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Because it isn’t a Boeing contract
Because it isn’t a Boeing contract
Lol. People want Boeing to fail, because they’re corrupt, lying, poorly engineered pieces of shit riding on bribed politicians. They’ve already deliberately caused the deaths of hundreds of people due to willful and deliberate negligence to save a buck.
Nobody’s wanting the astronauts to die. And they won’t, they’re safe on the space station, and there are multiple options to get them home safe even if they have to abandon the POS Starliner to do it.
So they can use time machines that somehow only work for living matter
Well, we know Google won’t get rid of this.
They’ll only cancel it after it actually works and becomes useful
Why would anyone who has no skin in the game bother?
Are you randomly paying legal firms to investigate companies you are completely unaffiliated with?
Again, you are obviously deliberately downplaying the limitations of hydrogen. BEVs make sense for “smaller” vehicles… And by “smaller” that means everything up to a midsize SUV, currently. Which is basically 80% of the consumer car market.
As battery technology improves, the upper limit of what makes sense for batteries only expands.
Hydrogen has a problem scaling DOWN. They are already range limited with a full size sedan. Hydrogen tanks and storage improves when you scale UP in size, and have huge amounts of empty volume to fill. So hydrogen only makes sense for semi trucks or larger.
So no, you’re still spewing kool-aid that there was some conspiracy against hydrogen and that BEVs only exist because of subsidies.
BEVs already made sense 10 years ago for SOME consumers, regardless of subsidies. That niche existed, and expanded, because BEVs offered CONVENIENCES to their buyers. Hydrogen, even at their peak hype, offered zero conveniences and only additional inconveniences. No amount of government incentives are changing the fundamentals of hydrogen vehicle ownership.
You keep saying stupid phrases like “people drinking the kool-aid!!!” while you’re doing nothing but pouring out Kool aid yourself.
In case you weren’t aware, Hydrogen cars ALSO got massive subsidies. They received these subsidies far before Tesla even existed, before BEVs took off, when hydrogen looked like the more viable alternative.
They had the head start, they got government subsidies, government backed infrastructure, AND manufacturer incentives. They had the public opinion back then too, with celebrities like Top Gear endorsing hydrogen over batteries. They are STILL getting government incentives today.
It’s still not enough. The bottom line is that it’s still inconvenient, expensive, and highly limited. If they spent the US military budget to force the issue, they could, but why?
Battery vehicles won because they met consumers’ needs, not some grand conspiracy against hydrogen, and not because everyone hangs on Musk’s every word.
Even 10 years ago, I could buy an EV anywhere in the country and it would meet 99.5% of my driving needs if my home had a garage. Hydrogen cars were STILL limited to a 100 mile radius to the nearest filling station, which is basically the California coast. And you had to pray the filling stations didn’t run out of hydrogen. It didn’t matter how much the vehicles themselves cost. Whether they were $200,000 or free, with a hydrogen car you could only go 100 miles from the pumping station, and only when the pumping station was full. With batteries, you were always full all the time, and you could always go 100+ miles from home. Even before any fast charging stations were built, if you took a short road trip and stayed in one location for a few days, you could go 250 miles away and slow charge at your destination simply by bringing an extension cord.
Electricity is cheap, too. Hydrogen was, and remains, expensive. EV buyers could look forward to not paying ridiculous gas prices. Hydrogen buyers had to look forward to paying MORE per mile than gasoline.
You keep whining about batteries not being the perfect solution to every single vehicle on the planet. Guess what? Average consumers are not driving every single vehicle on the planet. Average consumers are buying midsize crossovers. They drive to work and around town, and maybe do a road trip once a year. They can charge at home and never worry about whether or not the local filling station will run out of electricity. BEVs have won the suburban consumer segment, period.
As charging stations get built out, they will soon meet urban consumer needs, too.
Hydrogen might have some place in industrial processes or long haul trucking, possibly aviation maybe. But it makes absolutely no sense for regular consumers.
Lol. Blaming Tesla for all of hydrogen’s woes is just buying your head in the sand.
I’ve been following hydrogen vehicle development long before Tesla even existed. The field has effectively stagnated since the 90’s. Same promises for the past 3 decades with no substantial improvement. The hydrogen car of today is still the same hydrogen car of 1995 with a better infotainment system. Cost, storage, distribution, range are all problems that have yet to be solved and again are still not substantially better than what we had in the 90’s. Every “revolutionary” hydrogen technology from the labs have basically gone nowhere.
It seemed like a viable competitor to batteries in the 90s and early 2000s because battery technology and prices weren’t up to snuff. But hydrogen has stagnated while batteries have improved. Hydrogen is a “solution” that is 2 decades behind at this point
They should just start their own Supercharger company… With blackjack and hookers
Strange how Google became the default search engine back in the day because they were so good at filtering out the dumb websites that just spam search terms all over the page.
They’ve regressed and become Yahoo
Every other version of Windows. It’s practically a law of nature at this point.
At this point China is more reputable than Toyota when it comes to battery technology.
Toyota has been promising solid state tech “within 5 years” for the past 15 years.
Whereas Chinese companies like CATL and BYD basically make an announcement and then ship products within a year.
Didn’t they advertise this as one of the benefits of buying a pixel phone?
Less than a year and it’s gone… Not that it was much of a feature in the first place
I played around with them, borrowing one from a friend.
They definitely have their use case, the most obviously being when you need to keep your ears open for traffic or whatever.
However, I felt that the sound definition was not great, especially for sharp sounds like cymbals. Everything felt a little muffled, and it couldn’t hit highs or lows very well.
It’s one of those “better than nothing” pieces of tech but not what I’d choose for pure listening enjoyment.
Is this like a competition? Is it an invitation to dox spez? We know your dark secrets too, buddy.
The Cyborg stuff is cool, but unfortunately we have subscription models, anti-repairability DRM, unblockable ads, and “we’ll fix it with the DLC” software model, and for-profit health care well established before those become a reality
You can then literally charge people an arm and a leg
*Corporate salivating ensues
A gold topless Paul? Whatever floats your boat
Too late, 2 of them already did
Boeing’s #1 competency isn’t airplanes or engineering, it’s lobbying.
Not just screens. Books are just as bad. Human eyes aren’t really optimized for staring at a single fixed distance for hours at a time, every single day.