AFAIK, our muscles work by electricity. Soooo....
n2burns
joined 2 years ago
So 0Wh/km as they don't run on electricity? 🤷♂️
Is there something in particular about Indiegogo that I missed, or are you just pointing out it's crowd funded? (and that means you could lose your money without anything in return)
What disabilities allow you to drive a car, but prevent you from walking, cycling or taking the bus?
To clarify/add to this: walking or cycling also includes mobility devices that can use this infrastructure such as walkers, wheelchairs, and scooters. Taking this to the extreme, the Netherlands has microcars which allow people with handicaps to drive at low speed on bike infrastructure. Some even allow wheelchair user to roll right in (also shown in the video at 1m07s).
Not really. The F150 Lightning's efficiency is ~270Wh/km city which means a small EV is only a 50% improvement vs 95% for ebike.
Also, this graph is helpful given our current situation. Maybe once we're mostly at the 95% better than an F150 Lightning solution (e-bikes), it might be worth being concerned with energy efficiency, but we're not there.
I really like this graph because it helps visualizes scale. Sometimes, people knock e-bikes by saying they are less efficient than acoustic bikes. While that may be true, it's another example of, "Don't let perfect be the enemy of good." As shown here, e-bikes are literally the 90% solution. I really don't think it's worth sweating the potential energy efficiency differences between e-bikes and acoustic bikes. What's really important is reducing car usage.
Sure, but they should have that mapped out and could do it on some existing roads where those obstacles don't exist. I don't think it has to be an "all or nothing" solution. Even on newer streets where you can't bury disposal storage, there's potential to put that infrastructure on the surface (with attention to vehicle sightlines, etc) until the road is rebuilt in 50+ years.
Totally agree! I've often wondered why New York doesn't do this. Even retro-fitting exists streets wouldn't be that hard. Remove one parking spot and you could put garbage, recycling, and even organic waste there! And while there's capital costs in setting this up, I expect savings would more than make-up for this by having to pickup less often and only ~1 stop a block instead of each individual unit.
Here's a NotJustBikes video about how waste is handled in Amsterdam if anyone's unfamiliar with these underground bins.
Also, what they're saying is completely untrue. In most countries you need to report your foreign income and may have to pay taxes on it. I'm a Canadian and we need to report foreign income. We have tax treaties, so taxpayers (generally) aren't double taxed. However, a lot of cross boarder Canadian workers pay less tax in the US than they would at home, so they are required to pay the difference to the CRA.
Were you "audited" or actually audited? So many people say they were "audited" when they actually just received a letter asking them to support what they claimed. An actual audit is a full review of absolutely everything to re-build up your returns from scratch and verify every little detail. Even for basic returns audits often take multiple days to complete.
To me, it's exciting because they're showing success at one of the hardest workplaces to organizing labour. Starbucks Workers United seems to have everything going against them:
- employees are more likely than at other workplaces to be short/medium-term, so it might be hard to convince employees to think about the long-term
- each store have relatively few employees but they're going up against one of the biggest corporations in the world
- Starbucks is general seen as a "pretty good job", so it's got to be hard to convince employees to not just accept whatever they're offered.
Yet, they're persisting!
I pretty much completely agree with the rest of your comment, but I don't think we have a delivery date. Rafael might be hedging that domestic demand will be down by the time these are due.