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It is somewhat amusing timeline wise as a choice since the Manhattan Project ran from 1942 to 1946: Jan 1942: Roosevelt authorizes the atomic bomb Jul 1945 (5
by renewiltord 2y ago
It is somewhat amusing timeline wise as a choice since the Manhattan Project ran from 1942 to 1946:
Jan 1942: Roosevelt authorizes the atomic bomb
Jul 1945 (55 months later): Trinity
Aug 1945 (56 months later): Little Boy
By comparison:
Nov 2021: IRA becomes law
Feb 2025 (40 months later): <250 charging points
But this would take 120 months to complete. What an interesting comparison.
- ceejayoz 2y ago“Things happen fast in wartime” is perhaps not the novel discovery you think it is. Zero bombs in early 1945. What a waste of money!
- renewiltord 2y agoAh, so if they had the extra year they would have had charging stations everywhere. What a pity. All that money wasted because we didn't wait till August. They invented a novel weapon in half the time your heroes dreamed of building a charging station.
- Apocryphon 2y agoWell, maybe if the government declared a War on Climate Change or War on Lack of Charging Stations.
- renewiltord 2y agoHaha, a tremendous idea. If war works, then use war.
- Apocryphon 2y agoThere’s also the matter that the Manhattan Project was under one authority. As an ancestral comment mentioned, there’s multiple automakers involved. It would be trying to build a bomb and dealing with not only the gun type design vs. the implosion design but a bevy of others, whose proponents all have equal influence over Oppenheimer to stymie the effort.
- ceejayoz 2y ago> They invented a novel weapon in half the time your heroes dreamed of building a charging station. It's a plan to build tens of thousands of charging stations, by 2030. In all 50 states, with the states and local administrations being responsible for contracting, permiting, buying land, utility work, etc. Most of the work is not on the Feds here. It should not be at all surprising that 10k+ little building projects take some time to get going. Even from the folks who credulously believed the President could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours.
- renewiltord 2y agoSo they came up with an overly complicated plan with little outcome and this is supposed to be amazing? Oh hang on, I can do better. I have a plan to build 3 billion teleportation machines by 2045. This makes for a great mad libs set. I have a plan to build thousands of Super Star Destroyers on Exegol by a long time ago.
- ceejayoz 2y agoI don't know how to explain to you that EV chargers exist, unlike teleporters and Star Destroyers.
- renewiltord 2y agoBut we have a plan, ceejayoz. We've got a plan. And ten years from now we'll have a plan and maybe one shed where we can build a teleporter, but always remember the bomb: in early 1945 there was no bomb.
- Apocryphon 2y agoThe Interstate Highway System took like 36 years to build, wouldn't that be a better analogy, since it's an entity that exists in many different places at once? Whereas the bomb was built on eminent domain-seized property so you didn't have to deal with local jurisdictions or landowners.