Almost every antibiotic that's been created was created from lifeforms found in soil or decaying matter. These antibiotics are natural defenses these soil bacteria and fungi use to defend themselves from animal pathogens. In the process of composting a human body these soil micro-organisms would consume the organic matter including these pathogens. This is the natural life cycle of things.
The exception might be viruses with long life's but the simple solution to that is the same used for treated human waste, don't allow it to be used on food crops. That way there is no transmission path back to humans and the viral pathogens will at some point die and be consumed by the soil micro-organisms.
I'm a bit curious about the bones though, the bones are not going to be consumed entirely in a month, even under ideal conditions. So they must have a final step where the grind the compost to grind up the bones.
UEFI/EFI is coming to an ARM platform near you. It's needed for ARM to support server type capabilities and IIRC ARM plans to implement it across all future products to make it possible for their platform to expand into the server market.
UEFI is here to stay. Personally I'd prefer coreboot but no one supports coreboot and the manufactures don't like it because they can't brand it as easily as UEFI can be.
SpaceX has reduced launch costs by more than 10X, pre-SpaceX a typical launch for a non-heavy payload would be around $600million. SpaceX was offering launch costs of $80million though recently raised prices to around $120 for government launches. This includes all SpaceX's profit.
This massive reduction in launch costs makes putting a bigger installation of more birds cheaper, the bigger the constellation of birds the lower you can put it and the better the latency.
Get enough birds and you can be low enough that it can be quicker to use the birds than fiber in the ground.
The real crime is that the because of the War on Drugs US police forces won't even attempt to pursue property crime.
It's simply not profitable enough to the police when they can spend all their police time setting up drug stings and seizing everyone's personal property to keep for themselves.
This is the consequence of for profit policing that the insane civil forfeiture laws created.
I agree completely that 999 is a better emergency number, toddlers in particular can easily press 9 multiple times until they get help. We spend a lot of time in the US in schools training little children that it's 911 where we could be telling them to push 9 multiple times.
That would depend on how long it sat in the water of course. But yes, the will be extra cleaning/inspection for landing in water. The point is it didn't rapidly disassemble itself.
24fps causes certain things like motion blur and bluring effects in other places.
The funny thing is 24fps wasn't some magical number, it was the lowest frame rate they could get away with to save money back when this was all on silver and every frame cost $$.
If film and processing had been cheaper they wouldn't have used 24fps and likely would have went with something like 30fps or higher. All these effects Tom and others are complaining about are the bad side-effects of low frame rate that people got used to. You don't see motion blur in real life why do you want it in movies?
A great example of the engineering. It didn't come down hard either so they might be able to recover and reuse the booster with the added cost of pulling it out of the water.
No, you can't. The interrogator will see the change every time, including on the calibration questions, and see the obvious difference between that and the neutral intra-question period. While it may mess up the measurements, it won't look like a "truthful" (aka, calm) response.
You don't know what you're talking about, the change "clenching" causes is within the same natural variation you'll see with a response to any question or even thinking about something completely unrelated and it obscures any bullshit measurement of "deception". It basically raises the threshold to the point that any other signal that may or may not be present when answering a question is completely obscured.
Skin temp, flush and blood pressure fluctuate quite a bit just sitting doing nothing. Polygraph's rely on detecting a change in these natural measurements due to deception but they have a _very thin band_ with which to measure changes. By clenching a muscle you raise the natural variation to the point that other signals are lost. This is precisely why polygraphs aren't allowed in court, they prove nothing, they rely on such a thin bad of change based on the control questions and it can be obscured because you're nervous or even worried about a relative or surgery or because you lost your keys. To be effective the person being polygraphed needs to be completely relaxed and willing, they also can't get on ANY medication as they can change the result as well.
Don't believe me, buy a polygraph and try it. The Scientologists sell them on e-bay as E-meters but you'd probably get one cheaper just buying a regular old polygraph. They are ridiculously easy to obscure any measurements if you intend to.
