About 30% in Europe/US; half that in China.

Electricity consumption drops sharply during the night - when wind power typically peaks. There are power companies that offer substantially cheaper rates at night for charging EVs for this very reason.

“Most BEVs are charged over night, where only Hydro or Geothermal makes power”

Maybe in Iceland; anywhere with wind and nuclear power, this really is not the case.

This just seems like hand-wringing for the pitiful state of the rail system in the USA. A country can have many dense population centres separated by large distances, making HSR viable and worthwhile, but still have low population density overall - just like the USA. The only real obstacle is political will/public support.

Western China has around half the population density of the USA but is already served by a 1,900km HSR line.

You raise an important point, though “Aboriginal” doesn’t mean “not original”. It’s derived from the Latin “ab origine”, meaning “from the beginning”.

My understanding is that metallic spherules from iron meteorites would be expected to include nickel. The absence of nickel in iron containing spherules like these would usually indicate a non-natural source i.e. human technology. The speed and trajectory of the meteor which may be the source, however, indicates an interstellar origin.

I believe that initial analyses of these spherules has revealed an absence of nickel.

The spherules were recovered from areas in the expected debris zone; none were recovered from the surrounding, control zones.

75:25 = 3:1, 80:20 = 4:1 so 23% is closer to 3:1 (3.348:1)

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