Yeah, in my opinion you were clear about that in your comment, so I guess people are just being outraged assuming that “they’re not supporting solar!!!”

I really don’t know why people are downvoting you. The internet is full of journalistic coverage of new developments in the field of photovoltaic and electric batteries, and journalistic coverage of science is generally… poor. They overstate the importance of everything because they wanna make clickbait, and the result is that it feels like there’s a nonstop of development, of new battery technologies that are gonna change the world… It’s frankly exhausting, like, give me real data as you say, such as capacity installed per year, trends in battery capacities and prices and the reasons for that, and so on and so forth.

I hope solar eventually beats ICE engines for efficiency

I’m not sure your comment makes a lot of sense. The problem with solar isn’t that it’s not as efficient as internal combustion engines, it’s that you can’t generate electricity on-demand. But it’s already a cheaper form of energy than burning fossil fuels in many countries.

Wow, 1 megameter for a vehicle weighing 2 megagrams. That’s some serious efficiency

You know that Switzerland, a country in the literal Alps, has one of the best train infrastructures on Earth?

As the other comment said, of course there are fringe cases. There shouldn’t even be a city in Dubai, let alone trains getting there, but fortunately, most cities on earth are in accessible places because, well, otherwise why would thousands upon thousands of people go there.

That’s a policy issue, not one of engineering or physical constraints.

on purpose

lol

At least they’re not blowing their budget exploding rockets…

Oh I understand it alright, but how is “Amazon owns the IP” a protection of the artist?

Imagine you write a movie to sell and Amazon steals that exact movie but uses their resources to market it as their own and sell over seas

Imagine this thing actually happens because you’re hired for Amazon as a screenwriter and you’re paid a salary of 3k a month making shows that make Amazon 3 million a month, and Amazon, not the screenwriter, owns the rights to the show. Tell me in which world that’s fair.

Only a moron thinks a free market economy actually works.

Thank you, that’s why I’m a communist.

History has shown that not only do corporations NOT care about rules and regulations

“Copyright rules are necessary because corporations don’t care about rules and regulations” isn’t as solid an argument as you think it is

I know right? The very idea of copyright is so fucking abstract, absurd and far-fetched. For the most part, it amounts to:

“NOOOOO YOU CAN’T PLACE THE ATOMS IN THIS ORDER BECAUSE ANOTHER PERSON DID IT BEFORE YOU!!!11!1!1!” (When it comes to scientific or engineering parents)

“NOOOO YOU CAN’T MAKE A SURFACE REFLECT THE PHOTONS LIKE THAT, OR EMIT THEM IN THAT PATTERN. THE RIGHT TO DO THAT BELONGS TO SOMEONE ELSE!!!1!!1!” (When it comes to pictoric arts)

“NOOO YOU CAN’T MAKE THE AIR VIBRATE AT THOSE FREQUENCIES IN THAT PATTERN, SOMEONE DID IT BEFORE YOU AND THEY’RE PAYING ME SO YOU CAN’T DO IT TOO!!!” (Music)

“NOOO YOU CAN’T PUT LETTERS IN THAT ORDER!! THAT’S ILLEGAL, ANOTHER PERSON DID IT BEFORE!!” (Text and code)

So yeah, fuck that shit

You just made two contradicting statements

That already happens. People who research normally do it under a wage and the invention goes to the company paying the wage. If not, a small inventor doesn’t have the financial means and the lawyers to fight a big company copying their idea. The small person is never defended.

Copyright was never about defending the creators, its origin is the industrial revolution and it was a tool of companies to protect “their” inventions (the ones of their workers actually). It was NEVER about defending the small person who actually creates things.

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