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Thank you for all these articles Dok Z. I mean it bc when information comes from other places, who knows? Speaking as a wonketeer.

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To people who say that EVs are bad I say: "Yes they are, but since the alternatives are walking, cycling, and public transit, ; you're going to have to accept that some of them will be needed, especially in the short term.

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Public transit needs to be electrified, too.

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It already is in many places, and has been for decades. Buses are a bit harder and might actually require tech from this millenium, but light and heavy rail has no excuse to still have combustion engines. Still, if power generation isn't green yet, it isn't urgent except to send a signal.

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Growing up in San Francisco, the streetcars, cable cars and about half the busses were electric, but not battery. We know how, just need the will. We'll get there, probably not in my lifetime though.

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2024: The year I get rooftop solar!

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You're above the 48th Parallel, aren't you? I'll be interested to see how well it works for you. I've got a small array, 4Kwh, that has more than met my needs but I haven't switched over to electric heat yet. It might not be sufficient for that.

Anyway, congrats!

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We're going heat pump with electric backup. I am confident it'll do the job!

I'm sure I'll be posting updates!

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EVs are still in the Model T stage of evolution. The advantage we have is technological evolution is sped up by a factor of probably 100 since 1910.

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I feel that my entire New Year's Eve suggested list from Google now is all about trains and Minnesota agriculture. Life is good!

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Ta, Dok. We're all on the same side. Our mountain aerie is blessed with abundant water and we're going to raise some of our food in 2024. The composter is already hard at work. Neither of us had children, and we're vegan, so we're already living more lightly on earth than many of our fellow Americans. I wish you, Kid Zoom, and Thornton a happy and healthy 2024.

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It's already 2024 in Europe, and according to my relatives 2024 is already shit.

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It's 2024 here, and, so far, no one's tried to shit on me. Good year as far as I'm concerned.

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I'm, likewise, on Team Hope with regards to climate change. Because I feel it is necessary. But also because of developments mentioned in the article. I think every step forward will have a compounding effect at collecting momentum and that snowball rolling down the hill will turn into a giant snow boulder and crush James Inhofe with a resounding, "Fuck You!" wherever he may be hiding.

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That snowball is money. The only good thing we can say about late-stage capitalism, when it smells money, it throws all ideologies out the window.

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Yeah.

That's the absolute crux of it. I literally cried watching that press conference where Biden announced the Ford F-150 Lightning, because that felt like he was sending a signal saying, "Hey, losers! Didja know you can make lotsa money from fixing the climate?"

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The non-existence of global warming is, somehow, part of the right-wing nutjob catechism. It fits hand-in-glove with American anti-intellectualism. These folks are often grossly overrepresented in online fora, as most of all y'all know.

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The #1 selling cars in Europe last year were EV's made by Chinese car companies.

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