Southwestern USA had drought periods lasting hundreds of years in recent history. That's normal for the region. And we think we should pack a few tens of million people there and treating ground water as infinitely renewable.
Solar power + desalination en masse or gtfo ...
Well I mean murdering someone breaks the very definition of libertarianism so you can be very sure they're just using that moniker because it fits whatever they're really trying to accomplish.
the maximum freedom for each individual to follow his own ways, his own values, as long as he doesn't interfere with anybody else who's doing the same.
https://www.hoover.org/research/take-it-limits-milton-friedman-libertarianism
But you're absolutely right that a lot of people who are today clearly cheering for fascists used to call themselves libertarians.
Oh nobody's denying that there aren't academics who easily fall for Russian propaganda. I mean, even Carl Sagan fell for the one where all this started.
That doesn't change that we now know better.
https://www.quora.com/Are-the-studies-on-nuclear-winter-false-and-are-all-a-lie
Today's nuclear arsenals won't kill billions. Russia is behind that propaganda.
Yeah, the new platform is way better - one of the reasons we held on to the Tesla until the ID.7 was available.
Ahh then I might know where it comes from. People who use Tesla's Sentry mode don't realize that it uses up several percent per night. Now, it does turn off automatically when the battery is at 20% but I know people who parked at an airport and didn't have charge enough to get home when they got back because of this.
I haven't owned it through winter (no ID.7 owner has tbh) but I don't expect that to be an issue. It will only heat the battery if you schedule departure times.
I've noticed no battery drain with the car parked otherwise.
I have a VW ID.7 and it does - but I also believe that's the first model on their "new platform".
Which EV do you have where this is an issue? The ones I've had pre-heat the battery to optimal charging temperatures.
Harder to start? That sounds extremely weird - it's electric :D I've never had such issues (Sweden, on my second EV) while ignition when really cold has always been problematic with my gas/diesel cars.
Range goes down, yes. That's true also for gas/diesel cars, but when the range is good enough we tend not to notice/care. My previous EV (Tesla Model 3 SR+) had lousy range both summer and winter (Tesla lies about their range) but in the winter it was indeed painful.
The current one (VW ID.7) has about double the range and also performs as stated. I expect a 20% drop in range in the winter and that's just fine.
It's no different in Sweden. While I'm on my second EV and will never go back I can't motivate it for people who live in apartments. To be able to use an EV effectively you absolutely have to have your own charger to connect it to while home, and very few apartments have that possibility.
Norway has way more incentives compared to us, which is somewhat unusual between us Nordic countries.
Very well. It's much more enjoyable to own an electric vehicle in colder climates than a gas/diesel powered one actually, since you can let it heat up and defrost completely before going anywhere.
https://www.caranddriver.com/features/a60344222/does-an-ev-work-as-well-in-cold-weather/
"just some researcher"
Maybe try clicking those multiple links?
Citations here: https://fedia.io/m/science@lemmy.ml/t/1198057/-/comment/7297539
I post under my real name. You?
https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/citations/ADA165794
Sad to see that study having gone through peer review in Nature. The type of nuclear weapons that are in the current arsenals aren't bringing up soot into the atmosphere. That's the propaganda from the 60s and 70s speaking.
"Who are you to ... "
Agree, so read the study and see that it isn't based on the actual arsenals.
Also: "In the 1980s, there were investigations of nuclear winter impacts on global agricultural production"
That's proven and quite famous russian propaganda. Including that in their study has me doubting their motivations.
I mean anyone can call anyone anything. It won't make more sense though.
Yeah, it's awesome for the society and leads to increased health, happiness and workers who enjoy working for their employer.
/Swede
Our transmission capacity is enough for our own needs (since the danes forced us to close the perfectly working nuclear plant Barsebäck) - but it's not enough for our needs and Germany's.
I'm very much pro EU but I do have issues with a huge part of Sweden having 10x the electricity prices of the rest of the country. It hits our manufacturing, farmers etc. I would be in favor of limiting our export to just our surplus. Germany could've skipped closing down their own fully working nuclear plants ...
(Sweden and Norway are also the ones to thank for Denmark being able to live mostly off wind power since it's our hydro and nuclear power that they use to balance their network)
I own a rather large property so I've had to become "an expert" on our electricity issues.
From the paywalled article:
I stället måste vi tidvis exportera el under dygnets mörka timmar till elbristens Tyskland. Därför blir strömmen 10-20 gånger dyrare i Skåne än i Norrland, Stockholm och Göteborg. Därför är det omöjligt att skapa en prisutjämning inom Sverige.