Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

Then it doesn't make any difference at least to those who are down the line. Smaller cities along the line can attract more visitors and businesses there can have better opportunity of connecting toward companies and markets in larger cities. Similar to the effect expanded air service and expresswa...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

The United States has a couple of things working against us: 1. actually getting to the airport 2. different groups working against any kind of mass transit 3. we are taught from a very young age that detached, single family homes is the goal I don't expect people in Los Angeles to use HSR to get t...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

Seems you didn't even read the article as it tells what happened in Tokyo. What you are not taking into account is that what you share almost never happens. Allow me to share a real-life example of what actually happens. In my own city, there is a suburb of the city called Pimpri-Chinchwad. In the ...

Re: The Freudian slip of the century

The second Iraq was was most definately an unorganized mess. (putin seems to have learned a lot from Dubya). No thought of what to do after the war, and just alienate the population to hating Americans. But lets not forget what really started it all was Hussain invading Kuwait and the other countri...

Re: The Freudian slip of the century

It took me a while to understand that Dubya is a nickname for George W. Bush although why it ain't clear. Perhaps I'm missing some context here :( The part about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century is a revelation at least to me. Although they lost the plot and grew u...

Chinese aerospace experts slam NASA's chief for 'ridiculous and outrageous' allegations of 'stealing' technology

Just saw this - https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202205/1266116.shtml It feels whiny what the NASA gentleman said. Even if we take his statement at face value that doesn't tell why the U.S. isn't looking at a better lunar base or whatever. Instead of blaming China, it would have been far better to sh...

Re: The Freudian slip of the century

It took me a while to understand that Dubya is a nickname for George W. Bush although why it ain't clear. Perhaps I'm missing some context here :( The part about https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century is a revelation at least to me. Although they lost the plot and grew up...

Re: Monkeypox outbreak

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/monkeypox-canada-global-outbreak-1.6461880 Do you guys think this will become something as bad as covid? Or will it just be something that requires close attention but no public health restrictions? I'm pretty sure this is spread through close bodily contact, sexually...

What happens to ISS if Russia backs out.

Few days ago I read this - https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/04/tech/nasa-russia-space-race-scn/index.html While it's not given, what happens if indeed Russians pull out of ISS. Would ISS have an early EOL (Enf of Life) or would NASA try to prop up money from here and there to keep it running ? In cas...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

Would you say the United States's Air Transport System is also a transportation which goal is so that "poeople can be at a cheaper place and then go to a major city to work and come back the same day or on the weekend"? There are towns like Annaka-Haruna created around newly constructed S...

Re: Gasoline prices, it hurts.

There are solutions and as time goes on, more such solutions will be there in lesser time - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vHuldVlpFA Solar and wind would be good, but it's not always sunny or windy. So there have to be reasonable solutions for generating a charge that can actually charge up thos...

Re: How Norway killed the petrol car

A carbon tax is by definition the cheapest, most comprehensive way to limit CO2. If we aren’t doing it, we aren’t serious. Electric cars make a pitiful impact, really near zero. People have no concept of the energy mix. The biggest factors in man-made CO2 are agriculture/deforestation and building ...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

The whole idea of HSR or rather any transport is so that people can be at a cheaper place (a suburb or something) and then go to a major city where they work and come back the same day or come back on the weekend. There have been creations of entire towns both in Japan as well as in China to facili...

Re: How Norway killed the petrol car

The Hill is hardly a good judge of American public opinion. There is a reason no one in the US talks about a carbon tax - cause it aint happening. And it's gets harder to cut your CO2 output when your population keeping growing from immigration (both legal and illegal). " For the foreseeable f...

Re: How Norway killed the petrol car

To add, now perovskite batteries are also coming to market - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1BvXUity0s Of course, there will be people who won't be able to do either of the above, that is where businesses will make a dime and dollar. In fact, just 2 weeks back ABB and Shell made a global agreement...

Re: How Norway killed the petrol car

While the EV fanboys are promising fairy dust and unicorns in their Utopian future, the stark reality of EVs looks very different: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/californias-electrical-grid-has-an-ev-problem/ar-AAXsHfT?li=BBnb7Kz That is the problem of centralization. What has not been t...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties

In fact, what I have shared above and what you have shared earlier are similar, only our takeaways are a bit different - https://www.airliners.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=1472735&start=50#p23307853 No one ever says the main purpose of HSR is to serve the commuter. Some in California ment...

Re: How Norway killed the petrol car

How a bunch of wealthy white people made themselves feel better by driving massive chemical reactors around filled with heavy metals…. To me it has no relevance. And that’s my demographic group, more or less (shrug!) If we cared about carbon, we would implement a carbon tax. Including India and Chi...

Boeing Starliner Reaches Orbit In Test Launch After Years Of Struggles

Just saw this - https://www.forbes.com/sites/joewalsh/2022/05/19/boeing-starliner-finally-reaches-orbit-in-test-launch-after-years-of-struggles/?sh=19ba01b875a1 The problem I see though that the future of ISS itself is uncertain as Russia is backing off from funding ISS and the U.S. itself seems to ...

Re: California High Speed Rail running into difficulties