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Lol, yah he called a payment to Stormy Daniels "legal fees" instead of "hush money". People can't take that stuff seriously, I hope you realise.

Indeed when Trump ran against Clinton he was attacked as a criminal as well, a "sexual predator". Didn't dent his voter appeal among women one bit, strangely.

So did Hilary Clinton. And we know what happened to her when she ran against Trump.

Ask not what your country can do for you! Ask what Nancy Pelosi can do for you! A: Get rid of the President and make you a presidential candidate, though nobody voted for you!

Women voters gravitate towards the stronger candidate, as Hitler showed in 1933. It's a fallacy to assume that women automatically vote left, they don't.

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Sure, but it's clear that hydrogen prices are falling and will continue to fall because of the development of economies of scale on the one hand and technical innovation on the other. Your example above assumes that hydrogen prices will be frozen at that level forever, which is not going to happen. What do you think will happen once Toyota, BMW, Hyundai, Honda et al will start mass producing hydrogen cars? The economies of scale for hydrogen production will expand enormously, making hydrogen much cheaper. That's not even counting the technological innovations. As for range, see the review of the MG ZS electric above to see that range anxiety with electric cars is a very real thing, as this person who reviewed that car for 6 months has clearly shown. And spending half an hour at a charging station is not my idea of fun either. https://gizmodo.com.au/2022/10/mg-zs-ev-review/

Well, you love your car, and that's understandable. However, impartial reviews of the MG ZS electric of 2022 are not that favourable. "The value proposition of the MG ZS EV isn’t well-considered, and it all comes back to range. Promising a 320km WLTP range on a full charge, the MG ZS EV makes non-city travel an anxious pain at best and a poorly planned accident at worst. ....charging times are quite slow (generally speaking you’ll often spend about half an hour at a charging station for enough charge to get you to your next stop) and most charging stations only offer two chargers at once (I did have to queue up two out of five times during the trip). The MG ZS EV pushes your range comfort zone to the brink. Offering only 320km WLTP range, the car reports a battery at 100 per cent as 254km range when turned off. I’m not entirely clear why this difference between WLTP range and reported battery range is so dramatically different, but it’s something that I didn’t experience when reviewing the Polestar 2, The Kia EV6 or the Kia Niro EV. Owners of the car have suggested that the range expectation difference could be due to the operating system not being up to date, however when I discussed this with MG, they told me it could be down to the way the car manages battery life. 254km is roughly 80 per cent of the 320km WLTP range this car offers, which is the same percentage the car is meant to lock at to maintain battery life. Once it reaches this point, it can be charged to 100 per cent (or, perhaps more accurately 120 per cent) at a much slower rate, similar to any other EV. If this is the case, then the car didn’t communicate this clearly, as it was reporting 254km… As 100 per cent. Drivers would likely only see the car reach levels of 320km (or above) when having the vehicle on charge for extended periods of time, but this was not something I saw once during my week with the vehicle, aside from when I first picked it up. Regardless, 320km isn’t a lot of wiggle room either. And this is absolutely to its detriment. 254km is obviously not a lot and is just under half of what you’d get in a standard Tesla Model 3, Cupra Born, Polestar 2, or Ioniq 5 (cars that, granted, cost over $20,000 more). This was evident during my trip between the Wallsend NRMA charger (my first charging stop after leaving Sydney) and the Taree Evie charger, about a 162km distance. I charged the car up to about 200km driving range and on arrival, I was down to 12 per cent (31km). This was… Terrifying. I’ve done this exact trip (Wallsend to Taree) in the EV6 and the Polestar, along with the Nissan Leaf, but the MG ZS EV was the first electric car to actually make me anxious about range. https://gizmodo.com.au/2022/10/mg-zs-ev-review/ The rest of the review of the MG ZS EV is even worse, to the extent the reviewer says it's only suitable as a side car. Clearly range is still an issue with this car.

A top speed of 170 kph is actually quite low compared to most petrol cars.

First of all manufacturers are lying about range in the case of BEV. Consumer organizations have shown that the actual range is often way less than the manufacturers advertise. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/electric-vehicles-consumer-reports-driving-range-study/ As you say yourself, when you're away from the house in areas with no charging infrastructure you quickly get charging anxiety with an electric car. The average range of an electric car this year, 2024, is 320 kilometres on a single charge. Not 500+. https://www.peterhanleymotors.ie/article/electric-cars---is-range-still-an-important-issue-when-buying-a-car

The simplified motor of electric cars also has a drawback. As most EVs operate on a single-speed gear, car producers must compromise between acceleration and top speed. You can compare this dilemma to having to choose only one gear level for your bicycle: the highest one would make it difficult to get started, the lowest one would make it inefficient to go faster. As a result, many EV models opt for a balanced approach, which often means lower top speeds compared to their multi-gear, gas-powered counterparts.

