[Dr_Barnowl]

I believe the response I had to people who thought that “plasma cosmology” was a bit hinky (and I’m not well informed enough to make a call on that), was that Kekulé was inspired to discover the structure of benzene by a dream about a snake biting its own tail, but it didn’t make the discovery any less valid.

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[Dr_Barnowl]

Oh hell, I’m an idiot. The thing is surrounded by lithium…..

[Dr_Barnowl]

dash wrote:
The way I’d go about stealing wire is take a high powered rifle and shoot through the wire at some point, on both ends, then just roll it up off the ground after it falls down.

People don’t restrict themselves to high-tension cables. Here in the UK, our trains are becoming delayed more and more often by the theft of signal cables, to the degree that the rail companies are now starting to post anti-cable-theft propaganda posters in their stations.

[Dr_Barnowl]

The public-transport-of-the-future that makes most sense to me is the PRT.

I can’t see why FF would encourage that specifically, aside from making electricity provision to the lines more distributed and practical, but the knock-on economic effects of cheap energy might make a lot of projects far more feasible.

The key advantage to the technology is that if you build the rails as elevated monorails, they don’t interfere with subterranean infrastructure and existing road systems. The downside is that people object to monorails near their windows, but I’m sure if you made them shiny enough…

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