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mostlysignssomeportents · 3 months

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Cleantech has an enshittification problem

On July 14, I'm giving the closing keynote for the fifteenth HACKERS ON PLANET EARTH, in QUEENS, NY. Happy Bastille Day! On July 20, I'm appearing in CHICAGO at Exile in Bookville.

EVs won't save the planet. Ultimately, the material bill for billions of individual vehicles and the unavoidable geometry of more cars-more traffic-more roads-greater distances-more cars dictate that the future of our cities and planet requires public transit – lots of it.

But no matter how much public transit we install, there's always going to be some personal vehicles on the road, and not just bikes, ebikes and scooters. Between deliveries, accessibility, and stubbornly low-density regions, there's going to be a lot of cars, vans and trucks on the road for the foreseeable future, and these should be electric.

Beyond that irreducible minimum of personal vehicles, there's the fact that individuals can't install their own public transit system; in places that lack the political will or means to create working transit, EVs are a way for people to significantly reduce their personal emissions.

In policy circles, EV adoption is treated as a logistical and financial issue, so governments have focused on making EVs affordable and increasing the density of charging stations. As an EV owner, I can affirm that affordability and logistics were important concerns when we were shopping for a car.

But there's a third EV problem that is almost entirely off policy radar: enshittification.

An EV is a rolling computer in a fancy case with a squishy person inside of it. While this can sound scary, there are lots of cool implications for this. For example, your EV could download your local power company's tariff schedule and preferentially charge itself when the rates are lowest; they could also coordinate with the utility to reduce charging when loads are peaking. You can start them with your phone. Your repair technician can run extensive remote diagnostics on them and help you solve many problems from the road. New features can be delivered over the air.

That's just for starters, but there's so much more in the future. After all, the signal virtue of a digital computer is its flexibility. The only computer we know how to make is the Turing complete, universal, Von Neumann machine, which can run every valid program. If a feature is computationally tractable – from automated parallel parking to advanced collision prevention – it can run on a car.

The problem is that this digital flexibility presents a moral hazard to EV manufacturers. EVs are designed to make any kind of unauthorized, owner-selected modification into an IP rights violation ("IP" in this case is "any law that lets me control the conduct of my customers or competitors"):

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

EVs are also designed so that the manufacturer can unilaterally exert control over them or alter their operation. EVs – even more than conventional vehicles – are designed to be remotely killswitched in order to help manufacturers and dealers pressure people into paying their car notes on time:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/24/rent-to-pwn/#kitt-is-a-demon

Manufacturers can reach into your car and change how much of your battery you can access:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/28/edison-not-tesla/#demon-haunted-world

They can lock your car and have it send its location to a repo man, then greet him by blinking its lights, honking its horn, and pulling out of its parking space:

https://tiremeetsroad.com/2021/03/18/tesla-allegedly-remotely-unlocks-model-3-owners-car-uses-smart-summon-to-help-repo-agent/

And of course, they can detect when you've asked independent mechanic to service your car and then punish you by degrading its functionality:

https://www.repairerdrivennews.com/2024/06/26/two-of-eight-claims-in-tesla-anti-trust-lawsuit-will-move-forward/

This is "twiddling" – unilaterally and irreversibly altering the functionality of a product or service, secure in the knowledge that IP law will prevent anyone from twiddling back by restoring the gadget to a preferred configuration:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/

The thing is, for an EV, twiddling is the best case scenario. As bad as it is for the company that made your EV to change how it works whenever they feel like picking your pocket, that's infinitely preferable to the manufacturer going bankrupt and bricking your car.

That's what just happened to owners of Fisker EVs, cars that cost $40-70k. Cars are long-term purchases. An EV should last 12-20 years, or even longer if you pay to swap the battery pack. Fisker was founded in 2016 and shipped its first Ocean SUV in 2023. The company is now bankrupt:

https://insideevs.com/news/723669/fisker-inc-bankruptcy-chapter-11-official/

Fisker called its vehicles "software-based cars" and they weren't kidding. Without continuous software updates and server access, those Fisker Ocean SUVs are turning into bricks. What's more, the company designed the car from the ground up to make any kind of independent service and support into a felony, by wrapping the whole thing in overlapping layers of IP. That means that no one can step in with a module that jailbreaks the Fisker and drops in an alternative firmware that will keep the fleet rolling.

