In Japan the high speed lines often run parallel to the ordinary lines. They are always grade separated, either on a mound or on very long viaducts. Yes it costs more, but it's worth it.
Some countries are basket cases when it comes to infrastructure. The reasons vary, but it's generally a sign of a society in decline when they can't make those kinds of improvements. The UK has the same problem, I'm not singling out the US.
Look at Japan's new maglev line. It's 90% tunnels through mountains. Goes through densely populated cities to reach the stations. More than twice as fast as TFA is speculating about, at 600 KPH / 370 MPH.
Cities were competing to get mid-way stations added. In the last couple of decades they also built the Tsukuba Express line, and a number of new towns along it, for commuters to live in and access central Tokyo. Joined up planning, and creating new opportunities.
They don't need multi-track either, their trains are reliable, even with the earthquakes and extreme weather.
They are aiming so low anyway. Very small reactors, low output power, and they appear to have a lifetime of a few years because they don't have a plan to bring them up and refuel them. SMRs go through fuel faster than larger reactors, one of the reasons why they produce more waste.
In summary they are planning to use an untested new technology that nobody has managed to make a working prototype of, and bury it in a harsh environment where they can't fix any issues that arise, all to power an AI datacentre whose existence depends on a bubble that is already showing signs of bursting.
It was mostly down to the available implementations of JPEG XL being crap. The reference C library had an unstable API, and performance was mediocre. They were still addressing some pretty severe security related bugs with every release. It was immature and not suitable for shipping with a web browser.
Now there are better options, Google can integrate it safely.
It turns out they aren't quite as bad at the Boomers and their Facebook.
Looking at the top sites, it's
Cat videos
Russian propaganda
Soft porn
5 second attention span
I like how Twitter has falling so far down the rankings now.
We see these ideas that are obviously nonsense all the time. This one has been picked apart by multiple people with industry experience already.
What these things are is essentially the venture capital version of the scam mails you get in your mailbox every day. If you make it big enough and insane enough, someone with more money than brains will think he spotted an opportunity that everyone else missed and will invest.
Why is it, you think, that 99% of these things vanish without a trace after an initial storm of publicity?
But the cost of building this installation sounds like it would be prohibitive
I didn't even get to build costs. In my foolish youth, I worked off shore oil rigs doing wireline. Shoving a nuclear reactor down a 3.5"-5" pipe 8,000 to 22,500 feet deep will prove to be an interesting engineering challenge, not to mention "Dancin' with Kelly". (The main rotating drilling platform that makes the pipe rotate and the drill head bite.) The technology to drift a hole more than a 20 meters in diameter vertically down half a mile or more is not anything I've read about. Is it even possible?
The capacity of the government of a large jurisdiction like California, or more particularly the US, could bankrupt someone like Musk, so I say, bring it on. Within a decade Musk would have abandoned all efforts, or, even better, be stone cold broke (frankly billionaires shouldn't exist at all, and we should tax the living fuck out of them down to their last $200 million).
We're too afraid of these modern day Bond villains when we should be aiming every financial, and probably every real, cannon straight at them and putting them in a sense of mortal danger every minute of their waking lives, so that they literally piss themselves in terror at the though that "we the people" might decide to wipe them out for good.
Some people do regular livestreams and chats to interact with fans. That’s edging more towards social media but it’s still a stretch.
It likely means demolishing a lot of existing houses and businesses to make room for the train
It doesn't. What it means is cutting through a lot of big parcels whose owners have big money, so they can be big impediments. There has to be a happier medium than this between respect for individual private property ownership and the needs of the many, but we are clearly uninterested in finding it in this country.
But you are not ready for that conversation yet.
Are you unready or ill equipped for the conversation about making them not stab-happy in the first place? Because you leapt rapidly to throwing away the key.
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Oh look, a one-issue sock puppet has shown up to Charlie Kirk the discussion.
So then the hard part is creating the reactors which don't exist, as usual. It's a weakness shared by literally every proposed SMR project.
Windows 11 users can add native support through an image extension from Microsoft Store
That's not what "native" means.
Who invented pluggable file formats anyway? The first place I experienced it was AmigaOS 2.0. NeXTStep had reusable controls but AFAIK it didn't provide formats to all installed applications.
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