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If China directly supports Russia NATO will throw sanctions on them and that will hurt China. China is supporting Russia, but they are walking a find line as China cannot afford to make NATO mad. (NATO also will hurt, which is why NATO is looking the other way, but how long will NATO put up with China is an open question)
People have been saying that about every presidential candidate for as long as I can remember. Both parties say that about the other. I’ve long ago figured out we are not that fragile.
Because it is expensive and when your grandparents don’t remember a time when food was scarce, but a lot of people can remember a time when money was tight it seems to make sense to not spend all that money on storage. (Until you reach the rich level any additional money goes to things like larger houses or nicer houses which means you live paycheck to paycheck and have about the same amount of money to spend every day - after all the deductions to pay for the above - as someone who is poor)
This is the same reason infrastructure in all areas is often left to rot - maintenance costs money and if the effects of not doing it are not immediately visible it is easy to stop doing it even if overall it makes your life worse in the long run.
Of course the above is easy to say. It is also easy to talk about places where you are an exception. However it is very hard to see the places where you are doing the same as everyone else and foolishly falling behind on something to your long term detriment. (also there are some people who talk about being an exception who are spending too much effort on things that don’t need to be done)
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@rimu@piefed.social @breadsmasher@lemmy.world I’ve lived next to both, and it makes no difference. Both are good neighbors. I won’t live near coal power plants or oil refineries though.
Why not get a loan and buy the house as narmal?
Many common mushrooms look the same. If you are not an expert you may miss a small difference and so misidentify what you are looking at.
We have perfectly good truces from 1991 and 1994. if putin can’t accept them he cannot be trusted.
If you don’t they will comnit more fraud.
I’m not sure where the balance is, but it isn’t at not looking for fraud.
No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President
You can argue that it doesn’t say anything about vice president, but then he can’t be part of the line of succession so what is the point. Though I wonder if maybe saying he can’t be vice president on those grounds means speaker of the house also must be natural born… The constitution is short and so you can come up with weird situations like this all over.
You fail to understand the difference between incremental costs and full costs. A modern car engine can be under $100 each for materials and assembly labor. However that does not count the costs of engineering, or building the assembly line, much less profit margin. Those costs are much higher in an EV.
An engine mostly consists of iron and aluminum which is much cheaper than copper. (cars makers are looking at if they can use aluminum wires in their motors - I’m not sure on status of that)
I can’t find any source for the type of motor used in electric cars - which presumably will be made in larger quantities bringing costs down.
I said ability to make100k in a month. Because if Russia discovers Omaha is undefended they will send missiles there. Of course it will take less than a month to cover all cities - but if this happens we need to get them rolled out fast which means max production for a couple days and then we are all covered and the factory drops back down to making 20/year (after the war 10/year)
That is I did not say we actually need to ever build 100k. I just want the rate of production to be that fast in case we actually need them.
Electric motors are substantially cheaper (and simpler, and lighter) than internal combustion
Not really. There is a lot of metal - wires - in the electric motor. Retail prices on motors is a lot higher than the retail price on an ICE. https://www.grainger.com/product/WEG-IEEE-841-Motor-250-HP-15G092 is a 250 horse power motor for $30k. https://www.jegs.com/i/Chevrolet-Performance/809/19435110/10002/-1 is a 500 horsepower ICE (I think this is new, but the site also sells rebuilt engines) for $7k.
Of course with motors there are a number of different ways to built them at different costs. However they are not cheaper than an ICE and we shouldn’t expect that they would be as there is a lot of metal in a motor.
the typical ICE has two electric motors already in it! (starter, alternator)
Sure, but they are small, neither one is capable of moving your car down the road at full speed (the starter might do it for 10 seconds but then it will overheat)
They do not cost a billion each to manufacture. They cost a billion each because of the costs to develop the system are also included in the cost - you take the costs of engineering, add in the costs of assembly and then divide by the couple hundred that have been made. this is a useful number to know, but doesn’t give us any clue as to what the costs are if we made in larger quantities. If we were to have the ability to make 100k in a month that implies a large amount of automation which means that when we only make 12 a year the cost goes up even more - but when (if!) we make that 100k the cost for each goes down.
Last I checked the whole car scrapped for $250, and there is a lot more metal in the rest of the car (transmission, drive train…) than the engine.
Engines are worth more than $100 if they are rebuild-able. However the incremental cost to the automaker is less than $100. Remember, incremental cost does not include the cost of engineering, setting up the assembly line, or profit margin (which are all very expensive and raise the actual cost) - just the raw materials and labor to run the line.
While having a dozen in operation might be good, we need the ability to produce 100k of them in a month (including all the supply chain for that!). If the world gets into a war between any of NATO (US), Russia, China, India you can bet that missiles will be flying anywhere that is thought to be unprotected and so we need missile defense on all cities so that nothing is unprotected. The we of course changes depending on how is involved.
I said produce 100k in a month, not have them in stock. That is because technology changes. It is likely that when we (again not sure who the we is) needs this technology will have changed and so whatever existing systems we have are obsolete and useless. 100k systems would be enough to protect us (whoever we are) from today’s threats, but they may be scrap when war comes.
But they do have an expensive electric motor instead of the ICE, plus an expensive battery.
An engine is not thousands of dollars. They mass produce them and so the incremental cost for each one is less than $100 each. There is a lot of engineering costs in an engine, and the cost to setup mass production is high, but that is amortized over all the cars they put that engine in. (there is a reason auto maters only have a few engines that they put in everything)
A battery is $7000, but the raw materials and labor to make it are a large part of that price (I don’t have insight on what the price is) Of course auto makers know they need a lot of batteries and so are working on automation to bring the per battery cost down.
We are also hoping it doesn’t turn into WWIII. It could for sure, but there is the possibility that things can calm down in a few years.