Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:55:46 +0000
Innovators are leveraging new technologies to install solar panels on sound barriers and other railroad infrastructure.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 06 Jan 2025 17:55:46 +0000
Innovators are leveraging new technologies to install solar panels on sound barriers and other railroad infrastructure.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 20:02:33 +0000
Key Takeaways: Transportation is the highest emissions segment in United States Of rail, water, and road, only freight trucking can readily decarbonize Electric trucks are cost-effective and rapidly advancing The United States has unintentionally made itself into the country with the hardest to decarbonize transportation sector, and it matters. Transportation … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 03:02:17 +0000
A year ago I published an assessment of a quite remarkably bad, non-peer-reviewed paper by one of the Geological Survey of Finland’s (GTK) associate professors, Simon Michaux. The paper’s quite risible conclusions were that there wasn’t nearly enough metal in the ground to be able to electrify everything with renewables. … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2024 03:05:53 +0000
Recently I collaborated with David Cebon, head of the Cambridge Centre for Sustainable Road Freight, and interested parties on a complete list of all of the abandoned hydrogen bus trials globally. There are a couple of dozen of them, and I’m pretty sure there are more transit agencies that have … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 16:05:59 +0000
Solar panels between the rails of train tracks is a new idea being tested in Switzerland by start-up Sun-Ways.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 11:56:44 +0000
An electric vehicle makeover for the US locomotive fleet has been slow in coming, but signs of activity are beginning to bubble up and the 2021 Bipartisan Infrastructure Law is here to help.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Cynthia Shahan| Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 01:47:30 +0000
One of my life’s ongoing inner ruminations is considering options for transportation. (The welcome influence of CleanTechnica.) If walking is a timely option, I prefer to do it. For the simple reason that I always—I mean always—feel better after going for a walk. Walking restores vitality that is lost after … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2024 16:25:20 +0000
The Swiss startup Sun-Ways is piloting an ingenious new system for hiding large arrays of solar panels in plain sight, in between the ties of railroad tracks.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 17:13:29 +0000
The long-running seminar series for India’s utility professionals through the India Smart Grid Forum closed with hydrogen. The hype glitter is starting to tarnish, but there is still a lot of substance-less shiny noise around the molecule. To that end, I stepped through the challenges and why hydrogen is virtually … [continued]
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