Yeah. No big deal. Just the head of a country. it's the same as Bob from down the street. Lol quit being a goober, goober.

If you banked your investment portfolio on fossil fuels I could see why this wouldn’t be uplifting.

Either that or you just don’t understand nuclear energy and think it’s scary.

I don’t want to be a bummer and only just thought about this but, couldn’t it also mean the place they came from is worse?

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How would it not be uplifting? Nuclear power is a boon to humanity.

US should do this on range lands taken over by welfare ranchers like the Bundys

Bronx dolphins be like

What's not uplifting about this?
I guess it should've happened sooner, but no time like the present.

Your examples are regions covered pretty completely with substantial population (and therefore have electrical infrastructure throughout) implementing electrification in the small minority of areas that are remote for interoperability reasons. This is different than places like the Americas and sub-Saharan Africa where some main lines cross up to thousands of miles of mostly inadequate electrical-services areas. You basically have to build and service infrastructure exclusively for the trains in those cases.

Electrification can still be a goal in these places, but it’s not unreasonable for them to pursue hydrogen or even retain diesel while working on high-volume freight shuttle/passenger electrification. Please don’t do the thing everyone else does and assume I’m arguing against electrification - I’m just saying it’s not going to happen anytime soon in a lot of places for real reasons.

the countries with serious rail infrastructure mostly use electrification, hydrogen makes sense in places where it's really hard to electrify the route because of hard geography, or for shunting locomotives

electric trains are faster, ligther, safer and just much more efficient in general than hydrogen. and they're really not that much more expensive, india is electrifying the majority of its network, just like china did

also there's electrification on every and i mean every rail line in switzerland, so the remote or sensitive area argument is kinda weak

obviously not every route can be electrified, but most of them actually can, and i've already cited three major examples

edit: basically electrification is the only option for high speed rail, the best option for commuter, long-distance freight and intercity, while hydrogen is a good option for local/rural lines, shunting, branch line/shortline freight and some exceptions. most new lines are built already electrified, by the way

Interesting. I wonder what they think of cities at night.

Good news for the nigers : )

Thank you for the great explanation.

It's uplifting for the environment. Not so uplifting if you work at one of the last 200 coal plants in the US

Uplifting continues to mean different things to different people...

In Europe you have an extensive electrified passenger network that’s easy to supply with electrical facilities due to a general lack of remote areas.

Many rail networks in the world have these areas where it is incredibly expensive to install electricity and they also don’t have the privilege of having invested in electrification for a century. There’s really not a good way to just electrify part of a network if mainlines are going through areas where electrical rolling stock can’t/won’t be served.

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Lol the electrification circlejerk is coming for me even outside of rail subs.

Electrification is not the only solution! It is really fucking expensive and only justified by medium to high volume lines. It requires installation of new electrical facilities in potentially remote or environmentally sensitive areas. It’s also an longterm process that can’t be done globally by the time we need to deal with emissions, because you can’t use electric rolling stock for a 99% complete route. That basically writes off any freight because nobody is ever going to pay for electrifying industrial spurs. They’d just pave over them and use trucks.

I agree, most men aren't qualified to represent women. Men can be really dumb towards women. Especially the closeted gay religious zealots. 30% representation is really the lowest standard. It's not great. We obviously need representation and having women around helps men be less gross. To each other and to women.

> Biden wanted to promote how many people have applied for new business licenses during his administration. A number Biden says is 10.4 million people: "That's more than any time in American history in a single period."

It is used as a uterine tamponade - the mother is bleeding from where the placenta was attached in the uterus. The uterus usually contracts after delivery to close the blood vessels but long labors sometimes cause uterine atony - the uterus is tired and won't contract so the mother hemorrhages. The inflated condom balloon puts pressure against the blood vessels where the placenta was attached inside the uterus to stop the bleeding. Commercially, a Bakri Uterine Tamponade Balloon is used - this is a much cheaper and easily accessible option.

Puts pressure on the wound, I suppose.

bees!

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