It's great in Iceland. But that's relatively unique geology.
In CA (Calaveras) there are geothermal fields that are exhausted after about 30 years. They cooled the earth enough that they can't make steam economically anymore. Lost money, but still a worthwhile experiment. Just don't do it again. Don't try to fix with scale.
When I was young, I went to war with a cube farm neighbor. Started innocently enough, a few rubber bands bounced off the ceiling.
The nuclear option: Kimchi, taco bell, hard-boiled, slightly old, eggs and cheep can beer. Got us half a day off. 'Collateral damage' thought there was a gas leak...there was, no gas service in the area though.
Felt kind of bad for the poor bastards who sat nearby, got to wounder if they ever figured out why we had fans pointing at each other's cube. It more or less ended after the 'gas leak' incident.
'Office gas wars' is the kind of thing more diversity (hot chicks please) in the office would end.
Wrong about many details. But right about the importance of being armed.
Any one man was dead against the Vikings. What eventually stopped them were coastal fortifications. Hold out for long enough to mass you defenders against the raiders. Happened in the context of feudalism, but did not create it.
There is a reason that (1 - corporate tax rate) * (1 - capital gains rate) * (Average national ROI) is, more or less, the same in all 1st world nations. They are competing for capital.
Having been wrong 99 times in the past in exactly similar situations is not an argument against something? 97% of the population used to farm, now it's 2%. Do we have 95% unemployment?
Before that about 50% used to hunt and 50% gather. Now it's 0% (with some rounding).
If you think 'this one is different', it's up to you to show why.
Nah, just rig up a hook/fork, sort of like they used to collect mail bags on trains without stopping.
You could put 10 on the sidewalk side of the bus, have them pull the chair up under a windscreen and give the rider the ability to drop off into the bike lane at any time the bus was going under 5mph.
Only problem I see is kids riding them for fun. That and speed wobbles, which can be fixed with longer wheel base chairs. Allow those to drop at up to 25mph.
Won't be all that safe, but fun.
You could add an intake scoop, drop-off chute for the (formerly?) able bodied. Never stop, except for traffic.
We have the handicapped movers on call service and it works well.
Don't neglect the costs of making everything accessible. It's not just delays and scheduling issues. It costs a lot to add chair lifts to every bus, light rail car and station.
Delays are a big deal with regard to acceptance.. Without delays you can, more or less, know when the bus is coming. Keeping schedules is important if you want people to use the service. How many important appointments does someone have to miss, before they give up? Not such a big deal when there is a bus every 15 minutes, but for hourly buses, it's important.
It is apparently enough cheaper to skip the wheelchair accessibility parts on buses and light rail that Sacramento has chosen to simply provide 'call up' wheelchair transportation vans rather than make all the buses, train cars and stations accessible.
I'm kind of surprised it's legal though. Makes too much sense.
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Geothermal varies widely.
It's great in Iceland. But that's relatively unique geology.
In CA (Calaveras) there are geothermal fields that are exhausted after about 30 years. They cooled the earth enough that they can't make steam economically anymore. Lost money, but still a worthwhile experiment. Just don't do it again. Don't try to fix with scale.
When I was young, I went to war with a cube farm neighbor. Started innocently enough, a few rubber bands bounced off the ceiling.
The nuclear option: Kimchi, taco bell, hard-boiled, slightly old, eggs and cheep can beer. Got us half a day off. 'Collateral damage' thought there was a gas leak...there was, no gas service in the area though.
Felt kind of bad for the poor bastards who sat nearby, got to wounder if they ever figured out why we had fans pointing at each other's cube. It more or less ended after the 'gas leak' incident.
'Office gas wars' is the kind of thing more diversity (hot chicks please) in the office would end.
Your sure are a good reader.
Not arguing with you.
But any machine that talks should understand 'shutup'. Especially single threaded ones that lockup their UI while talking.
Current day 'liberals' aren't. It is that simple. They have redefined a term to mean it's opposite.
Wrong about many details. But right about the importance of being armed.
Any one man was dead against the Vikings. What eventually stopped them were coastal fortifications. Hold out for long enough to mass you defenders against the raiders. Happened in the context of feudalism, but did not create it.
You just sent all the capital overseas dimwit.
There is a reason that (1 - corporate tax rate) * (1 - capital gains rate) * (Average national ROI) is, more or less, the same in all 1st world nations. They are competing for capital.
Price is not cost + profit margin.
Micro not marco economics are in play. With globalization virtually all companies are price takers. Wait for it...so are taxing authorities.
You don't get unemployment unless you, at least, say you are looking.
Having been wrong 99 times in the past in exactly similar situations is not an argument against something? 97% of the population used to farm, now it's 2%. Do we have 95% unemployment?
Before that about 50% used to hunt and 50% gather. Now it's 0% (with some rounding).
If you think 'this one is different', it's up to you to show why.
Do you have any idea how many there are and how much each set of lights (much less gates) costs?
Japan builds appropriate pubic transport for it's population density. Same as the USA.
Your bitch is with the burbs.
If 'critical mass' ever comes to my area, I see a parachute cord between two power poles at the bottom of a hill in their future.
Strike!
Rail requires better planning. Much longer lead times, expensive to change etc etc.
If 'they' can't plan a bus system, they are doomed.
Trebuchet/parachute commuting is no crazier an idea then hyperloop.
Nah, just rig up a hook/fork, sort of like they used to collect mail bags on trains without stopping.
You could put 10 on the sidewalk side of the bus, have them pull the chair up under a windscreen and give the rider the ability to drop off into the bike lane at any time the bus was going under 5mph.
Only problem I see is kids riding them for fun. That and speed wobbles, which can be fixed with longer wheel base chairs. Allow those to drop at up to 25mph.
Won't be all that safe, but fun.
You could add an intake scoop, drop-off chute for the (formerly?) able bodied. Never stop, except for traffic.
Right, that's why you have to leave at 4:20. Sure it is.
We have the handicapped movers on call service and it works well.
Don't neglect the costs of making everything accessible. It's not just delays and scheduling issues. It costs a lot to add chair lifts to every bus, light rail car and station.
Delays are a big deal with regard to acceptance.. Without delays you can, more or less, know when the bus is coming. Keeping schedules is important if you want people to use the service. How many important appointments does someone have to miss, before they give up? Not such a big deal when there is a bus every 15 minutes, but for hourly buses, it's important.
Where is that?
Only school buses stop traffic when stopped. In the USA in general.
You explain to them that population density changes things and their solution isn't a good one for us, don't you?
Use small words. They will argue. A lifetime of indoctrination is hard to break.
It is apparently enough cheaper to skip the wheelchair accessibility parts on buses and light rail that Sacramento has chosen to simply provide 'call up' wheelchair transportation vans rather than make all the buses, train cars and stations accessible.
I'm kind of surprised it's legal though. Makes too much sense.
IIRC the Ruskys considered flying a reactor in the 60s but never did. On their armed orbital base.
Your are thinking of a radionuclide battery. No moving parts, just a heat source and bi-metals.
They built and tested at least one nuclear rocket design in the 1960s.
High ISP but heavy. Useless for an ICBM.
Play some KSP, you'll understand.
WTF?
Where? I call bullshit. You are just deluded.
Cops beat confessions out of people all the time in western Europe, and get promoted.
The key to being treated better is the same around the world. Make it obvious you can afford a _good_ lawyer.
When a physicist wants to run an experiment, he starts by going to an engineer to build the apparatus.
Big old conventional bombs are far outside a physicist's area of competence.