This is the third EV risk – not just finance, not just charger infrastructure, but the possibility that any whizzy, cool new EV company will go bust and brick your $70k cleantech investment, irreversibly transforming your car into 5,500 lb worth of e-waste.

This confers a huge advantage onto the big automakers like VW, Kia, Ford, etc. Tesla gets a pass, too, because it achieved critical mass before people started to wise up to the risk of twiddling and bricking. If you're making a serious investment in a product you expect to use for 20 years, are you really gonna buy it from a two-year old startup with six months' capital in the bank?

The incumbency advantage here means that the big automakers won't have any reason to sink a lot of money into R&D, because they won't have to worry about hungry startups with cool new ideas eating their lunches. They can maintain the cozy cartel that has seen cars stagnate for decades, with the majority of "innovation" taking the form of shitty, extractive and ill-starred ideas like touchscreen controls and an accelerator pedal that you have to rent by the month:

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/23/23474969/mercedes-car-subscription-faster-acceleration-feature-price

Put that way, it's clear that this isn't an EV problem, it's a cleantech problem. Cleantech has all the problems of EVs: it requires a large capital expenditure, it will be "smart," and it is expected to last for decades. That's rooftop solar, heat-pumps, smart thermostat sensor arrays, and home storage batteries.

And just as with EVs, policymakers have focused on infrastructure and affordability without paying any attention to the enshittification risks. Your rooftop solar will likely be controlled via a Solaredge box – a terrible technology that stops working if it can't reach the internet for a protracted period (that's right, your home solar stops working if the grid fails!).

I found this out the hard way during the covid lockdowns, when Solaredge terminated its 3G cellular contract and notified me that I would have to replace the modem in my system or it would stop working. This was at the height of the supply-chain crisis and there was a long waiting list for any replacement modems, with wifi cards (that used your home internet rather than a cellular connection) completely sold out for most of a year.

There are good reasons to connect rooftop solar arrays to the internet – it's not just so that Solaredge can enshittify my service. Solar arrays that coordinate with the grid can make it much easier and safer to manage a grid that was designed for centralized power production and is being retrofitted for distributed generation, one roof at a time.

But when the imperatives of extraction and efficiency go to war, extraction always wins. After all, the Solaredge system is already in place and solar installers are largely ignorant of, and indifferent to, the reasons that a homeowner might want to directly control and monitor their system via local controls that don't roundtrip through the cloud.

Somewhere in the hindbrain of any prospective solar purchaser is the experience with bricked and enshittified "smart" gadgets, and the knowledge that anything they buy from a cool startup with lots of great ideas for improving production, monitoring, and/or costs poses the risk of having your 20 year investment bricked after just a few years – and, thanks to the extractive imperative, no one will be able to step in and restore your ex-solar array to good working order.

I make the majority of my living from books, which means that my pay is very "lumpy" – I get large sums when I publish a book and very little in between. For many years, I've used these payments to make big purchases, rather than financing them over long periods where I can't predict my income. We've used my book payments to put in solar, then an induction stove, then a battery. We used one to buy out the lease on our EV. And just a month ago, we used the money from my upcoming Enshittification book to put in a heat pump (with enough left over to pay for a pair of long-overdue cataract surgeries, scheduled for the fall).

When we started shopping for heat pumps, it was clear that this was a very exciting sector. First of all, heat pumps are kind of magic, so efficient and effective it's almost surreal. But beyond the basic tech – which has been around since the late 1940s – there is a vast ferment of cool digital features coming from exciting and innovative startups.

By nature, I'm the kid of person who likes these digital features. I started out as a computer programmer, and while I haven't written production code since the previous millennium, I've been in and around the tech industry for my whole adult life. But when it came time to buy a heat-pump – an investment that I expected to last for 20 years or more – there was no way I was going to buy one of these cool new digitally enhanced pumps, no matter how much the reviewers loved them. Sure, they'd work well, but it's precisely because I'm so knowledgeable about high tech that I could see that they would fail very, very badly.