You can beat a polygraph by clenching your sphincter when answering questions, it causes a slight skin flush and rise in blood pleasure which is how the polygraph measures "lies", but they have to establish a baseline so if you do it every single time you answer a question the detection system can't see deception.
Polygraphs are pseudo-science bullshit, and it astounds me to this day that they are still given any weight at all. Europe realized they were pseudo-science and barred their use for any reason, private or public, at all because they DON'T WORK.And best case is they just point you in the wrong direction.
Not only was there a ballot collection drive in contravention of NC law, but all the statistics for the two counties in question are off against the rest of the state. More absentee ballots were requested, more were not submitted, and a higher number voted for one party than the rest of the state.
I'm sure all those voters concerned about voter fraud support immediately suspending certification of the ballot, recounting ballots, and performing a full verification of all ballots in the affected counties including prosecution of all the people accused of collecting ballots and paying people to collect ballots.
It should be noted that the GOP is opposed to any of those steps.
Using that same page if you look at US adoption it's actually 35%, once it gets past 50% it'll likely go exponential again until it wipes out IPv4 because there will be groups that start dropping IPv4 due to the adoption rate.
You'll already find most cellular connections are Ipv6 only.
IPv6 was designed to make asking for an IP address obsolete in that it could configure itself automatically with self-discovery.
People are so used to IPv4 they forget how difficult it was to learn when they first started. One of the IPv6 design goals was to get rid of the whole what is my IP and where do it type it in phase of network setup. You don't need to know your IP, or your netmask or gateway, IPv6 can self discover all of that in addition to being able to self identify local network segments and route traffic accordingly to those adjacent clients without the need for a router.
The lawsuit specifically mentions TRAFFIC concerns.
You are correct, the point of the tunnel is to reduce traffic on the surface routes that would be normally used, but every entrance and exit location will generate huge amounts of traffic to that point and in the adjacent streets, if the tunnel system is used. It also changes traffic patterns, in that all those cars would normally go to the closest freeway access point or arterial may divert to the tunnel entrance cutting through neighborhoods that would normally see no traffic.
Think about it for a minute, if you suddenly build a brand new freeway that could get people to work and home 20 minutes sooner how much would that change traffic patterns? How many more cars would be diverting to the entrance and exit points? What effect would that have on the streets and neighborhoods adjacent to these tunnel entrance/exit points?
Say you live in a quiet neighborhood that happens to abut one of these access points and all of a sudden 10,000 cars are driving down your street to get to/from that access point. Would you be concerned about that change?
Any time a new roadway is built the government is required to do an environmental study to examine these very issues, what will be the impacts to traffic, how will traffic patterns change and what effects will that have. That's what this lawsuit is about, they want Musk to follow the same requirements.
The Post author is completely wrong when he says that IPv6 is in some bizarre format. IPv6 is exactly the same as IPv4, it's block of numbers. The primary difference is that IPv4 was arranged in a set of 4 blocks of 255 bit numbers. This was workable with a 32 bit address. Ipv6 on the other hand has 128 bits.
To handle a 128 bit address with the same 255 block format of ipv4 you'd need 16 blocks rather than 4. To make this easier and narrow it down to just 8 blocks of 4 digits they decided using HEX would be easier. The addressing scheme was also designed to solve many of the problems Ipv4 had, including automatic creation of a private locally addressable-only address space (the link local).
They also added an address assignment scheme that didn't required DHCP to find an assign an IPv6 address. This is called SLACC and in theory makes it trivial to setup an IPv6 network of devices without needing to build a huge DHCP server (for example in a factory where machinery needs IP addresses but have very primitive computing resources). They also designed the network so that it wouldn't be fragmented requiring huge BGP tables. Every Ipv6 network address is supposed to come with 64 bits of addresses for the user (providing the ISP complies with the RFC and provides each user a/64 as the RFC requires. What this means is that with every public IPv6 address you have 2 IPv4 networks worth of addresses to use on your own network.
There was a lot of though that went into IPv6 into solving a lot of the problems of IPv4. It does take a little getting used to because the numbers are so much bigger and it uses HEX by default to narrow down the number of digits. But other than the spin up of learning about all the new features of IPv6 and getting used to using HEX addressing it's quite a bit nicer to use IMO.
