Public places without private, "family" restrooms should build them for people who don't align perfectly with either gender. Utah is very pro-family, right?

swiping right with beak

I'd just be hearing the same shit as regular radio but now in HD.

Actually, HD Radio has stations that don't exist on analog radio because broadcasters can pile multiple streams (sub-channels) onto the same frequency basically for free. In my area, the only full-time classical music station is on HD radio.

Without the profit motive of capitalism the world would likely go back to the 0.1% annual GDP growth we had before capitalism came along.

Did capitalism create the Internet?

Could capitalism have created the Internet?

And that's why low-risk, low-reward businesses such as grocery stores don't exist.

Solar and Wind are great, but we don't have enough room near where people live and work to install them.

That's not a problem because HVDC only loses 3.5% per 1,000 km (620 mi).

Electric cars make the problem harder by increasing electricity demand.

Bidirectional charging makes the problem not harder but easier when electric vehicles are added to a virtual power plant.

...a battery big enough for long-haul trucks adds weight and size and cuts down on the total freight load the truck can deliver. And while an electric truck battery can take hours to recharge...

They should use smaller batteries and put a pantograph on the truck so it can recharge on the go.

Batteries will smooth out that graph.

The proposition authorized $10 billion in state bonds. The expectation was the feds would more or less match that.

The proposition authorized $9.95 billion in bonds, of which $9 billion would go to the HSR project. For every dollar the feds contributed, the state would contribute a dollar from that $9 billion, and once that $9 billion was used up, the project would need to find other sources to fund the remaining, including more federal, state, and/or private funding.

It's multiple times over budget

And thanks to inflation, the longer we take to build it, the more it will cost in the end. This is why it needs to get finished as quickly as possible. Build, baby, build!

the California HSR project is...unable to attract any private funding.

Not unable, just not ready to ask for private investment until the project is closer to completion. That was the plan from the very beginning: first get the government to pay for the bulk of construction, then get private investors to pay for the last little bit.

Once passengers have arrived at the train station somewhere in Nevada & found their way to Las Vegas, how are they going to get around there?

How do they get around when they fly there?

There's your answer.

Electricity is a major cost of desalination. So you're right, the question is whether it's cheaper to run the plant when electricity is expensive, such as during a demand response event, or idle it during that time.

0.3 out of 100 possible points doesn't seem like something that could elevate George W. Bush from an idiot to a genius.

But it's often enough to elevate a grade from a B+ to an A-.