[TokoTurismo]

NeuroticVows

New tweet
久しぶりのドイツ。アウトバーンを走ると風力／太陽光発電が明らかに増えてる。村々の 一般家庭の屋根にもソーラーパネル。「結局、なんにも変わらなかったじゃねーかよ日本 」と比べるとドイツ社会の「舵を切る速さ」はすごい。

Translated
Germany a long time. Solar power / wind power has been increasing and obviously run the autobahn. Solar panels on the roof of the home also of general villages. "In the end, Japan did not change anything I do Well Ne" "speed off the rudder" of German society is amazing compared with.

This seems interesting? What does Mr. Yamauchi mean by this?

[NeuroticVows]

I think he was admiring how quickly Germany was able to adopt a cleaner power source and that the rest of the world could follow their lead

[TokoTurismo]

Ohhh. Nice.

[Dude27]

oh nice, the new Haiku of the day... now let's get decrypt it... Germany, Authobhan, more merc, BMWs, Audis, Gumpert maybe, Hochenheim perhaps.... DTM would be neat?

[McClarenDesign]

Dude27

oh nice, the new Haiku of the day... now let's get decrypt it... Germany, Authobhan, more merc, BMWs, Audis, Gumpert maybe, Hochenheim perhaps.... DTM would be neat?

More like the next phase of GT Academy - already announced for Germany.

[ZohsixGT5]

It means we're getting a german made solar powered car for DLC. And the autobahn as Track DLC.

[Dude27]

And the hype killer award to McClarenDesign....

[McClarenDesign]

Dude27

And the hype killer award to McClarenDesign....

Had to save you all from yourselves. He's probably just there getting things ready.

[diegorborges]

McClarenDesign

Had to save you all from yourselves. He's probably just there getting things ready.

True.

Anyway, Germany is really awesome.

Now Yamauchi-san, give us german autobahn Course Generator theme and point-to-point.

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[Famine]

Just for reference for people who don't keep up with the news...

Last year, following the tsunami, there was a nuclear emergency at the Fukushima plant after some reactors couldn't be shut down. A radioactive release occurred and, though Polyphony were not directly affected (there was a minor increase in background in Tokyo), some employees had family living in more affected regions. This was one factor that prompted an expansion of the PD offices to a second location in Fukuoka on the other side of the country, away from any nuclear power plants.

Shortly afterwards, Germany shut down many of its nuclear reactors - of similar, but newer design to Fukushima - pending a review of nuclear power in the country, even though the country is not really a high risk for a tsunami impact that caused the problems at Fukushima. That was followed by the decision to remove all nuclear power in Germany by 2022.

This news has popped its head up again today because a consortium founded by two German power companies - E.On and RWE - have decided to sell their sites and not pursue nuclear power generation in the UK, largely blaming the costs of decommissioning the existing nuclear power stations in Germany. Meanwhile in Japan, nuclear power goes on unabated.

The Tweet seems to be a reaction to the news from the UK, praising Germany for moving away from nuclear power - and the speed of its response - while Japan presses on with it because Japan doesn't change its mind.

I don't necessarily agree with his apparently anti-nuclear power sentiment, but then I've not had to move half my staff and their families 300 miles across a country because a local nuclear power plant exploded...

[TokoTurismo]

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[McClarenDesign]

Thanks Famine. Precisely why Im against nuclear power. Another debate for another section.

[Griffith500]

Thanks, Famine. I knew "Germany" got a bit worried over nuclear power, but didn't realise they'd decided to be rid of it entirely. Interesting.
The renewable ideal is inspiring, but time will tell.

[snowgt]

Famine

Meanwhile in Japan, nuclear power goes on unabated.

Uhm, that's not entirely true. All but 1(!) reactor in Japan are currently deactivated and it is unclear, if they will ever go online again due to restrictions imposed by the government that are very hard to reach.

BBC-article here

[TokoTurismo]

Nice write up Famine. Nuclear stuff can sure be bad news. :\

[nitrorocks]

I just translated about 15 tweets from Kaz's account. They are all from 10 days ago. Some are his, and some are from fans. there was a lot of action that day for him on twitter. He tweeted a lot. He keeps talking about A Dome, Supra RZ, AE86 and a Trueno. He also got some fan tweets saying they want 80's/90's DLC and he retweeted those tweets. He's giving a hint by retweeting those. He also said the opinion is likely to split on cars. So we are most likely getting 80's/90's Japanese cars in the next DLC.

[tribolik]

nitrorocks

I just translated about 15 tweets from Kaz's account. They are all from 10 days ago. Some are his, and some are from fans. there was a lot of action that day for him on twitter. He tweeted a lot. He keeps talking about A Dome, Supra RZ, AE86 and a Trueno. He also got some fan tweets saying they want 80's/90's DLC and he retweeted those tweets. He's giving a hint by retweeting those. He also said the opinion is likely to split on cars. So we are most likely getting 80's/90's Japanese cars in the next DLC.

Im using your translator and it seems we will have a German solar powered car in the next DLC also...

[R1600Turbo]

nitrorocks

I just translated about 15 tweets from Kaz's account. They are all from 10 days ago. Some are his, and some are from fans. there was a lot of action that day for him on twitter. He tweeted a lot. He keeps talking about A Dome, Supra RZ, AE86 and a Trueno. He also got some fan tweets saying they want 80's/90's DLC and he retweeted those tweets. He's giving a hint by retweeting those. He also said the opinion is likely to split on cars. So we are most likely getting 80's/90's Japanese cars in the next DLC.

Nothing more than speculation. I think we've been over this before...

[Famine]

snowgt

Uhm, that's not entirely true. All but 1(!) reactor in Japan are currently deactivated and it is unclear, if they will ever go online again due to restrictions imposed by the government that are very hard to reach.

BBC-article here

Yes - that wasn't quite the message I intended to convey, but you're quite right. It's more that the reactors are offline for stress testing, rather than scheduled for decommissioning, while Japan faces an electricity shortfall this year as there is no alternative - about a third of Japan's electricity was nuclear. I imagine a shortage of electricity may well affect an electronic entertainment company and we can look forward to server outages, while Kazunori can look forward to being blamed for them and told he's lazy by the usual suspects.

[maxpontiac]

Famine

I imagine a shortage of electricity may well affect an electronic entertainment company and we can look forward to server outages, while Kazunori can look forward to being blamed for them and told he's lazy by the usual suspects.

Come on Famine. No one here at GTPlanet ever does that.

/sarcasm