In my area that's enough to get a container of instant coffee/tea, a loaf of bread, and two cans of vegetables.
That sounds like a very gross sandwich, I'm betting you're British.
Just remember, In HELL:
The police are German
The cooks are British
The engineers are Italian
The administrators are French
The lovers are Swiss
The politicians are American
My $20 Billion number comes from the recently canceled Georgia reactor, the last still under construction in the US. Similar prices were developed at the other US sites before they were canceled as well, IIRC the TVA reactor canceled when the project price reached $18 billion at 30% complete.
There are only two reactors under construction in what I would consider Europe (there are several more under construction in former soviet states). The one under construction in Finland is a prime example of the problem, quote wiki:
Areva is building a third reactor at the Olkiluoto site for a fixed price of €3 billion ($4.1 billion). It will be the first European Pressurized Reactor (EPR), and will have a power output of 1,600 MWe. The reactor was originally scheduled to start production in 2009, then was scheduled to do so no earlier than 2015, and is currently planned for 2018, nine years behind schedule.[3][7] Total costs now exceed 8.5 billion euro and plans for a possible fourth plant has been discarded.[8]
The US reactors under construction in the 00's went the same direction. They started around $4 billion on fixed price contracts and were canceled after the Westinghouse bankruptcy showed the real prices were actually closer to $20 billion.
FWIW there is very little difference between US nuclear regulatory policy and EU polices. Modern reactors are just that expensive to build. Sure you could shave 50% of the price by getting rid of the containment vessel that protects the reactor against meltdown and terrorist attacks. But you wont' find many places in the democratic countries that would be willing to see that happen.
Reactors cost a LOT of money to build, that's just a fact. They need millions of yards of concrete and millions of feet of pipe to move water and steam about. They have thousands of bits of complex machinery and electronics that cost a fortune and you need 3 pieces of everything to have backup systems. On top of that anything in contact with the reactor heating system has to be built of extremely expensive metals and alloys to survive 70 years at that radioactivity. I've seen prices of half a billion alone for the pressure vessel due to the alloy mix and special fabrication requirements. Unfortunately that's just the reality of nuclear power, it's far more expensive than alternatives, particularly solar and wind even with power storage that given them nearly the same effective rates and nuclear.
The solar + storage price comes from a competitive public auction earlier in the summer for power in Colorado to be delivered in 2020. The per kwh price for nuclear is the estimated price for power off the Georgia reactor before the Public utilities commission decided to deny the request for higher power rates and the power company canceled the project as a result.
Don't believe me? Look at the prices for the reactors under construction. The real prices, not the fake ones they presented at the beginning.
NEPA was constructed to close off litigation as much as it was constructed to force rich folks that want to build things to look at the consequences of building it before building it. It's there to force people to look at the problems the construction will cause, to develop mitigation plans and to basically do some fucking planning before going out there and building something and then abandoning it (leaving it to the tax payer to clean up) because they didn't consider the impacts.
EIS (Environmental Impact Statement), EA (Environmental Assesment) and CatX (Categorical Exclusion) reports do not open up lawsuits. They actually close of litigation quite effectively because the litigants can only challenge the report as incomplete after an environmental document is completed. One of the reasons to do an environmental document is for this very reason, it takes standing away because the impacts have already been evaluated.
In fact once the environmental document is approved the only way to stop a project is to claim the document is incomplete, the wrong type of document was used or it was approved improperly. All other reasonable avenues of lawsuit are prohibited by statute after the document is approved.
Subsidence is probably a non-issue in this case, he's deep enough it's not going to have an effect at surface level unless the entire tunnel collapses and even then it'd probably bridge a soil arch before it reached the surface.
There are real issues with aquifer disruptions, traffic pattern changes and a bunch of other stuff that should be looked at. Environment documents are required because of stuff like this but the process is also setup to help build public support and in the end environmental documents have the effect of closing off a lot of lawsuits by taking away standing from potential plaintiffs who just want to block the project.
