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Comment Re:Fine by me (Score 1) 45

I find plenty A to C and C to C cables at the supermarkets these days. They also have started showing up with things which take rechargeable batteries and just assume you have someplace to plug in a type C, which these days is fairly reasonable. For most phones it's perfectly safe to use a $4 cable, they are only drawing a few tens of watts anyway.

Comment Re:Yeah, but they're getting incentives... (Score 1) 59

I expect someone here to answer that we should just spend near infinite amounts on all of the above. Why not just give everyone a check for $1m?

I'm gonna go ahead and answer you seriously, because why not? The answer is sustainability. Believing everyone should be entitled to the requirements for survival (e.g. food, clothes, shelter, medical care) as well as education (most people disagree only about how much) is different from believing that everyone should get everything they want. For example, you could believe that without working, you shouldn't be able to own much. Instead of handing people a bunch of money, you'd provide them with housing and food, etc.

But it's actually not sensible to do it that way, because if you give people money, they spend it and you tax it, and then they spend it again and you tax it again, and you get it all back eventually but in the process it induces a lot of work. And isn't work what you want done? So yes, of course you hand people money. And then instead of handing them food and necessities, people just go buy those things from this fearsomely efficient crap production machine we call capitalism, and the wheels keep on turning until we deplete our natural resources and/or destroy our biosphere with industry... at least, if the road we're on now continued. But that's not inevitable, it's literally only because we're continuing to allow big oil and friends to decide where we get our energy, how we're going to transport people and goods and so on.

Comment Re: Luckily there is an intertwined multi conducto (Score 1) 63

That's what various larger cities have been doing here in NL: building Park&Ride hubs on the periphery.

We have them here in the USA too, especially in California. We use them both for rail and express buses. We need more rail, and more park & rides.

Comment Re: Luckily there is an intertwined multi conducto (Score 1) 63

I am wondering if "hybrid" trains would be a good idea though. They would have sufficient batteries to travel a few miles, and be recharged when there is an overhead wire.

These are in fact already a thing, and as you surmise, a good one. It lets you only run catenary wires where they are convenient.

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