{"id":42960,"date":"2024-10-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-17T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/?p=42960"},"modified":"2024-10-11T15:48:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T22:48:12","slug":"10-top-destinations-electric-norway-robot-podcasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/10-top-destinations-electric-norway-robot-podcasters\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Top Destinations\/Electric Norway\/Robot Podcasters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A weekly newsletter with four quick bites, edited by Tim Leffel, author of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/geni.us\/cbjyU?utm_campaign=Nomadico&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_source=Revue%20newsletter\" target=\"_blank\"><em>A Better Life for Half the Price<\/em><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>The World\u2019s Cheapest Destinations<\/em>. See\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/nomadico.substack.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">past editions here,<\/a>\u00a0where your like-minded friends can subscribe and join you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Where\u2019s Everybody Going?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>I sat in on a travel trends data discussion at the Adventure Travel World Summit this week and someone from Amadeus (the backbone of all the booking systems) shared the top cities people are searching for travel in the next three months. In order they are Tokyo, Bangkok, London, NYC, Paris, Seoul, Rome, Dubai, Singapore, and Madrid. Head elsewhere if you want to avoid the crowds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Norway, Land of Electric Cars<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Even though Norway is a major fossil fuel producer, they\u2019ve put the planet first and encouraged everyone to switch to electric vehicles. It\u2019s working, bigtime,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.electrive.com\/2024\/10\/01\/new-ev-record-in-norway-2\/\">according to the latest stats<\/a>. In September, 96.4 percent of all new cars registered in Norway were purely electric. There are now more EVs on the road there than gas vehicles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Carbon Removal to Combat Climate Change<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>With another hurricane hitting Florida and beyond this week, let\u2019s take a look at what travelers can do to make up for the air travel. We can purchase carbon offsets where trees are planted, but many (including me) are skeptical that the money is well spent and is having a concrete result overall. I\u2019m more impressed with what&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomorrowsair.com\/education\/carbon-removal-101\">Tomorrow\u2019s Air<\/a>&nbsp;is doing in trying to actually remove carbon from the atmosphere instead and storing, or neutralizing, it in a way that lasts 500+ years. It feels like a more promising way to offset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2><strong>Can Robots Make a Podcast?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>If you\u2019d like to hear how a few chatty podcast hosts would handle this newsletter, go check out&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/scl\/fi\/bhti157b7efw35n9qs3f7\/Nomadico-issue-125.wav?rlkey=5qb5zk1e5tg77yntc7l9vxt4m&amp;e=2&amp;st=qf79nnqi&amp;dl=0\">this recording of Nomadico Issue #125<\/a>&nbsp;as interpreted by\u2026 a couple of very real-sounding AI characters. This is exciting, creepy, or scary depending on your point of view, but the only mistake they made was pronouncing my name wrong, which plenty of humans have done before as well. It was produced by the very generic-sounding program Google Notebook LM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadico issue #126<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[2385],"tags":[2386],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42960"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13684"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42961,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42960\/revisions\/42961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}