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@congressdj @Tesla Not even remotely “saves a bus load of children” 🥲

Tesla FSD saves a school bus full of children! My Model Y Performance braked so hard that everything on my seats ended up on the floor. It infuriates me that school bus drivers are allowed to be this bad at driving. In an autonomous future, more lives will be saved like this.

@emergenteffects Sadly this flew over the heads of too many. Brilliant tho!😂

I don’t see what the problem is? Salt prices are set on the global market so there’s no point in making it ourselves.

@hazelwood_dave That 10% will still drive people to choose petrol or diesel. It’s a well established fact.

@jeffmoth that's only when you go out of town (although I agree that better charger network is required). 90% of driving happens within short radius of home (urban commute)

South Africa has enormous coal reserves for electricity, but zero oil (just like China has a lot of coal versus oil). This should push us to adopt electrical vehicles as preferred transport choice.

@hazelwood_dave Tesla’s Supercharger network (and the car) are superb, but you need both to fully step away from petrol / diesel. Other cars and their shitty charging networks are hopeless by comparison.

@hazelwood_dave Had a Tesla for 5 years, and that’s only half the story. You need a Supercharger network as well. Travel any highway distance, like Cape Town to Langebaan, and you’ll struggle. Highways eat battery power.

@cwjohn @RichardBentall Even more didn’t vote to stay in the EU….

@RichardBentall Half of UK people, if not more considering the turnout in the referendum, didn't vote for Brexit.

Just arrived at Pisa Airport. There was a very long and slowly moving queue of Brits (left)waiting to get through EU passport control. I hope most of them were leave voters. I was with my lovely Irish wife, and we passed through the EU channel in a couple of mins (right)

@wattsupwiththat This post is 💯 bullshit. Grid forming inverters already exist and are widely used. While much of your work is valuable, posting nonsense like this blows your credibility.

𝗬𝗲𝘁 𝗔𝗻𝗼𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝘀𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗪𝗶𝗻𝗱 𝗔𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝗼𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗘𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗿𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗚𝗲𝗻𝗲𝗿𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗪𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗡𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿 𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝗧𝗼 𝗥𝘂𝗻 𝗔𝗻 𝗘𝗰𝗼𝗻𝗼𝗺𝘆 Wind and solar can't even keep a power grid stable without fossil fuels or nuclear backing them up, as proven by Spain's blackout from voltage chaos. Scotland's rushing to close its last conventional plants, risking the same fate. And the tech to fix this? It doesn't exist yet. Outrageous how policymakers ignore this. Read the full article: wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/26/yet…

@bswud Possibly the most ridiculous post of the year to date. Aquifer depletion somehow portends self driving cars equaling gridlock. 😂

We need a tax on self-driving cars. Beneath eight states of the American Great Plains lies the Ogallala Aquifer, one of the largest bodies of groundwater on Earth. For centuries, extraction was constrained by the modest capacities of wind and hand power. At that rate, this 'fossil water' resource was effectively limitless. Farmers could draw as much as they wanted without ever running it down. worksinprogress.co/issue/escaping… But in 1949 Colorado Farmer Frank Zybach invented centre-pivot irrigation. Combined with electricity and the centrifugal pump, farmers could now draw thousands of gallons per well per minute, enough to irrigate 40 acres at a time. Since then, the aquifer has gone down 10%, losing a Lake Erie's worth of water. It is down 50% in the dry parts, where it recharges just 0.02 inches per year. Without intervention, modern pumps will bring about the total end of irrigated farming in the arid parts of the Great Plains in 20-30 years. This is what I call the Ogallala Trap. Technological change can create a new tragedy of the commons. The telegraph enabled the destruction of the passenger pigeon; sonar, radar, and diesel enabled the industrial trawling that devastated the North Sea cod in a decade; chlorofluorocarbons came close to destroying the ozone layer. Self-driving cars are about to do the same thing to roads. When you can sleep, work, or drink with friends in a moving vehicle, you will take many more journeys by car. Roads, which are free at the point of use almost everywhere, will grind to a halt. People who have to go to the office or the hospital will be stuck sharing the road with people having beers, working remotely, and taking naps. There is a fix, but it depends on acting now, before autonomous vehicles go mainstream. Voters balk at being charged more for something they already depend on. The tax needs to come in as soon as possible. Waymos are already in dozens of cities and do millions of journeys per month. We have very little time left. If we want to save our roads from omnigridlock, we must introduce road pricing for autonomous vehicles.

