Day: July 15, 2021💾

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Ford Looking at Charging EVs by Flat Towing Them | The Drive

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Ford Looking at Charging EVs by Flat Towing Them | The Drive

t's no secret that there's still a lack of charging stations for EVs in the United States. Charging infrastructure is seen as a vital hurdle to overcome in the quest for more widespread adoption of what many consider the future of personal transportation. Ford recognizes that and has at least one other idea (besides more public chargers) on how to solve the issue.

In a recently published patent, the Dearborn automaker described a system by which an EV can be towed and charged by a vehicle such as an RV or semi-truck. This would be especially handy in sparse rural areas where people might commute in or travel to with charging stations few and far between.

Stick a fork into it 🍴

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Stick a fork into it 🍴

Yesterday I left my fork at home by accident. I had to dig through my desk for a dinky plastic fork I had previously saved. I really don’t like eating using my reused plastic forks anymore except maybe at camp as I don’t like washing dishes there.

Map: Green Mountain National Forest North
Map: Greenwood Creek State Forest

‘Wobble’ in moon to cause severe flooding in US coastal cities in 2030s – syracuse.com

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‘Wobble’ in moon to cause severe flooding in US coastal cities in 2030s – syracuse.com

The moon is currently in the “tide-amplifying part of its cycle,” according to NASA, but by mid-2030, when this intensified series returns, people living in coastal cities may be dealing with severe floods “every day or two.” Why? This natural yet amplified lunar cycle will be coupled with higher sea levels caused by global warming, triggering a decade of dramatic surges in the number of days with high-tide flooding on nearly all mainland coastlines in the U.S., Hawaii and Guam. High-tide flooding, also known as “nuisance” or “sunny day” floods, is projected to exceed thresholds across the nation more often and occur in clusters that last a month or longer, the NASA Sea Level Change Science Team of the University of Hawaii said. Their study was published last month in the journal Nature Climate Change.