They could still have refused to sign it. Doing so would have saved their honor - congress can force a legislation but they cant force the prez to debase himself by adding his signature.
As it stands their signature signifies that they agree with the legislations.
The Canadian electrical market is deeply integrated w/ the US’, so you have to average the US’ energy mix in.
Furthermore, you have to consider that an extra electrical vehicle is charged on the margins. In some energy markets, even if they’re 80% renewable, that could mean the electrical car runs 100% on coal (much worse than gas). [1]
In BC theres no problem because they have a certain type (easy to store) of hydro, but Im not sure about Ontario.
And coal in the margins is very common, even though coal is dying. Coal and heavy oil plants have a huge advantage when it comes to stabilizing the grid - its easy to store thousands of tons of the stuff on-site. Therefore, in places like the N. East, very high CO2 emitting thermal plants are used in the winter to stabilize the grid (in the winter the NH4 pressure in the pipelines drops because of ppl heating their homes)
[1] This is the same reasoning why flying across the world dead-head is basically zero-emission: the flight is flying anyway and your added weight is negligible. This is not the case for paid seats since airlines will switch planes, add new ones, depending on the tickets sold.
The social issues are the loss of control over our motor vehicles like we lost control over our smart phones.
The car, and the freedom it gives, was a crucial player in the release of the Pentagon papers. With enough IoT tech that wont exist in 10 years (anywhere, nvm cars)
You mean before Robert Moses and the other 1930s progressives ruined our cities? I think it would have been great!
And I say that as a massive car buff, who cant help himself doing 70 on 40 mph country roads slamming the gear shifter up and down through the curves. I love speed.
Ad hominem, again. If you must know, Im a privacy freak who, like yourself, has been on HN for 10 years.[1]
Just kidding, Im a Russian troll trying to undermine SF’s recall election from St. Petersburg. That was the implication, right?
Ok, you caught me. Lets have a real conversation then.
The only thing I care less about than SF’s well being, is the well being of her tech billionaire overlords. If Boudin is going after them, good for him; but, believe it or not, I can also disagree with him on things!
Or maybe I dont disagree with him at all. Maybe, Im just really annoyed at ad hominem attacks being used to drown out debate.
Finally, dear “long time HN” account holder, I don't think that “well funded campaign” is inherently sinful, anymore than the liberal half of America is upset that Trump was outspent by a factor of two in 2020.
[1] Some homework: go back and read your 10 years, 12k karma points, of comments. How long before you've gathered enough information to dox yourself? Comment sections are scary!. Dont forget, 2^33 ~ world population.
“Scores” is also used as a rhetorical device to mean “too many” (in fact, I doubt more than 10% of people can define “score” as 20). “Few”, meaning “more than a couple” often implies that there isnt enough of something to matter. Id say that -given that turf violence is a thing - even a couple (two), of competing drug dealers are too many in “tiny dead-end street”.
Human minds are not compilers, we’re capable of nuance. Being as pedantic as when you're programming is counter productive in human conversation.
Plastic is recyclable though. 3D printing guys do it all the time when they spin their own fiber out of left over junk.
And “made out of recyclable plastic” is a thing, and it works.
What isnt recyclable are mixed plastics, ie consumer plastic. But industrial users (ie folks who have large quantities of the same thing so sorting is cheap) can and do recycle plastic.
Also, before I studied material science (and therefore became an “expert”), I had heard that plastics are difficult to recycle in the mass media - as a teenager in the 90s. The information was there in a digestible form, but most ppl ignored it because it was easier to pretend that we were doing something with our blue bins.
I have clear recollections in undergrad (not mtls science) of throwing plastic into the garbage and getting lectured about it. And lecturing back that recycled plastic isn't really a thing.
Its been known since Flory Higgins back in the 1940s, and DeGennes completed the understanding in the 70s: the crux of the problem is melted plastics dont mix.
If anything in the last few decades methods for recycling plastic have been investigated fairly successfully. But they’re either expensive (sort plastic, return to feedstock), or have image problems (burn in thermal plants, turn into diesel).
“Override the veto and be damed. But my name will not be on the bill.” Thats what they should have said.