I believe burning coal realease far more Uranium and radioactive material than nuclear ever did. Listing the plane crashes over the last century wont buldge the statistics of the safety of this mean of transportation.

Did I imply anywhere anyhow that I am a fan of coal?

I just don't think it is a good idea to replace something dirty with something else dirty that is indeed quite safe if all goes well, but is horrible if something goes wrong.

Italy has lot's of sun and wind (and geothermal potential).

Everything is a comparison to what exists, not your dreams. The alternative to coal today isn't just renewables, and thinking in those absolute terms is in large part what's handed the fossil fuel lobby decades of default victories.

We don't have time for perfect solution, do all of what you said AND THEN ALSO MORE.

That's why they move to Helix

This is sad news, city have to get rid of cars, and make public transport free if needed

Cheaper EVs is a good thing.

Australia is more than cities.

Cities can make public transport free and congestion charges if they want to reduce usage of cars.

Australia is one of the most urbanized countries in the world with 87% of its population living in cities and suburbs. Being car dependent is a political choice pushed by the car industry for decades. Getting people into public transports, onto bicycles or their two feet requires reducing the vast space cities waste on privately owned cars. Super blocks that focus on active travel, less surface parking space and slower speeds are what is needed.

I cycle in Sydney, and wish more others did. I have no car.

But there's a few things that make this trickier in Sydney, than, say, much of European cities:

* Sydney is too hot/UV to comfortably cycle between 9AM-5PM for at least 4 months of the year. Maybe tree-lined corridors could help that.

* Sydney is very hilly. It didn't have centuries of being flattened. This makes it challenging, even for experienced commuters. Ebikes could help.

* Sydney has low density: houses are big, detached, and thus spread apart. This makes relevant cycling distances further.

EVs are much more aligned with Sydney, at least for tackling the polluting issues with cars.

I don’t think congestion charges would cover building/maintaining public transport.

All infrastructure for cars and the fallout from their pollution (don't forget the tyres) is heavily subsidized by the tax payer and not as cost effective as a tram or railway.

I agree with you but the Opal fares in Sydney are more expensive than it would cost me in tolls driving across the bridge and paying for parking at work. I still don't often drive but it's not because PT is more economical.

exactly this...Opal pricing, what are they thinking? I can pay petrol twice and still be ahead

Yeah we have too much urban sprawl, and too few people, to justify widespread public transport to eliminate the need for a household car (in Australia).

we can electrify our cars and build public transport simultaneously!

Are we the product?

How can you be the PRODUCT when we have only 500 users? WE are NO GOOGLE my friend. BTW you can use guest mode if feel like you dont want to singup

I don’t know how it relate to the responded comment, nor what’s the level a sarcasm used, but they do, it’s on the footer of every pages.

> Black lives matter. Trans rights are human rights. No nazi bullsh*t.

Is it enforced? I just hope so.

High levels of sarcasm. it's a hilarious stance for a programming language to take

If you're talking about the great highland bagpipes, circular breathing can be really helpful while learning. Because of the "practice chanter," every piper have one or two and use it to learn new tunes or just practice technique.

I don't ear these in the discussion about AI and robots. If AI is there to releive humanity of tedious work or a big chunk of it, then there should be a real push for the 4 days per week and Universal Basic Income.

It worked so well on the browser already

> I am no fan of Donald Trump, but it doesn’t follow that everything he supports is bad (e.g. the First Step Act).

First Step Act is bipartisan. Did he "really" supports it? According to Wikipedia:

Budget: Though the First Step Act authorizes Congress to appropriate $75 million per year between 2019 and 2023, only $14 million was explicitly earmarked for funding the legislation when President Trump released his 2020 budget priorities in March 2019. This lead First Step Act advocates to worry that the bill's underfunding represented an attempt to "starve it to death".