an EV, therefore its better on pollution than a EV because tire particulates”. Totally disregarding the impact of tailpipe emissions.

aw, he may be a genocide loving nazi, but at least its from the heart. won’t someone give him some money?

Seems to me mainly of interest to devs who want to prep for a future generation of risc-v chips.

Its kind of insane that EV manufacturers are making battery packs out of a lot of individual cells, rather than one integrated unit like this.

There’s the thinkpad x13s. But its pretty slow. Should be snapdragon elite laptops coming out this year tho.

Its longer than you think!

I might consider one used, for 1/3 or less the price of new. But would be holding my nose for sure. And not enthused about driving a phone with wheels, but there’s hardly an EV out there that isn’t.

I don’t really know what the state of the art in 3D scanners is, but my guess is you’d get a cleaner STL file (less complex, less weird artifacts of scanning) from making the design yourself in a CAD program.

another key I can map to something useful in linux!

Trucking in ballast would work for the case where roads exist, but aren’t appropriate for a 100+ meter turbine blade. If no roads exist, you’d be stuck filling sandbags on site, pumping in water, or maybe shipping back felled trees or boulders. A hassle but not impossible. Worth it?

Where huge turbine blades will come into their own (if they do) initially is in ocean based turbines. They can be manufactured at a port and go directly to a ship without navigating roads, so they won’t be limited by overpass height and so forth. If the large turbines are that much of an advantage, it should become apparent as sea installations evolve.

To me a main use case is transporting windmill turbine blades. Blade size is currently limited by rail and truck capacity, but with an airship transport you don’t have to fit the blade through tunnels and around corners.

Love it

Its a continuing mystery to me why people want these vehicle-integrated tents. If you want to go into town for a burrito, you have to break down your camp. If parking is only by the road that’s where you sleep. If parking isn’t level you aren’t sleeping level. Your tent is exposed to road dirt and water all the time. They are way more expensive than a regular tent. They are locked in to one vehicle. They make your gas mileage worse. They are hard to install and remove.

If you could have HVAC in the tent then ok. But sounds like that isn’t a thing here either.

If you’re at a campsite with hookups you don’t need to use battery for HVAC.

Lesson learned: don’t name your surveillance tool EvilFaceRecognition.exe

superconducting below 10K or -263C. a record but by no means room temperature.