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What people get wrong about EVs

Darcy Hitchcock

While the adoption of electric vehicles is increasing, some people, even those who want to get one, are held back. They say they can’t find one that meets their needs. But people often overestimate what they need their next car to do.

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Herzberz and his colleagues conducted their study, published last week in the journal Nature Energy, by contacting almost 900 people split roughly evenly between Germany and the U.S. about their perception of EVs. They asked each person how often they make trips of different distances, and then asked them how much mileage they thought they’d need from an EV battery to complete each task. The researchers found that respondents significantly underestimated – by as much as 30 percent – how many of their daily tasks an EV could support.

Respondents significantly underestimated – by as much as 30 percent – how…

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A Few Thoughts From My Rambling Mind

Filosofa's Word

I never thought I would see the day that I considered this nation to be anti-humanitarian, a nation that cares more for wealth than for people, but today I believe we have reached that stage in the development … or rather un-development … of the country.  We can no longer hold our heads up proudly and say, “I am a U.S. citizen”, or as some would say, “I am an American.”  Nothing to take pride in there, thanks largely to fanaticism – gun fanatics, religious fanatics, and wealth fanatics for whom billions of dollars is still not enough.

Literally the only thing that matters to Republican members of Congress today is re-election.  When I read that Republicans running for re-election in states or districts where the majority voted for Democrats in 2020 refuse to comment on the outcome of the Dobbs v Jackson decision, then I think…

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♫ You’ll Think Of Me ♫

Filosofa's Word

For some reason, this song flew onto my radar last night and I was surprised to find that I had never played it here on Filosofa’s Word before.  I’m not a fan of country music, with a few exceptions, but this song is what they call a ‘crossover’ song, having charted in three catagories:  #1 Country, #2 Adult Contemporary, and #6 Adult Top 40.

Written by Darrell Brown, Dennis Matkosky and Ty Lacy, the song grew out of Lacy’s emotions surrounding a recent breakup.  According to SongFacts …

Matkosky said the original demo (sung by Ty Lacy) sounded almost like a Peter Gabriel song. When Darrell Brown brought the song to Urban, he didn’t actually play him the demo but showed him the chords and the feel, which ultimately helped the singer make it his own. “That was an anomaly of usually how it happens,” Matkosky told Songcraft. “I mean…

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Türkiye unblocks way towards Finnish and Swedish Nato membership – The Sofia Globe

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of Türkiye – the new official name of Turkey, President Sauli Niinistö of Finland and Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson of Sweden met in Madrid on June 28, agreeing on a deal paving the way for Finland and Sweden’s Nato membership, the Alliance said in a statement.

The memorandum was signed by the foreign ministers of the three countries – Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu of Türkiye, Pekka Haavisto of Finland, and Ann Linde of Sweden – in the presence of all three national leaders, and Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

Stoltenberg said: “I strongly welcome the signing of this trilateral memorandum, and I strongly welcome the constructive approach all three countries have shown during the negotiations.

 

Source: Türkiye unblocks way towards Finnish and Swedish Nato membership – The Sofia Globe

Treespiracy: Forests are being destroyed against a background of corruption, illegality and apathy — Palm Oil Detectives

The world’s forests are being destroyed against a background of corruption, illegality and apathy. This article was originally published in The Ecologist magazine, 28th March, 2022 A complex web of financial instruments allowing crime, corruption and wrong-doing, hidden behind shell corporations and offshore companies was exposed with the release of the Panama Papers.  This shadow network […]

Treespiracy: Forests are being destroyed against a background of corruption, illegality and apathy — Palm Oil Detectives

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Tras la lluvia, salgo, feliz y agradecido, al bosque, a la montaña, al parque con sus calzadas, a los rincones y a las calles, con la intención de admirar el cielo nublado, las frondas de los árboles y los troncos humedecidos, la corriente ondulada del río, las rocas, los helechos y la tierra ennegrecida, para así dar lectura a la naturaleza, a la vida que palpita en mí y en cada expresión. Estoy acostumbrado a escribir y a leer documentos y libros, y soy, por lo mismo, artista de las letras con aroma a papel y a tinta; pero me encanta andar descalzo y hundir los pies en el fondo arenoso de los riachuelos, en el barro, hasta sentir el pulso de la creación que, milagrosamente, se conecta a mi ser. Interpreto los mensajes de la vida en cada…

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