VibeSurgeon

@VibeSurgeon@piefed.social

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coventry's light rail technology a 'game-changer'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coventry_Very_Light_Rail

  This has a certain gadgetbahn-smell over it and I remain skeptical.

  Ditching catenaries for batteries make the vehicles heavier, requires them to be out of service for a part of the day to recharge and increases capex per vehicle instead of taking the capex on catenaries.

  The claims of autonomous driving seem dubious - this usually warrants a level of separation that’s rarely afforded to trams. It’s possible, but it for sure requires not cheaping out on the infrastructure.

  Ditching timetables in favour of some kind of demand-driven dispatch reduces the predictability of the network, and also seems unnecessary if the claims of autonomous driving are actually true. Maybe they have to cheap out on the amount of vehicles when making each vehicle more expensive with the batteries.

  Who knows, maybe the numbers work out better than what we can see here, but until then, I remain skeptical. I hope to be proven wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Man posts his incorrect opinion online⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You might want to get that checked out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drug dealers hate this one weird trick!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Queue the chubbyemu intro music

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bri'ish Cuisine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Must be ragebait, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They removed the like button. What next, they gonna remove videos? It’s just gonna be ads???⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wind and solar just aren’t enough.

  Wind + solar + storage is both enough and beating nuclear at this point, and by the time the next nuclear power plant actually manages to get online, the calculation will be even further in favour of that mix, on account of the absolutely plummeting cost of storage, which is following the same trend as solar used to, with costs reductions >98%. Not to mention the built-in resilience you get from having a more widely distributed instead of having a few nodes producing the lion’s share of your power.

  I don’t have any ideological opposition to nuclear. If you manage to build it without massive subsidies and taking care of your waste, feel free to build them. That’s happening in exactly 0 places worldwide though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drag⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine not having an aerodynamic house. 0/10