The US is also far behind on EV infrastructure compared to places like Europe. In Europe, a long roadtrip is now pretty easy to achieve in an EV. Not so much in the US.
There have been systems like that to replace locks in the past. Not for the whole of the country of course but essentially wide rails that lift a shift up a hill along some rails.
The Panama Canal Authority has reduced the amount and weight of vessels passing through based on current and projected water levels in Gatun Lake, the rainfall-fed principal reservoir that floats ships through the canal's lock system…
I mistakenly thought the locks were filled entirely with seawater, so I didn’t understand how the canal could be affected by drought.
Locks do not work that way, at least not unless you want to use them to go below sea level.
Locks always have to be fed from reservoirs on the upper side of the lock and each lock cycle transports one lock full of water to the lower side of the lock. This is the reason locks are so energy efficient, because we do not need to do the lifting ourselves, we just let the water do it.
There are some lock designs that store part of the lock's content in some side-reservoir to use e.g. the upper half of the water to refill the lower half on the next cycle but that is about as much as can be done to conserve water without installing huge pumps that would require a lot of energy.
Hopefully the now arriving wave of electric cars built by incumbent car companies won't have the same issues as Teslas in terms of being single integrated bricks of technology that you have to throw out if any part breaks.
Even if covid didnt exist, in a hospital or doctors office masks just make sense. You have no idea what communicable diseases are sitting right next to you, the uncomfortableness of wearing a mask is well worth it to avoid catching some horrible cold.
I totally get the other judges doing things by the book to reduce the chances of things getting overturned on appeal. But FFS, that behavior is way out of line.
I live in a ski town, people in rentals drive recklessly and crash the things A LOT. I can absolutely understand the decision to switch to cheaper cars.
i agree with other posters.. their best option is throwing it back to the states. they can rule that the states each get to decide on 'is insurrectionist' that is then only removable by 2/3rds of congress, per the constitution. leaves them without having to actually make a decision.
NAL but isn't Constitutional law a federal issue the must be ruled on by SCOTUS? Otherwise it seems that SCOTUS would, in effect, be redundant if states can individually rule on constitutional matters.
Russia abstained as UN Security Council adopts resolution condemning Houthi attacks. They want the world to be distracted from their atrack on Ukraine. I'm sure, once russia has been beaten, suddenly a lot of other conflicts will dwindle away
This presents an interesting problem for Republicans, and by interesting I mean an unwinnable scenario.
See, if the conservative judges put Trump back on the ballot, they will instantly give more ammunition to people already screaming for court reform.
That's the one thing the conservative legal movement fears.
On the other hand, if they don't come up with some excuse to justify putting Trump back on the ballot, the maga mob will declare them traitors and might actually try to kill them.
The trick will be threading that needle, and I don't think it's possible.
I assume the Republican establishment wants to get rid of Trump, but they also want to be able to blame it on the democrats so that it helps their preferred candidate and they don't anger their base.
Weirdly, I think some in the democratic establishment haven't learned their lesson, and want Trump to run. Arguably easier to beat for Biden. Super risky strategy though, given inflation.
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