Posted on 01/23/2022 3:04:35 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
There’s a whole lot of infrastructure questions, and potential future problems. Maybe, just maybe, they’ll find them and either solve them for us or save us from the same mistakes. I think it’s lunacy but that’s just Meyer opinion.
Boy! Are you ever good at one upmanship.
And you are correct. I knew it was mountainous but that photo is an eye opener.
Switzerland has a lot of mountains.
Mountains have a lot of waterfalls.
Convert waterfalls to electric power plants.
And voila Switzerland has a lot of electricity.
The same is true for Norway.
Switzerland nominal per capita GDP = $86,673.
The other was purchasing power parity.
I’m not an economist so am a bit unclear on how much discretionary spending an average individual has there.
Electric Bicycles...
That’s nothing. I’ve heard there’s battery tech in the pipeline that will provide unlimited range that never has to be recharged!
That is the model we are heading for
—> Really going to be some gamechanger EV’s in another year or two from various companies.. 450-500 range and fast charging.
Improved coal cars.
Last time I was in Switzerland, which was 20 years ago, they had a huge number of Middle Eastern Muslims and Sub-Saharan Africans there. I’ve heard there are ten times more today. Don’t hang out in the train stations late at night!
Also, homogeneous? They’re 1/2 German and 1/4 each French and Italian. Cross the high passes and be ready to speak a new language.
That is the model we are heading for
W.Virginia = 80,167 miles of road.
This is how Swiss people think about driving distance. They fly to and land in New York, you are in Kansas. They call and ask about driving to see you for lunch.
It's just a tad hilly for a bike... unless you're a Tour rider.
The Europeans pay for their roads differently than the USA they charge a vignette when you enter the country good for class one and two roads it’s mandatory. All motorways are tollways so are most bridges and tunnels.
https://www.tolltickets.com/en/country/schweiz/
Nearly every EU nation has it’s own vignette that you must buy once you enter with a vehicle from another nation. There is a growing number of EU nations going to pay by the miles for class one and two roads not just tolled motorways.
The high VAT taxes and petrol.taxes are not used for motorways those go to social programs.
I never had a bike that would be safe to ride downhill on the mountain shown.
Imagine burning out your brakes going downhill on that road.
Not much coal use in Switzerland
https://www.eda.admin.ch/aboutswitzerland/en/home/wirtschaft/energie/energie-—fakten-und-zahlen.html
I think you mean improved hydro power and nuclear power cars. Since only 2.3% of Swiss power is thermal and that’s natural gas not coal.
Electricity is mainly generated by hydropower (59.9%), nuclear power (33.5%) and conventional thermal power plants (2.3%, non-renewable).
It would be really easy.......going downhill. Getting back up would be a whole other thing.
Thanks for that. They’re better off than most Europeans.
Trying to relate Switzerland to the rest of the world is useless. It’s like comparing Connecticut driving to Texas. Just no relation other than in the eyes of the advocate
—”West Virginia is bigger than Switzerland.”
And the Swiss never drive beyond the Swiss border?
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