The dementia stat is what makes me want to say that this is likely bad methodology - I think this is just saying people in nursing homes are to a large degree vaccinated
Yep, a retard thinking that you cant run a trickle charger and a block heater at the same time. Quality is the result of work efforts divided by total costs, my system works (fulfills the goal of getting you a car that starts in the morning) and has minimal total costs. Your system is mindless bitching, which doesnt result in any result of work efforts at extreme costs. I get more quality outcomes, which is why I make more money than you do.
Ah yes, insulting garage mechanics during a discussion about garage mechanics, and focusing on your experience with electronics design. Because that is what is relevant here. You dont even need electronics to do what I said.
Thermal runaway is from getting too hot, not preventing them from freezing. This is pretty damn simple. Like I said, over intellectual. Seriously, you think no one runs a block heater and a trickle charger at the same time? Yes, you can apply heat, cause an exothermic reaction, increase a reaction rate, create more heat, and get a runaway... not from a lithium battery being kept at a minimum of 40 degrees though. The battery doesnt know that you are heating it, it just knows it is at a given temperature. And that shit doesnt happen at 40 degrees.
Now, how exactly do you think I am inflating my opinion regarding vehicles? Because all I said is that you can keep shit from freezing while also charging a battery, which isnt that hard of a thing to do. I also view vehicles in general as disposable - I still have a 93 Dodge Ram at the bottom of a river in South Dakota from when I punched a crane operator. Hell I ripped a tailgate off my project truck this morning. Yeah, I break shit, I make money in the process, then go back to breaking shit at a slower rate than what it makes me money.
In wind chill, it can be more complicated than just evaporative cooling of human skin. Other surfaces also can be cooled by wind. ANY wind will carry off higher-energy air molecules from a surface regardless of whether there can be water-based evaporative coolin
No. A car left out in the cold without a heater will be damn near ambient regardless. Wind chill doesnt matter because it wont go below the actual temperature. 0 degrees with -20 wind chill vs 0 degrees with 0 wind chill has damn near zero effect on the car as both cars will be a red cunt hair away from 0.
No, you don't understand thermal runaway. It's complicated. By the time you detect that something is nearing too hot, it can be too late to correct
They don't need to detect nearly too hot, they need to prevent too cold. Prevent the battery from getting below 40 degrees for instance. If battery below 40, heat battery slowly until battery is 40. It isn't trying to keep it at an ideal 80
It isn't a heater to maintain ideal conditions it is a heater to prevent the worst damage. The worst damage is on the opposite end of the spectrum from the issues you are talking about. I am an engineer too, I have just also used a barbecue to make sure a semi starts. You are the embodiment of why I despise all engineers that are under 50. Your over intellectual idiots that do not understand process variation under real world conditions
Race cars are ok paying 40 dollars a gallon for fuel.
The lithium chemistry is sensitive to thermal runaway when charging, so the dynamics of a heated system would make charging at cold night somewhat complicate
...a thermostat is a fucking simple invention, it exists in every fridge you own
Lithium mining is salt flat mining, there isnt an environment to destroy
hink how much power is lost in transmission
5-10%.
Coal distribution would be far more inefficient, as would the loss of efficiency by more compact design.
Damn right, we can get 32 tons of the stuff out of the ground per man hour in my state. Highly efficient, very safe, American energy
That wire is being built in conjunction with a wind farm, because Wyoming has a lot of wind. Which is why I nearly died after a 26ft box truck I was driving got flipped on I-80 during a windstorm
Let's see how good the batteries hold up to wind chill of -20.
Wind chill and heat index does not matter for vehicles, the actual temp matters. They arent having to deal with water making a phase change for temperature control, unlike humans.
Unlike gas cars for which one can plug in electric block heaters, batteries all lose charge because of electrochemical sensitivity to cold.
...why the fuck do you think you cant have a battery heater?
And garaging happens because crackheads steal copper, so you keep your home charger in your garage. Not that big of a deal because a garage is cheap to build here.
Natural gas is practical, ethanol likes water and water destroys engines.
EVs not suitable for Wyoming winters.
We have the shortest average commute of any state in the country. Our towns get pretty dense, then nothing
Yeah, dont drive down I-80 during a blizzard... doesnt mean that a EV for Laramie or Cody or Sheridan, or even Gillette/Casper as a commuter car isnt practical. The only reason an electric bike isnt practical is due to the cold, but there are enough people with DUIs that make it a thing anyways.
We literally power a quarter of the country, to the point that California is trying to solve their energy crisis by building a huge wire from Wyoming to Southern California
2009, that was a while ago.
That is actually amazing land for wind turbines, just not for people. 40mph winds when it is -30 outside...
They actually return their investment within 5 years
Fiberglass - closest you will get to recycling them is shredding them then using as filler in applications such as road base or concrete.
So they just put them in the ground next to a giant lake of petroleum runoff. Because that used to be a refinery from 57-91.
Mostly just showing the absurdity of certain claims regarding renewable energy
Congress is shockingly poor for their age and social status. You would expect a minimum of 3 million net worth's and an average in the 8 million realm for all of the members above 50 (95% of them), not the average of 500k we see.
The US cant ramp up production fast, but when Kazachstan can offer 15 USD an hour for as many hours as you can work, you have a different animal
I think he is telling the truth though