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Garden 🌸

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The Poet's Trees, 2011 by Zerozoxx Binder (ZERO ZOXX INTERNATIONAL) - SL Region: Greenhouse

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29/8.2023 - blooming

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Elle n Vlad :))

[nagalias-mindscape]

Sis: You get stat bonuses from the things you're putting back together?

Me: Relics. And only once I put them in my workshop, yeah.

Sis: Is it worth it?

(No relics -> with relics -> what relics I currently have)

Me: ... Yesno.

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Sales of electric vehicle sales are growing, and the U.S. federal government is investing in tax credits and infrastructure to encourage consumers to make the switch from gas-powered cars. Photograph By David Guttenfelder, National Geographic Image Collection

Interested in an Electric Car? Here's What You Should Know Before You Buy.

The number of electric vehicles purchased in the U.S. is projected to skyrocket. But the coming revolution still elicits concerns, from drivers' "range anxiety" to environmental angst over battery manufacturing.

— By Kieran Mulvaney | June 15, 2023

The electric vehicle (EV) business is booming.

Globally, 14 percent of new cars sold in 2022 were electric, an increase from nine percent in 2021 and just five percent in 2020. Through the first quarter of 2023, sales were up 25 percent over the same period last year.

The attractions of EVs are clear: they do not run on environmentally taxing gasoline or ethanol. They have zero tailpipe emissions. They are quiet. They require less maintenance than gas-powered vehicles. Some can, in a pinch, even provide electricity for your house.

But the new wave of EVs is not without its downsides. The batteries that power EVs require intensive mining, and the electrical grids juicing up cars are often powered by fossil fuels.

Still, many—from the federal government to environmental groups—say EVs are the future.

Plus, says Fred Lambert, the lead writer for Electrek, a news and commentary site reporting trends in electric transport, “they’re so much more fun to drive.”

Who’s Driving EVs?

China accounts for 60 percent of global EV sales, with Europe and the U.S. the second and third biggest markets respectively, but sales, although small, are also increasing in newer markets such as India, Thailand, and Indonesia.

EVs have made a far bigger dent in some countries than others.

In Iceland, for example, EVs account for 60 percent of new car sales, while in Norway that figure is in excess of 80 percent. In contrast, a mere 4.6 percent of new vehicle buyers in the U.S. bought EVs in 2022, although closer to 20 percent did so in California; but analysts have predicted that in a little over a decade that figure could be more like 45 percent.

How Far Can They Go?

Not everyone is convinced that EVs are for them.

One issue that is frequently cited as a concern is "range anxiety"—the fear that an EV will simply run out of charge during a long journey. That anxiety is exacerbated by too little charging infrastructure—there are about 46,000 charging stations in the US, compared to about 150,000 gas stations—and some of those charging stations can be unreliable and prone to malfunctions.

However, Tesla has begun the process of opening its superchargers, which are considered the most reliable, to other EV brands; and the Biden Administration is providing $7.5 billion for a massive increase in a reliable American charger network.

The range of many EVs has also increased: the Lucid Air offers a claimed range of 500 miles, while several other options are available with ranges comfortably in excess of 300 miles.

Lambert has successfully driven a Tesla Model 3 Performance on a road trip that spanned from Montreal to New Orleans.

“And I had no problem, never had any range anxiety at all, and that was almost 2,500 miles,” he says.

Most people, he notes, do not need to drive that far; the average commute in the U.S. is approximately 30 miles a day.

Plus, adds, Jim Motavalli, auto columnist for Barron’s, “when people buy EVs, they’ll find that 85 percent of their charging is at home anyway. You’re not actually going to need or want to use public chargers most of the time.”

Do EVs Have an Environmental Cost?

Some studies have shown that manufacturing their batteries and constructing the cars themselves can create more greenhouse gas emissions than that of a traditional gas-powered vehicle.

Battery production alone can account for as much as 60 percent of the total carbon emissions in an EV’s manufacture. However, the majority of carbon emissions generated by traditional vehicles are a result of the fuel they consume over their lifetimes; once they have rolled off dealer lots, a gas-powered car’s carbon footprint soon greatly exceeds that of an electric vehicle.

Electric vehicles also only reach their full sustainable potential when the electricity powering them comes from renewable energy. In most locations, the electricity used to charge vehicles is generated at least partly by coal or gas.

Additionally, there are real concerns about the environmental and human impacts of mining components such as lithium for EV batteries

Improvements in mining techniques and battery production could mitigate these concerns, as well as the development and increased deployment of new batteries that last longer and hold more charge. Additionally, argues Lambert, the EV battery recycling industry has potential to grow over the coming years, and new cars could be built with recycled metals.

Too Many Cars on the Road?

Another criticism is that aiming to replace traditional cars with EVs doesn’t address the fact that there are too many cars and thus too many roads and highways and too much suburban sprawl—an argument with which even electric vehicles’ most ardent defenders tend to agree to with.

“Unfortunately, EVs Don’t Solve the Gridlock Problem,” Says Motavalli.

