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Cake day: July 4th, 2023

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  • I would buy (or fund) a train if I could, but an electric car is the best I can afford. If I have to drive anyway, I should at least make it electric.

    I’m very disappointed that I can’t catch a train across Australia on the tracks that already exist.
    There is one train from Melbourne to Adelaide, but it doesn’t connect with public transport, only runs on some days, is slower than driving, and more expensive than flying.
    Surely it couldn’t be that hard to just run a cheap commuter train on the existing tracks. A sleeper train would be perfect for that distance too.


  • I disagree with the picture of hydrogen cars.
    There is no way you could build enough infrastructure to drive that many cars. Hydrogen is so much less energy dense that you would need 20 hydrogen tankers to match 1 gasoline tanker.

    Actually… If we all shift to hydrogen cars, then everyone will drive less because they’ll all be waiting for fuel. I see this as a complete win!