Music festivals were a sort of guerilla attack on lack of venue contracts.

OpenAI announced in October 2025 that it would begin allowing the generation of "erotica" and other mature, sexually explicit, or suggestive content for verified adult users on ChatGPT.

Awesome stuff.

Got downvotes, not sure why.

https://www.newsweek.com/poll-americans-cant-locate-iran-map...

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46413520

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45485627

Points: 3

# Comments: 2

I got 3 different calls from some people today about Vercel and switching off of it, couldn't figure out why - they were spending upwards of 5k-10k/mo.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44578869

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Hey Orlie.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44189044

Points: 4

# Comments: 0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43828813

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

Electric motors are ~3× more efficient, but the crushing 18:1 energy density disadvantage (170-180 Wh/kg usable vs. 3,200 Wh/kg for jet fuel) creates a physics trap no engineer can escape [1].

A staggering 70.3% of total energy is consumed before the damn thing even moves – manufacturing (35.2%), extraction (19.8%), and processing (15.3%) create an energy debt that makes the whole proposition a joke[2]

Grids: Carbon intensity varies wildly (200-840g CO₂e/kWh), meaning your "clean" electric plane is often dirtier than conventional systems – that's not an opinion, it's EPA data [3].

Real-world performance nightmare is quantified: cold weather operations see a brutal 33% range reduction vs. just 6% for conventional, charging wastes 22.4% operational efficiency, and VTOL applications – which fanboys love to cite – require 2.5-3× more energy per mile than normal flight [4].

We've seen improvements (2.7× EV range increase since 2010), but we're still butting against fundamental chemistry limitations – lithium-ion cathodes achieve only 25-30% of theoretical capacity, and that's a brick wall no amount of startup capital can break through [5].

Synthetic fuels? Give me a break – 10-15% round-trip efficiency means you need 6.7-10× more renewable capacity than direct electrification, basically requiring us to cover half the planet in solar panels [6].

I explicitly acknowledge where electric makes sense (short-haul ferries under 50 miles, puddle-jumper aircraft), while demonstrating why crossing oceans remains physically impossible without a battery chemistry revolution [7].

lithium propulsion systems cost $245-380/kWh delivered vs. $75-110/kWh for conventional systems – that's 3.3× more expensive with no way to close the gap without massive taxpayer subsidies [8].

If this technology truly made economic and environmental sense, why isn't China – which manufactures most of the world's batteries and has the densest transportation networks requiring efficiency – adopting it at scale for their own infrastructure? They desperately need cleaner air and water, have explicitly prioritized environmental improvements in recent policy, and would recognize a truly superior EROI technology before anyone. Their purchase behavior speaks very loud.

[1] Society of Automotive Engineers, Technical Paper 2024-01-0873, https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/20...

[2] Journal of Industrial Ecology, 24(1), 120-132, https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/15309290

[3] EPA eGRID 2023, https://www.epa.gov/egrid

[4] IEEE Transportation Electrification, 10(2), 1582-1593, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=668...

[5] Nature Energy, https://www.nature.com/articles/s41560-022-01060-5

[6] International Energy Agency, "The Role of Critical Minerals in Clean Energy Transitions", https://www.iea.org/reports/the-role-of-critical-minerals-in...

[7] Maritime Economics & Logistics, 26(2), 112-128, https://link.springer.com/journal/41278

[8] Journal of Transport Economics, 58(2), 234-248, https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-transport-econo...

https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-transport-econo...

https://www.sae.org/publications/technical-papers/content/20...

Losses via Gibbs free energy (237 kJ/mol to split H2O) and compression (20% of H2’s 120 MJ/kg.)

Barely cash in on the H2-O2 reaction (ΔH = -285.8 kJ/mol).

Battery buses, powered by lithium-ion cells, hit EROI of 2 to 4.

Redox heavy lithium mining (150 MJ/kg) drags it all down.

Charge-discharge losses (90% Coulombic efficiency)+ 5-10% capacity fade after 1000 cycles.

All trails diesel’s 5-10 EROI and 46 MJ/kg density.

I bought $AMR, $FCG, $UAN, and $POWL.

I bought $TSLA and sold almost at the top as well, but for different reasons than fundamentals. (Greenback boomerang CCP dollars etc...)

Chemistry doesn't lie and it imputes all of human behavior.