Infrastructure Tales
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
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?
Good.
The Ancient City That Mastered Water
youtu.beIsraelβs MASSIVE Water Highway That Could Change The Country Forever!
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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, NYβa journey of 1,100 milesβexclusively by electric trolley. π𧡠https://t.co/V8qK07lkpn
Intercity transit used to be electric
Open this picture. It illustrates the EXTENT of Japan's dominance in the LNG supply chain
π A Japanese company produces the shale gas
π Gas is sent to an LNG plant partially owned by a Japanese company
π LNG is loaded on a ship built and owned by a Japanese company
π The ship is controlled by a Japanese company, which sends it to Thailand
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In higher resolution