I can not only see it, it is happening right now: Green hydrogen: cheaper than fossil fuel hydrogen by 2030 Renewable green hydrogen is on track to be less expensive than fossil fuel generated hydrogen by 2030, according to a new Bloomberg report. There are two main reasons for the falling cost of renewable green hydrogen: economies of scale and electrolyser improvements. ‘Economies of scale’ is the term used to describe the savings that come from producing something in large quantities, with lots of competitors in the market. That is exactly what’s happening with green hydrogen, with the global market forecast to be worth US$280 million by 2050. Current production is around 2GW, with that predicted to grow to over 100GW by 2030. The second major factor helping drive down costs is electrolyser innovation, including new lower-cost Chinese electrolysers that have achieved world-beating rates of efficiency. The price of all electrolysers is falling, as capacity, competition, and efficiency increase. This will allow for larger facilities to be built, producing more green hydrogen and bringing the cost into line with fossil fuel hydrogens. Then as we keep investing in green hydrogen, it is on track to become even cheaper than the other types. At that point, other types of hydrogen are likely to be slowly phased out as we detransition away from fossil fuels altogether. https://clarus.co.nz/content-hub/green-hydrogen-cheaper-than-fossil-fuel-hydrogen-by-2030 Looks like McKinsey didn't do their homework. This report is by Americans and New Zealanders, looks like they also see hydrogen prices falling substantially. Guess the Japanese at Toyota knew something the McKinsey guys didn't.

It doesn't matter if you vote for CDU or SPD in Germany, both parties have shown that they will support mass immigration, but they do not run on those platforms. There is a party which seeks to curtail immigration, the AFD, but the entire political establishment, the state apparatus, including the secret service, the federal government administration and above all the German media, all work together to ensure the AFD cannot function and is not a viable party. German voters do not have a real choice. The vast majority of German voters are against mass immigration, bar far left extremists.

Renting is financially better. Buying really only makes sense if you know 100% where you want to live for the rest of your life and plan to stay there forever. You should not expect to make money from a condo in Thailand, unless you buy in the most in demand areas, but even there an over saturation exists. If you will make money there depends heavily on purchase price, and it tends to be high in popular areas. Obviously Bangkok is the best bet for investment, but it's risky. If you buy to live there in Chiang Mai or the countryside, that's another story, you have a gf or wife, and want to plant mango trees, what you do with your money is up to you. But it can take 2 years to sell.

They didn't. The overwhelming majority of Germans see the problems with unlimited mass immigration. However, Merkel just decided one day, hey we should let them in, we can do it. Do you think she ran on this platform prior to election? No.

That's a fair point, truly mass produced hydrogen cars are still some time off, even if great progress has been made and some hydrogen cars are in production. There are issues to be addressed, no doubt about it. I would agree that at the present the BEV is a better choice than the hydrogen car. However, this will change. If the long charging time for BEVs and the shorter range don't bother you, that's great, then it works for you. But other consumers won't see it that way. And if they can get a car that fuels in 1 minute and has double the range, they will most likely opt for the hydrogen car. Particularly for SUVs, where range and power can be issues, the lack of power of BEVs and their lack of range can put off many buyers.

