Archive for the 'Infrastructure' Category
Lockheed: Practical Fusion Power Still 20 Years Away
July 20th, 2019— “$21 Trillion Dollars Is Missing from the U.S. Government” Via: The Drive: Lockheed Martin’s Skunk Works is building a new, more capable test reactor as it continues to move ahead with its ambitious Compact Fusion Reactor program, or CFR. Despite slower than expected progress, the company remains confident the project can produce practical results, […]
Diablo Canyon Nightmare Scenario: The Quake to Make Los Angeles a Radioactive Dead Zone
July 13th, 2019Cryptogon always supplies you with the most pleasant reading for the weekend. Via: CommonDreams: Nothing significant has been done to improve safety at two coastal reactors upwind of ten million people that are surrounded by earthquake faults in a tsunami zone like the one where the four Fukushima reactors have already exploded. Had Friday’s 7.1 […]
New York: Massive Power Outage In Midtown, Times Square, Other Sections Of Manhattan, Thousands Affected
July 13th, 2019CBS New York Livestream — Update: ConEd Restoring Power, No Cause of Outage Given — Via: CBSNY: A large power outage has struck Midtown, Times Square, Hell’s Kitchen, and other parts of Upper Manhattan. CBS2 began to hear reports that that all restaurants had gone dark in Hell’s Kitchen around 7 p.m. Saturday evening. There […]
Giant Batteries and Cheap Solar Power Are Shoving Fossil Fuels Off the Grid
July 12th, 2019If the electricity from solar plus storage is, “Cheaper than any power generated with fossil fuel,” why aren’t these systems shooting up like weeds? The availability of batteries is the bottleneck. We’ve heard about Tesla’s rumored 1GWh energy storage system and things like the 800MWh system below. This is a drop in the bucket, in […]
General Electric to Scrap California Power Plant 20 Years Early
June 26th, 2019Via: Reuters: General Electric Co said on Friday it plans to demolish a large power plant it owns in California this year after only one-third of its useful life because the plant is no longer economically viable in a state where wind and solar supply a growing share of inexpensive electricity. Related: GE Bet on […]
The 5G Dragnet
June 23rd, 2019Via: The Corbett Report:
GPS Outage Would Cost U.S. Economy $1 Billion Per Day
June 17th, 2019Via: Ars Technica: Since becoming fully operational in 1995, Global Positioning System technology has become widely adopted in the United States and abroad. The concept of satellite-based navigation has become so essential that other world powers, including China, Russia, the European Union, India, and Japan, have all started building their own regional or global systems. […]
Electric Grids Down in Argentina and Uruguay
June 16th, 2019In other news: U.S. Ramps Up Online Attacks on Russian Power Grid, NYT Says: The U.S. is stepping up digital incursions into Russia’s electric power grid in a warning to President Vladimir Putin, the New York Times reported, citing current and former government officials. While the U.S. has probed the Russian grid since at least […]
China’s Father of Electric Cars Says Hydrogen Is the Future
June 14th, 2019I doubt it, due to the hassles related to producing and storing hydrogen and the near total lack of hydrogen refueling infrastructure. Toyota’s deranged pursuit hydrogen, despite all the obstacles, has caused it to look like a chicken running around with its head cut off as the industry pivots to battery electric. Toyota has been […]
With Venezuela in Collapse, Towns Slip Into Primitive Isolation
June 10th, 2019With socialism like this, who needs EMP weapons? Via: Reuters: At the once-busy beach resort of Patanemo, tourism has evaporated over the last two years as Venezuela’s economic crisis has deepened and deteriorating cellphone service left visitors too afraid of robbery to brave the isolated roads. Gone are the vendors who once walked the sands […]
