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[–] SpoopyKing@lemmy.sdf.org 20 points 1 year ago (5 children)

The solution to cars isn't greener cars. It's replacing cars with something else completely, like human powered vehicles or multi-passenger transport. /c/fuck_cars has the right idea

[–] Riffraffintheroom@hexbear.net 24 points 1 year ago (2 children)

human powered vehicles

This phrasing made by brain fly over bikes and land on Flintstones cars.

[–] ikilledtheradiostar@hexbear.net 14 points 1 year ago

It's because the car propaganda is so strong.

[–] CombatLiberalism@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

yeonmi-park In Communist North Korea the passengers get out and push the trains

[–] iridaniotter@hexbear.net 16 points 1 year ago

Correct but that is not why the EU is doing this.

[–] doublepepperoni@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

human powered vehicles

I am pessimistically imagining Musk and Bezos carried in giant glitzy palanquins

[–] FALGSConaut@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago

No no no, you gotta be optimistic about imagining Musk and Bezos being publically [redacted] by their palanquin bearers

[–] envis10n@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I read glitzy as glizzy

[–] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

I agree, but we can’t replace cars entirely anyway, which is why prioritizing public transportation while also improving personal vehicles is what China does. It’s just that they’re making their cars affordable as well as their trains and buses, while Europeans get angry that their shit is so expensive

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The solution is to not leave fusion investment in the tentacles of power-crazed cyborgs.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

actually there are massive government research facilities into fusion power and France and the UK work with China on that one. It just hasn't panned out yet

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I actually worked on the US' omnishambolic ICF project. Even they joke about it always being 20 years away.

[–] usernamesaredifficul@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The impression I got is that there is interest and funding it's just very difficult

[–] a_blanqui_slate@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well yes, the current issue is that the systems were designed way ahead of the computational power to assess how the plasma would behave in such conditions so dealing with fluid instabilities that arises from the most microscopic of target asymmetriea occupies the bulk of their time.

If they had another 4 billion dollars to build the system entirely from scratch I actually think they could get fusion based on what they know now. But they don't and it works for weapons complex integration with is in the end what the DOE cares about so yeah

[–] YouKnowIt@hexbear.net 3 points 1 year ago

Power-crazed cyborgs would never invest in that, it's all government funded. Our benevolent technocratic overlords are like the pharma companies, they'll just leap on it like rabid pitbulls after it's developed to make as much money as possible