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What tech is most interesting to you right now?

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What tech is most interesting to you right now?

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Nothing. I can't think of any tech I'm particularly interested in. I don't game anymore, so whatever desktop is fine. Smartphones are a complete shitshow. There isn't anything I'm waiting on for refinements. I guess generally speaking, battery tech is cool, but I'm not reading up on it or anything.
 
lxskllr said:
Nothing. I can't think of any tech I'm particularly interested in. I don't game anymore, so whatever desktop is fine. Smartphones are a complete shitshow. There isn't anything I'm waiting on for refinements. I guess generally speaking, battery tech is cool, but I'm not reading up on it or anything.
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I was hoping that self driving cars would develop. Seems like 2-3 years ago there was a lot more optimism that it would take over. I'm not sensing that now. I figured my next car would drive itself, I'd be 20x safer, and not have to think about "getting there." Now I have no idea.
 
I feel self driving cars will improve but I just can't see them being the norm. There's just too many variables to account for. Every time they show a proof of concept it's on a nice summer day in the middle of California where all the conditions are perfect including nice clean crisp lines on the road and perfect straight barriers etc.

I will be impressed when they can show a self driving car on a more normalized street, full of snow, pot holes, irregular shaped snow banks on both sides, no real barrier or any easy way for a machine to tell where the edge of the road is etc.

Ex: highway 11.

highway-11-snow-1.jpg


This is kind of a bad example even, since it's not that hard to tell where the road is because of the lamp posts, but once your out of the city and you add a fresh snow fall to that and it becomes a bit less apparent. You could go by GPS but GPS is not accurate enough for high speed applications that need to be within less than a foot and need to make split second decisions. Anyone who has played pokenmon go will know this. 😛

I think the future of self driving cars will be to have some self driving taxi service that has some rather dedicated routes and the roads will be designed around them with signs that have QR codes and other indicator posts that keep the car within a boundary. Civilian cars will also be allowed on these routes and can go in full self driving mode ones they drive on that road. It would be kind of like a bus service where it has predetermined routes, you wait at a stop and a car stops, you get in and it takes you. Or if it's your own car it will take you to an exit where you need to take over driving.
 
Muse said:
Saw a brief news story this week where a small fleet of super sonic passenger jets was just ordered. Last thing they said was the aircraft (the image shown was amazing!) will have zero carbon emissions!
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If we 100% stopped carbon fuels, strip mining of the earth would increase 25X to supply the raw materials for solar/wind. Win.
 
highland145 said:
If we 100% stopped carbon fuels, strip mining of the earth would increase 25X to supply the raw materials for solar/wind. Win.
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We are already practically strip mining for oil since oil is needed on a continuous basis to fuel everything. At least things like materials needed for solar panels and batteries only need to be mined once for the life of the product. Eventually stuff is recycled and you end up with a somewhat closed loop life cycle. For example despite all the lead being used in every day products how much are we mining lead now days? Not any more than copper or gold I imagine. Lead is one of the most recycled metals.
 
IronWing said:
Someone lied to you.
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Maybe. Stop all carbon energy. How much solar/wind would it take to replace it? Just what would be the increase in copper demand be? Not counting the other high dollar components for solar/batteries.


Not being difficult, contrary to my norm..🙄...but someone surely has figured the cost. And, worse, if we have to get materials from our enemies.


Go Solyndra.
 
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Red Squirrel said:
We are already practically strip mining for oil since oil is needed on a continuous basis to fuel everything. At least things like materials needed for solar panels and batteries only need to be mined once for the life of the product. Eventually stuff is recycled and you end up with a somewhat closed loop life cycle. For example despite all the lead being used in every day products how much are we mining lead now days? Not any more than copper or gold I imagine. Lead is one of the most recycled metals.
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cobalt and such?
 
Muse said:
Saw a brief news story this week where a small fleet of super sonic passenger jets was just ordered. Last thing they said was the aircraft (the image shown was amazing!) will have zero carbon emissions!
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The first sentence is real, the second isn't.
 
Wooden sticks with carbon inserts that make marks on wood fibers bleached and pressed into thin sheets.

Problem is getting my hand to figure out how to use them effectively.
 
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