Imagine the city of tomorrow, not the distant future but a decade or two from now. That city could, if we choose, be smart, connected, solar, sustainable. In fact it could be beyond sustainable. This was the assignment I took from First Utility in...
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Let’s look at one of the hot topics of the day, driverless vehicles. I’ve been paying attention to this for some time, including work with the federal and state transportation agencies, and more recently the trucking industry. Bottom line is that it seems likely...
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Episode 2 of PopSci’s Futureopolis Podcast Talks Roadtrips and Traffic Jams Glen Hiemstra in a podcast interview by Popular Science on the future and self-driving vehicles. Quite fun.
Continue ReadingWill cities eventually leave cars behind? Recently people experienced the longest traffic jam in history, in China, reputed to be 62 miles long and lasting 12 days. It was caused by trucks hauling coal to Beijing. Soon Beijing is expected to have 7 million...
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This is what vision looks like. Watch Elon Musk announce Tesla Powerwall, the next phase in his plan to change the electricity business, from one were we mostly harvest old sunlight in the form of dead plants and animals by lighting them on fire,...
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