Electrification of rail might be one of the most important single Silver BBs right before us for tackling economic, energy, and environmental challenges. On this, a guest post from the impassioned and thoughtful rail/transport thinker BruceMcF … Having lost sight of our goals we redoubled our efforts – Mark Twain The Steel Interstate concept is […]
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Time for the a 21st Century Steel Interstate
September 8th, 2009 · 1 Comment
Tags: Energy · trains · transportation · trucking
T. Boone’s Shell Game — one look at the numbers …
March 10th, 2009 · 11 Comments
T Boone Pickens continues his relentless, high-cost media and publicity effort to promote The Pickens’ Plan to seemingly raving audiences, selling a superficially appealing but fundamentally unsound concept. In short, T Boone is calling for generating more electricity from wind, using that to displace natural gas from the electricity system, and then using that natural […]
Tags: Energy · the pickens plan · trucking
Walmart & its hybrid trucks …
March 19th, 2007 · 5 Comments
When it comes to Global Warming, there should be at least one arena of full agreement: there is no excuse not to be pursuing a “no regrets” strategy. E.g, pursuit of policies, programs, and technologies that make sense no matter whether you accept the weight of scientific evidence or are hoping that the skeptics at […]
Tags: energy efficiency · hybrid trucks · trucking · Wal-Mart