bidatzi's comments

bidatzi | 4 months ago | on: Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower

Why would it have to be unsprung? They are not unsprung in the vehicle shown in the article.

bidatzi | 5 years ago | on: EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind

UK contract is also on a “best effort” basis.

bidatzi | 6 years ago | on: Saudi Arabia Shuts Down About Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes

Could be just that, but it doesn’t seem that’s what happened https://twitter.com/tobiaschneider/status/117291970014739660...

bidatzi | 6 years ago | on: Saudi Arabia Shuts Down About Half Its Oil Output After Drone Strikes

With a range over 1000km?

bidatzi | 6 years ago | on: Google confirms Play store will continue to function for existing Huawei phones

It is owned by a union in a communist country https://www.baldingsworld.com/2019/04/26/making-sense-of-hua... How independent from CCP is that institution in practical terms?

bidatzi | 9 years ago | on: Tesla Announces $2B Public Offering to Accelerate Model 3 Ramp Up

Musk is a seller in this offering.

bidatzi | 9 years ago | on: Apple R&D Reveals a Pivot Is Coming

Sales went up 50% YoY. Loses went up 83% YoY.

bidatzi | 10 years ago | on: Coin Card Teardown

Is GDP the relevant metric to assess this?

On credit/debit card transaction volume North America represents 40+% of global market.

https://www.capgemini.com/resource-file-access/resource/pdf/...

bidatzi | 11 years ago | on: Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electricity

About your edit: fair enough, if you are talking about primary energy production. I understood what the figure provided in the first comment was referring to (electricity production/consumption) and was addressing that.

In the end, I think the fact that they produce all of their electricity from hydro is a fantastic achievement. That you (and many others, including a lot of people in Norway) would like them to stop pumping oil from the North Sea is (for me) a different issue.

I don't think Norway producing less oil would reduce global oil consumption.

FWIW, they produce about half of what they did in the early '00s.

bidatzi | 11 years ago | on: Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electricity

Let's see, the US imports 30-40% of the oil it consumes. Should that oil be accounted as used by the exporters?

Norway uses no fossil fuels for its electricity production. Norway happens to export a lot of oil. How does the second statement negate the first one?

bidatzi | 11 years ago | on: Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electricity

That figure (98%) is about electricity production, not total energy used by the country.

bidatzi | 11 years ago | on: Costa Rica Is Now Running on 100% Renewable Electricity

So do we have to tally Saudi oil pollution on the exporting country instead of those that actually use it?

bidatzi | 11 years ago | on: How Apple Makes the Watch

Not just a claim from the article. The description in the gold video itself is quite explicit.

bidatzi | 11 years ago | on: How Apple Makes the Watch

If you watch the gold video (or read the article), you'll see they're not using anything remotely similar to the process in that MMC patent. It's essentially a conventional alloy, mechanically hardened.