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Wave Energy’s Hardest Problem Is Not The Waves. It Is Maintenance.
After publishing on a wave energy proposal for offshore data centers, I received a useful challenge. A reader pointed to CorPower Ocean as a counterexample. That was worth taking seriously. CorPower is not a render-first startup selling a fantasy of floating artificial intelligence infrastructure in the deep Pacific. It has … [continued]
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The Ocean Is Not A Server Rack: Panthalassa, Peter Thiel, And Wave-Powered AI Compute
I have been seeing LinkedIn posts about Panthalassa’s wave-powered AI data-center concept recently, and the reaction they’ve been getting is familiar. Big funding round. AI power bottleneck. Ocean energy. No grid connection. No land constraint. Autonomous machines. A new category. It had all the ingredients of a story built to … [continued]
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Vienna’s Hydrogen Bus Failure Is A Warning To Transit Agencies
Seven of Vienna’s ten new hydrogen buses are sidelined because CaetanoBus cannot supply ordinary spare parts. Not hydrogen tanks. Not fuel-cell stacks. Not high-pressure valves. Door compressors and blind-spot monitoring systems. That is what makes the case important for transit procurement agencies. The reported failure is not exotic enough to … [continued]
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Flawed Booking Systems Are Preventing Passengers from Travelling by Rail — T&E Analysis
The new EU Single Ticketing legislative package could finally make booking connecting trains between major hubs convenient. Europe’s rail renaissance will never reach its full potential unless passengers are able to book connecting and international trains in a few clicks. That’s the conclusion of new research by T&E which finds that … [continued]
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Will Banning Social Media for Minors Actually Help Reduce Carbon Emissions?
The answer is: No. Next question. Okay, fine. Let’s do this properly. Somewhere in a government conference room — air conditioning on full blast, bottled water for every seat, a PowerPoint deck that took three consultants and two months to produce — somebody connected these two dots and felt brilliant … [continued]
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