He seems like a person that would go to great lengths to avoid politics, but he can’t be any worse than any of the existing options.

I mean, what else can we do?

Those carriers are amphibious, they land on water. Presumably they want to be able to operate on the surface as well.

Having the aft runway aiming directly at the forward portside lift fan doesn’t seem smart.

I’m not even in the same hemisphere as the US, I’ll be watching with a mixture of fascination and horror.

Good luck though!

Cool pepe.

This place is going to be wall to wall moaning for the next week, isn’t it?

It definitely is.

It has a particular smell that doesn’t come out of fabric easily, either.

You get a water hammer when you shut off the flow, not when you open it.

Why does Mary have a full face of makeup and look a rough early forties?

That’s ideal conditions, so very few people would actually see that. If you don’t have somewhere to charge, you can typically charge up at somewhere like a supermarket.

That’s to test the incoming main, the actual grid on the floor doesn’t get flushed. There’s a lot of dead end pipes that can’t be flushed.

I’ll believe that when I see it.

Yes. A combination of rust, thread cutting oil, and water that has been in the pipes often since the system was filled. It smells, it will stain anything it touches, and it’s a smell that’s difficult to remove.

15 miles a day under ideal conditions isn’t really a significant amount, most EVs could run for multiple weeks without being charged under those conditions.

There’s also things like Sentinel mode on Teslas that use power.

My main gripe is people think a solar car will never need to be charged, or only on trips, and that’s just not the case.

This happens with fire sprinklers a lot, one sprinkler goes off, and triggers the rest of the floor, or sometimes even building.

That’s not how it works. Each sprinkler has it’s own trigger mechanism, the glass bulb, and cannot trigger another sprinkler.

There are systems where this happens, but the sprinkler heads look very different, and you won’t find them in an office building.

There’s something that people really fail to grasp with solar, and that’s the fact there is bugger all energy in the sun, and you need a huge surface area to get any meaningful energy.

A home solar array often takes up a significant chunk of the roof area, and the amount of surface area a car typically has means that even perfectly efficient solar panels wouldn’t collect enough energy to significantly contribute to the vehicle’s range.

There’s a good reason why vehicle manufacturers don’t bother adding them.

I tend to run vehicles until they die as well, but that’s mostly because kayaks and mountain bikes are far more interesting.

It’s disturbing how much the global economy depends on us buying shit we don’t need.