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Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:30 am to Klark Kent
quote:meanwhile serving the drink in a plastic cup
meanwhile…..we’re getting guilt trips for not wanting to use a paper straw. makes sense.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:31 am to hawgfaninc
All the while our infrastructure is crumbling and we’re sending billions to Ukraine just to be washed so that US politicians can pocket it on the way back.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:31 am to hawgfaninc
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Don’t they know green energy is the future
They're installing renewables faster than they're growing coal generation. They're just not phasing out coal because they need everything they can get. The US would benefit from a similar strategy, but our politicians are more worried about fighting the other side of the aisle and virtue signals than governing.
This post was edited on 5/22/24 at 10:35 am
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:32 am to hawgfaninc
What happens when someone decides to ram an 18-wheeler into one of the pillars?
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:32 am to 0x15E
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Are you saying we should pollute more like China or India?
No, but I am saying we shouldn't enter things like Kyoto if China and India don't as well.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:37 am to hawgfaninc
We send our billions to Ukraine. We don’t need to invest in domestic infrastructure.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:37 am to Fun Bunch
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Are you saying we should pollute more like China or India?
No, but I am saying we shouldn't enter things like Kyoto if China and India don't as well.
They did enter it. It was extremely one-sided in favor of them, and it did virtually nothing meaningful for the climate by any scientific measure. It was a classic case of the Emperor Having No Clothes, and the Bad Orange Man was even more of a demon for pointing it out.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:40 am to GeauxGutsy
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We send our billions to Ukraine.
Yep, our hundred billion just punched temporary holes in the ground.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:40 am to POTUS2024
quote:It's on the flood plain of the Hanjing river which poses the obvious problem all of us Louisianans are familiar with but one additional problem that even if no "water hazards" it was designed for 120 mph and that causes a lot of vibration on really bad "steppe" soil, so if it was a typical unelevated railbed is would basically shake down to nothing (too much surface area)
Why is it elevated like that?
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:42 am to hawgfaninc
I’m sure Joe and the UN will stand up to China and demand that they cut emissions due to the “climate crisis.”
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:43 am to cbree88
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What happens when someone decides to ram an 18-wheeler into one of the pillars?
We won't go to war with them but a JDAM would be a bigger issues for them
Posted on 5/22/24 at 10:54 am to POTUS2024
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Why is it elevated like that?
So you can charge $28B for it and line your, and local/govt official's pockets, by building it that way.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:00 am to POTUS2024
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Why is it elevated like that?
I would also surmise that it needs to elevate to get over certain terrains, and then due to load bearing capabilities, the gradient would be limited and then you get a huge length of low gradient to reach one necessary height
Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:02 am to Power-Dome
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certain terrains
Mongolia and such are not known for their flat lands
Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:14 am to Power-Dome
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I would also surmise that it needs to elevate to get over certain terrains, and then due to load bearing capabilities, the gradient would be limited and then you get a huge length of low gradient to reach one necessary height
This.
The entire line isn't elevated like that tweet claims.
https://www.railjournal.com/freight/china-opens-1813km-heavy-haul-railway/
According to the wiki page there is a 5km viaduct on the line and that is likely what is pictured.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:22 am to I20goon
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it was designed for 120 mph
The real article says 120 KPH. They aren't running heavy coal trains at 120 mph.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:27 am to RogerTheShrubber
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We sometimes get smog from China roll through here. Looked like we were in a forest fire for a week.
Now ask yourself, how much American coal is China burning? And why hasn't the U.S. stopped selling them coal?
Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:32 am to Lg
China isn't burning that much American coal. It's mostly all coming from the strip-mining of Africa.... Just like all their other resources, and being sent by rail to Mainland China.
Posted on 5/22/24 at 11:53 am to chinhoyang
quote:they are actually running at 100 kph (occasionally up to 120 kph), but it was designed for, maybe poorly hence not running trains at design speed, 200 kph.
The real article says 120 KPH. They aren't running heavy coal trains at 120 mph.
It's frigging inner mongolia... after the party bosses finish their skim ain't nothing going to work as designed.
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