How to pretend you are saving money by purchasing Electric Buses
At first glance, this sounds good – high upfront costs but dramatic savings in operational/variable costs: From the PGE site, we learn that diesel buses are about $90K to buy…
Panera Bread testing voice recognition tech for drive thru orders
Automation will place increasingly large roles in fast food services: Two Panera Bread locations in upstate New York are testing artificial intelligence technology that takes drive-thru orders. Source: Panera Bread…
Cell phone service via satellite
Many companies are seeking to do this, including the announced SpaceX/T-Mobile partnership: Satellite companies are rushing to connect our phones and eliminate dead zones. Source: The space race for our…
Converting irrigation canals to pipes can turn them into electricity generators too
This is very cool: if you can funnel enough water volume into a pipe, and then run that pipe into a smaller pipe, thereby increasing the water pressure inside, and…
Part 17 – Population demographics: “Companies welcoming refugees” to fill positions
Tent Partnership for Refugees, a nonprofit founded by Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya, helps people displaced by conflict or persecution—and the numbers are increasing—find jobs. Source: Chobani CEO Helps Afghan, Ukrainian…
Turning the electrical power model inside out with bi-directional charging
EV batteries can act as utility power batteries. If lots of EVs do this, they can represent a size-able battery bank. Last year, the 350 cars plugged into Kaluza’s V2G…