Comments by "Peter Lund" (@peterfireflylund) on "The B1M" channel.

  1. The engineering was Danish and Korean. I think most of the management was, too.
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  2. It's also the first part of the word "island" (which really has no business having an s in there -- the original spelling was "iland"/"yland"/"oland"). Why is there an s now? Because of people who knew Latin and thought they knew English. In case anybody is wondering, the second part really does mean land.
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  3.  @4stro6oy  Japan doesn’t really have much of a medical industry, does it? Europe has that in spades.
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  4.  @markmartindale7215 The Wire took place in Baltimore.
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  5. “Milaw” 😂
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  6. Wind/solar don’t work without backup from reliable energy sources. That almost always means gas. In the case of Europe, often Russian gas. Turns out that wind/solar was extremely expensive and has so far had a cost of more than 100k fatalities and many times that in terms of wounded…
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  7.  @davestagner  because it has everything to do with Germany (and other countries) extreme gas dependency.
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  8. And massive overregulation for “safety”… it’s not “just” the loss of the supply chain and expertise.
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  9.  @user-wm3hu7lo1g and before that, they were stuck in permission hell for many years. Too many well-connected Germans made money from Russian gas import…
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  10.  @speedsterh  they actually use special (expensive) rails, not normal rails.
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  11. Perhaps you should strive to improve your English? It is not "US slang".
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  12.  @sandal_thong  geothermal is great if you live on Iceland. It is next to useless in most places. Moreover, as someone who lives in Denmark: your belief in offshore wind is unwarranted. Sometimes the wind actually doesn’t blow much, even out there on the sea.
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