@BlackSwanReturn @rickchu65618889 @ksorbs @BradNorwoo94540 Do both your brain cells share this opinion?

@rickchu65618889 @ksorbs @BradNorwoo94540 As I said, undereducated people—this would be you

This is 23 year old Kamel Hawkins. Death penalty, anything less is a disservice

@AaronBastani No it isn’t.

Superb political ad. One of the best you’ll see. This is better, and resonates more, than anything coming from Labour or the Tories.

@_TightWadBill He may have been an utter waste of space as PM, but Boris’s time now seems a golden age in comparison.

Obviously fucking not. You cannot possibly think this if you have a measurable IQ

@Ed_Miliband Jesus, you are the absolute idiot. Astonishing that you are in charge of more than a wet paper bag.

We’re investing £64m to transform Port Talbot into Wales' first floating offshore wind hub. That means 5,000 good jobs, £500m of investment and enough clean power for 6.5m homes. We are putting Wales at the heart of our clean energy superpower mission. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@JaggaJesse @RenaudCamus Do both your brain cells agree?

@RenaudCamus I will die on the hill that slavery will always fan the fire of Racism. Without the import of black people as slaves to work in west racism as we know it wouldn't be an issue today. So you can cry all you want.

“The weapon that has done the most for the conquest of Europe, for its colonization by Africa, for its Islamization, for the destruction of Europeans in Europe, for genocide by substitution, more than family reunification, more than widespread nocence, more than the migratory submersion itself, is the accusation of racism. It has paralyzed three hundred million people and made them accept the unacceptable, the worst that could happen to them: their own annihilation, their erasure as a civilization.” [March 25, 2019]

@dontforgetchaos There’s a few more wind turbines though. Duh.

Wait until you find out about the foundations under power plants, nuclear reactors & oil refineries. It’ll blow your mind.

@_oksure @DeanH2963 @colinwalker79 It’s impossible to communicate with green zealots. Just walk away Deano.

@jeffmoth @DeanH2963 @colinwalker79 But it’s a moot point, because nobody is claiming that wind/sun/hydro is 100% always producing energy. Anti-renewable rhetoric is always framed in this all or nothing sense and that’s not how anything works. Anyone making this kind of argument is just being deliberately obtuse

People who ‘follow the data’ would probably use a sample period that’s a little longer than 12 hours How about, say, the last 12 months? In which time renewables have generated 42% of the UK’s electricity Gas, meanwhile, is at 28%

@GeraldAnd4729 @afneil Cutting the insane welfare bill? £331 billion raised in taxes £333 billion spent (only) on welfare.

@afneil You criticise Reeves for not spending enough on defence and other things and also for raising inheritance tax etc Then you criticise her for borrowing. Where do you think the money comes from?!

This is not good news given what will now happen to UK finances as a result of the war on Iran. And perhaps we can have some silence from all those who piled to exaggerate the significance of January’s freak figures. The UK borrowed a higher than expected £14.3bn in February. The shortfall between government spending and income was £2.2bn higher than in the same month a year ago and far above the £8.5bn forecast by economists polled by Reuters. At a time of peril for nation’s finances it is frightening to have R Reeves as Chancellor.

@DeanH2963 @colinwalker79 👆This is the exact point that green zealots fail to grasp.

@colinwalker79 The issue isn’t whether wind produces energy over a year. It’s whether it can be relied on at the point of demand. Over the last week alone, wind output has ranged from ~5 GW to ~20 GW. That variability is the metric being avoided.

@mr_james_c @FUDdaily “…journalist with a brain…” 🧐 searching for a unicorn might have greater chance of success.

"North Sea gas wouldn't meaningfully bring the price down because we're paying the global price." This is a flat out lie and any journalist with a brain should be capable of pointing this out.

@KayLFC05_ @TouchlineX @WeAreTheOverlap Didn’t PLAY very well did he.,..

@TouchlineX @WeAreTheOverlap Bots in the comments telling him that he’s wrong when he PLAYED in that competition

🚨🗣️ 𝗡𝗘𝗪: Wayne Rooney: "You are not getting a WORSE World Cup than South Africa in 2010. That tournament NEVER felt like a World Cup." — @WeAreTheOverlap