Devils-Avocado
Joined 6 years ago
Joined 6 years ago
We need to establish the regulatory and user interface standards around this ideally before we start manufacturing tens of millions of EVS each month.
It might make sense to also unbundle electricity for consumers, charging the live wholesale rate and indicating the pricing via apps, alerts, or indicators on the meter itself.
The air pollution problems of Poland could be resolved a year after these were built, for example, by connecting them into and expanding existing district heating systems - meaning no one would need to burn coal or trash in ancient home chimneys.
Sweden, without COVID lockdowns, is on track for fewer deaths in 2020 than 2018.
The country also has a lower COVID deathtoll per capita than Belgium, Italy, USA.
Lockdown is not a solution. Dealing with air pollution (ending the burning of coal and oil) and obesity (banning and taxing added sugar) would yield significantly greater benefits and require much less cost and effort.
There's no need to completely eliminate COVID - we don't aim for the same for regular influenza. We should aim to reopen economies as soon as possible instead.
Translation: don't expect a lot of range from our heavy and aerodynamically inefficient vehicles.
Big Tech will demand cheap labor as payback for their censorship and deplatforming of conservative authors and communities.
But I think the more likely spread of COVID is from mundane surface transmissions. One of the 'mystery' COVID cases in New Zealand was eventually tracked to people touching the same elevator button about an hour apart, for example.
Same here in Europe - everyone is wearing masks, but how many times is the apartment entrance handle touched by people each day?