Tunnels are actually pretty safe in earthquakes, Japan for example is criss crossed with them.
A tunnel is actually the least likely to shake; if you shake a jello with fruit inside it, the surface moves a lot but the interior fruit won’t move all that much.
The 57 km Gotthard Base Tunnel has been in operation since 2016. There's also a 3km long tunnel between France and Italy that opened in 1882. Nowadays there's probably hundreds of 1km+ tunnels in the Alps.
Italy isn't a puny country, it's over 1000kms between Sicily and the Alps (Like LA to Albuquerque), seems the fault lines reaches northern Italy (about 100km from the alps) but the amount of larger quakes seems smaller there.
Yves Bréchet point in the linked video is that it’s first and foremost technical expertise, rather than political/regulatory landscape that explains why Taishan has fared better than the other EPR projects.
It’s not something we (I’m European) want to hear.
It doesn’t mean that public support doesn’t impact projects in Europe (or democracies in general), but it should not be used as an excuse to refuse to look further.
For instance Flamanville got a massive delay because of welding issues. That’s not a regulatory or public opinion issue. That’s an issue with the (lack of) expertise of French welders.
I don’t remember if it is for this one, or for repairs in other French nuclear power plants, but Canadian welders were called to the rescue…
I think it was for other nuclear plants that had been operating. Foreign welders were needed because there was only so much welding one worker could do before they reached their radiation exposure limit.
The fact that if an entity uses thousands of bots, verification does become expensive. At the very minimum, it's an additional barrier. All else being equal, bots and sockpuppets are less likely to get verified than regular human users. I've seen communities where an individual user created dozens of sockpuppets to troll around. Such sockpuppets won't be verified for obvious reasons. Not to mention, if a credit card is used to verify lots of spam accounts, the card itself can be banned from being used to verify additional accounts, which hampers bad actors who have just a few credit cards lying around.
Bots and sockpuppets have an incentive to be verified -- they're hoping for a return on investment. What benefit is there for a regular person that can compare with that?
It's also not that there will be a single entity using thousands of bots but thousands of individuals all paying because of some real or perceived financial incentive.
No form of transport covers literally all cases, it doesn’t make it useless. For the majority of office commuters, not having to pay for parking and being able to reach public transport which would otherwise be too far is a huge plus.
Funny cause that is exactly what people buy cars for. Which is what we need a good replacement for. E-Scooters are fine but not what will get rid of heavy cars.
Well a car does not work for my use case where I have no place available to park it and need to take trips of mostly around 2km where there is also no parking. There is currently no transport method faster than an ebike/scooter for the trips I take.
Why would I install the beta? The current version works fine. They don't need to change anything in the first place. And if they hadn't changed anything they wouldn't have had to "listen to the people" because there would've been nothing to listen about.
You solve that by forwarding/decrypting/adding noise between servers, enough to cover metadata traffic you generate. The only data you reveal is anyone listening know you might have used it at some point. See https://vuvuzela.io/ I suspect it is named so because it uses a lot of bandwidth.
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