Infrastructure Tales


By 1910, the network of interurbans in the US was so dense that a determined commuter could hop interlinked streetcars from Elkhart, Wisconsin, to Oneonta, NY—a journey of 1,100 miles—exclusively by electric trolley. 🚋🧵 https://t.co/V8qK07lkpn
Intercity transit used to be electric

1/ Today we’re publishing Crypto and the Evolution of the Capital Markets. Skeptics like to say crypto is a solution in search of a problem, but in reality, it’s an answer to a decades-old one that the traditional securities markets still haven’t fixed: the lack of a more direct, https://t.co/G2ZlH8VTjg

We're launching a pickup and delivery only grocery store in Austin this fall.
It's the 1st phase of our city wide network and is powered by our Rapid Fulfillment Center.
Grocery is notoriously difficult, here's why we're starting with it: https://t.co/Vyrdh7E9qf
They Tore Down a Highway and Made it a River (and traffic got better)
youtu.beThe Ancient City That Mastered Water
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How Japan ignored climate critics and built a global natural gas empire
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Every six hours, somewhere in the world, an LNG shipment controlled by a Japanese company leaves a port. However, these tankers are only the tip of the iceberg
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So beautiful


Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism wants to build an "automated logistics road" that uses automated freight pods between Osaka and Tokyo, later extended to Fukuoka and Sendai. This is in response to the truck driver shortage. It's wild that Japan... https://t.co/aFD6VvCDQs
Seems similar to the power loop Waymo was working on