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this is being done by Nio in China This Chinese EV company swaps batteries instead of waiting for them to charge

New Batteries for Old EVs : 150% more range for a Nissan LEAF | FULLY CHARGED

All vehicles rack up CO2 being built no matter what they are powered by. In addition petrol and diesel fuel racks up CO2 in its extraction, shipping overseas, refining and delivery to service stations. We know the negative effects of burning fuel not just CO2 but other pollutants which are unhealthy.

Yep you should check. I know the everyday in and outs of driving an EV because for a few week a year I get to borrow one whilst on holiday in NZ. The important points here are 75Kwh battery and home charger of 7KWh or supercharger 120KWh or 250KWh.

This is not right. My sons Tesla has a 75KWh battery. At his home he has a 7KWh charger, I will leave you to do the maths. Tesla superchargers are 120Kw and I believe there are even 250kw again you can do the maths. We travel around NZ in the Tesla with no problems. Est range for this vehicle is 657km although that is in ideal conditions.

Certainly other countries are moving forward with technology. The City with 16,000 Electric Buses & 22,000 Electric Taxis | 100% Independent, 100% Electric

Really? If you charge an EV from a standard 10amp then yes it may take 20 hours, but nobody does that. My sons Tesla will fully charge overnight from his 7kwh charger on ridiculously cheap off peak electricity or about 20 minutes to 80% from a tesla supercharger. When I visit him (he lives in NZ} he lends me this vehicle so I have first hand experience.

Aren't we talking about hydrogen fuel cells rather than CNG?

This is an interesting look into the pros and cons of hydrogen for vehicles The Truth about Hydrogen

There are numerous hydrogen fuel cell cars commercially available right now. Cars commercially available for sale or leasing. 2008-2015 Honda FCX Clarity[2] 2013–2017 Hyundai Tucson/ix35 Fuel Cell[3] 2015-2020 Toyota Mirai 2016 - Roewe 950 fuel cell (plug-in hybrid fuel cell)[4][5] 2016 - Honda Clarity Fuel Cell[6][7] 2018 - Hyundai Nexo 2020 - Toyota Mirai II The main problem at this point is the lack of places to refuel.

Glider meters away from crashing! Mentour reacts

Fascinating video (imho) on MFS 2020 and how they achieve it. How Microsoft Flight Simulator Recreated Our Entire Planet

So do those pills really work? Just asking for my grandad

If you want a succinct list https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lawsuits_involving_Donald_Trump Now I know you are going to say Wikipedia is in accurate but you can actually follow up the references for more authoritative sources. I have no idea how sound these law suits are and in fact this list includes cases where he is the plaintiff. But you are missing my point. I have no idea whether he is squeaky clean or not, those law suits will play out in the fullness of time, You put the proposition that My main point was the allegations against Hillary Clinton have also been around for 4 or 5 years with no actual evidence. Wasn't Trump going to lock her up? Just getting back to Sully vs Trump it is interesting to compare both of these peoples characters. Sully has class and humility and Trump....

One could mount the same argument regarding allegations against others for example Clinton and Biden's son. A sitting president cannot be prosecuted under federal law but after his presidency is a different matter. There are also many pending lawsuits regarding his past business activities as well as from financial dealings with his own family. https://www.justsecurity.org/72565/all-the-presidents-lawsuits-fraud-defamation-and-the-westfall-act-jean-carroll-mary-trump/ It is notable that every other presidential candidate releases their tax records. It should ring alarm bells that he alone will not

Which wars did Obama start rather than inherit?

Just an observation on the quality of the information of this meme, I not that first on the Obama list is operation Ocean Shield. This was a NATO led operation to protect shipping from piracy in African waters. Should this be considered in a list of wars? An as for the other side I can see no mention of Trumps bombing of Syria or the drone attack's that continue. I would anticipate that if I could be bothered checking other items in these lists and it is difficult as this list is reproduced at a size that is difficult to even read. Wherever information comes from it is so important to look for supporting evidence. Far too many people on all sides regard information that supports their gut feeling to be true and anything contrary to be false,

Is this procedure new or different to past elections?

Actually NASA back in the Apollo program used a mixture but most calculations were done in metric and then converted.

My son owns a games developmemt company so he has all sorts of tech goodies. As soon as I can visit again I wiil spend some time on this.

My son's flight sim setup.

Other interesting youtube channels are Marcus House and Scott Manley

Flightright what exactly is it you find funny. 911 health workers infected doing their job? People with health issues? Sorry but I don't really get what it is that amuses you perhaps you could be specific. I am always happy to have a rigorous factual debate and I am happy to consider any rigorous evidence but an emoji is not a debating point.

No one is saying that younger people are most at risk, unless they do have a comorbidity. A comorbidity does not imply the someone is near to death and covid merely pushed them across the line a few weeks early. As a society we give health care to older people and people who have accidents or disease. We generally don't write them off to save a few bucks. Generally the comorbidities we are talking about are heart disease, blood pressure problems, diabetes type 1 and 2. These are people who are not necessarily on the way out in the near future. We are also talking about people who are having or who have had radiotherapy or chemo. I know some of you love to go through reports of covid deaths looking for any hint they may have had an underlying condition or are being or who have been treated for cancer or perhaps have other immune deficiencies. People are obsessed with the death rate but seem unconcerned with the rate of complications which can be quite devastating for some. We also know that the virus will mutate and this could make it better or worse, so the demographics could change. Today we have 901 health workers out of the game due to being infected just from doing their job. This is a rise of 101 from the previous day. This number of health worker infections is what we get when we are in lockdown and taking other precautions. Imagine what those numbers would be if we did not take any precautions. The health system is not just a matter of numbers of beds but also staff to utilize these beds. The fact that older people have less life ahead of them does not mean we don't provide them with life extending medical care even if it costs us. We could save the taxpayer a lot if we just denied health care to older people. It is of unfortunate that, having had early success we did dropped the ball and this will impact the economy more than if we had done it right the first time. I invite you to compare our unemployment figure with that of NZ. I am sympathetic to those who are struggling for financial or psychological reasons but I don't see many options. Whenever I ask for alternate scenarios or for examples of how other countries have handled it differently I rarely get an answer and if I do these countries don't turn out to be doing so well. We have been kicking this subject around for a while now and it appears that "it's not really a problem" people seem to be few in number. Really it comes down to accepting that your views are minority ones and getting on with in the best way you can is probably the best option I cant see any scenario whereby we just get back to normal and let it rip. Even if we did our economy would still struggle and indeed probably even more.

I am actually an optimist. I believe we will overcome this but not without effort. If you carefully read my posts you will notice that I am optimistic about recent vaccine trials and also treatments such as remdesivir etc. I am also not convinced that we are economically doomed either. I can actually be convinced of anything given rigorous evidence. There is quite a large uncertainty factor, we don't know how the virus will mutate, it good be for the better or for the worse.