Tag: cases
Mea Culpa: Correcting The Ferry Battery Orderbook Still Leaves A Strong Electrification Story
For a few months now I have quoting a claim that 70% of ferries on order had batteries, based on reading the stat in what I considered a reliable site. After digging deeper into the orderbook and the denominator, I do not think that figure stands up, but the actual … [continued]
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From Beacon to Amber, Flywheels Missed the Grid
Amber Kinetics crossing my screen today was a reminder that electricity markets are littered with technologies that never quite die. Flywheels are one of those ideas. They are mechanically elegant, grounded in physics everyone understands, and they solve a real problem in principle. Store energy in a spinning mass, pull … [continued]
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Anonymous tips, cash rewards: How Crime Stoppers works
The Sarnia Lambton Crime Stoppers chapter is offering a reward of up to $25,000 for information leading to the arrest of a London man accused of second-degree murder in a shooting at Lambton College on April 10. But how does the agency pay tipsters whose identify it doesn’t know? Lloyd Stacey, president of London-Middlesex Crime […]
Canada Wants High-Speed Rail. Megaproject Reality Wants a Word.
Canada’s revived high-speed rail (HSR) proposal deserves a serious hearing. It also deserves an outside-view assessment grounded in the history of rail megaprojects, not just the aspirations of sponsors and advocates. The current Alto proposal for a high-speed line between Toronto and Québec City is the most concrete Canadian version … [continued]
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BYD Shark 6 Is A Predator, Now More Than Ready To Eat The Philippine Pickup Market
This will be my first test drive report for CleanTechnica. Since I started off with that statement, let me say that I am nervous writing a test drive report for the US market, knowing how much knowledge and experience there is out there regarding EVs. I don’t even have one. … [continued]
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