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  1. Giugiaro

    Portugal to privatise rail through franchising

    No. The document references the National Railway Plan and the Trans-European Transport Network (TEN-T), and is quite specific on what they think is a priority. The plan for privatisation is only targeted towards passenger operation and passenger station management. Infrastructure and traffic...
  2. Giugiaro

    Portugal to privatise rail through franchising

    This week, the new Portuguese Government is discussing its brand-new executive plan in parliament, with more details regarding how railways will be developed over the next four years. Namely, the continued interest in promoting competition in the operation of passenger railway services. This...
  3. Giugiaro

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    Americans don't know how to do a proper military parade. In France they go all out, even going as far as BOOING the president! :lol:
  4. Giugiaro

    Israel attacks Iran - What will be the wider implications?

    So far... not much. Russia has its hands so tied with Ukraine that they had to resort to North Korean soldiers and Iranian weapons just to get its act together. Despite the fact that the Iranian–Russian Treaty on Comprehensive Strategic Partnership was signed just days before Trump took office...
  5. Giugiaro

    Porto & the Douro Valley

    There is wood, cement and sand to Irivo, plus wood and containers to São Martinho do Campo.
  6. Giugiaro

    Porto & the Douro Valley

    The busiest part in terms of freight services is between Vila Nova de Gaia - Devesas and Contumil. Mostly Euro 4000 and Europrinters, but occasionally, the ex-MLW No. 1964 is around.
  7. Giugiaro

    Bizarre AI results for Rail Related Enquiries

    The issue is that generative systems (like large language models) use a pornographic amount of energy to train and work. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj5ll89dy2mo
  8. Giugiaro

    Elon Musk - the world's "greatest" spiv?

    I would say that Elon Musk is the one in the most fragile position here. Donald Trump can, in a couple of executive orders, shut down the viability of both Tesla, SpaceX and xAI. The use of drugs is also a great liability that Elon Musk has under the eyes of the Republican Party. Then this...
  9. Giugiaro

    Russia invades Ukraine

    Lockheed Martin has a solution kept under very closed doors:
  10. Giugiaro

    Finland "plans to" change to standard gauge

    The Poles and Germans have used their own solution for exactly this use case. It's called Rafil Type V, SUW2000 or PolSUW.
  11. Giugiaro

    Electrical grid "crash", affecting multiple European countries

    The Minister for Ecological Transition, Sara Aagesen, said that the losses of power that preceded the blackout, of 2,2 Gigawatts over the course of 22 seconds, began in substations in the provinces of Granada, Badajoz and Seville, in that order...
  12. Giugiaro

    Current state owned train manufacturers.

    The Portuguese national railway company CP - Comboios de Portugal is technically a manufacturer of rolling stock, historically having made vehicles from parts of other vehicles, or entirely from scratch. The company will also manufacture brand new coaches this decade. Some of the hardware is...
  13. Giugiaro

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    One. Probably myth.
  14. Giugiaro

    Russia invades Ukraine

    Some forms of oil and gas extraction are considerably more expensive, and require high oil prices to break even. The easy oil is pretty much gone. More than half of US oil and gas is extracted through fracking, which is one of the most expensive technics. Trump's "Drill Baby, Drill" if taken...
  15. Giugiaro

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    We went from "alternative facts" to "hostile and political". At least the previous White House Press Secretary was funny to watch. This one is just infuriating, like pretty much everyone else on Trump's second term's government.
  16. Giugiaro

    Electrical grid "crash", affecting multiple European countries

    At that point the train is most certainly stranded, and the passengers being evacuated. Exactly what we've seen in Spain.
  17. Giugiaro

    Electrical grid "crash", affecting multiple European countries

    The 24V system in most modern trains only power emergency lights and core safety systems on a train. The AVAC system is one of the very first ones to shut down, as they are energy intensive and not critical.
  18. Giugiaro

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    Trump forgot to buy, and then use, eye drops.
  19. Giugiaro

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    Sorry, since I use mathematical notation with the comma and point swapped, is that three and a half thousand percent~!?!?!?
  20. Giugiaro

    Thoughts on the Trump presidency

    The irony in this video is beyond me

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