https://www.npr.org/2021/04/21/989463166/governors-urge-biden-to-order-100-zero-emission-car-sales-by-2035

Electric/hydrogen vehicles aren't really zero emission. Their emissions are at easier to control, generally more efficient facilities that are going to get "greener" in the future. Generally speaking, electric cars are powered by variable power because they aren't base load- meaning they run on whatever the most expensive source currently online is. Most or all household loads are the same way with possible exceptions for refridgeration and HVAC.

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Volkswagen America may or may not be changing its name to Voltswagen, maybe.
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    I dislike the idea that we have to make the world feel safer to everybody. The reason is that feelings are subjective and some people would feel safer in a world that is actually more dangerous (look at all the people who reflect positively about the safety of previous decades).

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    Transmission owners own transmission. Transmission operators operate transmission. Reliability coorfinators have a wide overview and exist to help keep the grid together.

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    QuantumScape’s share sale to fund solid-state battery production roils its market value
    https://techcrunch.com/2021/03/23/quantumscapes-share-sale-to-fund-solid-state-battery-production-roils-its-market-value/

    QuantumScape has issued a share offering to pay for an expanded pilot production line for its solid-state batteries just months after it became a publicly traded company via a reverse merger. QuantumScape said in a regulatory filing that the net proceeds from its sale of 13 million shares — along with an additional 1.95 million shares if underwriters exercise that option — could be much as $859 million based upon an assumed public offering price of $59.34 per share. The offering is expected to be priced after the market closes Wednesday, Bloomberg reported. The funds will be used to build a larger pre-pilot line called QS-0 and cover its part of a joint venture with Volkswagen Group for an expanded manufacturing facility known as QS-1. Investors haven’t responded well in the hours following the initial offering, with prices falling more than 13% since launching the share offering. The market’s response is likely tied to the surprising timing of this share offering. Just six months ago, QuantumScape agreed to merge with a special purpose acquisition company (Kensington Capital Acquisition Corp.). At the time, QuantumScape said it was able to raise more than $700 million through the business combination, a figure that includes $500 million in private investment in public equity, or PIPE. The raise was anchored by institutional investors, including Fidelity Management & Research Company and Janus Transaction.

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    But transmission isn't centralized, and can't be centralized. Because its purpose is to transmit power from power generators (both centralized and decentralized) to (located elsewhere) loads.

    I assumed the OP meant generation because the other way around doesn't make sense.

    I may also be thinking about the physical world with the OP thinking about ownership, but that makes even less sense. Transmission and generation should be paid for by the end users. Preferably in whatever way reduces their costs without making them a burden on other participants.

    Maybe the statement is talking about centralized ownership for the purposes of economies of scale. Even that can be broken down to cooperative ownership as much of the less urban areas of the United States already are.

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    So distributed generation shouldn't happen? As far as I know distributed generation is happening and it is likely to increase as time goes on. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_generation In general non-renewables should be centralized due to economies and efficiencies of scale but renewables almost have to be distributed due to the amount of space they take and localized weather effects.

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    I think NFTs could be a great way to fund arts or charity. Especially if they can smart contract money to their cause with each transfer.

    I personally don't know how NFTs could really work as an investment mechanism because they aren't a currency and their ties to artwork are about the same as reddit posts with the same URLs. If there isn't an agreement under law giving people exclusive rigbts or monies from their NFTs then they are even more speculative than physical art.

    Not saying they couldn't work, just that I don't comprehend the mechanism keeping people buying them at higher and higher prices.

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    Opinion: same thing should apply to other R&D too. You make a drug or vaccine using government money then you are limited to cost+ (meaning a small profit). Shortly after recouping your investment and a small profit the medicine becomes a generic and you have to compete on price for sales.

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  • I am looking for a software to make music that maybe even goes as far as setting up a beat/some basic music based on genre that can be tweeked to produce different songs. If it is already in the stickies I'll find it and delete this.

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    Newcomer to this forum.

    I use the lubuntu lts. Does everybody else like lxqt or are there things you prefered lxde for?

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