I grew up in Miami and Highway 1 was reason enough not to visit the Keys. That stretch of highway is a death trap and can have insane traffic.

My personal theory is that Cuba’s economy would be as strong or stronger than China (per capita, of course) if it weren’t for the embargo. Cubans have a very high level of university education attainment, even higher than the USA, and much higher than China. With solid tourism and good access to the US markets, Cuba could have been an economic powerhouse.

I grew up a gringo in Miami. Virtually all pork products are called lechon here, including the entire Christmas pig roast. We would call that crispy skin chicharrón.

Lechon just means suckling pig, no? Have I been using this word wrong my entire life?

Maybe before the sonogram existed. I’m a triplet and my parents believed for a very long time they would only have twins. I should ask at what week they learned there would be three.

Safety of their products. In the article (yes I read articles like a loser) it is written that they want to focus their resources on fewer products so that each project gets more resources and is less likely to experience safety problems.

The ID3 is a great car but commits too many unforgivable design sins for me to take it seriously (underpowered entertainment console, touch controls everywhere, charger on the rear side panel).

Industrial furnaces and forges aren’t actually things you can fire up and shut down on a moment’s notice. This would completely change the chemistry and maybe lead to batch deviation and scrapping the whole batch. But, I’m not super familiar with this specific process. Nevertheless, it seems unlikely to me they could take advantage of off-hour energy costs. In fact, the chemistry companies around where I live mostly have their own power plants for these kinds of operations.

Each of these terminals can bring in between 50-100 TWh of energy while Germany is adding around 20-30 TWh of renewable energy per year. The obvious reason for the difference is upfront cost. The cost for each of these 50 TWh terminals is around 1 billion euro, while the cost to build 50 TWh of yearly solar capacity currently costs 150 billion euros. So the upfront costs are 150x higher for solar.

Obviously there are differences in costs of operation of the facilities since gas costs money and the sun is free. But upfront costs are the big hinderance for now.

To replace the 800 TWh of energy capacity from Russian gas, Germany would have to spend around 2.5 Trillion Euro, equivalent to 6 years of the German government's entire budget, whereas with LNG terminals it can be done for 16 billion or 4% of the government's yearly budget. Given the extremely tight time window to accomplish the transition, LNG is the obvious choice.