

you know what… maybe BYD Brazil has some things to sort out, like subjecting workers to conditions described by the government as degrading and similar to slavery


you know what… maybe BYD Brazil has some things to sort out, like subjecting workers to conditions described by the government as degrading and similar to slavery


Was interested what the BYD Brazil salesman meant by 100% clean. While you can’t get pure ethanol at pumps in the US (largest ethanol fuel producer globally; we have 85% max), Brazil, (2nd largest ethanol fuel producer globally) sells and uses pure ethanol (E100) widely.
Because Brazilian ethanol is made from sugarcane, the CO2 emitted during combustion is roughly equal to the CO2 the plants absorbed while growing. However, the US uses corn. Because we use fossil fuels to make the fertilizer, run the tractors, and boil the corn mash, corn ethanol only reduces greenhouse gases by about 30–45% compared to gasoline. Sugarcane can be harvested multiple times without replanting corn can’t. Sugarcane is mostly simple sucrose, so it takes little energy to ferment into ethanol, unlike corn which must turn starch into sugar first using heat and enzymes.
I suggest looking at llm arena leaderboards filtered by open weight models. It offers benchmarks at a very complete and statistically detailed level for models, and usually is quite up to date when new models come out. The new Gemma that just came out might be the best for 1x GPU, and if you have a bunch of vram check out the larger Chinese models
I only buy heavyweight denim, when shopping go for at least 15-16 oz fabric. The thin stuff is great for warm weather but is not gonna last