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Horizontal drilling is already part of the plan in many places - Elon Musk isn't the first person to think of it. It still costs loads to do it per mile - by the looks of it you'd …

To be fair to the National Grid there - a 400kV power line is substantial: it has to have phase separations and be buried deep enough, plus space for reactive compensation from bei…

Norwich-Tilbury doesn't go near many houses at all, and certainly not 400,000 peoples' houses. Check out the route: https://norwichtotilburymap.nationalgrid.com

The consultation area is 120m wide, not necessarily the trenching. The working width is often far less than that: https://www.nationalgrid.com/document/340431/download In this draw…

UK domestic electricity is roughly equal to industrial (94 vs 82 TWh). Commercial is 62. https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/688a286564785... A lot of curtailment happen…

I also actually really like the look of wind turbines. They seems to be just the right blend of graceful, majestic and futuristic. The old 2-blade ones are a bit visually noisy as …

People oppose everything. * Lattice overhead powerlines? Eyesore (should use the new T style ones), house values, wind noise, hums, WiFi interference, cancer, access roads, hazard …

Something like 400,000 people are opposing the Norwich-Tilbury power lines to bring wind energy to where it's used. Including a Green Party MP: https://www.dissmercury.co.uk/news/2…

Employment in China is actually pretty thin right now. The labour force reduction is surely coming down the track, but it's not here yet. There may be enough time to pivot to lower…

The thing is it's increasingly about the process of stringing things together, rather then the stages themselves. Obviously, not all the stages in your video are in the one video: …

Lots of that design can be fairly easily automated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hwzz-96WliU . And that's without all the "fancy" robotics like arms and so on that is only dropp…

Previous biotech breakthroughs have made good progress in treating many illnesses, but making healthcare cheaper overall is not one of them, even if it makes a specific therapy che…

What would quantum technology actually deliver? Other than collapsing the internet when every pre-quantum algorithm is broken (nice jobs for the engineers who need to scramble to f…

"OK, Timmy. Here's what to do: Tell them there is a mysterious supernatural being watching their every move from a very tall building in New York, helped by legions of minions. If …

> tell them that lowly paid actor is _really_ Santa and he _really_ wants to hear what they want To be fair, that is also pretty wild to me.

People will do basically anything to fix junctions except install roundabouts. I wonder how many millions of days humans sit in cars and look at empty crossroads and a red light.

And it's a nice problem to solve with AI of many kinds because you can forward-solve the kinematic solution and check for "hallucinations": collisions, exceeding acceleration limit…

"Miscommunication" is when you see mineral water on the bill when you thought it was tap water. Being that ignorant of the positions during a trade war that you started and doing i…

Lost was a very valuable public service: it inoculated elder millennials against getting too invested into TV shows.

I feel like Airbnb started more on the provider side as "fuck you landlord/local government I'll sublet if I want and you won't catch me" more than a fuck you to hotels specificall…

The problem is the GVCS is already bumping against the OSHW curse even for the smallest items: replicating one unit costs real money in materials and processing and if you fuck up,…

Sell your industry to private equity, this is what happens. Someone who values it will take it up. Many such cases.

There are some attempts at things like this: https://www.opensourceecology.org/gvcs They're usually very hard to get share because machine manufacturers can smash out cheaper thing…

Any consumer trinket that is made from recycled plastic is more or less pointless. At most, you get one more cycle out of that little bit of plastic. Better than nothing, sure, I g…