

An average fill up runs at about 34 megawatts.
Most of that energy is lost because ICE are very inefficients. Still, impressive.
Also, it’s not possible to refill at home, and it’s expensive when there’s a war near an oil-producing country at the other side of the world.
Electrifying has this downside of slow recharge, but quite a lot of benefits as well.















They’re requesting mostly wrong solutions for real problems.
Age verification doesn’t address social media’s problems, but does increase data collection and decrease privacy. Same for decrypting private messages.
A guardian account does seem reasonable.
They could also completely turn off user seach for minors, so they would have to add contacts by username or email, and couldn’t reach or be reached easily by online strangers.
Minors could circumvent this if there’s no age verification. But today’s age verification methods are neither privacy-friendly nor hard to circumvent. Until they are, it’s not worth requiring age verification.