Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "" video.

  1. ​ @EclipseCircle Yeah they're called property owners. Much of the Transcontinental Railroad went through land nobody owned (discounting Native American claims), so the government could just give away an enormous right of way and allow the rail company to basically fund themselves off the sales of the excess land.
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  2. Looking at air and water quality metrics, as well as paychecks, overall it is still cleaner and richer in America, even if daily life isn't as "efficient" as it could be like back in China. Efficiency and resilience are competing interests, and since the Frontier closed America has largely been committing towards the resilience of preserving as much as practical the nature that remains. Unlike in China where their impressive growth comes at the cost of deeply polluting its waters (including underground) and paving over its farmlands permanently out of production -- and it shows who now depends on imports for vital vs luxury foodstuffs.
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  3. There's some spectacular builds in China's backwoods too. Though they are more spectacle than durable, and likely won't be in such great shape if demand ever picks up to its stated design capacity.
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  4. When Chinese citizens tested for radiation following the Fukushima coolant release and found alarming amounts of radiation coming from their own plants, I'm not sure how badly you'd really want to follow the Chinese model of nuclear power production. There's a reason cancer is such a massive issue there.
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  5. It helps that the state owns all land in China, so there's no dispute with the "property owners" whom they force to move elsewhere (including jail if they're particularly feisty).
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  6. The panels are cheap. It's the equipment downstream that makes the electricity useful which we haven't quite figured out how to scale up, in particular storing the excess for the main draw from evening to midnight.
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  7. Regulations exist because they were written in blood. A lot of them do get in the way, yes, but we do need to seriously study why they were put on the books before cutting them out and repeating mistakes we're not equipped to prevent.
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  8. Connecting them is the main challenge, because oceans exist.
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  9. It would have to be more widespread though. All that focus is on the greater Seoul area, exacerbating their primate city problem that's destroying opportunities for the rest of South Korea.
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  10. But then how many people die there nowadays? How much delay is introduced for truckers going the proper speed? And what would have been the overall construction and maintenance costs for an overpass that pedestrians will actually want to climb and cross over with?
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  11. Plus the whole going through Indonesia part, where they also want not-coal power and would charge rent for the bypass.
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  12. The vocal minority being conservative NIMBYs, as opposed to social liberals who are often more open and excited for the improvements to overall services. So between capitalists, politicians, and landed NIMBYs, it boils down to how easily the "haves" are able to extract personal concessions from public plans.
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