Not really, it wouldn't even be feasible to replace the on-board electric with solar, ignoring propulsion. Using the information from here[1] it has five generators. One generator produces 4308kVA, and one of these [2] solar panels produces 0.296 kVA. So ~15,000 solar panels to replace one (of five) generator.

1 http://www.ship-technology.com/projects/world/

2 https://www.wholesalesolar.com/1977425/astronergy/solar-pane...

Thanks for the info. Hopefully future breakthroughs can change this math substantially.

They can't, these solar panels are probably not much more than 20% efficient, so even an extra factor of five doesn't make a dent.

It's a team of people, so the $14MM wouldn't all go to a single person. It's certainly a lot of money, but it may not be retire in comfort money.

Even if it's a small team and everyone gets an equal split (unlikely), that's still a ton of cash. I'd take it, move somewhere cheap and just work on personal projects for the rest of my life and not worry about trying to please shareholders.

Depends on your definition of comfort. I sure would be comfortable for life with such an amount of money, even if I would be left with "only" 2M.

Bad assumption. Just because it's a team of people doesn't necessarily mean there is more than one shareholder. You can have one founder, and a few founding employees. Not everyone shares equity in a startup (at least outside of SV), and this is fine.

Plus, a nice big chunk of it is going to Uncle Sam too. Let's say a 5 person team and they each end up with $2M in their checking account. Invested safely the returns match a typical Sr. working stiff salary. Sure you don't have to work, but you're not driving a Ferrari to your jet that's for sure.

I'm assuming based on the way OP posted he or she owns 100%. If it's split two ways, I'd still take it. 5 or 6 ways? Then that changes the conversation.

Also, if it is split multiple ways then the decision probably isn't entirely up to the OP.

What if someone did it and is willing to admit it? Still force them to go to trial, a trial that may take longer than the punishment for their crime? And victims too, say someone robs you, now you're forced to take time off work to attend a trial for the person that admitted to robbing you and also doesn't want a trial.

Plus there would need to be a massive expansion of the court system to accommodate trials for everyone. Where's the money to pay for that going to come from?

Criminal justice reform is necessary, removing plea deals completely is foolishly short sighted.

If you can't afford to give that many people due process you can't afford to imprison them.

That has nothing to do with the ethical impetus. Plea deals are baked in to prevent procedural prosecution.

> Still force them to go to trial, a trial that may take longer than the punishment for their crime?

Yes. People have been coerced into false pleas. The prosecutor should have to prove the case. And if their punishment is so light, we should consider if it should be a crime at all.

>And victims too, say someone robs you, now you're forced to take time off work to attend a trial for the person that admitted to robbing you and also doesn't want a trial.

If you want them to be punished, then the prosecutor has to prove their case. If it is so cut and dry, perhaps they don't need your testimony at all.

>Plus there would need to be a massive expansion of the court system to accommodate trials for everyone. Where's the money to pay for that going to come from?

We get rid of minor crimes that shouldn't be crimes to begin with. Reduce the prison population and you can use the saved money to expand courts a bit, if need be. Was the cost reason enough to not ensure other rights are met, such as work needed to comply with ADA?

>removing plea deals completely is foolishly short sighted.

Not seeing the fundamental violation of rights caused by plea deals is foolishly ignorant.

What if someone did it and is willing to admit it?

Under current policies, that results in more lenient punishment than the innocent who fight their charges. So, yes, try them.

Where is the money for that going to come from? Ending the Drug War would cut the number of criminal cases by more than half.

The whole point of a plea deal is to give a more lenient sentence in exchange for admitting guilt. If that wasn't the case everyone would just go to trial for everything, there's always a chance of getting out.

Even traffic court works this way.

In theory. In practice, extreme punishments, along with penury from the costs of a defense, have to be threatened because the CJ system has lost the ability to deliver justice at trial.

>The whole point of a plea deal is to give a more lenient sentence in exchange for admitting guilt.

Which is the same thing as giving a more extreme sentence to someone insisting on their right to a trial.

That $0.33 is cost of human labor, the article doesn't mention how much the technology contributes to the cost of the clothing.

More importantly, what will you save on shipping and how much more could you make by marking the t-shirt up as "made in America"? What are the long-term brand benefits of being American-made?

This wouldn't be suitable for long range OTR trucking, but great for shorter regional trucking. Delivery drivers like UPS or Fedex don't hit 200 miles a day and other trucks in denser areas also travel shorter distances and diesel fumes in urban areas is a huge concern. There are plenty of use cases for an electric truck that can travel 200 miles, even if it won't immediately replace diesel or gas.

You may not be in their primary audience, but they're pretty popular. I just looked at their Facebook page and it has 87 million followers.

I honestly wonder how much of those are not USA or UK.

Just going by my 12 friends who've "liked" the page, 4 are British, the rest from elsewhere in Europe. My friends are about 50:50 UK:rest-EU.

I'm surprised either group bothers with the recipes. The ingredients are American, as are the quantities (pounds/ounces), and the oven temperatures in Fahrenheit. I generally can't be bothered dealing with this, and in search results will prefer a British (or Australian) website to avoid needing to convert anything.

This is meant to be portable, weighing only 150 with fuel and payload.

This is from last May, he was rehired in July.

http://cartoonistsrights.org/monsanto-mocking-cartoonist-ric...

Bitcoin tumblers obfuscate the trail

Tumbling $100 million seems slightly painful.

He's one of the top experts in self driving technology, a motorcycle he and a team built in college is in the Smithsonian. I can see Uber wanting to keep him on unofficially.

"He and a team" - I'd be curious to see the extent of his technical contribution, given that he's billed as the team leader and seems to be taking a lot of the credit here. In my experience, 'team leaders' who end up with the credit for the finished product do so because they spent all their time self-promoting rather than actually, y'know, building the product.

While I've personally seen examples of the team leader getting credit for being a self-promoter, I'm not convinced. I've also seen groups where the team leader was the most passionate, and really was the driving force for the project.

I do not know which he is, but I'm not in a position to pass judgement.