In India? A lot there seem to be electric, which seems easier to set up the infrastructure for in a 3rd world country. Even here in Canada, I haven't noticed a LNG pump at a gas station in a long time. For a while they were somewhat common, over 25 years back now.

I was reading an article the other day about rickshaw electrification in India. Can't find the recent article, here's an older one, https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/... which doesn't mention the shift to solar+batteries that is now happening in India at an accelerating rate. Article also mentioned the problem of electricity theft.
The other problems, farming and construction are going to be harder, especially the farming as farmers are a powerful lobby in India.
Plus, it takes some wealth for people to care and a good chunk of India's population is dirt poor. Though on the other hand, the poor are easier to please, enough electricity for a stove, fridge, cell phone charger and a couple of LED lights is a huge improvement for many, even if cooking has to be done in the day.

Actually, the 2nd successful space station was Skylab. The 2 or 3 follow up missions after Salyut 1 failed in various ways and were never crewed.
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Did America ever have 20 cent pieces? Yes, in 1875. So options are a dime and 20 cent piece or a quarter and half dime, which stopped being minted in 1873.
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In a weird way, he does have a point. For example, catalytic converters convert soot (carbon), CO (which, while not a greenhouse gas, competes for OH which leads to more CH4 in the atmosphere) and hydrocarbons into CO2 and H20. Remove the catalytic converters and less CO2 will be emitted. Of course the soot, carbon monoxide and hydrocarbons are worse for our health, especially on a short timescale.
It also leaves NOx out of the equation. NOx is a worse greenhouse gas (300x) then CO2 as well as being bad for you in small quantities and catalytic converters also change that into N2 and O to combine with the carbon to make even more CO2.
So in summary, get rid of catalytic converters and less CO2 will be emitted. In exchange we will have more greenhouse gases as well as more toxic gases.

I remember an ammonia leak at the ice rink. People died.

Set off all the nukes and the Earth will still be much more habitable then Mars.

The US and China are getting more similar, what with China expanding its influence and America moving further from the rule of law.
The fact is that currently, the US is more of threat to my freedom then China, along with much of the world, especially in the America's.
As for the people, other then the fact that American's have elected Trump, again, I never said anything about the individual Americans.

You don't need the capacity to charge half of all EV's at once. Personally, I drive around 300 km a week so if I had an EV, I'd be charging closer to once a week. I also know people with EV's and rooftop solar who seldom charge from the grid.
Sadly most of the rest of your comment is close to true.

So you understand the problem with Tesla, produced in a hostile oppressive state that wants to annex its neighbours.

My memory must be going. It does appear you are right though I was over 55 at the time and my memory is that it was discontinued for everyone in my Province.

My first shot was Astra Zenaca, then the Canadian government banned it due to the heart problems. Second was Moderna.

You are reading it correctly. Basically the Viceregal can make these type of decisions if there has been a recent election (somewhere between 6 months and a year). From https://www.gg.ca/en/governor-...

The power to dissolve Parliament is a royal prerogative exercised by the governor general. The governor general retains certain constitutional discretion whether to accept the advice of the prime minister to dissolve Parliament.

They can and have Provincially, 3 times in BC and twice in Quebec. They have also vetoed laws on the Provincial level when they were unconstitutional. Alberta passing laws about banking, a Federal power and restricting the press. All Alberta could do was kick the Lieutenant-governor out of their home and office. It was controversial but considered correct.

It is basically the same at the Provincial level. Here's an article on the reserve powers. Note that it includes dismissal, which could be used if a caretaker government abused their power. https://iscc-iecc.ca/backgroun...

Thanks for the info.

Resources, the only accessible resources on Venus is the atmosphere, mostly CO2, some nitrogen and I don't think any amount of hydrogen. You'd have to take everything there besides air and would never have a hope of a self sufficient colony. Mars, at least in theory, has everything needed for life and an industrial society. In practice, I'd assume the resources are spread around the planet and Mars has close to the same amount of dry land as the Earth.
Venus would be interesting for a scientific outpost for all the reasons you posted. Need to ship a year+ worth of supplies and I wonder about energy. How much light is there at 50 miles altitude there? There's other considerations I'm sure like IIRC, it's windy at that altitude. Not to mention that you need a rocket to get back to space.