Wind turbine trouble | Implementing infrastructure bills | Is Grand Central Madison a "curse" on MTA?
Global installed wind power generation capacity has increased more than 8x since 2007, to over 840 gigawatts in 2021. How? One reason is that manufacturers are churning out ever larger turbine blades - some are longer than a football field now - which helps reduce project costs. But installing these
Why America can't build, private equity loves AE, and Argo AI shuts down
WSP's Mobility Marketplace, South Africa's imploding infrastructure, and EV charging grid challenges
Industry giant WSP has announced the launch of a payments platform for public agencies called Mobility Marketplace, which will consolidate tolling, transit, ferry, parking, micromobility, EV charging, and other transportation modes into one account - with one bill, like a utility - for customers (an evolution forward from NYC's MetroCard
Vertical farming meltdown, Meta's "bridge to nowhere," and NYC's "doom loop"
Vaclav Smil never thought much of it, and now the tech industry meltdown is spreading to the vertical farming space. (Bloomberg) "Move fast and break things" doesn't really work in our industry! It turns out that Facebook/Meta wanted to be a developer. But like much of the new money