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Want To Municipalize Your Utility? I Mean, Really?

August 31, 2022August 31, 2022 Nat M. Zorach 0 Comments climate change, detroit edison, distribution, DTE, DTE Energy, feeder, feeder lines, flooding, generation mix, grid, jerry norcia, miso, miso grid, municipalization, power generation, power grid, public utility, renewables, severe weather, southeast michigan, storms, thunderstorms, transmission, underground utility lines, undergrounding, undergrounding utilities, weather and utilities

DTE Energy is a disaster, as evidenced by its continued embrace of fossil fuels and its apocalypse-level outages. That doesn’t mean that a public option could do better. But there are some options for improving.

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.

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.

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