The Download: American’s hydrogen train experiment, and why we need boring robots
by MIT Technology Review
MIT Technology Review— This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology Hydrogen trains could revolutionize how Americans get around Like a mirage speeding across the dusty desert outside Pueblo, Colorado, the first hydrogen-fuel-cell passenger train in the United States is getting warmed up on…
NBC News—Affluent Americans are driving U.S. economy and likely delaying need for Fed rate cuts. Since retiring two years ago, Joan Harris has upped her travel game. Once or twice a year, she visits her two adult children in different states. She’s planning multiple other trips, including to a science fiction convention in Scotland and a Disney cruise soon after that, along with a trip next year to neolithic sites in Great Britain. “I really have more money to spend now than when I was working,” said Harris, 64, an engineer who worked 29 years for the federal government and lives in...
www.utilitydive.com—CMBlu’s batteries competitive with li-ion after 5 hours, but more data, experience needed: US CEO. After taking over as president of Germany-based CMBlu’Energy’s U.S. subsidiary in January, Giovanni Damato aims to prove out the company’s organic flow technology for utility and commercial/industrial users.
The Daily Signal—K-12 ‘Action Civics’ Trained Students Encamped on College Campuses. Here’s What Parents Need to Know.. Parents asking why their college student’s graduation is canceled this year need only remember when their child was in high school. K-12 schools have been Read More