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Did you find out how much fluorine is in your battery? Tiny amount. Would you ban toothpaste too?

If the Arctic conveyor belt (MOC) stops in the next 25 years then the uk could be up to 5 Celsius colder. The chance of that happening is tiny though.

Matured technology TVs, PCs and laptops don't set fire to your homes, chargers and air fryers aren't as safe. See 122 battery chargers, 103% increase, 305 fryers, 30% increase.

I tentatively agree with you but there is a fundamental difference in maturity of the products.we don't expect our wiring to burst into flames even if we accidentally drill into it. I have highlighted many times the risks of battery fires. The root of the problem is in the immature technology...

It will take a generation to eliminate battery fires.

Sam Evan youtuber electric viking. He does a lot of videos about solar, batteries and evs. I watch hundreds of his videos.

In a generation, storage capacity will be 500-1000 times the current capacity.

It's a bit of hysteria there. LFP batteries contain some fluorite but the amount of HF released is not particularly large in comparison to all the other substances in the smokes and flames. Large fires are dangerous but do you know how many people got hurt in that fire? Most people around the...

Batteries are still too expensive at the moment but even so, 9.4 GW of new capacity have been installed in the USA in 2024, 71GW worldwide. It is expected that battery price will continue to drop 10% a year, new installations double every year. In a generation, the grid will be pan-european...

there are a lot of robots on show at CES 2025 this week. It won't be long before they can do jobs like clearing fallen trees or at least assist emergency workers.

Today's the fifth anniversary of brexit. A recent opinion poll indicates that 30% would still vote for brexit if another referendum were called.

At the rate we are replacing gas power stations with solar and wind, the problem with burning fossil fuel will be gone in a generation. Over population will be the problem of the day because automation driven by ai will make 9/10 of us more or less redundant.

Trump seems to blame air traffic controller for the accident.

Statistics on Lithium battery fires in China indicate that most fires are from ternary or NMC batteries. from what I understand, the problem often occurs at the negative electrode. Those batteries have their cathode made with Nickel, Manganese, Cobalt Oxides + liquid electrolyte. Poor uniformity...

there are provisions for electric motorbikes. The problem is importers don't want to pay for type approval unless the number is big enough. I have imported an electric motorbike in 2012 and went through the same commercial thinking.

I am not sure about that. The conspiracist in me says that somebody profited from a panic selling of overvalued AI companies' stock. All the big players in AI: Open AI, Anthropic, Palantir, Microsoft, Tesla, and AI hardware related Nvidia, AMD, SMCI are all vastly overvalued to the tune of...

I... Daft idea. They should have added carbon footprint of the factory and its workers to the 25 gallons that they produced each day. It looks like a fund raising excercise. I can plant a tree a day to generate more carbon reversion than what that factory does.

Stupid idea. Refuse collection is what people need the councils for. In France, bin men come everyday except weekends.

The digits has 128gb of very fast ddr5 and a unified memory interface. Apple M1, AMD APUs have similar arrangement. They don't need separate vram. The Digits can handle 200B models and run the full NVIDIA software stack. NVIDIA Puts Grace Blackwell on Every Desk and at Every AI Developer’s...

Nvidia stock dropped 13% this morning. All because of Chinese DeepSeek R1 that was developped on a tiny budget of just $5.58 millions, beating Open AI o1 which reportedly cost 20 times to train. The technique is reinforced learning. You give the AI a test and the result. The AI will try to...