Comments by "Doncarlo" (@doujinflip) on "DW Planet A" channel.

  1. The car-centric "modernization" of post-independence Jakarta doesn't help, where among the first things they did was pave over the colonial tram network and widen the streets accordingly. The subsequent attempts at reinstalling mass transit makes it disjointed and inconvenient (open air TransJakarta stations, MRT with too few gates and exits, and especially you Jakarta LRT). Mass transit is one thing the government says it will fix on their new city Nusantara, but if the Korean (Sejong City) and Egyptian (New Cairo) versions are an indication, this will also end up an massive oversight and expensive afterthought.
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  2. Have you seen how crowded the streets of Jakarta are? What's more important for frequent reliable service is an dedicated path that excludes traffic, and fewer things get drivers to consistently avoid the space than rails on the road.
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  3. Right, as pricey as I think transit is in Amsterdam compared to everywhere else (even some parts of America), I doubt I'd ever rent a car instead on a future visit.
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  4. It does require controlled storage for the life of its fuel though, which can be thousands of years. Even fusion isn't completely free of long-lasting toxic byproducts. Really the only nuclear that's safe for life is the one we're standing on: the heat of the Earth's mantle, where if anything goes wrong is no more dangerous than routine volcanic activity.
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  5. Wind turbine blades are primarily glass and carbon fiber encased in resin, and more inert to the environment than even composted food waste. Most times we just bury them, special landfill preparations not required -- they'll be good to dig up and recycle once we have an economical way of separating the materials.
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  6. My family has a farm where electricity is expensive and cuts out too frequently, but luckily the new house is designed to install solar panels and storage batteries. We're already saving considerable amounts on the power bills due to superior grounding, and with Starlink and solar panels hope to be capable to go fully off-grid without interruption when needed.
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  7. As with other progress-retarding politics, it seems a lot of these will disappear by sunlighting and tracing the source of sponsorship preferably to the level of individual executives.
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  8. Geothermal is the nuclear power we ought to focus on ♨ At least if it leaks, it's not releasing exotic persistently-destructive materials that life on Earth would not survive exposure to 🌋
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  9. Now you know why all those "environmental studies" for any project get so expensive and drawn out. Everything is interconnected, and effects can escalate quickly.
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