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_visgean
2y ago
There is some drone footage here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BdPGO6sfc3c , also google maps has a good view https://maps.app.goo.gl/KwdiwCzF4sThGLVf9
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> I meant that light rail must be much more expensive, but now I’m not so sure. I hadn’t considered you can have more passengers per driver and if labor is dominating cost then yeah trams can be cheaper! Well labor and gas/electrici
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2y ago
It s a bit bizzare article but the fact we could detect similar failures is good. Not sure tho why anyone would use satelites for this. They could just use normal sensors that would give you way more precision. https://www.encard
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2y ago
I dont think starlink antena is able to communicate with their own satelites - those are much higher and you would need much more powerfull antenna.
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2y ago
> First, you can’t go faster than cars or avoid traffic (in practice), that is not true, in cities the car speed is usually limited to 50, a lot of trams go 70 on certain sections. Also "or avoid traffic" a lot of trams go comp
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2y ago
In prague there is both extensive bus network and tram network. I almost always go for buses. The capacity is just so much higher and usually the drive is much smoother compared to buses. Also trams are powered by electricity making it more
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2y ago
The article never claims that the children notice the emission decrease. The claim is simply that more of them use active transport to school.
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2y ago
You said they are exploiting cheap labour from its colonies/vassals, again the factory is in germany. Also electricity prices are largely back to pre-war levels https://tradingeconomics.com/germany/electricity-pric
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2y ago
this article is literally about closing factories in GERMANY. So VW is definetely not "exploiting cheap labour from its colonies/vassals/".
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2y ago
my understanding was that you can run the gas engine in optimal speed to charge the electric engine which makes it more efficient.
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2y ago
There is a chart here: https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Advances-in-energy-densi... I am a bit confused by the units but it seems to be growing, tho the data cuts off at 2005. Another chart is here: https:/&#x
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2y ago
Just what we need, super strong mice!
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2y ago
it has no reason not to, its a detterent, russia and china needs to believe that the nukes are working and that there is enough for them to ensure the mutual assured destruction.
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2y ago
Isnt the enriching process super slow? https://education.cfr.org/learn/reading/how-do-countries-cre... this article puts somewhere in months, but you are still limited by the number of centrifuges and probably som
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2y ago
yes because beaches are famous for its stairs.
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2y ago
He might be anti shareholder but that does not mean he is pro worker. https://www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-reportedly-terrifi...
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2y ago
honestly it feels like a powerpoint presentation in an article.
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> Grocery stores until the mid-1900s did not actually sell products to women. Women would pick out and receive products and a bill would be sent to her male supervisor for his approval and payment. I find this hard to believe, how would
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2y ago
It is still somehow alive in Germany https://bmdv.bund.de/SharedDocs/EN/Articles/WS/waterways-as-... > Up to 240 million tonnes of bulk goods are transported per year via the German Federal waterways,
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2y ago
Even though things are more complex in large cities it still generates so much money that it is cheaper per capita then building in low density neighbourhood. > Nowadays a MODERN a big apartments complex cost more than an equivalent of s
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> or keeping better records I think the issue is that those historical records are simply not available and the best you can do is record whenever you dig out something new..
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2y ago
My mum had it and she is quite happy with it.
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you say propaganda, I say truth. > According to certain European politicians such as Petr Nečas, RFE played a significant role in the collapse of communism and the development of democracy in Eastern Europe.[40][41][42] Unlike government
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> Why exclusively fund RFERL for a foreign audience if you do not fund your national public broadcaster? Because the US media market is quite saturated and developed (or at least was when any of this was made into law) compared to countr
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> covertly critical of the enemy The radio is now based in Prague, it has a long history here and most people were quite happy to hear some real news during the communism. People tuning in risked prison time just to hear something else.
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> Sadly, now that human-mammoth relationship has continued as ivory hunters have looted the site beyond further study. Radio free europe had a really good photo essay on these new mammoth pirates: https://www.rferl.org/a&
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Location: UK/EU Remote: yes Willing to relocate: yes Technologies: Python, Numpy, Pandas, SciPy, fullstack, backend, some rust, go, js Résumé/CV: https://visgean.me/cv.pdf Email: visgean@gmail.com
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> You are still dramatically underestimating the density of hydrocarbon energy. Solar, electric, batteries, etc do not even remotely come close. I never mentioned hydrocarbon energy. You keep bringing it up for some reason. > Solar, e
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rtgs can be used to aid solar in charging batteries, the digging process can take a long time, if you space it correctly you would be able to get that energy from solar etc
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> machinery requires combustion solar power / RTGs could power such effort. Digging shelters could be done by unmanned missions before the manned missions would arrive.
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