Everyone is buying from China. Nobody has the resources and cheap enough labour and fiscal policies that control labour wages and export costs to keep the panels as cheap as what China can make. It’s their century now.
Thing is, does it matter? Once they’re made they’ll be used for the next 20 years, it’s not like the stock needs constant replenishment because it can be used precisely once like LNG.
Or turn that family tree into a Laurel wreath.
Clearly this guy as he gives junior crew members a chance to shine through their work. 
Fucking psychologists.
Meanwhile it’s costing the UK public broadcaster money to defend, money that’d have gone to show production and infrastructure upgrades to compete with Netflix/Prime Video/Disney Plus/etc.
Wouldn’t at all surprise me if the streaming services as part of the caputilation deals with the trump controlled FCC wanted him to burn a good portion of the BBCs money with this SLAPP and/or give political ammunition to Farage and Murdoch to get the BBC disbanded when they get into power.
I would also like to point out that the NHS 111 helpline DOES NOT have a list of cooling centres to escape the extreme heat.
We’re just walking straight into societal collapse and nobody’s doing the slightest thing about it.
Hmmmmm lower electric bills for our countries electorate OR giant buildings they hate that pollute their water, give them ill health from noise pollution, and take their jobs?
We do things differently here.
Nah mate, let’s pick him up, dump him in a canal, and then pelt him with bits of broken brick as he tries to swim and climb out whilst calling him an absolute melt.
Boron and Sand?
The inner circle is always shrinking, it’s part of the fascistic “eternal struggle” bullshit; there’s always got to be an enemy.
Sort-of. What I’m imagining is a small selection of vehicle sizes from small hatchback to estate/people carrier to van/kei-sized pickup that have a common battery pack size, motor, and inverter.
You’d choose the type of vehicle that has just the basics built-in like safety and AC.
The rest is customisable and allows for 3rd party manufacturers to make ancillary products for it. Do this by using existing standards for 3rd party automotive parts and then create new standards with open sourced designs for things that aren’t: i.e. the battery pack size and interface, and inverter size and interface.
Eventually what I’d like to see is a market where people can keep these vehicles running by upgrading, repairing, recycling.
If I had a billion dollars laying around I’d sink it into trying to create an automotive co-operative to get at least 3 different sized vehicles with a common battery, motor, and inverter made, through certification, and then released. Then let the market do it’s thing when presented with a new opportunity: adopt and grow.
And I know that I’m certainly missing a lot of issues with this idea but that’s just what it is, an idea and it’ll probably stay that way unless someone else has the resources to make it.
Slate Auto is a good start, what I’d want is something that’s beyond what they’re offering at the moment.
Wishing them best of luck, despite Jeff Bezos, the Amazon cunt, backing them.
What I’d like is a EV that has no additional shite attached other than what I want.
Just give me a chassis with a standardised battery pack, that has AC. Then let ME choose what after-market 3rd party options to put in such as:
Heated seats, Radio/CD/BT/carplay or android auto using standard car DIN box sizes, reversing sensors, cruise control, cab lighting, etc.
You think the US can’t invade itself?
Hahahahahaha, here in Britain the ruling class managed to colonize their own country to entrench the class system by tieing the economy to the financial services sector.
I reckon the US would invade itself, after all the only wars they know how to fight are against guerrilla forces (even then it’s a spotty record), and there’s none more challenging than one that speaks the same language.
Honestly, I’m done being well informed. There’s literally nothing I can do about any of the stuff happening on the global level or even national level apart from get depressed and angry.
So I’m narrowing my attention to what I can change around me.
So how long until the next album then?