LonelyLarynx

My thoughts as well. Seemed more significant than just losing train of thought.

I'm loving this kind of commentary. Positive (different than apathetic or gullible) and practical. A huge contrast to some other places on the internet. Just wanted to say this is noticed and appreciated and will hopefully encourage others (including myself) to do better.

I've been thinking about this recently with the heat in my region. Wouldn't a light cloak, with very light clothing underneath, work well for sun protection (one or two layers over skin) while still keeping fairly cool (due to airflow)?

I'd support this! Maybe more of a general purpose urban planning / build environment community to be a bit more constructive.

TL;DR: You're correct, in my professional opinion.

The catalyst in most hydrogen fuel cells are still too expensive and have a limited life. Hydrogen will mostly be sourced as a waste product from oil and gas extraction (though it could be done with clean electricity and electrolysis), that's why oil and gas companies are becoming so interested in pushing hydrogen (see the successful "clean" natural gas campaigns, but depending on how you measure it natural gas can result in more emissions than coal and is just a bunch of greenwashing. Same would happen with hydrogen in my opinion). Additionally, we'd have to build out an entire hydrogen delivery infrastructure that serves only that purpose. We'll just end up with commercial fuel stations like we have now. Fuel cells (for many fuels) can make sense in very remote applications, or industrial applications where specific waste gasses can be turned into supplemental electricity right on site.

Battery-electric on the other hand is much more flexible and fits into our existing infrastructure better. It's not just power dense batteries for cars; it's (maybe gravity) batteries for communities, safe and long-lived (maybe salt) batteries for homes, better batteries for our electronics. Research in one area can support improvement of the others. They all connect to the same electricity grid so the energy can be shared among applications. Batteries play a role in decentralizing and democratizing energy (today you can put PV on your house, charge your car or home battery, use your car to power your house in a power outage, etc). As mentioned we can use greener and cleaner batteries (even completely non-chemical) in some applications, and one day we can hopefully get to the point of using ultra- or super-capacitors in place of high-density chemical batteries. In the mean time we have batteries that work and are getting quite affordable, we can transition to this solution now without waiting for a miracle breakthrough, then continue to iterate the technology over time.

Perhaps applying a blanket statement to straight people isn't a great idea either? I'm straight but think it makes complete sense for young people to learn about relationships of all kinds at what ever age they start learning about relationships. My personal approach is to stick with gender-neutral pronouns by default and to treat any relationship between consenting adults the same as any other. I'm lucky enough to live in a place where this is mostly normal and only the crazies have an issue with it. I also don't ask toddlers about romantic partners.

As a side note: it's not uncommon for seniors in Korea to ask to see, and then comment on, the genitalia of young children (not necessarily sexually). A practice which is dying off but still exists. Point being that I acknowledge there are still all sorts of different social norms out there in different places.