You may think EVs are bullshit, and they are – though there will always be room for some personal vehicles, and it's better for people in transit deserts to drive EVs than gas-guzzlers. You may think rooftop solar is a dead-end and be all-in on utility scale solar (I think we need both, especially given the grid-disrupting extreme climate events on our horizon). But there's still a wide range of cleantech – induction tops, heat pumps, smart thermostats – that are capital intensive, have a long duty cycle, and have good reasons to be digitized and networked.

Take home storage batteries: your utility can push its rate card to your battery every time they change their prices, and your battery can use that information to decide when to let your house tap into the grid, and when to switch over to powering your home with the solar you've stored up during the day. This is a very old and proven pattern in tech: the old Fidonet BBS network used a version of this, with each BBS timing its calls to other nodes to coincide with the cheapest long-distance rates, so that messages for distant systems could be passed on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FidoNet

Cleantech is a very dynamic sector, even if its triumphs are largely unheralded. There's a quiet revolution underway in generation, storage and transmission of renewable power, and a complimentary revolution in power-consumption in vehicles and homes:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/12/s-curve/#anything-that-cant-go-on-forever-eventually-stops

But cleantech is too important to leave to the incumbents, who are addicted to enshittification and planned obsolescence. These giant, financialized firms lack the discipline and culture to make products that have the features – and cost savings – to make them appealing to the very wide range of buyers who must transition as soon as possible, for the sake of the very planet.

It's not enough for our policymakers to focus on financing and infrastructure barriers to cleantech adoption. We also need a policy-level response to enshittification.

Ideally, every cleantech device would be designed so that it was impossible to enshittify – which would also make it impossible to brick:

Based on free software (best), or with source code escrowed with a trustee who must release the code if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

All patents in a royalty-free patent-pool (best); or in a trust that will release them into a royalty-free pool if the company enters administration (distant second-best);

No parts-pairing or other DRM permitted (best); or with parts-pairing utilities available to all parties on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best);

All diagnostic and error codes in the public domain, with all codes in the clear within the device (best); or with decoding utilities available on demand to all comers on a reasonable and non-discriminatory basis (distant second-best).

There's an obvious business objection to this: it will reduce investment in innovative cleantech because investors will perceive these restrictions as limits on the expected profits of their portfolio companies. It's true: these measures are designed to prevent rent-extraction and other enshittificatory practices by cleantech companies, and to the extent that investors are counting on enshittification rents, this might prevent them from investing.

But that has to be balanced against the way that a general prohibition on enshittificatory practices will inspire consumer confidence in innovative and novel cleantech products, because buyers will know that their investments will be protected over the whole expected lifespan of the product, even if the startup goes bust (nearly every startup goes bust). These measures mean that a company with a cool product will have a much larger customer-base to sell to. Those additional sales more than offset the loss of expected revenue from cheating and screwing your customers by twiddling them to death.

There's also an obvious legal objection to this: creating these policies will require a huge amount of action from Congress and the executive branch, a whole whack of new rules and laws to make them happen, and each will attract court-challenges.

That's also true, though it shouldn't stop us from trying to get legal reforms. As a matter of public policy, it's terrible and fucked up that companies can enshittify the things we buy and leave us with no remedy.

However, we don't have to wait for legal reform to make this work. We can take a shortcut with procurement – the things governments buy with public money. The feds, the states and localities buy a lot of cleantech: for public facilities, for public housing, for public use. Prudent public policy dictates that governments should refuse to buy any tech unless it is designed to be enshittification-resistant.

This is an old and honorable tradition in policymaking. Lincoln insisted that the rifles he bought for the Union Army come with interoperable tooling and ammo, for obvious reasons. No one wants to be the Commander in Chief who shows up on the battlefield and says, "Sorry, boys, war's postponed, our sole supplier decided to stop making ammunition."

By creating a market for enshittification-proof cleantech, governments can ensure that the public always has the option of buying an EV that can't be bricked even if the maker goes bust, a heat-pump whose digital features can be replaced or maintained by a third party of your choosing, a solar controller that coordinates with the grid in ways that serve their owners – not the manufacturers' shareholders.

We're going to have to change a lot to survive the coming years. Sure, there's a lot of scary ways that things can go wrong, but there's plenty about our world that should change, and plenty of ways those changes could be for the better. It's not enough for policymakers to focus on ensuring that we can afford to buy whatever badly thought-through, extractive tech the biggest companies want to foist on us – we also need a focus on making cleantech fit for purpose, truly smart, reliable and resilient.