Electric cars are mechanically less complex, but electronically they are massively MORE complex, which is why you cannot bring your BEV to any normal garage or mechanic and ask them to fix it. You would be able to do so with a hydrogen car, because mechanics would be familiar with the ICE basics the hydrogen car would use. Your "6 times more" is just nonsense, you can have no idea what a hydrogen car will cost to fuel or run once it is in mass production and universities and car developers have spent years to solve the cost issue. People said the same about electric cars btw. Let us say hydrogen cars would cost a premium initially, many consumers would still opt to buy them rather than an electric vehicle, if you can fuel a hydrogen car in 1 and a half minute, if you get massively greater range, if you can take it to any mechanic, if you are doing something better for the environment by not forcing Indonesian kids to mine nickel for your BEV, all these things mean that the hydrogen car is simply a much better proposition than a BEV. So even with a greater price tag many consumers would opt for the hydrogen car. Even now some buyers buy a hydrogen car rather than a BEV. It can be both, it is a new engine, very obviously, but it also uses the ICE basics. It is not hard to understand. Most BEVs have nickel in their batteries. Not fully though. Geely's new short blade battery is still no match for the 1 minute fuelling time of hydrogen cars. And you'd still be charging for a far shorter range than you would get with a hydrogen car. "Among the blade batteries with the same capacity, the average charging time for a long blade battery 10-80 percent is 26 minutes, and the average charging rate is 1.61 C, while the average time for the Aegis Short Blade Battery is 17 minutes and 4 seconds, and the average charging rate is 2.45 C, Geely Auto said, citing test data." https://cnevpost.com/2024/06/27/geely-releases-aegis-short-blade-battery/ If I'd have to look at the automotive future I'd certainly know who I'd rather look at, Toyota or McKinsey, Toyota every day of the week. You seem to mistake Toyota's drive for hydrogen cars for "marketing" but that's a mistake, Toyota are investing billions in the hydrogen cars over years, together with BMW, Kawaski, Yamaha, Honda and Hyundai. It's not just Toyota. And their hydrogen production facilities are already being subsidised by the UK and other governments. So it's not "marketing". It's progress. And the Hydrogen car will come, whether BEV acolytes like it or not. And it will be far better than any BEV.

That is part of the genius. You will be able to bring your hydrogen car to any mechanic or garage and they'll be able to fix it. Unlike the BEV, which almost no mechanic will be able to fix, unless they have had extensive training in electric vehicles, because BEVs are unlike normal engines. Total BS, it is a new and special engine, the entire motor industry reviews confirm this. And it will be a real engine used in real life, it's not by any stretch of the imagination a "marketing exercise". Total BS. Even that would be 700 to 800 per cent faster than charging a BEV. By a miniscule amount, which does not matter at all. In fact if Toyota wanted to build an even more powerful hydrogen engine they could do so. Very foolish, because it is the smartest thing to do to use existing IC engines, for various reasons which you don't seem to get. And what if nickel reserves run out and there's no more batteries that can be built? Total nonsense, the hydrogen engine would have a massive list of advantages that would make it preferable to a BEV. That's you, but a lot of drivers like the feel of a real engine, and especially the sound. The tank does take too much room at the moment, but this issue will be solved, and when it is, the many advantages the hydrogen engine will have over the BEV will most likely make the BEV the dinosaur. Actually the hydrogen car makes a lot more sense.

He's a very handsome man. Just look at his hair.

Yes, I saw and you rightly pointed that out. It's a very strange story which does not appear to tell the full final chapter. Why would the brother set her on fire just because she refused to go back with the husband? Presumably he want her for himself anyway, and her saying no to the husband would have been in his favour.

I hope not, I've never been in that situation. However, if my girl would leave me, take the child, go and get drunk in the bar, then pork my brother and shack up with him, I may well get slightly peeved.

The article does not say that, so we have no evidence for this either way. It could be. It could equally be she left the toddler home alone. Either way, she went drinking in the bar and got drunk. Without her toddler.

You'd have to be a complete fool to laugh at that Toyota Yamaha V8 Hydrogen IC engine. The fact that it's basically an ICE is of course part of the genius of this engine. It means the usual garages can repair it, unlike with a BEV. Less powerful? It has 455 BP horse power, you need more than that for your shopping in Chiang Rai? I doubt it.

The thing is those arguments could become secondary concerns if a hydrogen car sees production which: 1) Like the new Toyota Yaris GRH2 only takes a minute and a half to fill completely full of Hydrogen, is even faster to fill up than a petrol car, let alone 8 hours overnight like for a BEV. 2) Is far more resiliient to hot and cold climates. Lithium batteries can withstand up to -140 degrees Fahrenheit before they start to freeze up, which can still occur occasionally. Hydrogen can withstand -435 degrees Fahrenheit, which shows it is the best choice in cold temperatures worldwide. The same holds true when comparing the hot end of the spectrum: Hydrogen has a much broader climate adaptability than the other two options currently available. 3) Which will not run out of material to build batteries, like BEVs soon will. Lithium batteries are not made out of materials that can easily be produced. In fact, many people, such as the CEO of Toyota (former CEO Akio Toyoda), see a shortage of lithium and battery-grade nickel, which means that there will be a lack of materials needed to produce the lithium batteries used in EVs. That could create a major setback in the move towards electric vehicles, which could be avoided by using hydrogen-powered engines if they are engineered to maximize their full potential. 4) Sounds like a real car, not like a dead remote. 5) Is not as prone to exploding as lithium battery BEVs 6) Is much longer lasting than lithium battery BEVs. Given all the above advantages most consumers would then choose a hydrogen car rather than a BEV.

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