NIMBY doesn't know state boundaries. This is a wealthy neighborhood concerned about elevated traffic due to the tunnel. This happens everywhere in the US anytime you attempt any construction project near wealthy people.
You'll get this worse in other states east of California where property owners also own the mineral rights. Somewhere like Texas you'd get every single property owner anywhere close to project suing to be paid claiming an impact to their mineral rights. California like many of the states west of Colorado have state laws that separate out mineral and surface rights giving the property owner no challenge to tunnel type projects via mineral rights. Instead these wealthy property owners are using a state environmental law to claim no analysis of impacts like traffic to attack the project.
Honestly the property owners are right, if Musk does want to build this massive private tunnel network he needs to spend a little money and do a real environmental analysis on what the impacts will be. Such a system would likely dramatically change traffic patterns and could cause aquifers to be disrupted along with a bunch of other things that should be analyzed before building it.
Environmental documents aren't a bad thing, they are simply a process that requires planning and a look at the effects the project will have before you build it. This is a good thing, these documents and the process they entail can often make projects run smoother and win public support and once the document is approved many of the avenues for a lawsuit get closed off, which is one of the purposes of the document.
The mosquito's targeted are not native to the western hemisphere. These mosquito's even being here are invasive species brought here by people a long time ago.
One of the biggest disease carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti is such an invasive species that was native to africa until humans moved it around the globe. It would be a good thing to wipe this species from it's non-native habitats, not just for people but for the species it displaced. There are thousands of mosquito species but only a handful that transmit disease and most of those came from elsewhere.
Solar or Wind plus storage can generate power at $0.04 per kwh amortized over a 20 year life. Solar plus Storage costs have been falling in price 20% per year for the last decade.
A new nuclear plant would generate power at the cost of more than $0.32 kwh amortized over a 70 year life. If you are incapable of doing the math that's 8 times the cost. Nuclear construction costs have been increased nearly 400X since third generation reactor design.
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Almost every antibiotic that's been created was created from lifeforms found in soil or decaying matter. These antibiotics are natural defenses these soil bacteria and fungi use to defend themselves from animal pathogens. In the process of composting a human body these soil micro-organisms would consume the organic matter including these pathogens. This is the natural life cycle of things.
The exception might be viruses with long life's but the simple solution to that is the same used for treated human waste, don't allow it to be used on food crops. That way there is no transmission path back to humans and the viral pathogens will at some point die and be consumed by the soil micro-organisms.
I'm a bit curious about the bones though, the bones are not going to be consumed entirely in a month, even under ideal conditions. So they must have a final step where the grind the compost to grind up the bones.
UEFI/EFI is coming to an ARM platform near you. It's needed for ARM to support server type capabilities and IIRC ARM plans to implement it across all future products to make it possible for their platform to expand into the server market.
UEFI is here to stay. Personally I'd prefer coreboot but no one supports coreboot and the manufactures don't like it because they can't brand it as easily as UEFI can be.
You must have a different definition of terrorist than the rest of the world.
SpaceX has reduced launch costs by more than 10X, pre-SpaceX a typical launch for a non-heavy payload would be around $600million. SpaceX was offering launch costs of $80million though recently raised prices to around $120 for government launches. This includes all SpaceX's profit.
This massive reduction in launch costs makes putting a bigger installation of more birds cheaper, the bigger the constellation of birds the lower you can put it and the better the latency.
Get enough birds and you can be low enough that it can be quicker to use the birds than fiber in the ground.
The real crime is that the because of the War on Drugs US police forces won't even attempt to pursue property crime.
It's simply not profitable enough to the police when they can spend all their police time setting up drug stings and seizing everyone's personal property to keep for themselves.
This is the consequence of for profit policing that the insane civil forfeiture laws created.
I agree completely that 999 is a better emergency number, toddlers in particular can easily press 9 multiple times until they get help. We spend a lot of time in the US in schools training little children that it's 911 where we could be telling them to push 9 multiple times.
That would depend on how long it sat in the water of course. But yes, the will be extra cleaning/inspection for landing in water. The point is it didn't rapidly disassemble itself.
