It's a grand idea, but it seems it will increase the cost if housing a lot, which is a major issue young people are struggling with.

I think you need to name and shame.

> versus flat screen television built at the height of human technological development, lasts 5.

I wish it lasted 5 years, since then I would have a reason to replace it, but we know that is not really the case, is it. Flat screen TVs last ages.

We should be grateful to the right to repair lobby. Their message is getting through to legislators around the world.

> This doesn't apply to the vast majority of things we use ether.

I would like to examine that idea. Which products do you believe there is a planned obsolescence conspiracy with?

Sounds like a pressure group and public shaming needs to start, especially because leaks can be externally and independently verified by satellite.

The good thing is that we are seeing some response to years of campaigning e.g. less soldered RAM for example.

> safety is a really stupid thing to complain about

I'm not complaining, I am explaining why things change over time, and why old things become obsolete, and not due to a conspiracy by company employees.

For example - current thinking is that anytime you hit your head while wearing a safety helmet (e.g. from a bike or motorbike) you should replace the helmet, as it's designed to collapse and withstand only one blow.

Is that a conspiracy or due to increased safety expectations?

It's easy to criticise from the outside, but if you think about where you work, does it work like that?

In my place of work costs go up because of increasing safety requirements, expectations and standards. What about yours?

Products with built-in obsolescence.

How those products can be changed.

Can you give us some concrete examples so we can have a better discussion about value, pros and cons?

Mercedes's system is really bad - it just follows the car in front, and if there is not a car in front it wont activate.

They seem to be writing as if AGI is quite close, despite their earlier statements.

Pretty close to LFP batteries, but faster charging and more resistant to low temperature. Cheaper of course. Not sure about recharge cycles- likely less.

Battery maker Hina Battery today unveiled three sodium-ion battery cell products and announced a partnership with Anhui Jianghuai Automobile Group Corp (JAC), which has made one of its models the first to carry sodium-ion batteries.

The unveiling of the Sehol E10X test vehicle means that sodium-ion batteries are starting to be used in passenger cars, after the new batteries were mainly used in electric two-wheelers and for energy storage.

The test vehicle has a battery pack with a capacity of 25 kWh and an energy density of 120 Wh/kg. The model has a range of 252 km and supports fast charging of 3C to 4C. The battery pack uses cells with an energy density of 140 Wh/kg.

The Sehol E10X is currently available in seven versions with a guide price range of RMB 46,900 ($6,810) to RMB 76,400.

In addition to the announcement of the sodium-ion battery-equipped test vehicle, Hina Battery today officially launched three sodium-ion battery cells.

These three types of cells are NaCR32140-ME12 cylindrical cell, NaCP50160118-ME80 square cell and NaCP73174207-ME240 square cell, with energy densities of 140 Wh/kg, 145 Wh/kg and 155 Wh/kg respectively. (Early LFP batteries had energy densities of around 160 Wh/kg).

According to Li Shujun, general manager of Hina Battery, the company's sodium-ion batteries are geared to mainstream market demand and have the advantages of long life, wide temperature range and high power, and are ready for mass production.

The company is advancing cooperation with a number of leading companies, and these sodium-ion battery products will be widely used in two-wheelers, passenger cars, commercial vehicles, home and commercial and industrial energy storage, and large-scale energy storage, he said.

But worldwide evs were 10% in 2022, so that early adopter bell curve is going to get smashed real soon now. USA is just behind.

It's confirmed, the only question is when (which if course could be years with Tesla):

> During the 2022 Q3 financial report, Elon Musk confirmed that Tesla has begun developing a smaller, cheaper EV that could be an alternative to the Volkswagen ID3 and Cupra Born.

> He said: “We’ve done the engineering for Cybertruck and Semi, so you can guess what we’re working on which is the next generation vehicle which will be about half the cost of the Model 3 and Y.

> “It will be smaller to be fair, but I think it will shortly exceed production of all our other vehicles combined.”

https://www.carwow.co.uk/tesla/news/5220/new-tesla-ev-compact-electric-car-hatchback-price-specs-release-date

Assuredly -ve, like most EVs which are not Tesla and BYD. Every Mach-E also has -ve profit margins.

But that is not really relevant to consumers. The main thing is if the company will still be around to honour their warranty in 8 years.

The Bolt EV is $25600 lol, and has a Li Ion battery which lasts 15 years.

Get with the times old man.

Its obviously the application and implication (faster WT production) rather than the technology.

I personally believe any responsive system is conscious to a degree, reflected by their ability to sense, compute and respond. The more complex and rich that space is, the more conscious the system is.

For example a light switch is conscious of its state, on and off, while the tokyo subway station is not as conscious as a cell, as it has fewer inputs, fewer actions and fewer responses, but a lot more conscious than the light switch.

So being able perceive and respond intelligently to internal and external changes?

The first commercial spiral-welded 89-meter wind turbine tower has begun operation, built by GE Renewable Energy and wind turbine producer Keystone Tower Systems.

Spiral welding is when the steel used to make the tower is curled into a cylinder; essentially, these towers are built from meters-wide steel plates. The technique requires only one machine to construct a tower section, and it can produce towers up to twice as tall and 10 times faster than conventional towers.

The manufacturing process uses coil steel – flat-rolled steel that’s been coiled up into a roll or coil shape and allows tapered towers with variable wall thickness to be manufactured from constant width sheets of steel.

The manufacturing equipment completes the joining, rolling, fit-up, welding, and severing of a tower section – and that results in the continuous production of steel tower shells:

Keystone says it can make the lightest, lowest-cost, and most structurally optimized towers in the wind turbine industry.

Keystone is also developing mobile factories capable of building taller towers directly at wind sites.

Production is now being ramped up of spiral-welded towers, with additional deliveries targeted for the first quarter of 2023. They’ll make more towers for the GE 2.8-127 turbine, and they can be used interchangeably with GE’s conventional 89-meter-tall tower. The spiral tower has received a component certification from TÜV NORD for a 40-year lifetime.

See a video about the process here.

https://youtu.be/ufu8f1PWYzE

Building towers 10x faster, cheaper and onsite should mean a much-increased onshore wind turbine installation capacity, speeding the transition to renewable energy.

Sure, NP, and you are partially right also lol. It may cost closer to $80,000 to have your own ChatGPT instance.

https://twitter.com/tomgoldsteincs/status/1600196988703690752

But then that sounds like a business opportunity lol.

That's not what I said lol. I said its manageable on hardware a consumer can buy.