Infrastructure Tales
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
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
How Libya Built Brand-New Rivers Across the Sahara
youtu.beGeology + Engineering come together allow a a desert to sprout
Where does Saudi Arabia get its water?
Open this picture. It illustrates the EXTENT of Japan's dominance in the LNG supply chain
👉 A Japanese company produces the shale gas
👉 Gas is sent to an LNG plant partially owned by a Japanese company
👉 LNG is loaded on a ship built and owned by a Japanese company
👉 The ship is... See more
In higher resolution
They Tore Down a Highway and Made it a River (and traffic got better)
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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
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
A thread... See more
So beautiful