Category: Climate change
Exploring the history of “good fire” in Northern Michigan
“Fire is like nothing else in the world. … It’s something that can breathe, it can move across the landscape, it can transform things and rejuvenate things.”
Leipzig’s Hydrogen Garbage Trucks Fail The Tuesday Test
Garbage collection is not a technology demonstration. Municipalities need trucks that leave the depot every working morning, finish predictable routes, operate compactors through hundreds of stops and come back ready to do it again. That is why refuse collection has become such a useful test of competing zero-emission drivetrains. Battery-electric … [continued]
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Michigan regulators want to restrain utilities’ bias toward building costly power plants
Governor Gretchen Whitmer asked the Michigan Public Service Commission for ideas on lowering utility bills. The commission says the most important way to do that is address “capital bias.”
Ports Need More Capital As Their Bulk Cargo Base Shrinks
Ports are being asked to make infrastructure decisions that will last thirty, forty or fifty years while several of the assumptions that paid for their existing infrastructure are changing at the same time. Ships are getting larger, requiring deeper channels, larger cranes and more capable tug fleets. Climate disruption is … [continued]
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OceanX Made Downwind Floating Wind Worth Another Look
OceanX gave me two immediate reasons to be skeptical. It puts two turbines on one floating platform, and it puts the rotors downwind of their supports rather than in front of them. I had looked at both ideas years ago and found good reasons why the wind industry had largely … [continued]
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