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It is colossally stupid to do this jet engine experiment rather than spend their $20 million on, say, preventing the city's poor from burning trash. But why ad
by photogrammetry 10y ago
It is colossally stupid to do this jet engine experiment rather than spend their $20 million on, say, preventing the city's poor from burning trash.
But why address the root cause of a problem when you can treat the symptom in an extremely stupid, expensive, and temporary way?
- Declanomous 10y ago20 million dollars does not go a long way as far as civic infrastructure goes. Someone farther up pointed out that this is equates to $2 per person per year. Someone else pointed out that the fuel cost of jet engines is around a quarter of what the parent comment estimated. So, all in all, I'd say it's a somewhat reasonable approach.
- photogrammetry 10y agoThey could bribe those poor people with $2 a year not to burn trash.