Undersea Power Cable Connecting Finland And Estonia Experiences Outage Capacity Reduced To 35%Arthur T Knackerbracket has processed the following story:
SAE is running this https://www.sae.org/news/2024/11/refrigerant-fight story about near-term changes in the working fluid used in car air conditioning systems. Your boomer submitter remembers when Freon/R-12 was universal. By the 1990s R-134a was the standard, more recently followed by much lower global warming potential (GWP) gas R-1234yf which is nearly universal at present. However,
fliptop writes:Just two decades ago, China had little capacity to make cars, and owning one was considered novel. Today, China produces and exports more cars than any other country in the world:
An Anonymous Coward writes:Years ago, a lady in New York randomly received the automobile license plate number NCC-1701, an identifier well known to Star Trek fans.Around 2020, she began losing eyesight, stopped driving, sold her car and surrendered her license plates.Later people began buying novelty license plates with this ID, placing them on their cars, and, when these people got OCR issued tickets for traffic violations, the bills got sent to this poor woman. Hundreds of them.The issue seems to have been resolved, but it does raise the question of how much trust we can put in automated identification systems and automated traffic fines.The YAHOO story about this can be found here.Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.