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Energy Efficiency Home Improvement & DIY Energy

Summer Breeze: Heat Pumps, Mini-Splits, and the Magic of Thermodynamics

June 10, 2021June 16, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ac inverter, air conditioning, air source heat pump, alpine home air, amazon, ampacity, beneficial electrification, blueridge, blueridge mini-split, boiler replacement, bosch, bosch appliances, carnot cycle, cooling, DIY, electric vehicles, electrification, electrification of buildings, energy efficiency, heat pump, heat pumps, heating, home energy, home improvement, home rehab, home renovation, HSPF, HVAC, inverter, manual d, manual j, mini split, mini-split, mitsubishi, mr. slim, power grid, refrigeration, Renovation, residential energy, SEER, split system, split system heat pump, statistics, thermal comfort

Mini-splits are the coolest new thing. Literally. Here is a guide to how to figure out how to navigate the sea of product options based on a simple calculation.

Urban Planning Mobility Infrastructure Tech

Webinar: Tech To Reduce Guesswork for Safer Streets

April 26, 2021April 26, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon web service, Amazon Web Services, AWS, big tech, break up big tech, breaking up big tech, CASE, cloud computing, congestion, connected, connected autonomous, connected autonomous shared electric, cycling safety, Detroit, distributed structures, elizabeth warren, intelligent transportation systems, intersections, ITS, jeff bezos, jeff bezos rocket ship, joe biden, mobility, pedestrian safety, public safety, redundancy, roadside unit, rsu, safe streets, sensors, smart transportation, switching costs, tony geara, traffic, traffic management, traffic safety

Traffic technology has improved by leaps and bounds in recent decades. While the ultimate solutions to ending traffic violence must come with better street designs and a reduced reliance on single-occupant automobiles, there are some interesting developments in technology that are allowing better modeling to understand driver behavior, intersection safety, and more. We learned about it from a webinar co-hosted by Canadian tech company Miovision.

Business & Economics Consumer Products

AliExpress: The New Amazon? Or, Close, But No Cigar?

April 7, 2021April 7, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments ali, ali cloud, alibaba, alibaba vs. aliexpress, aliexpress, amazon, amazon distribution center, backmarket, cainiao, capitalism, china, consumer culture, consumerism, coupang, distribution, ecommerce, eRetail, free market, late capitalism, logistics, mass consumption, PRC, products, retailers, supply chain, TPP, trade, trade relations, trans-pacific partnership, US China relations, us china trade war, US-China trade, value density, value density by volume, value density by weight, value density per volume, warehouse, world trade organization, WTO

An exhaustive review of AliExpress, the Chinese Amazon and the “foreign office” of global giant AliBaba.

Business & Economics

Trying To Bump Up Those Margins? Have You Considered… Stealing?

March 4, 2021March 4, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon prime, AMZN, billionaires, copyright infringement, customer reviews, customer service, ecommerce, everyday sling, jeff bezos, litigation, millionaihs and billionaihs, peak design, peak design everyday sling, reviews, shopping, stealing, theft

Amazon has a long and sordid history of stealing the designs of companies that sell on its platform– and making their products themselves, to be sold at a lower price. One company decided to troll them in response.

Platform Revolution: Understanding The New Economics of the Interweb

March 3, 2021March 2, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments algorithms, amazon, Amazon Web Services, asset-lite, AWS, book review, disruption, disruptive innovation, end-to-end principle, filters, geoffrey g. parker, linear value chain, marshall w. van alstyne, matching, matching algorithms, network effects, parker alstyne choudary, platform, platform business, platform company, platform economy, platform model, platform revolution, platform software, platforms, sangeet paul choudary, software-as-a-service, uberland

The platform economy dominates the economy today. This book offers numerous valuable lessons for how we can think about the architecture of systems in public infrastructure.

Urban Planning Mobility

Book Review – Ghost Road: Beyond the Driverless Car

February 4, 2021February 3, 2021 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, anthony townsend, ArgoAI, artificial intelligence, Autonomous, autonomous vehicles, AV, AV tech, AVs, BRT, car culture, cars, connected cities, connected vehicles, cruise automation, distribution, driving, Ford, fulfillment, fulfillment centers, GM, infrastructure, infrastructure deficit, infrastructure spending, integrated, jeff bezos, jeff bezos skull keg party, lidar, machine learning, microsprawl, public transit, self-driving, self-driving car, self-driving cars, smart cities, smart city, tech bro, tech bros, transit, trucks

Can autonomous cars save us? Well, no, but they can provide some vital innovation to our society. Provided we play our cards right, that is. Anthony Townsend’s book gives us the lowdown.

Business & Economics Lifestyle

Streaming, Torrents, and Market Fragmentation: Will p2p Filesharing, Unlike The South, Rise Again?

July 10, 2020July 10, 2020 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon prime, apple, downloading, DRM, film, itunes, market fragmentation, mp3, music, netflix, streaming, streaming services, torrents

Digital piracy has made a comeback in recent years as the market for content streaming becomes more crowded and more expensive, leading to serious questions about the long-term sustainability of the sector.

Urban Planning Public Health Seattle Tech

Did Cities Ever Need Tech, Anyway? Seattle vs. the Post-COVID Economy

June 9, 2020June 9, 2020 Amanda Spiegel 0 Comments amazon, coronavirus, covid, crime, homelessness, housing, housing crisis, housing insecurity, housing security, missing middle, public health, seattle, tableau, tech, tech bubble

Long a sleepy seaport town, Seattle was enjoying a fraught, decade-long flirtation with explosive growth– and inequality. Will COVID bust up the party forevermore?

Lancaster, PA: As A Small City Thrives, Its Suburbs Founder

January 28, 2020February 10, 2020 Nat Zorach 0 Comments amazon, cartoon network hotel, economic development, hospitality, hotels, lancaster, mccaskey high school, retail, retail apocalypse, shopping malls, Sprawl, strip malls, urban renewal

On a recent trip back to my hometown, I poked around the eastern suburbs, visiting a friend who had just

Urban Planning Public transit Transit infrastructure

The New Mobility Requires A New Workforce

December 9, 2019December 9, 2019 Nat Zorach 0 Comments amazon, amazon bid, amazon hq2, autonomous vehicles, bay area, cass corridor, economic development, Ford, garlin gilchrist, Gretchen Whitmer, jeff bezos, Midtown Detroit, mobility, nissan, smart city, sustainable mobility, talent attraction, talent retention, techtown, transit, transportation, wayne state university

This morning I attended “Driving Our AV Future,” an event produced by the Michigan Mobility Institute (MMI) and the Partnership for

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