Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:59:22 +0000
As Sheikh Zaki Yamani, a former Saudi oil minister, once said, “The stone age came to an end not for a lack of stones, and the oil age will end, but not for a lack of oil.” But some oil will still be being pumped at the end, and it won’t be heavy, sour, far from water crude.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2022 17:26:26 +0000
The US hydrogen strategy was positioned in the wrong federal department. It was put in the hands of people who deal with fossil fuels all day long and have a paradigm of burning them for energy, not a paradigm of electricity for energy. It fails Rumelt’s test for the first thing that makes a good strategy, and so its principles and actions will be failures as well.
Credit to Author: Jo Borrás| Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2022 18:45:37 +0000
It’s a common enough joke on the EV forums: Elon Musk hates trains. Musk hates trains so much, in fact, that he supposedly put forward the Hyperloop project specifically to disrupt a high-speed rail project in California, all in a bid to sell more cars. Well, it seems that the Tesla CEO Technoking is in […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2022 18:15:42 +0000
All of us, most of the time, wander around on the surface of the Earth. A small percentage travel across rivers, lakes and oceans in boats of various kinds regularly. A smaller percentage than that get above the ground into the skies. And, of course, the tiniest rounding error on a gnat’s hairy thorax get above the atmosphere. So let’s talk about moving around on the ground in this next edition of sexy/unsexy, practical/impractical.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2022 00:50:46 +0000
The narrative that Americans and many Europeans share about China and themselves is not aligned with observable reality, and the USA is in significant danger of economic decline even as the world improves.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 19:35:07 +0000
Many people in the United States probably wonder why our rail network generally sucks. We’re the richest (by some measures) country on the planet, but traveling by train here would be like going back in time decades for many visitors. Japan, China, most of Europe, and even the little island of Taiwan that we’re worried […]
Credit to Author: Remeredzai Joseph Kuhudzai| Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2022 18:05:23 +0000
Siemens Mobility and its consortium partners Orascom Construction and The Arab Contractors have signed a contract with the Egyptian National Authority for Tunnels (NAT), a governmental authority under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Transport of Egypt. The deal will result in Egypt having the sixth largest high-speed rail system in the world. The press […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Thu, 19 May 2022 14:53:13 +0000
If Europe continues down the path of making hydrogen a mainstay of heat and transportation, they will invest in highly inefficient and ineffective infrastructure, substantially delay actual climate action, and pressure Morocco, Algeria, and Egypt to waste time and money that could be better spent.
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:00:12 +0000
Living in a rural area or in a smaller city has always come with the cost of needing to secure transport of some kind (like a shuttle, taxi, or a friend) to take you to the airport or train station, especially in the United States. But the trend towards remote workers business models trend underway […]
Credit to Author: Jennifer Sensiba| Date: Wed, 27 Apr 2022 13:00:12 +0000
If you look at Amtrak’s route map, you’ll notice that the service isn’t really geared toward serving rural areas and smaller cities. Sure, they do stop at some smaller cities along existing rail routes, but those aren’t the point as much as a place to get fuel and let people get onto connecting services. On […]