Infrastructure Tales
The Surprising Success of Gondola Transit Systems
youtu.beThe industry’s biggest recruiting challenge, however, is the industry’s invisibility. It’s a truism that people don’t think about infrastructure until it breaks, but they tend not to think about the fixing of it, either. In his 2014 essay, “Rethinking Repair,” professor of information science Steven Jackson argued that contemporary thinking about technology romanticizes moments of invention over the ongoing work of maintenance, though it is equally important to the deployment of functional technology in the world. There are few better examples than the subsea cable industry, which, for over a century, has been so effective at quickly fixing faults that the public has rarely had a chance to notice. Or as one industry veteran put it, “We are one of the best-kept secrets in the world, because things just work.”
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
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 shi... See more
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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
Good.
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
Why are the Dutch So Good at Waterworks?
youtu.beMasters of water