In the archives of a respectable Econ and PoliSci department and Outlook Archives on the Hill from at most a decade ago. I left that space to return to Tech PM and Entrepreneurship because I also studied CS, nerded out about technology strategy, and didn't have a trust fund to afford DC on a staffer's salary.
If interested, the Stanford Center on China's Economy and Institutions, the China Guiding Cases Project at Stanford Law, the Becker Friedman Institute for Research in Economics at UChicago, and Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab at MIT have all been working on the Rural-Urban Divide problem in Developing Countries. Chinese Policymakers tend to work with Stanford and Indian Policymakers tend to work with UChicago and MIT.
Papers and books published by members of these centers would teach you all that you need to know about Developmental Economics (or at least enough for a pre-doc).
The electric F-150 is a niche vehicle and Ford is only pretending it is for the mass market. Their massive Tennessee factory, currently under construction, will be producing their mass market truck:
Depends on what you mean by safer. If you are hitting an F-150 you will be safer in a F-150 yourself than a smartcar. If you are a pedestrian you would rather be hit by a smartcar.
Many of these Chinese vehicles have the safety features of a 1950's era vehicle, so without airbags, good construction techniques for absorbing force, etc. I imagine they would all get horrible safety ratings by Consumer Reports.
However, if energy scarcity pushes us globally toward a situation where we need more essential cars for slower, shorter routes, then it would make sense to downgrade a bit those tests, as the typical use would be closer to a Topolino driving 70km/h on a country road than an M8 dashing at 170km/h on the highway.
Well, that doesn't really matter, does it? Vehicles provide transportation from A to B for occupants and cargo. If a small vehicle suffices, then larger ones shouldn't be necessary. Of course, this is also a challenge for planning infrastructure in a way that large vehicles are not necessary in population centers (which should, by definition, be built for people, not large cars).
I’ve been in China recently, one of the most popular forms of transport is the electric scooter. They outnumber cars around me. Many people just don’t bother with cars.
The list of top cars by model is quite interesting. Some of the Chinese cars are golf carts but most would decently sized and attractive by US standards.
So.. its switching from petrol to coal?
Unless they really ramp up nuclear and solar. Which they did not so far..
And dont forget, the first 100.000 kilometers of energy are already spent driving of the lot, building a new car. So fading away old cars as slow as possible is the most energy efficient strategy?
> And dont forget, the first 100.000 kilometers of energy are already spent driving of the lot, building a new car. So fading away old cars as slow as possible is the most energy efficient strategy?
No it is not a good strategy. It is better to replace oldest cars first, because they are usually least efficient, but even if you replace new ICE car, that car does not disappear - it will probably be sold and replace old, less efficient ICE car.
Coal is awful, but also keep in mind that it’s shipped to centralized locations to be burned.
Gas for cars is shipped to a distribution center, loaded onto trucks that are immensely heavy and require loads of fuel to haul, shipped to a local distribution center, loaded onto trucks, driven somewhere else, pumped into a station, then those trucks drive back, and people often drive out of their way for gas instead of just charging at their destination. (Nobody has a gas station at their house and few desirable stores include gas stations)
It’s entirely possible that this process ends up using more energy than just burning coal.
That would still be a win for cities there.
But it looks like coal and non-renewables' share of electricity there is now declining too, from roughly 4/5 to 2/3 in the last decade* (a lot of that is due to wind energy, which is rapidly ramping up there.
China is building and planning new coal power plants more than the rest of the world combined.
Share it's droppibg but China alone will pollute much more than everyone else combined.
> The first 100.000 kilometers of energy are already spent driving of the lot, building a new car
China is the leader of electric 2-seater cars (Wuling Mini, Geely Panda Mini).
Comparison between a Wuling Mini and a Tesla Model 3:
- battery weight: ~100 kg vs. 500+ kg
- total weight: ~600 kg vs. 1,600+ kg
- retail price: ~5,000 EUR vs. ~50,000 EUR
I doubt it takes as much energy to break even on a Wuling Mini than it does on a Model 3.
A better question would be - why should Europeans be excluded from affordable electric Chinese cars because of the political chess between the US and China?
Assuming they never move away from fossil fuels, it's still a win. Electricity is far more efficient at converting energy into movement than fossil fuels (roughly 75% vs 15%)
>Electricity is far more efficient at converting energy into movement than fossil fuels (roughly 75% vs 15%)
This metric could also be described as: "what percentage of the total energy content of your car's fuel tank will be converted into kinetic energy?"
What is the point of this metric?
Solar panels are less efficent at converting incident sunlight into electricity, than fossil-fueled power stations are at converting hydrocarbons into electricity. The same applies for wind turbines converting kinetic energy into electricity.
Blindly taking the "efficiency" of one tiny step in the process of converting an energy source into automotive propulsion will lead to some absurd conclusions.
Exactly. It's essentially a sandbox city builder with some highway optimisation thrown in. SimCities 4 was more fun because it was more challenging and felt more like a game, rather than a sandbox.
There are so many interesting gameplay things Skylines could do to be more fun for me like:
1. Subway optimization, e.g faster train cost more but people get to their destination faster, slower trains allow for shorter distances between stations.
2. Parking optimization, e.g. building with parking costs more (because more land has to be bought), but allows people to travel to the place in
3. Low vs high taxes, nanny state or pure capitalism? How would that affect the economy and people's satisfaction?
On that note: my best “purchase” was moving from 1password to bitwarden. Every interaction I had with 1password support over the years left a sour taste in my mouth. It was gaslighting in the purest corporate sense.
I finally broke the shackles and moved to bitwarden. Now I’m paying 10 usd for their premium service and that’s because I want to support the product. I don’t even use or care about any of their premium features.
It's probably better than the competitors, but still too often, especially on iOS, the safari extension and the share extension, and the app seem to be out of sync.
I've been using the old v4 "standalone" edition for a long time. About a month ago I finally allowed myself to switch to the SaaS model on a 'family' plan. Its amazing, and more importantly I can now help manage my kids security etc. Loving it.
To fix Teams formatting issue on MacOS once and for all you can go to System Preferences->Keyboard->Shortcuts->App Shortcuts, then add a new shortcut by pressing (+), choose "Application": "Microsoft Teams", "Menu title": "Paste and Match Style", "Keyboard Shortcut": "⌘V", and click "Add". Done!
Homemade system that is not in any way publishable. It's a folder hierarchy but also viewable as a chronological timeline. The main key is to organize them as you go, and not fall too far behind.
> Homemade system that is not in any way publishable.
I can still access all the photos I took since around 2008, when I first started to nurture an interest in photography as a hobby. I never delete b-rolls unless they're absolute crap (i.e., I triggered with my lens cap on, too dark with no flash---blurry, out-of-focus shots do not count as absolute crap).
I also manage it with a homemade system! This system is closer to my darkest shame than proudest achievement. It kinda reminds me of Destin's pre-Linus-organized system[1] except way smaller and a few scripts more sophisticated (my system has redundancy, ha!). Despite that, I have maintained access despite moving across continents.
In fact, last year, slightly spurred on by the pandemic situation, a bunch of friends asked me if I still have copies of photographs I took years prior. The oldest query was only for 4-5 years ago but I am proud to say that I was able to oblige despite my shameful system.
Kids, don't do this in prod, but homemade systems FTW! :)
