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There are processes for turning biological feedstocks (algae, bio alcohols, or waste from farming or cooking or food processing or even clearing brush or treating wastewater) into combustible kerosene. But those feedstocks are basically highly limited. There are also processes for turning carbon monoxide or carbon dioxide into synthetic hydrocarbons, without biological feedstocks. These processes are more energy intensive, and hard to scale, but it’s an area of active research. Basically none of the tech is ready yet. But there are a few different promising pipelines worth exploring.

Your solar power storage expert is named Sun? Sounds lot like sun. Maybe that's why she became a solar power storage expert!

Context in the article but not the headline: this is for the month of March 2026. March tends to be a low demand month for electrical power because the heating and cooling demands tend to be low at that time of year. A cool milestone, but we still have a ways to go before we can make this true for an entire calendar year.

they could have bought a <$25k used EV last year and saved $4k with the EV tax rebate.

The people who were in the market for a car last year are by and large not the same people who are in the market today.

Plus let’s not forget, the actual EVs on the used market 12 months ago were different than today’s. Someone looking to buy a 3-year-old car today has to look for something originally sold in 2023, whereas 12 months ago they were looking at 2022 vehicles, with fewer models available and significantly fewer vehicles actually manufactured and sold.

For everything the Trump administration has done to make solar and wind power less economically feasible, it turns out his war in Iran has done way more to make fossil fuel consumption less economically feasible as well.

There really was a huge increase in the number of EV models available between model years 2018 and 2023. So now, when you're looking to buy a 3-year-old car, you have so many more EV options to choose from even compared to just 2 years ago. You can choose different form factors (small cars, sedans, wagon/crossover/small SUVs, medium SUVs, literal pickup trucks), and basically any price tier from economy to ultra luxury high end. Not every ecological niche was filled in the past 5 years, and some still need a bit more competition, but even with some pullback over the last year there are still plenty of new EVs hitting new categories (e.g., true three-row SUVs and minivans) that will feed into tomorrow's used market. And not every model will survive. The future of all-electric full size pickups looks pretty grim. Some entire companies might not survive the EV transition (looking at you, Honda). But overall, the used market will fill out with what was hitting the new market 5-10 years ago, and we'll start to see a lot of consumer preferences start showing what the future of cars will look like.

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Almost every American home has 240V coming in, with 2 hot wires with 120V AC exactly 180° out of phase with each other, and a neutral wire that’s supposed to be roughly ground voltage. The standard is to split the 240V into 120V for each circuit at the actual breaker panel, by feeding each normal circuit in the house one hot and one neutral wire. But setting up a particular circuit for 240V service is trivial by using both hot wires.

The feeling comes from real world experiences with electric cars, which for 90% of Americans is primarily dealing with Tesla. Stupid door handles, stupid steering wheels, stupid touchscreen based controls. It’s a real complaint, and if it’s coming from Americans it’s primarily complaining from the dominant electric car brand they’ve had experience with, which is an American brand with American made cars.

Yes but how is it xenophobia?