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email | 6/22/2020 | unknown

[E. Pluribus Unum]

38- Health: The "Tricorder X" will be announced this year. There are companies who will build a medical device (called the Tricorder from Star Trek) that works with your phone – taking your retina scan, your blood sample, and you breathe into it. It then analyses 54 bio-markers that will identify nearly any disease. There are dozens of phone apps out right now for health.

One word... Theranos.

[Paladin2]

“..like the goobermint will let you go more than 50 miles....”

Bingo.

Antifa won’t let you either.

Of course they will likely merge soon anyway.

[LouieFisk]

Come with a 2,000 mile long extension cord for your cross country vacation drive.

[T.B. Yoits]

I’m still waiting for my flying car....

I'm still waiting for a jet pack.

There is a Charles Addams cartoon from the 1930s with businessman leaning out an office window with a science fiction-looking rifle plugged into a wall outlet and the quote, "death ray, fiddlesticks, it didn't even slow them up."

[central_va]

Face it each election has very little energy and transferring them to a storage medium is not fast, not IMO can it never be fast because the heat generated would melt down the wiring!!!

[mad_as_he$$]

Will you have to drop it into the toilet?

[redangus]

Unicorn farts and fairy dust.

[libh8er]

Here it is

https://newatlas.com/energy/supercapacitor-density-breakthrough/

[redangus]

AOC won’t allow families to travel that far. In fact she may outlaw families.

[SomeCallMeTim]

ping

[central_va]

Maybe not electric cars but this may open the door a real plasma rifle in the 40 Watt range.

[gundog]

Yeah. The future I see is the homeless plugging into electric charging stations and running stolen TVs and microwaves off of inverters.

[Don W]

BALONEY!
#1: Millions of cars and trucks that will need servicing for decades to come exist already.

#2: It takes a lot more than 10 minutes to change out a BELT, let alone the entire motor.

#3: See #2

#4: See #1

#5: Perhaps, but they will be replaced by another liquid fuel dispensing device.

#6: So the electric cars are going to block intersections while charging? Nonsense.

#7: They don’t make half & halfs (El Camino/Ranchero) anymore either... It’s called evolution of demand

#8: Same-old same-old. This has been the “promise” since the ‘70’s.

#9: That Tesla roof costs more to install (plus the cost of the roof itself) than the total value of electricity it produces in its lifetime is worth.

#10: Pure baseless speculation. People have had personal vehicles since before the industrial revolution.

#11: Business models do change, sometimes radically and quickly. Nothing unusual here.

#12,
#13,
#14: Padding Same point as #11

#15,
#16,
#17,
#18,
#19: All the same idea, just padding again. Things change, and the businesses mentioned are still doing just fine.

#20,
#22: So we build better tools. Isn’t that the whole point?

#21: Where is this from? I see the law schools are still pretty full. Omniscient? Sounds like scientism to me!

#23: I for one welcome our omniscient computer overlords.

#24: For some specific applications, maybe. Tort law reform has to happen first though (see #21)

#25 through to #33: See #10

#34: Only if they get rid of public buses, the most polluting vehicles in ANY city.

#35: HOW? You have increased demand and removed the most efficient production methods! Unicorn farts and pixie dust?

#36: That’s why they are shutting down several of the larger solar installations.

#37: Nonsense and hyperbole. Give an example from the last 3 years.

#38: See #22.

WOW! So much misinformation and bald faced speculation in one email. I thought my animal rights freinds were good at stretching truth. They got nothing on your friend! ;-)

[9YearLurker]

I wanna go back to yesterday!

[Mr. Jeeves]

This is fine - except the number of people with the required IQ to develop and maintain such a world is dwindling every year. The technologies may quickly emerge - and die just as quickly under the blows of BLM baseball bats.

[Alberta's Child]

If even half these predictions are accurate, I predict that the leading cause of death in 2050 will be boredom.

[Fiddlstix]

[asinclair]

Yes. Chicago to Ponca City OK. Got a sleeper car so I could slumber the whole trip. Yes, the train was late by a few hours, but I didn't care much because I was not in a hurry.

Many times Chicago to Carbondale IL and back.

Many more times Carbondale IL to Champaign IL.

Reno to Salt Lake City. Including the infamous water stop next to the Mustang Ranch.

Rail in general is the stepson of our transportation system. It won't improve until there is a definite advantage, like cars partitioned like the ones used in Europe.

Loading and unloading cars? The current system is not designed to handle cars. With proper station re-design it would be fast and easy.

That's another instance of the tunnel vision I mentioned in a previous post.

[2aProtectsTheRest]

The latest Tesla has an EPA rated range of 402 miles (https://www.tesla.com/blog/model-s-long-range-plus-building-first-400-mile-electric-vehicle). And their V3 Supercharge stations allow up to 75 miles of charge in 5 minutes (https://www.tesla.com/blog/introducing-v3-supercharging). Not quite as quick as gas yet, but getting there. And how often do most people actually drive over 400 miles in a day anyway? The cheaper Model 3 has a 250 mile range and costs $38,000.

It doesn’t meet every need, but I think it meets the needs of most people. And other manufacturers aren’t sitting down just watching all this go on. I fully expect Ford and others to come up with very competitive options to push the ranges higher and the costs lower in the next few years.

[Cobra64]

The author is full of Obama. There are not 20k parts in a typical engine. There is no such thing as fossil fuel.I’d bet he owns a full auto Glock with a hi capacity clip holding many boolits.