What's most important is to have complimentary skills and shared values. Lots of clues to what sharing values can look like:
1- social cues (do they say or do things the same or different?)
2- similar goals/motivations (do you often pursue similar milestones? do their motivations match or compliment yours?)
3- similar methods/reasons (do they think in lean terms? or large strategic moves? are they abstract? or ultra practical and metric driven?)
Make sure you can trust this person and that they always try to follow through on what they say. Understand how their own perception of their own status and recognition by others affects their decision making. I'd advise to watch very closely what they do, and weight what they say (justifications, rationalizations,) very lightly.
"combustion-derived nanoparticles" they mean car exhaust right? airborne pollutants from burning things. seems like just another reason to get rid of fire based energy.
[0] Estimate about half of the particulate emissions comes from non-combustion sources (brake wear, tire/road wear, dust re-suspension). Interestingly 16-55% of these particle emissions in city-areas comes from brake wear, which should be significantly lower for EV's since they mostly slow down by regenerating. This might offset the weight-related increase for EV's.
I'm not sure if it has been looked into yet, but once EVs are abundant it would make sense to look into ways of reducing pollution from road wear. Right now it's not worth it as much, since pollution from the cars themselves dominate. But once road wear is the dominant source it'll make sense to look into it.
Automated cleaning trucks which sweep the road for dust every day maybe? New materials for roads and tyres?
New materials might be tricky. Roads are very abundant, and in some places of the world they're a convenient way of disposing of the leftovers of incinerated waste.
The article cited combustion-derived particulates, not concrete/tar. They specifically point to strongly magnetic nanoparticles containing Fe. EVs will certainly not release these, though the power plant used to charge them might.
It seems they could be pretty easy to filter since they're strongly magnetic.
space bat real talk. people will only be paid if they can give something valuable in return. if people dont have something valuable to offer or they have something of low value, they will not be hired or they will be hired for very little. so if people cant get jobs or become chronically underemployed the question is 'why dont people have anything valuable to offer?' there are probably many reasons, education, technology substitution for human capital, 'automation' though i dont get accused of being a luddite (which i am not) or sharing their fallacies (which i do not). automation will not take away someones job irreplaceably until that automation is 'strong' enough to do lots of stuff. its getting there and it may be contributing to our problems. but its not a reason to panic, if less people can have jobs thats actually a very good thing, we can spend time on other cool stuff. its a reason to restructure our society a little. things that work often work for a period, very few things/processes continue or work indefinitely in the universe. so we could maybe rethink how our society distributes wealth, ownership, etc. how do we get people in a position to offer something valuable? economists spouting dogma and ignoring real problems is pretty dysfunctional. they teach this sort of junk in schools too. its important to fall back on what we know but its also important to re examine what we think we know. its important to think in simple principles when reexamining. gorund-up. economists/many scientists dont like doing that for more reasons that id like to get into here. it falls to people with common sense frankly, which i find lacking on blogs like this.
1- social cues (do they say or do things the same or different?) 2- similar goals/motivations (do you often pursue similar milestones? do their motivations match or compliment yours?) 3- similar methods/reasons (do they think in lean terms? or large strategic moves? are they abstract? or ultra practical and metric driven?)
Make sure you can trust this person and that they always try to follow through on what they say. Understand how their own perception of their own status and recognition by others affects their decision making. I'd advise to watch very closely what they do, and weight what they say (justifications, rationalizations,) very lightly.