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$0.50 per mile for electricity for a semi truck? wow, lower than I would imagine. (and it can be as low as $0.12 where rates are lower.).
"During testing, the truck averaged 1.72 kWh per mile while hauling a gross combined weight of 75,000 pounds (34 metric tons) over a 390-mile (625 km) long-haul route."
a tesla model 3 is ~0.3 kWh per mile.

Haymarket Books has ebooks on sale for $2 until Nov. 7. Some of my favorite books published by them are:
Abolish Rent: on the potential of tenant organizing
Let This Radicalize You: a guide to activism over the long haul
No Cop City, No Cop World: lessons from Atlanta's Cop City fight
Perfect Victims: unpacks anti-Palestinian narratives you may not realize you've internalized

Haymarket Ebooks on sale for $2!
At Haymarket, our mission is to publish books that contribute to struggles for social and economic justice. We strive to make our books a vibrant and organic part of social movements, and we believe that collective study plays a crucial role in sustaining engaged, effective, and durable left-wing organizations and communities. To that end, we aim to make our books accessible to anyone who might find them valuable. Until Friday, November 7th, ALL Haymarket ebooks are 80% Off. That means …

“MW chargers are expected to comprise almost 15% of the total installed charging power needs, but only 2% of the total number of chargers. Lower-power chargers, such as 350 kW chargers, can cover more than half the public fast charging needs for long-haul trucks.”
https://theicct.org/pu…

Charging infrastructure needs for battery electric trucks in the European Union by 2030 - International Council on Clean Transportation
Analyzes battery electric truck charging infrastructure needs by 2030 in the EU, and compares them to the AFIR targets by modeling the expected fleet and considering its energy consumption, driving patterns, and charging behavior.

A decent haul from our cramped city garden as we close up for the winter.
#gardening

Formation of C-centers in Si-based systems by light ion irradiation
Carolina Crosta, Riccardo Nardin, Patrick Daoust, Stefano Achilli, Ian Colombo, Matteo Campostrini, Emiliano Bonera, Jacopo Pedrini, Oussama Moutanabbir, Valentino Rigato, Fabio Pezzoli
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12690

Formation of C-centers in Si-based systems by light ion irradiation
Atomic-scale crystal defects in Si are quantum-light sources offering tantalizing integration with existing photonic technologies. Yet, the controlled creation of near-infrared color centers for long- haul quantum communication and information still remains a challenge. In this work, we utilize light ions, such as H+ and He+, to gently generate quantum emitters in a crystalline Si matrix. Temperature-dependent photoluminescence measurements demonstrate the presence of optically-active defects, …