I was hoping for a new season of Rick and Morty.

Never post your resume or sign up for LinkedIn in the course of a job search? Never use a dating site? Never buy a domain? Never pay property taxes? Never go to court? I see your point, but never revealing your info online isn’t realistic or even a choice for most people.

No.

Okay, but this application only requires 1.9MWh on board. That would be about 57kg of hydrogen. The required capacity would actually be less since the hydrogen refuel time should be significantly less than recharging a battery. Anyway, I just doubt very much that 11,900kg storage vessels and fuel cell would be required. There’s simply less dead weight in a hydrogen vehicle as well as better performance and less externalities associated with battery production and disposal/recycling.

As for the efficiency of hydrogen production and delivery, it shouldn’t matter. We need to produce it anyway for emissions free steel and fertilizer production. The real problem is that we don’t have enough emissions free energy production, which isn’t one that battery vehicles or storage facilities solve. The current paradigm is one of deficit in order to create a market and I think battery storage unfortunately facilitates that. Instead, we need to build out capacity so that there’s almost always a surplus of electricity with the extra getting diverted to hydrogen production. It should be rare that the process is reversed to turn hydrogen back into electricity for the grid. That hydrogen is currently too expensive is the result of bad policy, which BEVs just reinforce.

Lol wow.

Locking my account helped me cut down my Twitter usage a lot by making it pointless to reply in most cases.

Is there any relationship to the real guy or do they just use his name?

Apparently the only socialist parties on the ballot are Socialism and Liberation, Socialist Equality, and Socialist Workers Party. The others are just specific to those candidates and don’t seem like real parties. The ballot is a little bit confusing because those candidates were on the same rows as candidates from the socialist parties, leading me to incorrectly assume that they were affiliated.

Thank you, this is really helpful!

Also, I appreciate the concern. I already posted a photo of my house to a gardening community a little while back and found out one of my neighbors is on here. It’s all good.

What’s AES?

This question probably deserves its own thread, but why do the Trotskyists have a bad rap? Whenever I hear them mentioned on a podcast (these might include The Antifada, Delete Your Account, Well There’s Your Problem, or Chapo Trap House) it’s always accompanied with an almost audible eye roll. Are there major critiques against the Trotskyists that they just can’t address or is it just me and maybe I need to broaden my perspective a little bit?

I meant apart from the hydrogen fuel costs. It’s not obvious to me why the labor and maintenance costs of hydrogen powered mining vehicles wouldn’t be greater than that of the battery powered versions and the attendant charging/battery swapping equipment.

Why would the operating costs be higher?

Ah you’re right. Assuming an energy density of 160 Wh/kg that’s still almost 12,000kg. That much hydrogen contains about 400MWh.

A 240 tonne battery? That’s almost 240 tonnes less payload. They should make one that runs on hydrogen or ammonia.

I’m not saying that talent, preference, or experience aren’t real or that people won’t naturally focus their efforts on certain activities. I’m saying that people shouldn’t have to effectively blackmailed into certain activities, whether they align with their preferences or not. I like being a mechanical engineer. I do not like that I have to do it for forty plus hours a week, 49 weeks out of the year. Getting rid of occupations means that I would not be penalized if I decided to cut back on engineering and devote some real time to things that actually matter to me, my family, and my neighbors.

A tenuous argument could be made that Israel and the US are the same country. Is that what you are getting at?

For most people, having an occupation means giving up roughly half of your waking hours, as well as a toll on your body and mind, to the minority class that happens to own the things needed to do this occupation in exchange for wages. These wages are required to buy the necessities for the rest of your life from this same minority class. Getting rid of occupations means ending this relationship so that we no longer have to support the exorbitant lifestyles and cruel whims of this minority class. It means putting us in control of the value we create with our labor and not wasting it on the likes of telemarketing, car dealing, or denying health insurance claims.

Yeah, but who cares about the camel? How are you going to move all this straw now?