I'd have thought there are many tech angles. For example, in a possible Greenland invasion, what are the implications of the US having control of dominant platforms such as Windows, Android and Apple? Not to mention all the dominant cloud platforms.
I must confess, the Python driver pg8000 which I maintain doesn't support pipeline mode. I didn't realise it existed until now, and nobody has ever asked for it. I've created an issue for it https://codeberg.org/tlocke/pg8000/issues/174
Public transport in London is world class. Most people don’t even drive into London, let alone inside the congestion zone. And this was true even long before the congestion zone was created.
There's also the approach to funding that looks at things from another angle, and says we should have a basic income, or negative income tax, for everyone.
If a sufficiently large number of participants, with sufficient resources participate, then any open source project with sufficient utilization and value will receive funding.
I work on Chellow, an open source Web app for checking and reporting on UK electricity and gas bills for large organisations https://github.com/WessexWater/chellow . It's a mature project that's used by two organisations. Please get in touch if this is something you're interested in.
Comparing electricity costs between countries probably says more about government subsidies than the underlying cost of generation. Nuclear fission is an expensive source of electricity (see the high subsidies for Hinckley C) and so I suspect France's nuclear power is heavily subsidised.
> Nuclear fission is an expensive source of electricity (see the high subsidies for Hinckley C) and so I suspect France's nuclear power is heavily subsidised.
There are no subsidies in Ontario, Canada, and nuclear is the second cheapest (CA$ 0.101/kHw) after hydro-electric (6.2¢/kWh); see Table 2:
For nuclear, the subsidies are often in insurance and decommissioning and long-term storage of waste.
So looking at insurance, it's impossible to fully insure a nuclear power station, and so the state effectively insures it.
With long term storage of waste, the material has to be securely stored for about 10,000 years. As far as I know, only Finland is doing this so far.
With decommissioning, it always costs more than is set aside, and so the taxpayer gets left to pick up the pieces eventually.
With your example of Ontario I don't know how these costs I've outlined will be handled, but if it's anything like the UK the costs will be pushed onto the taxpayer.
> With long term storage of waste, the material has to be securely stored for about 10,000 years. As far as I know, only Finland is doing this so far.
It has to be stored for 6-10 years for cooling after it is taken out of the reactor. Then after 200-300 years the only way it is dangerous is if you (a) eat it, or (b) grind it up and snort it like cocaine.
The '10,000 year stuff' is not very 'hot' and any radiation given off can be blocked by aluminium foil. The dangers over thousands of years is overblown:
> With your example of Ontario I don't know how these costs I've outlined will be handled, but if it's anything like the UK the costs will be pushed onto the taxpayer.
The generation companies will be handling nuclear waste in Canada:
> The Act required Canadian electricity generating companies which produce used nuclear fuel to establish a waste management organization to provide recommendations to the Government of Canada on the long-term management of used nuclear fuel. The legislation also required the waste owners to establish segregated trust funds to finance the long-term management of the used fuel.
You are right, but the same holds true for other sources: many externalize costs (e.g. CO2 emissions and thereby climate change, or glass fiber composite in windmills being notoriously hard to recycle).
It still may be an acceptable price, externalizing certain known or unknown costs to the state, but when it comes down to it, no source really does this well. That being hard to price is a good reason.
The Android app StreetComplete is an excellent start for updating OSM I found. There soon become occasions when you have to bring out the big guns and edit it using the web editor at https://www.openstreetmap.org/ , which is possible to do on a mobile phone if it has a big enough screen, but much easier on a laptop.
The Tithe Barn in Bradford On Avon was the medieval equivalent to an Amazon warehouse!