Wellington southbound SH1 drivers don’t want to be stuck in a tunnel that bypasses their destination.

The first electric concrete truck mixer in Australia is undergoing trials in Melbourne, and will deliver significantly lower operating costs than diesel options, and a lot less noise and emissions thedriven.io/2024/09/18/fir…

‘Every bit of space I have, even if it’s a few feet, I want it covered in solar panels…this is a gift from God’ on.ft.com/4ejGB6Y

This is what happens when you don’t fund the humanities

At the end of this month, coal power generation in England ENDS after 142 years. This is effectively the conclusion of the Industrial Revolution 🇬🇧 My dear friend Rob Burnett and I will treat X to an informative thread on the evolution from Holborn Viaduct to last one standing

Photovoltaics are by far the coolest energy tech. We turn the most abundant elements in Earth's crust into devices that exploit quantum mechanics to harness the power of stellar fusion and convert it into a perfectly ordered form of energy - electricity. Pure exergy under human

The distributed solar story in Pakistan is nuts!! It's now the third largest importer of solar in the world and basically all of it isn't a part of the utility system. All of this is in response to the central planners that run the national grid making decisions that ended up

I love the reporting around Texas High speed rail, because it's basically this.

The Entrust dividend is out. $350 sounds great right? Well is a small rebate on your ever rising power bills (that’s where it’s from) but also, terrible governance by C&R means it is way lower than when it started. In 2006 it was $310 which = $483.44 today

Great letter Tessa! Mayor Wayne Brown

On the subject of great views in the paper, this by Mayor Wayne Brown is bang on. The secrecy now standard in infrastructure planning serves no one but those with their snouts in the trough ( same with light rail too). This has to be properly public to get an enduring outcome.

"Solar takes up too much space! It uses too many materials!" The solar on this home generates 237% of its demand. You're telling me that we have enough space to have homes with roofs, but not enough space to put solar panels on those roofs. Earth contains enough materials to

I definitely didn’t originate this turn of phrase, but it can’t be said enough

Still got a ministerial warrant; how on earth?

Some great news for motorists in the new WCC bike lane data. Cyclist numbers are increasing on roads with protected bike lanes and decreasing on non-protected roads - meaning people who need to drive are less likely to be delayed or inconvenienced by people on bikes.

The thing about cars in cities is that they will expand to fill any and all space you give them; and drivers will fight to reclaim any space taken from them, no matter how great the benefits to street life and the local economy.

Luxon’s over-reliance on climate market mechanisms will cost the poorest New Zealanders four times as much as the wealthiest. These market mechanisms also just don't work. We need investment in household solar, free public transport, a car feebate scheme, and all the rest.

Sydney just continues to troll Auckland

This is a thing to celebrate. Yes the Industrial Revolution, based on combustion, burning stuff furiously, brought great prosperity, but also at great cost, waste and destruction. Now we can build even greater prosperity without burning. Welcome to the post combustion era.

Yes, traffic is a gas, it expands and contracts relative to the space we give it. Unfortunately traffic engineering continues to misconceive traffic as a liquid, all about flow. This is, at essence, how traffic engineering fails cities: