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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Instead of starting a list of those things and ending up with my App crashing, I will name the one thing I think the US does better.

I think having a speed limit on your highways is kinda a sane thing to have.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

Speed limits are great until some idiot decides to follow it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Thats not a speed limit. That's a speed minimum.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Our target speed (the speed you are recommended to drive) is faster than the US speed limit.

I mean, it’s a nice tickling in the balls when you engage the warp drive on your way home. But it also inspires a lot of amateur race car drivers. Nah, I can do without.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 days ago

I say minium because if you're not doing it you'll get hell from all drivers around you and realistically everyone is pushing 10 over.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

And nuclear energy

(Germany I guess)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Even when ignoring environmental concerns and purely looking at it from a financial perspective: Renewable energy is more profitable already.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Yes, but they are unreliable. Nuclear is an amazing option for base loads, and then adding renewables on top of that just makes sense. Battery energy storage is still insanely expensive, so nuclear is a very valid alternative in countries that haven't let their nuclear production capabilities fall off to the point of taking decades.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Hydro power can be great for baseload and storage

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

Agreed, but it is so incredibly geography dependant that you can't really generalize with it.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

You definitely have to ignore ecological concerns when talking about hydro.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 16 hours ago

There is no 100% clean energy, but hydro is pretty good