GreenCrunch
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- Comment on Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning 4 days ago:
My understanding is that the radio antenna module on the roof will have several antennas (AM/FM radio, satellite radio, GPS, mobile data), and you could disconnect the mobile data and GPS from the telemetry module, after which it would appear to the car that it just didn’t have service. I haven’t done this myself though so I’m not sure
- Comment on Fiber internet provider says it can detect leaking water pipes using existing infrastructure, prevented loss of 2 million liters a day over three months 2 months ago:
Weird, and interesting.
How long until this is extended into some new dystopian surveillance device, tracking footsteps or something…
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 5 months ago:
Also, supplying electricity to fast moving ground vehicles isn’t new, just look at… every high speed rail system ever…
- Comment on First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving 5 months ago:
Yeah, this sounds stupid, and I’m worried about the amount of power wasted by induction charging. Anyone who’s wirelessly charged a phone knows it can get quite hot; that’s wasted energy. And Indiana’s generation is still mostly natural gas and coal, so at some point, with enough losses in transmission and charging, you’ll end up with a higher-carbon vehicle than a diesel truck…
I am not sure what that point is, but the efficiency of charging is an important consideration in my mind.