Even if you have a futures contract, that contract is worthless if the goods don't exist. They can protect against the price going up, but if availability at any price is in question they are meaningless.
Also, if you have a contract it might still be in your best interest to sell the contract and not take the fuel at all.
1% of females as well, but few know that even though there must be a lot out there.
I was in college when my mom brought the books home one weekend. As she suspected my sister was also colorblind. Mom gets three wrong and you need more than three to be colorblind - but latter she was working in a clothing store and a customer ask for a discount for some stain she couldn't see but the manager saw it from 10 feet away and gave the discount.
I can tell the difference between the red and green light - but if a left turn turn light comes on while the red remains (that is only left turns no going straight) I'll probably miss it because the green is so faint and red obvious
I bought a used EV, and the loan is massive and more than I can afford (but I didn't have a choice - my area is car dependent and I go many places too far for my bike)
Power to ports is the least of my worry - that is cheap to build compared to all the other costs.
Charging on diesel doesn't make sense though. It makes more sense to have a 'tug boat' with engines for those trips and then it can do something else (what?). Can an existing ship (either cruise or cargo) tow this across the ocean on need?
in the end though my question is can batteries large enough fit on a ship. Everything else is logistict we can figure out but batteries are not energy dense. Ships have a lot of space (and need ballest weight on the bottom), but is there enough?
Most of the time a cruise ship is only going to move as far as it can get in a night. The sales pitch is you get to see a different city every day. There are a few places where the ship wants to be during the day (some glaciers are beautiful from the sea), but most of the time the customers plan on walking on dry land every single day, just in a different city. Thus they only need enough to get to the next port. Most transatlantic cruises sell at a large discounts because most people find the idea of spending a week on a ship not interesting (there are exceptions).
As such it is believable that most cruise ships could run on battery most of the time, and only need generators for crossing the ocean. That is very different from your typical cargo ship that is crossing the ocean on every trip and so needs a lot more energy. Of course believable is very different from reality, batteries are not very energy dense, and so it isn't clear if it really can work or if this is a press release that will fail when real engineers (or the real world) get involved.
That is a headline yes. However I have not been able to trace it down to anyone who is independent and has looked at what it really means. There are too many ways to cherry-pick numbers to make a point. I don't want headlines, I want someone who understands traffic safety and how to work with numbers to do an in-depth analysis. This is hard work, and so far it is missing (except as done by the self driving companies and thus biased)
"reiterates that “59 people have been killed in over 3,000 crashes involving Tesla’s self-driving software in the U.S. since 2021 alone”
more than 42,000 people were killed on the road in just the US alone, almost all by human drivers!
The real need is not perfection, it is at least as good as humans. Better than humans would be nice. Don't be fooled by statistics, they can be manipulated to say whatever you want, and it isn't just Tesla doing it!
Sadly even though I'm sure data exists I've never seen anyone independent publish anything trust worthy on how self driving compares to humans. All I've seen is data from someone with obvious biases. (they might be right but they still have a bias and so need independent analysis)
Maybe, but that isn't clear. Like I said, I don't have fuel source statistics, even though that is important. I suspect it is too early to gather those statistics.
The Prius has some battery replacement, but my impression is most of them the battery lasts for life, only in a few cases is it seen as worth it to replace a battery (or just a dead cell?). EVs have not been around long enough to really develop this industry - if it ever will develop.
The leaf is an outlier - their battery management system was poor and it killed the battery in ways that nearly every other make avoids. The leaf sold in enough numbers, long enough ago, that I'd expect to see an industry to replace the battery if one will happen and it doesn't seem to be as large as one should expect. This is a sign of something - but what it is too early to tell.
Retail will take anyone and train them which is why it is so easy.
Every other job needs someone with special skills and so they are selective and hard to get in. Even though most people don't work retails, there is much more competition for these jobs, and a lot less job in any given specialty. The better the job the less competition there is - but there still is plenty of competition.
Which means you need to not ask for "a job", but select the specific job and then set yourself up to be good at that on your own time. The more specialized you get, the better a chance you have a job in that specialty - but the worse chance you get at any other job! Which means choosing the right specialty is critically important. Good luck (usually it too bad though as most things have enough demand).
The worst part: once you get a job they start teaching you the skill for that. It is really hard to change latter because you go from an expert to beginner.
Remember what others have said though: who you know is more important that what you know! So figure out who you know! Figure out what they can maybe get you into, and apply the above in consideration of that. Sometimes people will tell you what they can help you with, sometimes they won't know but you can guess.
Some exists. However there appears to be less than total demand. Somebody won't get some in that situation and if everyone has a contract to get it someone's contract will not be fulfilled. (most contracts also contain fine print about this situation)