OCTA’s hydrogen buses still had years of service life when their depot fuel system became unusable. Hydrogen transit depends on much more than the bus.
The Orange County Transportation Authority is spending another $27.6 million on hydrogen infrastructure as it expands its fuel-cell bus fleet from 10 buses toward 50. Read the announcement quickly and it sounds like ordinary fleet growth: more buses require more fueling capacity. OCTA’s history makes the story much less straightforward. … [continued]
Solar power has passed another big milestone. Solar has reached and quickly surpassed the 3-terawatt — yes, terawatt — marker globally. That’s how much solar power is installed across the world. Naturally, a lot of the growth was from China, but a lot of it was also from emerging markets … [continued]
Just yesterday, I wrote about Einride and DAF Trucks partnering on a new, serious autonomous trucking initiative. There’s another recent autonomous trucking story that slipped through the cracks. Autonomous driving company Pony.AI is reportedly looking to deploy 1,000 autonomous heavy-duty electric trucks in the next two to three years. In … [continued]
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its latest step to eliminate protections under the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, claiming the move is necessary to reduce wildfire risk and expand forest management. Since the Forest Service created the Roadless Rule in 2001, it has protected millions of acres of … [continued]
COLUMBIA, S.C. — Duke Energy released its latest long-range energy plan, which proposes two additional gas plants and extends costly coal plant operations based on speculative data center developments, according to its own documents released last Friday. This alarming development underscores the need for the South Carolina Public Service Commission to … [continued]
An underground mine provided some welcomed cool on a peak-summer day in the mountains west of Denver, Colorado, for a group of 21 undergraduate interns from the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratory of the Rockies (NLR). Outfitted with hard hats, and as gravel crunched under their closed-toed shoes, the … [continued]
Porsche is in the doghouse with EV fans now that it is planning to eliminate the Taycan from its lineup. However, there is some good-ish news. The company is trying to boost consumer demand for its Macan EV. The Macan EV has had an interesting year or two. In 2025, … [continued]
It wasn’t a totally new bike, it was the replacement for a 5-year-old Bulls mountain ebike which I had to abandon because Bulls could not supply me with a functioning battery for the Brose motor. For only $3,000, they upgraded me to their latest Copperhead model with Bosch motor and … [continued]
There is a story — which may be apocryphal — about the dean of an elite women’s college in northwest Massachusetts who once counseled her students, “When rape is inevitable, lean back and enjoy it.” Suffice to say, this was before the Women’s Lib movement clicked into high gear. The … [continued]
About $100B in shareholder value vanished across hydrogen, eVTOL and SMR bets after my underlying technology warnings were already public.
The Financial Times supplied an interesting prompt this week. Short sellers have made an estimated $2.1 billion betting against Oklo, NuScale and Nano Nuclear, while $30.3 billion of their combined market value has disappeared since the three small modular reactor developers peaked in October 2025. I have been writing for … [continued]
