This is a discussion thread right? I hope I am asking this in the right place

I am thinking about opening a community about public transport/transit here. My questions are:

• how do I promote it so it gets more audiences and it doesn’t become empty?
• how do I find moderators for the community? due to many things it’s possible that I am not always available moderating it

I remember there was a tweet thread a while ago that compares “techbros” reinventing trains to a carcinization–a phenomenon where basically many animals eventually evolves into a crab-like organism.

Why is this even downvoted?

It’s rare to see such positive news. I myself an Indonesian and didn’t know about this. Thanks for sharing

Recently, since the new elected president of Indonesia, Prabowo Subianto, has been in office since October 2024, there has been a good news about building nuclear power generator in Indonesia. Specifically, back in October, he stated in Indonesia-Brazil Business Forum that Indonesia wants to build nuclear reactor [1]. There aren’t a lot of information about this yet, but it seems that Indonesia wants to use Thorcon’s molten-salt reactor technology [2]. Honestly, my knowledge about nuclear reactor isn’t deep, but it seems that molten-salt reactor seems really safe as it eliminates the nuclear meltdown scenario [3].

Honestly? As an Indonesian, I can only believe his word when they actually started building, when I see said reactor physically with my own eyes. After all politicians lies all the time, that includes Indonesian politicians. Especially Indonesian politician, haha. Talk is cheap after all. But the fact that Prabowo himself says that Indonesia wants to build nuclear reactor gives me hope.

What are your thoughts on this? Is molten-salt reactor a good technology?

[1] https://www.cnbcindonesia.com/news/20241118110342-4-589011/prabowo-di-forum-internasional-ri-mau-bangun-reaktor-nuklir (Indonesian source)

[2] https://www.cnbcindonesia.com/news/20241110135352-4-587046/kembangkan-pltn-di-ri-thorcon-siapkan-investasi-rp-17-t (Indonesian source)

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molten-salt_reactor

Also I just remembered that the talk about nuclear reactor Indonesia started just in time with the news about undersea cable between Singapore and Australia being approved by Singapore gov. There are rumour that suggests that Indonesia should build its nuclear reactor near Batam island (island near Singapore) so that Indonesia’s power could be exported to Singapore. I cannot find realible source about this tbh.

I bet if you narrow it down to big cities the percentage will increase

>AI
>looks inside
>underpaid workers from underdeveloped countries

BYD is very interesting to me. Immediately after they start selling cars here in Jakarta I started seeing them everywhere.

The 200 new units of EV buses seems to consists of:

• 60 high-deck buses from Skywell
• 30 high-deck buses from Zhongtong
• 90 buses from Golden Dragon
• 20 buses from BYD

Anyway, I just made a new community to talk about public transportation in the world. Feel free to check out, thank you