@jonesmurphy@mastodon.social
Scientist, progressive, businessman
Originally planned as just a three-year trial, the railway was fitted with 48 specially-designed solar panels with a combined power of 18 kWp.
However, the positive results yielded just one year into the trial mean the installation of a permanent system along the railroad track is now likely, Euronews Earth has been told.
euronewsSwitzerland’s solar railway has been a success. What happens next?Solar railways could soon become commonplace in Europe, following a successful trial in Switzerland.Replying to @jonesmurphy@mastodon.social
@bathsheba @davidtheeviloverlord @dbattistella the modern billionaire class was created by poor and working-class white supremacist voters angry at MLK & Civil Rights. These suicidally stupid voters left unions and the Democratic Party. They are incessantly cutting taxes on billionaires, and aren't slowing down at all, 60 yrs after Civil Rights. Billionaires are the beneficiaries and the effect, NOT the cause. Similarly, billionaires are NOT why most white women vote no to reproductive rights.
@bathsheba @davidtheeviloverlord @dbattistella I have bad news for you and for this extremely popular, false narrative. During and shortly after Civil Rights, billionaire wealth reached its lowest-ever share of national wealth. That was due to the 90% top tax rate from FDR onward, as well as strong unions and soaring minimum wage ever since FDR. The New Deal era was an era of massive downward redistribution of wealth. It caused an economic boom, and sharply decreased billionaire political power.
@davidtheeviloverlord @dbattistella AI is bringing benefits in medicine and many other fields. And it's getting better at those fields. The problems we're having with AI aren't coming from billionaires. They're coming bigots who refuse to regulate billionaires & corps, and who keep cutting taxes on them.