ASML makes equipment for leading edge chips, so later there may be a shortage of those; see this article. But I find it amusing that they’re salvaging trailing edge (older) chips from washing machines to reuse for other purposes. https://www.protocol.com/amp/chip-shortage-washing-machines-2657187274 But this article explains in detail how the chips are made and why they’re having
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Arlin Sansome I understand the “echo chamber” and “silos” that social media users get caught in. But putting all of that aside, the climate change deniers are being paid for by Big Oil. This is exactly the same as big tobacco did to deny for decades that cigarettes cause cancer. There was *no* social media
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Those $5000 (in this case Ford) dealer markups are just fine – they force their prospective customers to vote with their feet and move to buying a Tesla. Just one more nail in the coffin of dealerships – they don’t have many years left before they will be gone. Also, if the dealer doesn’t advertise
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For more than a year during this ‘chip shortage, I’ve constantly heard, Elon Musk should build a chip fab. Build a chip fab! Build a chip Fab! Over and over again. It turns out that the chip shortage is actually a wafer shortage – there are not enough 200 mm (8 inch) wafers to make
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This is the most important thing we must do to secure us against climate change disaster in the future. A Short video.
It also generates electricity from the salt brine. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/04/04/solar-light-is-a-desalinator-salt-battery-all-in-one-with-video/
The WHO says 99% of the global population breathes poor quality air. 7 million people die of preventable diseases caused by air pollution. This has always been a problem in the Los Angeles metro area and Southern California, which still has smog. https://apnews.com/article/science-health-asia-united-nations-environment-dafbedfa74d46297e013a5f47ced010d
The $1.35 (Canadian) per liter is equal to $5.11 (Canadian) a gallon. 20,000 kilometers is about 12,000 miles. https://www.theenergymix.com/2022/03/31/evs-much-cheaper-than-their-gas-equivalents-clean-energy-canada-report-finds/
This article doesn’t make sense! First they said that if renewables AGR stays at least 20% we will meet 1.5 degrees C. Then they said that solar and wind just covered the total growth in 2021!!!! We’re going nowhere! Just treading water! We need to get rid of coal! It’s the worst for pollution and
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The Earth is being threatened by Joe Manchin’s conflict of interest. https://cleantechnica.com/2022/03/31/manchins-coal-conflict-of-interest-is-dangerous-for-the-planet/
