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Wow that’s terrible design
Wow that’s terrible design
That’s a good video
Good job imagining a version that could go 3D
Yeah it’s pretty neat. You can also imagine a version that goes 3D, maybe replicating uneven ground or stairs.
That’s pretty cool. No AI needed!
Cool video
I would love that. I personally love riding high speed rail. The problem is that it’s too damn expensive to build in the USA. The cost : benefit ratio just doesn’t pencil out.
Even the profitable Acela line barely qualifies as high speed rail because they can’t handle upgrading all the rail and dealing with legacy infrastructure issues.
It would be amazing if they could fix that and extend it down the coast to Miami. It would be amazing if they could build a high speed rail line from NY to SF. I would totally ride that. Unfortunately I just don’t think it’s ever going to happen.
Yes that makes an transcontinental high speed rail very impractical.
It’s fun to think about this stuff, but like the YouTube comments discuss, this is not going to be a practical solution. The cost:benefit ratio just isn’t there.
My personal opinion is that continued electrification of existing transport modalities is probably going to be the defining feature of future transportation developments for the next century. The biggest issue is battery energy density, but I’d be shocked if things like solid state batteries didn’t start coming online within the next decade or two. There’s just so much investment going on here right now.
So obviously things like electric cars and buses on existing roadways is going to continue growing. Full self driving will eventually occur. Convoys of high speed electric vehicles traveling down highways will basically do everything that high speed rail is supposed to do, but without the need to build high speed rail. Like by the time a transcontinental high speed rail system would be built (50 years?) It would be obsolete.
That’s not even taking into account how the enormous investment and innovation fueled by the electric car/truck/bus industry is also going to enable electric airplanes. Being able to fly a couple dozen people to local air strips a couple hundred miles apart will be a true transportation revolution. You’ll be able to connect up all these regional locations without any significant infrastructure and at aircraft speeds and for relatively low cost.
High speed rail is amazing for high density locations like Europe, Japan and China. But for the USA it’s a much tougher sell. And with upcoming developments in electric vehicles it’s likely to be obsolete by the time you finish building it. It’s sort of like trying to convince a big African country with poor telecom infrastructure to build out a national network of expensive high speed fiber optic cables instead of going for something like wireless cell towers or just switching to satellite constellations like Starlink in another decade.
Andrew Bowser is a film maker. He does the Onyx character in some of his stuff including the movie that was just released. Here’s his YouTube channel
Yeah it’s a huge effort to do large scale biochar production. The dream is to take all those waste stems they’re burning and sequester the carbon in the soil. This will improve soil quality and improve air quality by stopping the burning, but it will cost big bucks.
Come on guys, we can do this
Amen
You still need phone number verification to create an account, that hasn’t changed
It’s Fresh Frozen
Amazing
Don’t forget it helps deter thieves as well. Smash and grabs, catalytic converter thefts, etc. Also if you have other vehicles like bicycles/motorcycles then you’ll definitely want them inside a garage vs outside where they’re visible and more vulnerable.
Depends where you live; large garages can be normal. Obviously not 60% of the space, but garages can seriously help protect vehicles and you from the elements. They’re great if you have severe winters, frequent rain, strong sunshine, and are now helpful for electric car charging.
This only works if the bridge is financed as an NFT