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/06/26/unplanned-obsolescence/#better-micetraps

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waterloggedsoliloquy · 6 months

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carsthatnevermadeitetc · 1 year

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AIM EV Sport 01, 2023. A new electric sports car designed by Shiro Nakamura, long-time design chief at Nissan who was responsible for, among others, the designs for the Cube, Qashqai, Leaf and GT-R. The EV Sport 01 has been developed by Nagoya-based engineering firm AIM, and uses two liquid-cooled, high-performance electric motors, one on each rear wheel. Using a 81kWh battery split between four packs, the 1425kg prototype produces a total 483bhp.It will be at next week's Goodwood Festival of Speed

#AIM #AIM EV Sport 01 #electric sports car #Goodwood Festival of Speed #new cars #Shiro Nakamura #EV #butterfly doors #prototype #2023 #Nagoya #lightweight #dual motor

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skittlewaffle · 1 year

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… :) Hi. My friend said I should make an animatronic OC into a character you would see in the Security Breach Ruin DLC. boy did I have fun forcing myself to figure out Rain’s internal mechanisms 😵‍💫 (more info below the cut :)) But genuinely I absolutely LOVE rendering; I’ve never actually been more detailed in a piece like this tho. I’m improving! :D

Little timelapse for you too, since I decided to test out the feature on CSP :V

This is what Rain originally looked like! (Post here)

Internal Mechanisms

There are two wheels beneath her dress on either side of her where her “shoulders” would be from which wires are dispensed, creating “hands” that are useful for grabbing things that are hard to reach. She was designed to only let out wires individually; however, in her Ruined form, the central cylinder containing the wires that feed into her spools has unscrewed from the bottom and burst through the front panel, allowing more wires to spill out. I was going to have some of the cables frayed in some places, causing an electric hazard, but I was too lazy to draw something like that.

Her head is intentionally split into three pieces for venting out heated systems. A small rectangular shape can be seen along the edge of the unhinged piece; this is where the plates latch and unlatch. You can hear them clicking, locking and unlocking, when Rain has to think really hard. She may be “right as rain” when doing her job, but in interactions outside of childcare, she has proven to be pretty inept, overthinking and overheating easily. You may notice how her hair is burnt in a line where her face is split. Her processors, memory, local data, cooling fans, battery, and the like are built strategically along the inside of her head, while giving room for some extra long-reaching wires to be stored inside behind the framing for her LED eyes.

In her Ruined form, Rain’s legs are missing. Normally, her leg joints sticked out from pathways along her central cylinder. One around the circumference allowed her to spin her body while keeping her feet in place, while two along the sides allowed her to store her legs away (think of Eve from Wall-E), normally to enter rest mode, though she also uses it while active to sit down. Her dress touches the ground and gives her the appearance of an adorable chess piece.

#security breach ruin #ruin dlc #fnaf security breach #fnaf sb #daycare attendant #daycare attendant oc #daycare assistant #dca #fnaf oc #five nights at freddy's #k’s art #digital #digital art

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aholefilledwithtwigs · 22 days

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EVs in general need to address rescue/fire suppression. It’s not a uniquely Tesla problem

My issue is that their insistence on water cooling the enclosure (but not the actual batteries) to control the fire. Fire departments have started getting special fire suppression blankets or (toxic) chemical extinguishers to deal with lithium fires

My guess as to why Tesla insists on water is because it is standard fire suppression technology. Every fire department is equipped with it. The moment Tesla acknowledges needing advanced fire suppression technologies that means fire departments need more equipment (potentially at Tesla’s expense)

Tesla just being cheap again

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dullahandyke · 5 months

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yippee yippee yippee yippee eimear con haul!!!!