But, as writer Noah Smith notes, transitioning to EVs and reducing sprawl aren’t mutually exclusive. He argues that, in addition to making suburbia denser through, for example, changes in housing policy and the development of commuter rail, “we should take advantage of the EV revolution to add electrified buses, e-bikes, and other alternative modes of transportation to make suburbs easier to get around.”

Even with more transportation options, he notes there will still be a lot of cars—car ownership is high even in densely-populated, mass transit-rich nations such as Japan and the Netherlands. Switching from gas-guzzling to electrified transport not only makes sense, it’s inevitable, he says.

“I tell people to go drive one and see for themselves,” says Lambert. “Do the math. And let your logic take over. When you do, you’ll always end up with electric vehicles. It's the more logical solution every time.”

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Rupert’s observations - Wildflowers

One of the novel's particular strengths, is that the narrative doesn't tell us that a character likes something, but other characters point it out. In this case, it's a well known fact that Lari likes wildflowers, but throughout the story, Rupert is the one who first brought it up, and revisits it again and again.

It’s a cute small detail on how observant he is especially after getting to know Lari. He’s a smart guy who is very observant of his surroundings, in a political sense like when he can tell others intentions, or he can figure out his enemies plans or thought process, or can tell when records are forged.

He doesn’t notice the small, unimportant details though, like the fraying fabric of a merchant’s stall, or the wildflowers blooming in between the cracks. But Lari does, and he finds it just so interesting why she does. She’s a noble - don’t girls usually like pretty, fancy flowers? Why does her attention always go to the boring, normal flowers that anyone could find on the side of the road?

The interesting thing is, is that Lari didn’t even notice it herself. She never really thought about it until Louis (through Rupert) asked her. Rupert had first noticed her liking flowers around chapter 45, but didn’t ask her until chapter 71. It was something that he pondered… but the irony is that even Lari didn’t really know. When she was asked, she gave it some thought, and decided it was because wildflowers had a certain charm that wasn’t seen in those perfectly grown flowers in greenhouses? Besides being nice, there’s a subtle jab at how she was essentially caged in a ‘greehouse’ in TL1 but now has more freedom outside in TL2… But the novel version went even deeper in these two scenes: she didn’t really care for flowers in TL1, (or anything really) but after her regression, she started to appreciate the beauty in the world that she failed to notice the first time. In a way, it was to make up for how ignorant she was. So she pays attention to things that she would normally not notice, and she grew to have a soft spot for flowers and nature. She notices that Rupert is too busy to notice such details either, so she spends a bit more effort to look at nice things and show them to him as well. After all, looking at nice things makes her happy, maybe it’ll make him a bit happier too? :)

We see this change in Rupert - he starts noticing little details like the attention to details and design in the palace, especially after he thinks about her.

Just like how she's barely on her vacation to Belois, on the first day travelling, she already spent a good few hours thinking about him (she misses him!) and thinking of how she wants to get a nice souvenir she thinks would like for him, and wanting to show the nice scenery to him.

Unfortunately, he doesn’t care much for the flowers itself, but he does appreciate them, because flowers make Lari happy, and that’s what makes HIM happy :)

--- This is just like how Rupert first notices Lari being afraid of the dark (because he notices she sleeps with a candle still lit) and thus tries to rush to help her out because he hates the idea of her being scared alone in the darkness ><. She doesn't have to tell him these things, he's just that observant of her ><

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Do you have tips for writing a memoir?

consider how much and what context you want to provide carefully. writing a memoir can be harder than writing fiction because you're a whole person part of a whole world who knows so many people places and things-- it can be hard to budget what background information is important for your work. for every anecdote or "plot beat" of your memoir, as you write it, make note in a bulleted list of all the context or pieces background info you provide so you can keep track of pieces that are important to the narrative as a whole vs. pieces that are only relevant to one little plot beat or anecdote. this helps balance between telling too much or not telling enough.

appeal to all 5 senses. hyperbolize if you need to-- it helps make your point. when you walked into that greehouse, did the sun get in your eyes? were you overwhelmed with the scent of gardenia? was the soil cold and damp when you touched it? did the dirt cake onto your shoes? how can you draw those sensory elements back to Your Point?

draw connections to universal things. did this scene of your memoir take place during the early covid pandemic when everything was closed? was it around the fourth of july, during that really intense heat wave? did you have that conversation at a well known chain restaurant? paint those details into your narrative. they're like landmarks for your reader.

lean into your subjectivity. be an unreliable narrator. have fun with it. use it for good, use it for evil, use it for the sake of being expressive.

and lastly, read personal essays and memoirs. read longwinded instagram captions. watch vlogs and tiktoks of people talking about themselves. pay attention to what is and isn't engaging each time, and let that inform your writing.

happy writing! thanks for the question, sorry it sat in our ask box for so long :)

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i'm putting a line of weakness potion around the edge of the greehouse. all ants die now please.

[julochka365]

7/8.2022 - the rain of late has made the garden grow by leaps and bounds