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An idling gas engine may be annoyingly loud, but that’s the price you pay for having WAY less torque available at a standstill.

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    5 months ago

    It advanced at a glacier pace because there was no massive driving force. It only kicked off a bit with cell phones and then in any substantial way with laptops. (Yes in case you try to suggest I’m saying otherwise, batteries existed before that aha for different things, but there was no massive driving force.) Now imagine what would have happened if we funded it starting in the 1970s.