“Bad economic decisions”
The lizard people will never forgive China for standing up for itself. They kept the Qing alive indefinitely because it forced masses of starving and immiserated people to become guest laborers, “coolies” for Western capitalists. Reform Era economic liberalization wasn’t enough; Unless Dow Chemical is dictating the environmental policy of Guangxi, China will always bear the original sins of authoritarianism and bad economics, regardless of how prosperous or stable it is.
The American economy is dependent on massive freight rail networks.
first of all, considering any technology’s efficiency in a vacuum is nonsense, so jot that down. If trains are efficient because the infrastructure already exists, then they are efficient, full stop.
second, that’s not an opinion, it’s just wrong. Trains are a way to move a maximum of weight along a predetermined route continually for a minimum operating cost. Maybe their only competitor is pipelines, and that only works for fluids. In every complex system the easiest way to reduce overhead is by bundling operations. Shipping everything in North America by long haul truck would require less coordination, but it would also cost more labor power, take more time, and destroy the environment more.
This idiot isn’t actually a PhD, is he?
Physicist
Ah. So literally just some guy that paid for twitter.
Hyperloop
Scratch that, he’s a guy that’s trying to build a train but worse, and he probably got an email telling him he has to pay for twitter.
e: Also he has a fake company trying to bilk investors with a magic bullet perpetual energy machine. The dickriding is spectacular
I am fucking unhinged and can come up with an extensive list of why cars are garbage.
Matter of fact, I think I’m going to begin that list shortly. So many places to begin
Why do idiots assume that that every faucet of life will be replaced by trains just because someone advocates for them? Why do they project their myopic mindset to everyone?
