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Clean energy enthusiast. Rehabilitator of spaces. Lover of nature. Believer in social justice.
The deli counter model works great in a classic producer/consumer idiom -- take a number, wait for someone to call you over. If you get bored and go to get some ice cream while you were waiting and they call your number and you aren't there, well you go to the back of the queue.
Charger vendors to acknowledge these problems are happening now, and they need to solve them.
As Alan Tudyk said so eloquently in Resident Alien, this is some kind of bullshit.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6oUs5TQa-U
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If you thought people watching video on their cell phones without earplugs was bad, wait until you have to negotiate a place in line at a busy fast charger.
Back in early 2025 I wrote up my experiences renting EVs from Hertz. At the time, one of my observations was that queuing at busy locations was largely cordial, but had the potential for trouble as demand [inevitably] grew beyond capacity.
At a popular grocery nearby, there are about ten Tesla chargers.
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The Iranian crisis has uncovered some surprising data lurking under the surface of global petro-politics.
China appears to have been running its solar production at half capacity.
Until March this year, China's solar industry, it seems, has had an extra gear in reserve, waiting for the moment it needed a speed boost.
New data from the Chinese GACC via Ember (the Energy Think Tank) tells this story. The data show China's March 2026 solar exports at 68GW -- double February's volume.
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