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Three Weeks To Go! Don't Miss it! Monday April 8, time will be between noon and 2PM depending on your location. The next chance to view a total eclipse in the continental US is 2044, in Montana. But in 2045 there's a big one that goes California to Florida, and that one has an extra-long...

What grade does the hill have to be before regeneration reaches it's maximum? I'd bet that on a 1% downhill slope you are still using some accelerator pedal just to keep up with rolling and wind resistance. Does it have to be 2% downhill before regeneration kicks in at all? 4%? I'd imagine at...

A somewhat specific question, but has anybody ever looked at this? City regen milage in hilly vs flat terrain? Always been fascinated that, because of regeneration, electric vehicles get better "fuel" economy in city driving than highway cruising, which is the opposite of an ICE vehicle. As I...

The Annular Eclipse is in sixteen days. Saturday late morning out west, and Saturday early afternoon in the east. Austin is just a few miles north of the best line to be on. Seems like a good time to roll out some CT's. What do you think? Will they surprise us during the Eclipse? Will be...

That xJubeir website is run by a man with a passion. When it gets close to an eclipse in a big country, it becomes one of the most visited sites on the internet. He serves many large images and when it gets really hot, he has to pay thousands of euros per month for his web hosting service. If...

A few links. https://eclipse.gsfc.nasa.gov/solar.html https://www.timeanddate.com/eclipse/solar/2024-april-8 More maps here. Also be sure to check out the Annular Eclipse of October 14, 2023, which passes 100 or so miles south of Austin. https://www.greatamericaneclipse.com/october-14-2023 It...

The flip side of this record. Adaption, not Adoption. We are still inching up on "Infrastructure Constraints".

Here's the source. https://ourworldindata.org/technology-adoption It's nice, you can click on each technology and see it's graph by itself. Electric Vehicle adoption will be fast, but it won't be a tsunami, because people need to install chargers, and the car makers are somewhat inflexible.

This chart has been used so much over the years that I can't find it's origin. It tells this story. Once a new technology reaches a certain critical mass of adoption, about fifteen percent, everybody wants it. The pace of adoption has increased over time. Electric vehicles outperform ICE in...

Mining the earth for any mineral is an ugly business. This is not news. The crust of the earth's scientific name is "Lith-osphere". Lithium is found all over the world, It's everywhere. Less than 10 percent of available land has even been prospected for deposits, only the easiest to access...

It uses our knowledge to learn how to do it itself.

NASA is developing an artificial intelligence which will be used to help future mars rovers pilot themselves with less human input.. And they need YOUR help. https://mars.nasa.gov/news/8689/nasas-mars-rover-drivers-need-your-help/ They need humans to classify objects in images taken by...