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Re:The Rise of Batteries in Six Charts on Friday January 26, 2024 @02:17PM (#39146808)
Most of those batteries are being charged by natural gas. Batteries store electricity, they don't create it.
Re:EPA moves towards banning leaded aviation gas on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:13PM (#38043333)
How about we quit inventing bullshit environmental regulations!
Re:EPA moves towards banning leaded aviation gas on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:11PM (#38043313)
It's fantastic! I can get ethanol free gas too!
Re:EPA moves towards banning leaded aviation gas on Friday October 27, 2023 @04:10PM (#38043300)
FAA loves making GA inaccessible. They've been really good at it for a long time.
Re:EPA moves towards banning leaded aviation gas on Friday October 27, 2023 @03:12PM (#38042640)
In the last 60 years the government and the FAA have killed civil aviation for anyone that isn't obscenely rich. This environmental bullshit is just one more way to keep the plebs out of the air.
Re:EPA moves towards banning leaded aviation gas on Friday October 27, 2023 @02:52PM (#38042405)
Any aircraft mechanics care to comment on this? I know lots of small privately owned aircraft are really really old. Like 50s or 60s or older. Is this going to screw up their fuel system gaskets and seals?
Re:Tell HN: Oracle Cloud has Suspended our paid account on Thursday August 24, 2023 @09:13AM (#37248363)
Oracle being Oracle. Don't use Oracle products!
Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:31AM (#37237624)
A free citizen shouldn't have to justify anything to anyone without an attorney. God bless the USA and the 4th and 5th Amendments!
Re:Cash payments above €3000 to be outlawed in Netherlands on Wednesday August 23, 2023 @11:19AM (#37237420)
It's amazing how many Europeans love letting their governments all up in their business. It's my money. I earned it. I already paid taxes on it. I should be able to spend it however I want.
Re:Have Attention Spans Been Declining? – Yes, 65% on Monday July 24, 2023 @03:04PM (#36852840)
Boring...
I am the administrator. The update worked but a heads up would be nice.