24fps causes certain things like motion blur and bluring effects in other places.
The funny thing is 24fps wasn't some magical number, it was the lowest frame rate they could get away with to save money back when this was all on silver and every frame cost $$.
If film and processing had been cheaper they wouldn't have used 24fps and likely would have went with something like 30fps or higher. All these effects Tom and others are complaining about are the bad side-effects of low frame rate that people got used to. You don't see motion blur in real life why do you want it in movies?
A great example of the engineering. It didn't come down hard either so they might be able to recover and reuse the booster with the added cost of pulling it out of the water.
No, you can't. The interrogator will see the change every time, including on the calibration questions, and see the obvious difference between that and the neutral intra-question period. While it may mess up the measurements, it won't look like a "truthful" (aka, calm) response.
You don't know what you're talking about, the change "clenching" causes is within the same natural variation you'll see with a response to any question or even thinking about something completely unrelated and it obscures any bullshit measurement of "deception". It basically raises the threshold to the point that any other signal that may or may not be present when answering a question is completely obscured.
Skin temp, flush and blood pressure fluctuate quite a bit just sitting doing nothing. Polygraph's rely on detecting a change in these natural measurements due to deception but they have a _very thin band_ with which to measure changes. By clenching a muscle you raise the natural variation to the point that other signals are lost. This is precisely why polygraphs aren't allowed in court, they prove nothing, they rely on such a thin bad of change based on the control questions and it can be obscured because you're nervous or even worried about a relative or surgery or because you lost your keys. To be effective the person being polygraphed needs to be completely relaxed and willing, they also can't get on ANY medication as they can change the result as well.
Don't believe me, buy a polygraph and try it. The Scientologists sell them on e-bay as E-meters but you'd probably get one cheaper just buying a regular old polygraph. They are ridiculously easy to obscure any measurements if you intend to.
You can beat a polygraph by clenching your sphincter when answering questions, it causes a slight skin flush and rise in blood pleasure which is how the polygraph measures "lies", but they have to establish a baseline so if you do it every single time you answer a question the detection system can't see deception.
Polygraphs are pseudo-science bullshit, and it astounds me to this day that they are still given any weight at all. Europe realized they were pseudo-science and barred their use for any reason, private or public, at all because they DON'T WORK.And best case is they just point you in the wrong direction.
Not only was there a ballot collection drive in contravention of NC law, but all the statistics for the two counties in question are off against the rest of the state. More absentee ballots were requested, more were not submitted, and a higher number voted for one party than the rest of the state.
I'm sure all those voters concerned about voter fraud support immediately suspending certification of the ballot, recounting ballots, and performing a full verification of all ballots in the affected counties including prosecution of all the people accused of collecting ballots and paying people to collect ballots.
It should be noted that the GOP is opposed to any of those steps.
Using that same page if you look at US adoption it's actually 35%, once it gets past 50% it'll likely go exponential again until it wipes out IPv4 because there will be groups that start dropping IPv4 due to the adoption rate.
You'll already find most cellular connections are Ipv6 only.
IPv6 was designed to make asking for an IP address obsolete in that it could configure itself automatically with self-discovery.
People are so used to IPv4 they forget how difficult it was to learn when they first started. One of the IPv6 design goals was to get rid of the whole what is my IP and where do it type it in phase of network setup. You don't need to know your IP, or your netmask or gateway, IPv6 can self discover all of that in addition to being able to self identify local network segments and route traffic accordingly to those adjacent clients without the need for a router.
The lawsuit specifically mentions TRAFFIC concerns.
You are correct, the point of the tunnel is to reduce traffic on the surface routes that would be normally used, but every entrance and exit location will generate huge amounts of traffic to that point and in the adjacent streets, if the tunnel system is used. It also changes traffic patterns, in that all those cars would normally go to the closest freeway access point or arterial may divert to the tunnel entrance cutting through neighborhoods that would normally see no traffic.
