And probably drives on the most efficient route for their run.
You're about halfway along the run? They'll always pass you about halfway through the day.
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Contracts basically always have conditions for each party to back out. There's probably a break fee but for leased vehicles it's probably not that significant.
As a construction company, the Tesla fleet is probably a pretty small portion of their vehicle fleet and cashflow.
Could also be some kind of 'bringing the business into disrepute' clause there.
I imagine something akin to a draft or arranged marriages. You're not married, you're not married, congrats you're now married.
I'm not too fond of calling this a 'tax'. Tax money goes to funding actually useful things. Conservatives want you to think that giving money to the government and throwing it down the toilet are the same thing.
That would likely be the winch, but yes, you'll need a nice large regenerating motor drive.
I would hazard a guess that a 40t-rated winch, 40t-rated 100m wire rope, and 40t-rated steel bucket to hold the scrap each cost more than a 10kWh battery.
I'm not liking their maths.
For a large shaft, we move weights up to 40 metric tonnes, which give us the capability to store up to 10 kWh of energy per 100 metres of depth.
40t ~= 400kN, so at 100m that's 40MJ. Sure, that's 11.1kWh mechanical, perhaps a little optimistic to say you'll get 10kWh back. That's a smallish home battery.
Where do you get another five-and-a-bit orders of magnitude from, to get to two gigawatt-hours?
Pumped hydro works because water is really really cheap and pretty easy to store, so millions of tonnes of water is doable, whether the height is tens or hundreds of meters.
Steel/iron/concrete is just too expensive. And you can't fit much in a five meter shaft compared to a lake.
The ~~Master~~ Mistress of ~~L-space~~ B-space.
Insert 'Full Self Driving' Here.
Also, outlook's auto alt text function told me that a conveyor belt was a picture of someone's screen today.
Yeah; it's 'sufficient' for a lot of purposes. It's like complaining about things being made out of cheap plastic; it's not as good but it's often good enough. There are ethical concerns but they won't generally stop its use.
Using it to make decisions or write actual technical documentations is different. But most art doesn't need to be correct; it's art.
Redundancy doesn't necessarily come with a golden handshake, though many employment contracts do mandate it.
But they do have to try to find you another job elsewhere in the organisation if that's possible, and they have to disestablish the position not necessarily you. That means that if they want to make one person from a team redundant, they generally have to actually ask if anyone wants to leave, and if not, run a transparent process to decide who from the team to make redundant, not just pick someone.
You also have to not be planning to re-hire for the role any time soon as that would imply the redundancy wasn't genuine.
What the actual fuck? I don't remember the last time I got a scam call; might not be this year.
I got a phishing email last week.
Apparently another reason to be glad I'm in NZ.