Hi. It was my birthday recently and I'm bad to shop for so instead of gifts I got money to spend at Kaizokucon. So here's a haul. Under the cut bcos I couldnt fit it nicely in one picture and I wanna ramble

ok we're gonna take it one picture at a time ^_^ the ID in the alt text explains what everything is if u just wanna see what i got without the rambling sure to come with it. links in rambling r to the artists of the fan stuff where i can find em ^_^ only one of them is a direct link to the product tho bcos some ppls shops r down and some ppl dont have all their stuff online. lemons_arent_green youre a real one

Ok the flat stuff!!! black rock shooter poster bcos i already have a figure but i liek her... badass anime girl ily.... was so so sure i saw a reigen keychain but when i went to go get one there weren't any so i got this sticker sheet instead :3 SPEAKING OF KEYCHAINS!!! yippee yippee kaguya i love you youre my special little tiempsy. yue you are a gay anime boy with a cool design. tomoyo ive always felt a kinship with you and its because im a desperate dyke. monokuma is here ig 🙄 i put him on my carabiner and hes fun to stim with. i am not immune to the sdr2 fanboying. also full disclosure ive not watched naruto (its in the spreadsheet) i just thought funko pop sasuke keychain was really really funny. my son who stares into my soul. comparatively i dont have as much to say on the badges!! luka luka fever for real girlie ily. the bandori ones were blind bags and i got himari on my first try <3<3<3<3<3<3 sorry eve i kind of dont care. 🙁 the dr girlies i kinda picked at random based on who i've been vibing w lately.

THE POKEMON DIORAMA!!!! its soooo cool, staff were setting up the trade hall so i was in there all day friday and this shop was one of the first to set up their stands and i was literally staring at it all day... so fucking awesome. the rings n the necklace r from the same shop look at them... im fucking obsessed w the catgirl necklace. literally look at her. i dont thiiink shes supposed to be a specific character but she might be. oh well. cat girl ily. aaaand the arisa stand is actually a little clip for papers n stuff!! she was also a blind box but specifically for popipa so i was gonna b happy w whoever <3

MIIIIKUUUUUU MY PRINCESS MY EVERYTHING!!!!! she was calling to me she beckoned..... shes actually rlly big irl shes the biggest figure i have, replacing my kokoro one... shes the one where i audibly said 'it was my birthday i can buy things' bcos figures spencey... she wasnt too bad actually i just like bitching. 6 euro axel for scale

BOOKS 💥💥💥 i was reading nana a while back and i dropped it but i gotta pick it up again... rlly pretty and awesome... aaaand the summer hikaru died!!! kay if youre seeing this then know you posting abt it convinced me <3 i originally got it bcos i was on door duty in a quiet area and didnt wanna spend my time draining battery life on my phone but after i bought it i realised that that was literally a terrible idea so <3 we'll get around to them soon

FINALLLYYYYYY TSHIRTS!!! the top yellow one was my staff t-shirt, it has 'staff' on the back i was wearing it all weekend and yippee i love it.... emotional bond.... and if this is a safe space can i just say. if kaito was a woman? would. next up FAYE FUCKIN VALENTINEEEE!!! do u remember that post i made going thru all the sellers that were gonna b at the con that started like 'i hate shounen fans. name a woman'? well this is the seller i was talking about but all was forgiven in the name of FAYE ! GODDAMN ! VALENTINE ! ugh i love you girlie. and the last t-shirt was given out free to staff after the closing ceremony!! it was the tenth anniversary of kaizokucon so we got this awesomes design yay.... wore it to classes today hoping somebody would comment on it and nobody did 😌and in the middle i got CLOW CARRRDS BITCHES!!!!!! i saw them and immediately all thought left my fucking brain. i needed them. so important. the seller also recognised the axel in my fanny pack yippee!!!! a few people recognised him over the weekend actually and i was always like yes!! the him

anyway. yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! yippee! con con con con con :)

#id just in alt text bcos my rambling p functionally describes it

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wearebackbagels · 2 years

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SAS Rogue heroes: X-Men au

For a while now @rosescruensixxam and I have been working on an X-Men au and here are part 1 out of 3 planned posts, the rest will come soon enough.

This is everyone’s powers, we TRIED to do the characters justice but at least we had fun while doing it!

DAVID STIRLING: Power bestowal and augmentation, disintegration

PADDY MAYNE: Metal claw growth, Superhuman Durability, Adaptive Reflexes, Superhuman Marksmanship, Impenetrable Skin, life force absorption (alias Mad Dog)

JOCK LEWES: Energy Manipulation, Energy Blasts, Molecular Acceleration, Superhuman Durability, (alias Oppenheimer?)

