Re:The Lithium-Ion Battery May Not Be the Best Bet for EVs
by geodel on Friday March 01, 2024 @03:17PM
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Huh, humans live for centuries in caves also just fine. I don't know why cities, streets and bicycles are needed.
Re:The Lithium-Ion Battery May Not Be the Best Bet for EVs
by throw0101b on Friday March 01, 2024 @07:44PM
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> Huh, humans live for centuries in caves also just fine.
Less draft-y, better control temperature, and indoor plumbing with modern building science.
> I don't know why cities, streets and bicycles are needed.
Cities have less environmental impact, streets offer easier movement, and bicycles are probably the most efficient way of a human being moving.
I'm not sure how designing communities where private automobiles are a necessity improved upon communities where they are optional nice-to-haves.
Most people did not own horses, especially not in cities.
They were generally limited to farmers, businesses (to draw carts/carriages), and the rich (Gilded Age).
For most of history most humans walked to their destination on a day-to-day basis. This changed slightly with the invention of rail roads and later bicycles. The automobile didn't go mainstream until roughly the 1920s:
* https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262516129/fighting-traffic/
Look at any pre-WW2 development and you'll see neighbourhoods built for human scale:
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Streetcar_suburb
Design things 'properly' and neither cars, nor horse-drawn carriages, are needed by people for most of their daily tasks. This is evidence by the fact that humans lived like that for centuries just fine.