China is an export economy, most of what they produced is consumed in developed countries. The U.S and the rest of the developed World effectively outsourced their carbon heavy industries because we don't really want to make the hard choices, just pretend that we are doing our part.

Sand is extremely abrasive, A windy day in a desert is like a natural sandblaster, combined with the extreme swings of temperate (deserts loose heat at night) which will further stress materials, you are looking at a lot of added cost and limited lifespan.

A SUV is an Automobile, the term you are looking for is sedan (4 door car) or coupe (2 door)

Once approved a project has already passed thru the community boards where NIMBY's can delay it, at that point it is expensive litigation often funded by competing industries or special-interest groups that cause further delays.

Support costs money. Stocking obsolete parts costs money. Glue is the cheapest way to assemble a product. Sure Google can "fix" all these issues but don't expect the same price-point.

Google search supports Boolean operators. Use NOT or - sign in-front of the keyword. Learn how to use it before complaining it doesn't do what you want it to do.

Memorizing facts is becoming less and less important in the Information-age. Instead of pretending that Computers, AI and the Internet don't exist there should be more focus on teaching students concepts and the use of technology to efficiently complete tasks.

Yeh humans need benevolent dictators to protect us. Problem is they don't stay that way for long. Remember Google's "Don't be evil"

The jury is still out on whether dark matter interacts via the weak-force abit extremely rarely, or not at all. Both WIMPS and Axions would have such interactions. We also know of Neutrinos that are in-fact part of the so called dark mattrer (not enough to explain all the missing matter) do rarely interact via the weak-force baring the hypothesized Sterile Neutrino which is a candidate for the missing dark matter and would only interact gravitationally.

Tolls and gas taxes don't even cover highway maintenance, never mind pay for their construction. Yet for some reason we expect rail to pay for itself and even turn a profit.

The United States alone consumed 18.7 million barrels of oil daily, 1 million barrels a year is not even a drop in a bucket.

The top games on Steam are CS-GO and Dota2, both decade old games with minimal "rig" requirements.

The average Windows gamer doesn't install WIndows OS themselves, according to these figures even updating to a "free" major version is a very slow process. The Linux desktop revolution, if it even happens (and that's a big if) is no going to come from end users resizing their NTFS partitions to make room for ext4 but rather systems coming pre-installed with a Linux distribution. Yes the odds are not very good but heck, if you had asked me, pre-release what were the odds the SteamDeck was going to be a commercial success, I would have answered basically nill.

Nearly 15,000 ships were sunk during WW2. One more, even one the size of an Aircraft Carrier is not going to make that much of a difference. To minimize damage they could sink it at the deepest part of the Mariana Trench where sea-floor life is scarce to begin with.

The brakes could fail on your car designed, and manufactured by humans, downshifting to 1st gear is not going to slow you down fast enough to avoid an accident.