JOHNNY COOPER: Slowed down aging, superhuman reflexes, super leaping, superhuman speed, wall crawling, superhuman agility( he is basically Nightcrawler) (alias Sparrow( from “The Sparrow from Minsk”) nobody is gonna get this)

AUGUSTIN JORDAN: Life Force Absorption and conduction, blood bending, Adaptive Evolution/ Immortality, Superhuman Marksmanship, (alias Vampire/Twilight haha)

MIKE SADLER: Wolf transformation, shapeshifting, Superhuman Durability, super acute senses, razor sharp teeth (alias Coyote idk)

REGGIE SEEKINGS: Mutant tattoos includes (making tattoos come to life) tactile hypnosis, superhuman durability ( more will be added)

EVE MANSOUR: Chronoskimming, mind reading, some ice-powers cause she is cool all the time

BILL FRASER: Pyrokinesis, solar form, solar absorption, flight, wing growth/wing blades (alias Icarus( coolest name ever)

DAVID KERSHAW: Animal manipulation, animal empathy (alias Kitten?)

EOIN MCGONIGAL: Weather Control( ironic we know), lightning travel, cyclone spinning, aerokinesis, flight

GEORGES BERGÈ: Hydrokinesis (alias Wave, Riptide, Crescent( like the moon)?)

ARNDRÈ ZIRNHELD: Illusion generation, mind/physical control (alias Vision?)

PAT RILEY: X-Factor Detection, Telepathy, Force Field Generation (alias Shield?)

JIM ALMONDS: Healing factor, (alias Nurse?)

MARC HALÈVY: Self detonation, shockwaves (alias Grenade? pull the pin and throw me where the enemy is most numerous)

HERBERT BRUCKNER: Invisibility, shapeshifting, self duplication

WALTER ESSNER: Electrokinesis, technopathy( if frying phone batteries count), lightning travel?( eventually)

(alias Surge? something like that, I can imagine someone at the school calling Walter “Sparky” in a joking way not knowing about his past( part of a fic we wrote) and the guy just tranformes into that ptsd war dog meme)

I AM SO SORRY HAHAHA

THAT MEME MADE ME CHOKE ON MY FOOD LMAO, that is what im here to do, kinda

@elkro @just-barrow @onyxsboxes @adowbaldwin @invisiblegargoyl @booksoncanvas @bachaboska @kuro-anko @snitling @fergusfraserapologist @akatsuki-rin @rosescruensixxam @queerevolutionaries @cloudyfacewithjam I think that was everyone, get over here guys!

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beardedmrbean · 11 months

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Swedish researchers say they have developed a new method of recycling batteries from electric vehicles that allows recovery of 100 percent of the aluminum and 98 percent of the lithium.

Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology have presented the efficient way to recycle metals from spent batteries, and at the same time minimize the loss of valuable raw materials such as nickel, cobalt and manganese.

Furthermore, no expensive or harmful chemicals are required in the process because the researchers use oxalic acid—an organic acid that can be found in the plant kingdom.

“So far, no one has managed to find exactly the right conditions for separating this much lithium using oxalic acid, whilst also removing all the aluminum,” said Léa Rouquette, PhD student in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. “Since all batteries contain aluminum, we need to be able to remove it without losing the other metals.”

In the Chalmers battery recycling lab, Rouquette and research leader Martina Petranikova showed how the new method works—taking the pulverized components in the form of a finely ground black powder and dissolving it in a transparent liquid – oxalic acid.

Rouquette produces both the powder and the liquid in something reminiscent of a kitchen mixer. Although it looks as easy as brewing coffee, the exact procedure is a unique scientific breakthrough. By fine-tuning temperature, concentration and time, the researchers came up with a new recipe for using oxalic acid, an environmentally friendly ingredient that can be found in plants such as rhubarb and spinach.

“We need alternatives to inorganic chemicals. One of the biggest bottlenecks in today’s processes is removing residual materials like aluminum,” says Martina Petranikova, Associate Professor at the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering at Chalmers. “This is an innovative method that can offer the recycling industry new alternatives and help solve problems that hinder development.”

