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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The 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.”
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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
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
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?
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