Meanwhile, the rest of the world is laughing as they accelerate their solar installations, because there is more availability with the manufacturers free of American demand, and America falls even further behind.
But don’t worry, everyone, coal will give us energy independence.
What an unbelievable own goal you goddamn morons.
Hey guys, got this really great idea. We generate a lot of electricity, and then we use that to make compressed hydrogen, and then we use that for our cars. Also we need to figure out how to warehouse it for fueling, and how to transfer it, and how to store it effectively once it’s in the car, but once we get through ALL of that then we’ll finally have a hydrogen powered future and we can…. Wait we could just put the electricity from the first step into the car and eliminate the rest?
/s
I threw it on an old PC a few weeks ago and am pleasantly surprised at how polished it is.
Other than the takeoff and landing, cars have to deal with those obstacles as well.
A computer running a citywide automated traffic system for cars would have all the same complexity, without the ability to separate traffic in three dimensions.
There are a whole lot less obstacles and unknowns in the air, as well as more planes (ha!) of separation available than a car.
When flying, you don’t really need to worry much about random pedestrians, for example.
If the entire system were completely automated, from the car all the way to ATC, and it’s essentially a taxi that you just tell what location to go to and it handles the rest… well that’s basically air traffic today minus the automated ATC part. (That isn’t to diminish pilots at all; just that I think it’d be a lot easier, in general, to replace a pilot than a taxi driver with automation. They’re both still extremely challenging problems.)
As long as he doesn’t have to pay any more to fund those silly social programs like checks notes food safety and misconduct enforcement. That’s straight up woke bullshit. /s