But in 10-15 years nobody will let the Strait of Hormuz get blocked like this again.
How??? You have giant, slow, unarmed ships filled with flammable liquid that are forced to go through a small channel. Forget missiles and drones; you could set them on fire with artillery.
More likely, in 10-15 years we will have moved away from fossil fuels to the point that a closure will no longer crash the world economy.
The point is, it’s not an apples to oranges comparison when you talk about the energy efficiency of an EV vs. a ICE car.
Energy efficiency does matter because even if you are burning diesel to generate electricity, you can make power stations a lot more efficient than car engines. So shifting from ICE cars to EVs would reduce fuel use even in the absence of green electricity.
ICE cars are inefficient, but carry around a very energy dense fuel source and can go hundreds, sometimes thousands of km without needing to stop. EVs have much more efficient engines, but have to drag around really heavy batteries that aren’t very energy dense.
This is true, but like I said, the difference isn’t huge. An ICE car’s fuel + engine would be in the 100 - 400kg range, while an EV’s batteries + motor would be in the 200 - 500kg range. An additional 10% or so of weight is bad, but is outweighed by the at least fourfold increase in efficiency.
60 kg of fuel, which can supply 2.74 GJ of energy
‘Contain’, not ‘can supply’ 2.74 GJ of energy. At 20% efficiency, you’d need a 800kg battery to match.
The weight of the fuel tank is dwarfed by the weight of the engine, which can go from 100 (petrol kei car) to 300 (diesel) kg. The battery packs on modern EVs are still heavier, usually in the 200 - 400 kg range, but the difference isn’t as stark as fuel density alone might suggest.
Iran is absolutely not shown as a terrorist state in India. India has economic ties to Iran, and everyone understands that the US started this war.
what do you think would have happened if they wound down their involvement with the u.s., and actually tried to come to their own arrangement with Iran?
Then the US would have bombed them too. The petrodollar is the core of US economic power; it won’t give it up without a fight.
There was this guy called Ayatollah Khamenei who was the religious leader of Iran and opposed the development of nuclear weapons. Wonder what happened to him.
Good. Air defence systems are cheap and effective, as seen in the Middle East and Ukraine. We should stop wasting money on white elephants like Rafale fighters and aircraft carriers, and buy the stuff that works and actually keeps us safe.
Leopard, meet face.
And it’s not like this has never happened before. Iran is between two countries destroyed by the US.
Guerillas. Gorillas are the apes.
you know like a few weeks ago the iranian regime killed upwards of 30,000 people?
Isn’t this something CIA / Mossad made up to justify attacking Iran? It hasn’t been independently verified as far as I know.
Verified deaths are about a thousand ‘protestors’, and about two thousand police and civilians.
It doesn’t matter how private and secure the messaging app is if the OS / keyboard / some random Google slopware with notifications access / physical device is compromised.
But for 99% of people, Signal, Telegram or even WhatsApp is good enough.
‘Allahu Akbar’ means ‘God is great’. It has nothing to do with battle.
This is so stupid. Of all the possible options, why are we buying the one that we know won’t work against Pakistan? Entire contract should have been cancelled.
Iraq Iran has WMDs anti-ship missiles.
Epstein’s friend
You realise how little that narrows it down?
Also are these the same governments that acknowledged that Iraq had WMDs?
Learn to check sources if you do not wish to be dismissed as a conspiracy theorist. You linked a Wikipedia page. Did you even bother to check the references? The first five include conspiracy nutter Adrian Zenz, the rag that spread the Palestinians raped Israelis and killed children conspiracy, and some group based in Taiwan. That’s two worthless sources, and one sus source, out of five.
Sir this is a-lemmy. We all hate Microslop, rich people and cars here.
China isn’t Israel.
The same fraction of oil production, yes, but a much smaller fraction of total energy production.
You would still have shortages of specific fractions that have non-energy uses (like Helium or plastics), but at least fuel would be less affected.