I'm pretty sure that a lot of cars can already do this. Alternatively, you could also just slow charge your car on a regular 120 volt outlet. This will ensure that the power draw isn't too high at any one time. A level 1 charger can get you about 8 km of charge capacity per hour. So for most people, charging on a basic outlet is enough to charge a car for their daily needs overnight. Most people aren't driving hundreds of kilometers every day.

Maybe someone could design a charger that you plug in, but don't immediately start charging with. Perhaps you use an app to schedule the charging to start at 2am. Then the car trickle charges just enough to not lose all power until 2am at which point it switches to full charging mode.

I'll admit that I don't know all that much about electric cars, but this shouldn't be too hard of a problem to crack. It might even be doable with current technologies. I know some chargers intelligently stop charging when your battery is full, switching to trickle charging afterwards. This would basically be the opposite with a timer built in.

He accidentally became a part of a maths question

To be fair you can do that with any sit-com with a baked in laugh track. It's always awkward because it's never meant to be played without that track behind it.

Not 1 Trump joke?

"I can see the future!"

From reading the article it looks like the actual problem might be that people charge their cars when they get home, where there is already stress on the grid. If the put off charging their car until 2 or 3 am, when demand is really low, then there wouldn't be an issue. I think the problem is how they define "overnight"

This story felt sad too, but in a temporary way.

That thumbnail has a whole lot of repeating going on in it.

Ah ok so this is the 10th dentist that never recommends the tooth paste.

Yeah, like the people who insist we use gas stations instead of piping gasoline directly to the house. Bastards.

Sounds like whoever did this study had a vested interest in people using charging stations...

Specifically, they found a special more simple type of aperiodic tiling, i think

But mathematicians absolutely had tiled the plane in a way that doesn’t repeat before, just not quite like this one. There’s even a veritasium video about it

Not really oniony though

This is interesting - could it be used for procedural generation of tiles?

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Well, now you know they are available in a handy 60-pack. By the time you lose ‘em all they’ll start randomly turning up again.

Accept no blame.

But at least he didn't pee on them!

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Yet, anyways.

I bought a 5 pack for my bf....

Down to one within a month and I've been treating it like the holy grail. I don't know how he does it, and he still has the nerve to try and blame his missing items on me because I must have "cleaned it up"

60 times better vision, you will have the eyes of a god!

So like, this is one of the few episodes I remembered vividly as a child because I felt so terrible for the dude when he was like "but there was time now.."

Like, I remember thinking "what an incredibly sad and scary ending"

Explain this to people who have been doing that for years....

This goes in at length before making the point about more power available via PV in daylight hours.... But doesn't note the available wind energy overnight. Anything not put to use is potentially wasted. And daytime PV generation can power industry.

That's less than my dental insurance and bill are in America

And dental care

I guess he can read it now!