Re: Remember "Bit-Slice" Chips ?

On Sat, 21 Dec 2024 08:53:57 +0000, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

They may be tomorrows tech too, if fossil fuel prices rise high enough.
Its all in the and cost-benefit analysis on riad building and cost of
fuel versus cost of rail plus overhead lines and cheap nuclear power.

At least in the US that would run into all the problems that distributing
electricity from alternate sources has.

https://calmatters.org/politics/2022/05/california-high-speed-rail-
standoff/

One of the criticisms is the choice to run up the Central Valley. That's a
low population area and land acquisition isn't as complicated. The bad
news is it's a low population area.

Particularly west of the Mississippi the backbone of today's rail system
was developed in virgin territory. The government could give the railroads
large swathes of real estate since they owned most of it. In this area
they even gave one square mile sections in a checkerboard pattern along
the route to provide timber for the construction. That's led to a
complicated ownership problem and land swaps are common to try to get a
contiguous area.