Perhaps, but even with a pure free market, and not imposing the external costs of coal (like health and climate change) on the industry, I can't see how the US electricity generation industry will continue using coal plants beyond the working life of the existing plants. Solar is just so cheap, and under free market theories it will get cheaper as volume manufacture of the panels increases. It seems to me therefore that the MIT graph of coal use out to 2100 cannot possibly be correct whether or not we like free markets.

We might reasonably argue that US electricity generation using coal plants is not representative of the global coal industry, but 92% of India's new electricity generation capacity was solar in 2022 and although they are building lots of coal plants China seems to be building solar at approximately the same rate as coal. The IEA says global coal increased 1.6% in 2022, mostly in Asia, but they also say renewables met 90% of last year’s global growth in electricity generation. So I guess we are at approximately global peak coal. After peak coal the MIT graph should go downwards. Exactly when and how fast it goes down is open to debate, for example the UK shut down 90% of its coal in 10 years, but MIT have drawn the graph going upwards to 2100. That's why I think the MIT graph is plain wrong.

That wasnt a 3d printer vending machine in cyberpunk it was how invasive capitalism eventually gets kinda thing

Has anyone thought this through?

It's the worst idea I've heard since solar roads.

Think about loading the machine with ingredients and how that might work... for each layer (including icing) you'll need different incredient inputs and mixers and perhaps printing heads or methods.

For example, flour, eggs, butter and sugar into one section with an inbuilt mixer. The second input could contain jam and perhaps fresh cream (which will also require an in-built whipper) in the last. To avoid mixing them in the printing pipes/lines you'll have to apply them with separate printer heads.

There will likely be excessive waste and it'll be a bitch to clean.

The only possible shortcut is to sell pre-processed ingredients and then it's just going to taste like ass.

> That's what you are implying

No reasonable person would think this from what was said and the context.

I'm getting increasingly frustrated with how a majority of people brush shit off until its actually bad and the consequences are being expereinced.

For example, 2 weeks ago one of most massive CME ever documented occurred on the opposite side of the sun. Had that happened 4 weeks earlier (the sun spins) we would have been in the path and potentially would have been living rather different lives right now.

There is an expected increase of CME activity over the next few years but is there any push to secure hardware for our power infrastructure? Nope. So just what the fuck are we doing? It's on every fucking front. So many brush real issues off and put people in power who brush those issues off, until suddenly everyone is scrambling and wondering what the fuck happened.

The safety concern is a real thing. Men won't known this, but women get approached constantly in the most mundane and bizarre situations, including just parking by the side of the street, and can be very pushy.

Men are weird sometimes.

You're right! Love the optimistic framing

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So if I say black people in the US have less money than white people, would you make the same conclusion about one group being "inferior"????

That's what you are implying. I think women are just as capable of earning money as men.

Maybe they're counting the hydrogen generators in that number?

>The hydrogen can be stored in tanks and used to charge the batteries when they dip below 35%.

What the fuck? Why do you take the statement "women have less money than men" and turn it into "women are inferior". What the fuck?

Yeah, that to me seems far less likely than simpler things like men being more likely to have enough money to purchase a newer car and also being far more likely to hero worship Elon Musk and therefore buy a Tesla.

The following submission statement was provided by /u/filosoful:

The US is pouring more money into electric vehicle infrastructure and rebates, but safety and affordability could be behind the gender gap between men and women owners.

Please reply to OP's comment here: https://old.reddit.com/r/Futurology/comments/11yr7xq/women_are_less_likely_to_buy_electric_vehicles/jd8yfy4/

I’m disappointed in the lack of creativity in this headline

"Wildfires are predicted to be larger, and wildfires happen in the world, so 'the world is burning' is a correct phrase, and if you don't see how this makes sense, then you're silly climate denier!!!" - gist of your comment

I also noted how you managed to find and highlight doom words even in paragraphs dedicated to positive things, like wildlife restorations, this really tells a whole story about doomers, they will find doom-words anywhere and conjure up a world of them while ignoring everything else.

What you and Antonio do has beed described in a form of comic long time ago: https://d.justpo.st/media/images/2013/08/0c729810e4e921d67bf898e0069f88b8.jpg

Oceans on mars are probably jealous

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Perceived safety will outweigh reality all day every day. Same reason my MIL puts the shades down at night in her 7500 sqft mansion in her guard-controlled access gated community.

Car culture and the associated technology has had an undeniable male history. Maybe that will change as loud noises and smoking flaming exhaust fades from it and actual overall performance becomes a more reasonable and accessible aspect.

An AI developed from nothing may have very unusual ideas (an AGIZero), but the current lot seems to be patterned very much after human thinking.

Renewables 30% cheaper than over 75% of existing coal power plants. That's cheap enough to include storage.

>nuclear as base loads

You complain about cost and then promote the most expensive energy source of all!

"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them." – from Dune (1965)

They're definitely shills. They don't just attack renewables and energy storage (which even nuclea rpower will need), they also go after electric vehicles and even heat pumps.

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