Alkaline batteries also create e-waste when they leak and destroy the contacts. Only a few people will be able to repair it.
I agree with you, also for things like radios alkalines are great as a battery that stays outside of the radio and is used when you need it, and doesn't leak much charge at all.
When they announced UWP I was just starting a new side project and I thought, let's check it out. I was hoping it would basically bring WPF into first class citizen territory. Instead, they made them needlessly incompatible. Like writing for both NeXT and MacOS, but on the same platform. I got discouraged right away and have really never done any significant Windows work since, which turned out to be a great move for my sanity.
Partly because Microsoft resisted UTF-8 forever, and so using the ANSI/multibyte strings didn't therefore give you modern functionality. Why they didn't implement Unicode for Win95, I'm just not sure. If they had, the only reason to compile an ANSI version would have been to target Win32S (Windows 3.11).
Or, they could have implemented a UTF-8 code page for Win32 as soon as it was available and then most software could just use byte strings.
The wiring (at least in the US) to the 120V outlets is just one half of the split-phase 240V. If you want to send 240V down a particular wire, you can do that, by changing the breaker, but then you lose the neutral. You also make the wires dangerous to people who don't realize that the white wire is now energized at 120V over ground. (Though it's best to test to be sure anyway, as polarity gets reversed by accident, etc.) Live wires should be black or red.
Yes, if you have a 240V US split-phase circuit you could make a little sub-panel with a 40A breaker feeding two 20A 120V circuits and plug the two power supplies into each side. (1600W would need a 20-A breaker because 13.3A would be too much of a 15A circuit). But it would probably make more sense to just plug them both into the same 40A 240V circuit. If you use NEMA 6-20, make sure you label it appropriately and probably color it red.
In Europe, you could plug the two power supplies into an appropriately sized 240V circuit.
In an apartment you can't rewire, you could set it up in your kitchen, which in the modern US code should have two separate 20A circuits. You will need to put it to sleep while you use appliances.
Stellantis is doing well in Brazil, especially with the popular Fiat Strada. The Jeeps (Compass and Commander) are also seen as aspirational cars there for many people.
I imagine the Bronco was selling way above the Commander price point with less features.
But the real story now is that Chinese makers (BYD, Chery) are expanding rapidly. BYD is selling people on both electric and gasoline cars. Chery has a partnership with CAOA to produce cars in Brazil. Stellantis also builds cars in Brazil. It seems that the best way to sell to the market is to build there, and keep the costs down while hitting the right price point.
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I agree with you, also for things like radios alkalines are great as a battery that stays outside of the radio and is used when you need it, and doesn't leak much charge at all.
But e-waste is still a problem.
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