Think about it for a minute, if you suddenly build a brand new freeway that could get people to work and home 20 minutes sooner how much would that change traffic patterns? How many more cars would be diverting to the entrance and exit points? What effect would that have on the streets and neighborhoods adjacent to these tunnel entrance/exit points?
Say you live in a quiet neighborhood that happens to abut one of these access points and all of a sudden 10,000 cars are driving down your street to get to/from that access point. Would you be concerned about that change?
Any time a new roadway is built the government is required to do an environmental study to examine these very issues, what will be the impacts to traffic, how will traffic patterns change and what effects will that have. That's what this lawsuit is about, they want Musk to follow the same requirements.
The Post author is completely wrong when he says that IPv6 is in some bizarre format. IPv6 is exactly the same as IPv4, it's block of numbers. The primary difference is that IPv4 was arranged in a set of 4 blocks of 255 bit numbers. This was workable with a 32 bit address. Ipv6 on the other hand has 128 bits.
To handle a 128 bit address with the same 255 block format of ipv4 you'd need 16 blocks rather than 4. To make this easier and narrow it down to just 8 blocks of 4 digits they decided using HEX would be easier. The addressing scheme was also designed to solve many of the problems Ipv4 had, including automatic creation of a private locally addressable-only address space (the link local).
They also added an address assignment scheme that didn't required DHCP to find an assign an IPv6 address. This is called SLACC and in theory makes it trivial to setup an IPv6 network of devices without needing to build a huge DHCP server (for example in a factory where machinery needs IP addresses but have very primitive computing resources). They also designed the network so that it wouldn't be fragmented requiring huge BGP tables. Every Ipv6 network address is supposed to come with 64 bits of addresses for the user (providing the ISP complies with the RFC and provides each user a /64 as the RFC requires. What this means is that with every public IPv6 address you have 2 IPv4 networks worth of addresses to use on your own network.
There was a lot of though that went into IPv6 into solving a lot of the problems of IPv4. It does take a little getting used to because the numbers are so much bigger and it uses HEX by default to narrow down the number of digits. But other than the spin up of learning about all the new features of IPv6 and getting used to using HEX addressing it's quite a bit nicer to use IMO.
Do you dine often and Mob owned restaurants?
In my area that's enough to get a container of instant coffee/tea, a loaf of bread, and two cans of vegetables.
That sounds like a very gross sandwich, I'm betting you're British.
Just remember, In HELL:
The police are German
The cooks are British
The engineers are Italian
The administrators are French
The lovers are Swiss
The politicians are American
My $20 Billion number comes from the recently canceled Georgia reactor, the last still under construction in the US. Similar prices were developed at the other US sites before they were canceled as well, IIRC the TVA reactor canceled when the project price reached $18 billion at 30% complete.
There are only two reactors under construction in what I would consider Europe (there are several more under construction in former soviet states). The one under construction in Finland is a prime example of the problem, quote wiki:
Areva is building a third reactor at the Olkiluoto site for a fixed price of €3 billion ($4.1 billion). It will be the first European Pressurized Reactor (EPR), and will have a power output of 1,600 MWe. The reactor was originally scheduled to start production in 2009, then was scheduled to do so no earlier than 2015, and is currently planned for 2018, nine years behind schedule.[3][7] Total costs now exceed 8.5 billion euro and plans for a possible fourth plant has been discarded.[8]
The US reactors under construction in the 00's went the same direction. They started around $4 billion on fixed price contracts and were canceled after the Westinghouse bankruptcy showed the real prices were actually closer to $20 billion.
FWIW there is very little difference between US nuclear regulatory policy and EU polices. Modern reactors are just that expensive to build. Sure you could shave 50% of the price by getting rid of the containment vessel that protects the reactor against meltdown and terrorist attacks. But you wont' find many places in the democratic countries that would be willing to see that happen.
