The problem is we have apple hoarders with deep pockets who are willing to pay just as much for those 1000 apples as those 10, because if they don’t prop up the price, then the value of the other 100,000 apples they’ve hoarded will all fall as well. In order to seriously affect the price, we need to produce so many apples that buying them at current prices would bankrupt the apple hoarders
I’ve found a couple plugs “upgraded” to 3-prong by jumping the load and ground together. That made for a fun firework show when my metal fan touched something metal. Even the landlord was impressed by that stupidity.
Ah, the good old reverse polarity bootleg ground.
Fun fact: RPBG is the one fault that those plug-in outlet testers can’t recognize
Edit: Wait, no, that would be hot bootleg ground, they should catch that. RPBG has the hot and neutral switched, and also a bootleg ground to the neutral that’s actually hot
I’m mostly in agreement, and would prefer worker-owned co-ops over crown corporations in theory, my only issue is one of scale, and that’s unfortunately where a crown corp wins out, unless UFCW starts opening union co-ops across the country to compete with Loblaws.
Which they should, but UFCW doesn’t have the guts to try
I do quite like co-ops, but I was thinking a crown corporation, just because that way they’d have the scale to seriously threaten Loblaws and the like.
Of course, the problem with crown corporations is that as soon as the Conservatives get into power, they’ll sell it for pennies (and probably to Loblaws)
Those are all serious concerns, and I expect PHEV vehicle design to change over the next few years (my only concern is how many “few” is).
The more sensible design if you’re are going for ‘ICE as backup’, not ‘electric as efficiency improvement on top of ICE’ is a typical electric ‘drivetrain’ and battery, with a generator, more similar to diesel-electric trains. A switch to diesel in general wouldn’t be a bad idea either, but the north american market would be resistant.
Depending on how gas prices and the EV market go, I wouldn’t be surprised if drop-in engine replacements for converting ICE vehicles to hybrid become easily available in the next 5-10 years either, especially on larger vehicles.
It’ll still be a typical ICE transmission, which will still be less efficient, but you can run the engine at the ideal RPM all the time which helps make up for that. Where to put enough battery to be worthwhile is problematic, but the vehicles that would benefit most tend to have vestigial truck beds, so there is that
The best book is either Consider Phebas by Iain Banks, or Fine Structure by Sam Hughes.
Oh, you meant programming books. Maybe still try Sam Hughes, it’ll probably be more blog post than book, though
Edit: You might also like Ra by Sam Hughes; it’s magic as a field of science/engineering, and spells have programming-like syntax. Spoiler: ‘magic’ is not actually magic