Milano! Che Bello!

[applez]

The most important part of the trip first:A truly lovely time reconnecting with childhood friends and family-friends I haven't seen in 18 years! Sharing old memories with Francesco and Giovanni Riva, refreshing others (as Franz puts it, his brother has "an elephant's memory" - his memories of details was shocking!), and picking up where we had left

Comments

Bikes and transportation

[gioogle]

You are forgetting atomic-powered cars

Re: Bikes and transportation

[applez]

Atomic-powered cars? Interesting, but seeing how upset the world got over the mere suggestion of an Iraqi nuclear programme (and the subsequent Iranian one), we have quite a few hurdles before that application becomes widespread. ;-)

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On a more serious note, I would like nothing more than for the world to get a lot more serious about safe reactor designs, maximum safety reprocessing, twinned with nuclear disarmament and thorough international inspections. IMHO, climate change is serious enough to warrant that radical a policy.

That might then become a very interesting source of hydrogen for the transport sector...though I surely wish we'd have more offshore wind turbine electrolysis.

Power

[gioogle]

As long as the cars are powered by plutonium, no harm there... it is almost very difficult to build a plutonium-based nuclear bomb without proper technology (it is tied to how plutonium nuclei interact with each other at short distances

Re: Power

[applez]

Hmm...given how toxic plutonium is, I'd rather we weren't in the business of mass producing it for mobile applications like that. ;-)

Re: Power

[gioogle]

It was a devious plan to poison all the motorists and more... but you saw right through it!!!! :-))
Need to devise a more cunning plot!