Reactors cost a LOT of money to build, that's just a fact. They need millions of yards of concrete and millions of feet of pipe to move water and steam about. They have thousands of bits of complex machinery and electronics that cost a fortune and you need 3 pieces of everything to have backup systems. On top of that anything in contact with the reactor heating system has to be built of extremely expensive metals and alloys to survive 70 years at that radioactivity. I've seen prices of half a billion alone for the pressure vessel due to the alloy mix and special fabrication requirements. Unfortunately that's just the reality of nuclear power, it's far more expensive than alternatives, particularly solar and wind even with power storage that given them nearly the same effective rates and nuclear.
The solar + storage price comes from a competitive public auction earlier in the summer for power in Colorado to be delivered in 2020. The per kwh price for nuclear is the estimated price for power off the Georgia reactor before the Public utilities commission decided to deny the request for higher power rates and the power company canceled the project as a result.
Don't believe me? Look at the prices for the reactors under construction. The real prices, not the fake ones they presented at the beginning.
You don't know what you are talking about.
NEPA was constructed to close off litigation as much as it was constructed to force rich folks that want to build things to look at the consequences of building it before building it. It's there to force people to look at the problems the construction will cause, to develop mitigation plans and to basically do some fucking planning before going out there and building something and then abandoning it (leaving it to the tax payer to clean up) because they didn't consider the impacts.
EIS (Environmental Impact Statement), EA (Environmental Assesment) and CatX (Categorical Exclusion) reports do not open up lawsuits. They actually close of litigation quite effectively because the litigants can only challenge the report as incomplete after an environmental document is completed. One of the reasons to do an environmental document is for this very reason, it takes standing away because the impacts have already been evaluated.
In fact once the environmental document is approved the only way to stop a project is to claim the document is incomplete, the wrong type of document was used or it was approved improperly. All other reasonable avenues of lawsuit are prohibited by statute after the document is approved.
Subsidence is probably a non-issue in this case, he's deep enough it's not going to have an effect at surface level unless the entire tunnel collapses and even then it'd probably bridge a soil arch before it reached the surface.
There are real issues with aquifer disruptions, traffic pattern changes and a bunch of other stuff that should be looked at. Environment documents are required because of stuff like this but the process is also setup to help build public support and in the end environmental documents have the effect of closing off a lot of lawsuits by taking away standing from potential plaintiffs who just want to block the project.
NIMBY doesn't know state boundaries. This is a wealthy neighborhood concerned about elevated traffic due to the tunnel. This happens everywhere in the US anytime you attempt any construction project near wealthy people.
You'll get this worse in other states east of California where property owners also own the mineral rights. Somewhere like Texas you'd get every single property owner anywhere close to project suing to be paid claiming an impact to their mineral rights. California like many of the states west of Colorado have state laws that separate out mineral and surface rights giving the property owner no challenge to tunnel type projects via mineral rights. Instead these wealthy property owners are using a state environmental law to claim no analysis of impacts like traffic to attack the project.
Honestly the property owners are right, if Musk does want to build this massive private tunnel network he needs to spend a little money and do a real environmental analysis on what the impacts will be. Such a system would likely dramatically change traffic patterns and could cause aquifers to be disrupted along with a bunch of other things that should be analyzed before building it.
Environmental documents aren't a bad thing, they are simply a process that requires planning and a look at the effects the project will have before you build it. This is a good thing, these documents and the process they entail can often make projects run smoother and win public support and once the document is approved many of the avenues for a lawsuit get closed off, which is one of the purposes of the document.
The mosquito's targeted are not native to the western hemisphere. These mosquito's even being here are invasive species brought here by people a long time ago.
One of the biggest disease carrying mosquito Aedes aegypti is such an invasive species that was native to africa until humans moved it around the globe. It would be a good thing to wipe this species from it's non-native habitats, not just for people but for the species it displaced. There are thousands of mosquito species but only a handful that transmit disease and most of those came from elsewhere.
Solar or Wind plus storage can generate power at $0.04 per kwh amortized over a 20 year life. Solar plus Storage costs have been falling in price 20% per year for the last decade.
A new nuclear plant would generate power at the cost of more than $0.32 kwh amortized over a 70 year life. If you are incapable of doing the math that's 8 times the cost. Nuclear construction costs have been increased nearly 400X since third generation reactor design.