The aqueous-based recycling method is called hydrometallurgy. In traditional hydrometallurgy, all the metals in an EV battery cell are dissolved in an inorganic acid. Then, you remove the “impurities” such as aluminum and copper. Lastly, you can separately recover valuable metals such as cobalt, nickel, manganese and lithium. Even though the amount of residual aluminum and copper is small, it requires several purification steps and each step in this process can cause lithium loss.

With the new method, the researchers reverse the order and recover the lithium and aluminum first. Thus, they can reduce the waste of valuable metals needed to make new batteries.

The latter part of the process, in which the black mixture is filtered, is also reminiscent of brewing coffee. While aluminum and lithium end up in the liquid, the other metals are left in the “solids”. The next step in the process is to separate aluminum and lithium.

“Since the metals have very different properties, we don’t think it’ll be hard to separate them. Our method is a promising new route for battery recycling – a route that definitely warrants further exploration,” says Rouquette, who published her results in the journal Separation and Purification Technology.

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Petranikova’s research group is involved in various collaborations with companies to develop electric car battery recycling and is a partner in major research and development projects, such as Volvo Cars’ and Northvolt’s Nybat project.

The research was funded by the Swedish Energy Agency, BASE Batteries Sweden, Vinnova.

#nunyas news #that's gonna be the game changer there #one of them at least

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netscapenavigator-official · 11 months

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I wonder if it would be possible to create an ultra-efficient, zero-emission, Water/Steam powered vehicle that uses a heat pump as its source of boiling instead of a burning fuel.

Because if you just use conventional heating elements, it’ll be less efficient than a pure EV due to energy type transitional losses, but heat pumps are usually about 300-400% efficient since they move heat, not create it. So I just wonder if exploiting that efficiency could be used to create a long-range, Water-Powered Hybrid vehicle that’s even more efficient than modern EVs, all while using a fraction of the battery capacity.

We could also seal off the Water/Steam engine part and use a condenser core like some of the last generation of steam cars did in the early 1900s. That way you’d never have to refill the water. Once it’s steam, it can just be cooled back down and reused. All you’d have to do is charge it like a normal EV.

#rambles #vehciles #car #cars #ev #evs #electric vehicles #electric cars #hybrid #water #steam engine #heat pump

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lilac--sugar · 2 years

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“Give me that!” Steve snatches the little portable radio out of Eddie’s hands. He’d been flipping through the channels back and forth for the last ten minutes. Steve dials it over, settles on some 70s classic soft rock. Some station was doing an uninterrupted marathon for New Years Eve.

Eddie snorts as the mellow stylings of Chicago’s ‘If You Leave me Now’ plays through the shitty little speaker, “Seriously, Harrington?”

“Hey, it’s better than your station shuffling. I can’t help it there isn’t much good on,” For the most part it was pop music that Eddie despised and Steve wasn’t about to subject him to. All that sandwiched between a ton of adverts and over excited radio DJs popping in between each song and going on and on about how much time was left.

The two of them were sat on top of Eddie’s van on top of Point Pleasant, a scenic little outlook. Below were frozen over pastures and just beyond that, the city of Hawkins. The two had opted to use the little portable radio after Eddie admitted to not trusting his car battery to not die if he left the radio running.

There had been rumors that the city of Hawkins was putting on a firework display but no one, not a soul, knew where they were going to be. So, the party decided to split up around the best outlooks in order to find the best spot to watch them. Each group had a walkie to call around to the others when and if the fireworks went off. Somehow, Steve thinks it less divine intervention and more Robin meddling in affairs, Steve and Eddie had been paired up.

“Need another beer?” Eddie asks. Steve just raises his half drank bottle. He’d been trying hard not to look at Eddie all night. Instead, he focused on the stars above, “Cool,” Eddie says in a sigh.

Steve tries not to think much of it, doesn’t want to think how much of a total drag he must seem right now. First with the soft rock and then with the lack of conversation.

“So, like, Robin definitely set this up so that she could be with Nancy, right?” Eddie asks, causing Steve’s head to whip around, “What? Was it supposed to be a secret? You’d have to be blind to not see the way she makes goo-goo eyes at her,” He cracks a small laugh. Steve purses his lips, nervous eyes leaving Eddie’s face to look out at nothing. If Eddie had noticed Robin’s goo-goo eyes, had Eddie noticed his glances?

