Seriously, who gives a shit what you, or the government think should be done with those buildings. You, nor the government owns them. Unless the government is going to pay for them, it is up to the owner to determine how to manage their assets.

I am not sure how many people actually believe the US or any other government really has alien tech and is hording it from humanity in order to ensure their grasp on power, but I am positive you would find too many people who would actually be surprised if the new was confirmed to be actually true.
Everyone likes to think their country is the good guys, but if a government is involved, they are not.

Doesn't often happen that way.

Who the hell would want to plan out every aspect of their life? Avoiding any spontaneity as it does not fit the plan.
This is definitely the type of person others avoid traveling with.

This is complete bullshit. They have not generated more power than was needed for the reason. They normally only only ever give a breakeven as a Q=1, but this does not include any of the power needed to charge the system.
In reality, a q of around 10 is needed, and this is nowhere near that.

I should also point out that without France, 'murica would literally not exist. They backed your rebellion. Without them, you would have a queen.
Of course, you cannot expect a Murican to know anything about history except from between 1939 and 1945. Even though, only what they heard in their echo chambers.

Found the Trumptard who has literally never left his state in 'Murica.

Jackass.. I know this is hard to understand, but other countries have a high speed rail systems. It's not greyhound of Amatrak or a shit US public transit system.
I nearly all cases, domestic ICE travel is just as fast as a plane. And easier.

Public sector employees typically cannot charter private planes for travel.

So instead of paying 14 - 20k for a heatpump installation, you pay another 100k to insulate the house also? How is that a solution?
The official costs on heat pumps of 7- 10k is complete nonsense. There is no possible way you are getting anything except an undersized unit for that.
There are several reasons.
1. General inflation
2. Massive lack of supply
3. Even greater lack of supply of high temp heatpumps
4. A generation of Germans looking down at traddies have made going into the trade less desirable, creating a shortage of qualified people.
5. A shit tonne of people booking projects during the pandemic ensured that the trades can pick and choose only the most profitable jobs.

In Germany, you cannot even get a fucking gardener to come out and give a quote to lanscape your property, let a lone someone to come and insulate your house.
External Insulation, which is all we use here is stupidly expensive to install right now. Many houses do not have large roof eves, so this means you also need the roof extended.
 

The average wait time in Germany to get a heat pump installed is more than 1 year.
It is very difficult to even get someone to come out and give you an offer since most of the heating companies know that they cannot deliver anything for a long time.

Then there is the issue that most people have older houses over hear. That means standard radiators for the vast majority of houses and no underfloor heating.
Most heat pumps only get the water up to 55 - 60c, which is not really hot enough unless you have underfloor heaters or very large radiators.
There are a couple pumps on the market able to get to the 70 - 75c range, but they are very new, very expensive and very, very limited in their availability.

It will be at least 10 years before most houses have switched from gas/oil to heat pumps.
Especially when you consider that up until about 5 years ago, the government was giving massive incentives to install new gas systems. I personally did this and have no interesting in spending another 20k,
One could imagine that in 10 years the German government will change course again and fuck everyone that just spent money on a heat pump. Germany likes to pretend they know best, but from my experience, the government here is even more incompetent that most.

Africa is expected to overtake China in population in the not too distant future.
However, in general terms, the entire continent is unable to maintain even what the West would consider a substandard quality of life. Due to this, we see wave after wave of migrants illegally coming to Europe in order to seek a better life.
An increase in population by at least 50%, as is being predicted will have the effect of drowning Europe in a wave of being and in the process throwing Europe into such a state of poverty that it will likely never recover.
Nevertheless, on the continent of Africa it is likely to see a million or more die from starvation as matter of normal business. They simply cannot feed the people they have now.

I was 15 or so when I flew on the Concorde. So, I have no idea about price accept the understand that it was expensive.
You actually don't have any notion of the speed, other than a longer acceleration profile. What you do notice for the entire flight however was the noise. It was ridiculously loud.
Doing combat landings and takeoffs in a C130 was more quite than flying in the Concorde.
Being only 15, I was not able to appreciate the time savings.
If I am flying business class, I also cannot really see the need to spend 10k extra to save a few hours off my trip. For that 10K, I would rather upgrade to ultra 1st class on EA or something like that and get a suite.

In order to power Germany's imported energy needs with batteries (about 400TWh) it would take BYD or Tesla the better part of 400 years to produce the batteries needed, as neither company can product 1TWh/year at the moment.
Given that the cost of the average 10 kWh hour battery is about 7k, it would cost trillions of Euros.

Batteries are total shit for grid scale. They are really good for frequency correction though and can do that much faster than a gas plant.
Hydrogen has massively more energy density than any battery. If you use it as a fuel cell, the efficiency is pretty poor. If you burn it in a gas plant? Another story all together.

Was going to say the same.
As an American Ex-pat living in Europe, I definitely prefer American style pizza to Italian. Especially deep dish, which cannot really be found here. Certainly not dominos though. That really is shit quality.
Most of my friends here though, having grown up in Europe, prefer the European(Italian) style.

I am not really sure why some people are saying that America does not really have their own food. That is nonsense.
BBQ anyone?
Not to mention a proper steak or burger. Yes, I know that burgers were technically "invented" in Hamburg, but they are not the same.

It seems like most people don't really know what free speech means and think that it is somehow a blanket thing which allows them to say whatever they want without any consequences. It is literally ONLY about GOVERNMENT censorship. Nothing else. There is nothing in the 1st amendment regarding private parties.