cars normally work better in the cold than in the heat
my guess is electric cars have a slightly higher operating floor due to battery drain while idle
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but I think keeping them plugged in (like a normal, non-woman would) should alleviate that
Pika, idk what it is
but all the girls I know who own electric cars
don't keep them plugged in
as if they think they're going to explode
I do not know anyone who owns an electric car
so I cannot contribute to that analysis
oh no, Dialga is a woman
if you have a raw Li-ion cell, then yes continuing to have it recieve charge is bad for it (sorta) it's complicated
So, there is a lot of complex things for batteries. I am kind of more equiped for this discussion than normal, because one of the people doing their PhD under my masters supervisor was doing control theory for batteries
but in a phone, there is a voltage regulator and 10 other things that will stop the raw cells from receiving charge when full
How you charge a battery affects its lifespan a lot too
so do you ful throttle the charge, or do you do full blast, then 30% blast, then 50% blast, etc
there is a lot of fine tuning for optimizing charge time versus lifespan
most modern things like cars/phone have reserve cells, so the complex structure of the overall battery only ever drains/charges between 10% and 90%
and then yeah, good chargers draw in a cycle
Active research is currently how to optimally charge a battery without full information about the internal state of the battery
so its not a settled science in any way
and there's unavoidable degredation over time, so things like cars also have much more capacity than they advertise
and we'll probably not use Li-ion forever (hopefully)
so we'll have to relearn all that science too Pika
your PHD friend has a job forever
double value job, since it was machine learning based lol
but yeah, I think battery stuff is interesting
but yeah, I mean it when I say
100% of girls
don't keep their shit plugged in
The coolest part of my masters was now I know a strangely abnormal amount of math behind battery charging and mosquito population control
and come to think of it, I feel like boomers also keep random appliances unplugged when they leave the house
or don't leave the house when the oven/stove is on or w/e
I unplug everything when I leave for 2-3 weeks
I also am stingy and do not want my microwave clock to waste 2 cents
Pika, I'm not going to make fun of you
what do you leave plugged in?
Its less unplugging and more I just hit the switch on my power bar
I need to know how much you and my grandmother overlapped
I do not unplug my stove or fridge
because she had a really weird list of things
everything else is currently unplugged or power bar switched off
I also barely have anything plugged in normally other than my PC setup
and that is just me hitting my powerbar
if you had a wall phone charger thing
the little brick
I brought that with me
would you leave that in
so yes, I unplugged it
no but like, if you had multiple
do you only have 1?
I would not have multiple plugged in in the first place
yes, I only have one
I only need one
I have one phone
what about the one that came with your last phone
idk, my pile keeps growing
I have no idea where that is, probably somewhere in my family home in kitchener
or the cord was fraying and I threw it out
I forget
I have only ever had two phones, so its not like I have a lot of them
if you had one in your room at home, and one at school
would you unplug the wall brick before you left for a month
See, I am failing the breakfast hypothetical here, so I will just say, probably not. But the real answer is the one at my home is always at my desk because that is where I usually am, and I do turn the power bar off for that one which is effectively unplugging it
no so, that's the one thing my grandmother would unplug that I funementally didn't understand
her list had plenty of stuff I could care less about
I think its more so anything that is actively drawing passive power
so things with lights on them or whatever
her rationale was fire safety
Replying to Dialga #god_of_time i only got my first one when i started taking GED classes, which was around the time i would have been in like, 11th grade i think it was
My first one was in grade 12 because my mom wanted me to have one since I would be bussing to university
I did not want one at any point before that
maybe power costs more where you are Pika, but in VA I feel like the cost of my wasteful energy use is $20/year max