“Yeah, I guess she hasn’t really been subtle about it,” Steve raises his beer to his lips, takes a long sip.

“She’s going for that midnight kiss, huh?” Eddie asks and Steve nods, “Must be nice.” Eddie says as he pulls a joint out from behind his ear.

“Never had a midnight kiss?” Steve glances back at Eddie, watches as he lights up, likes the way he looks as he takes a drag. Brows pressed together, the light of the flame gently licking his face.

“Nah,” He breathes out a chuckle, “Nah, man, I’ve uh,” Smoke is rolling out past his lips as bright pink colors the apples of his cheeks, “Never been kissed.” He holds out the joint, pulls a ringlet of hair across his face, rubs it over his lips.

“You what!?” Steve ignores the joint and Eddie’s eyes go wide.

“Jesus H. Christ, Steve, it’s not a big deal!” The bright pink goes positively red and spreads across the bridge of his nose and up to his ears.

“Yes, it is!” He blurts out. Eddie’s brows furrow, the cogs turning in his head. Steve sees the moment it clicks behind Eddie’s eyes. He can feel his own cheeks burning bright as a grin spreads over Eddie’s face.

“What’s it to you, big boy?” Eddie takes another drag off the joint, doesn’t break eye contact from Steve. Steve isn’t used to this, isn’t used to being the nervous one. Only, he’d shown his hand and was now paying the price for it. He takes a breath, shuffles through the good old Harrington Flirting Playbook.

“Not much,” He shrugs. Sure, he showed his cards and there was no real going back from that, but he can act like it was intentional. It’s out there now and with Eddie calling his hand he could play it out, “Just, if you’d like,” He leans in, watches Eddie shiver, “I could,” Steve reaches out, runs his fingertips down the side of Eddie’s face, freeing a strand of hair that had caught itself on Eddie’s lashes, “Fix that,” His fingertips trail down until they’re under Eddie’s chin. Eddie easily lets Steve tip his head up, takes in a shuddered breath in anticipation. Only, Steve reaches over, takes the joint from Eddie and moves back to take a hit off of it.

There’s the smallest of squeaks to the side of him and Steve’s trying hard to ignore the heat trailing down his neck and across his chest.

Then, a few things happen in succession.

Ten, the radio switches to ‘The Air That I Breathe’ by The Hollies.

Nine, Eddie is lunging forward, grabbing Steve up by the front of his stupidly vibrant colored puffer coat.

Eight, “Steve Harrington, you Ass-“

Seven, fireworks. Bright and big and seemingly just inches from them.

Six, Steve flicks away the joint to the gravel below.

Five, Steve’s hands card through Eddie’s hair, grinning at Eddie’s mad blush lit up by the display, taking him in before-

Four, “Happy New Year, Eddie,” Steve’s leaning in.

Three, their eyes slip shut.

Two, Steve’s nose presses into Eddie’s cheek, cold tip against soft warmth.

One, their lips touch.

Fireworks. Fireworks and Eddie’s moving into Steve’s lap. Eddie’s like a man starved, finally given food. He’s all enthusiasm, pulling Steve in closer, stealing the breath out of his lungs. Steve gently coaxes Eddie, nudges him with his nose to get him to tilt his head, licks his bottom lip, gets him to part his own. It’s a new realm. Literally zero to sixty for Eddie. He mirrors Steve as he licks into his mouth.

“Wanted this for so long,” Eddie sighs against Steve’s lips. A swirl of warmth pools in Steve’s chest, relief flooding his veins. Worry that this was just a kiss for Eddie quickly blow away in literal explosions of light and sound. Neither of them care to watch the fireworks, just need the other.

“Hello? Are the fireworks at Point Pleasant? Over!” crackles “Hello!? Dingus one and Dingus two? Do you read!? Over!” crackles, “Come on guys!”

Steve pushes the walkie off the top of the van and Eddie grins at him.

“You get a few points back for that,” Eddie comments. Steve furrows his brow.

“There were points? Wait! What did I lose points on?”

“Tossing my barely smoked joint,” Eddie says simply and Steve rolls his eyes.

“Oh, shut up!”

“Make me,” Eddie teases and Steve has no problems with doing that.

#steddie #steve x eddie #steve harrington #eddie munson

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