Current public policies are the cause of Climate Change and growing economic hardship. Moving 2 tons to move a person forces Americans to pay about $2.76 trillion per year on traffic. 16% of our income ($813/monrh) is spent on transportation. Often with some difficulty of finding a spot, cars are pared 95% of the time.
Summary of the Speed and Scale of the changes coming by digitizing mobility:
- Tony Seba Future of Transportation as a Service
- McKinsey, The second great inflection point in mobility
- Red Bull TV, JPods starts at 9:30 (2016) on the future of transportation (self-driving cars for off-network, JPods for urban networks, and Hyperloops for highspeed networks between cities)
- $500 million Hyperloop Certification Center in West Virginia Announcement and a 2-minute summary.
- Pirates and Patriots, such as Tesla, are purposefully violating existing laws to deliver 3 billion self-driving miles on roads and a 9X better safety record. An example of violating laws, operating a car with no person in it, Tesla's promotional video on "Smart Summon"
- Elon Musk's Boring Company gets initial OK to expand Loop
- Praetor Capital 2021 estimate of PRT capital value of $31-58 billion.
- Pitchbook, “Q1 2021 Emerging Tech Research: Mobility Tech”
- Bloomberg: Energy Storage is a $620 Billion Investment Opportunity to 2040
- Material Handling: Automated Transit Networks (ATN) Systems Market 2022-28 Growth By Leading Players: Boeing, ULTra, Vectus, 2getthere, Modutram, Cabinentaxi, Glydways, Urbanloop, JPods, skyTran
- Reuters: Musk's Boring Company valued at $5.6 bln after latest funding round
- Swyft Cities wins TechCrunch -- Google
Capital Investments:
Deployment:
Economy:
Paths to War:
Governments:
- Inflation Reduction Act summary
- 26 states Autonomous Vehicles | Self-Driving Vehicles Enacted Legislation
- New Projection: U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Jumped in First Half of 2021
- California's effort to create high-speed rail line to cost another $5B more
- PBS: Atlanta City Street, July 15, 2021
- ‘It’s a disgrace, frankly’: The O’Hare trains to nowhere
- We Could Never Afford America’s Highways — Even Before COVID-19
- Is the Juice Worth the Squeeze - South Carolina, Vince Graham
- The Most Expensive Mile of Subway Track on Earth
- Cuomo: I Reached Out to Tesla to Help Fix the Subway System's Signal Problems
- Engineers to Pedestrians: No ‘Walk’ Signs for You!
- Senator Beach and the Georgia Senate Transportation hearing, March 12, 2019 on solar-powered mobility networks.
- Mass Transit: L.A. is hemorrhaging bus riders — worsening traffic and hurting climate goals
- Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It
- Subway Performance Reaches Major Milestone – On-Time Performance Crosses 80% for the First Time in Six Years, Up from a Low of 58% in January 2018
- Georgia sees spike in pedestrian deaths
- Leon Drolet: Transit is fading as transportation options shift
- Hey California, you can now trade in your old car for an electric bike!
- Latin America pledges 70% renewable energy, surpassing EU: Colombia minister
- Study: U.S. Fossil Fuel Subsidies Exceed Pentagon Spending
- Boomers Are Thriving on an ‘Unprecedented’ $9 Trillion Inheritance
- 71 people were killed while traveling around Denver in 2019 — here’s where
- US Uses 11 Times More Energy Than UK (with Only 5 Times More People)
- Dallas-Fort Worth’s sprawling rail networks haven’t worked, so here’s a better idea
- Clearwater one step closer to aerial transit system in Tampa Bay
- Yet Another Report Highlights DART’s Poor Quality Transit
- Atlanta is home to three of worst traffic bottlenecks in U.S.
- TAKOMA PARK AGGRESSIVELY WORKS TOWARDS ELIMINATION OF FOSSIL FUELS
- We Could Never Afford America’s Highways — Even Before COVID-19
- Mar 3, WSJ: Amid Coronavirus Fears, Officials Say New York City Subway Is Safe
- May 5, 2020, BBC: Coronavirus: Tube numbers to be 'severely restricted'
- London's Tube to be overwhelmed 'with just 15pc of passengers allowed onto carriages after lockdown'
- Bill would tie Amtrak funding to preservation of long-distance routes
- Bike safety defects in San Jose.
- Gross Domestic Product, 2nd Quarter 2020 (Advance Estimate) and Annual Update, 32.9% decrease in GDP
- Iran dumps dollar for yuan; US imposes new sanctions
- National Conference of State Legislatures summary of States enacting self-driving car laws.
- What should matter….doesn’t.
- U.S. States Face Biggest Cash Crisis Since the Great Depression
- Mass Transit ridership is 65% lower than before the pandemic
- French Government investment: First solar roadway in France turned out to be a 'total disaster'. They did not do their math nor engineering. The collectors much be mounted over guideways.
Self-driving cars
Climate Change:
Covid-19
Hyperloop
Drones
JPods
Fracking, oil, and energy:
- Acceleration forever? The increasing momentum of mineral extraction
- 2022-05-10, WSJ: Gas Prices Surge to Another High, Rising oil prices on strained global market are fueling record-breaking price of gas
- % of world oil consumption
- Per capita oil consumption
- The U.S. Shale Revolution Has Surrendered to Reality
- The Oil Market Remains In The Control Of OPEC+ Until Demand Fully Recovers -- Demand exceeds supply in 2022-Q3
- EIA forecasts U.S. crude oil production to fall in 2020 and 2021
- Reuters 2020: Special Report: Trump told Saudi: Cut oil supply or lose U.S. military support
- Bankruptcy:
- OIL PATCH BANKRUPTCY MONITOR
- World Oil, 2020-06, Chesapeake joins more than 200 other bankrupt U.S. shale producers
- visualcapitalist.com, 2020-07, Tracking the Growing Wave of Oil & Gas Bankruptcies in 2020
- Reuters, 2020-10, U.S. oil producers on pace for most bankruptcies since last oil downturn
- Forbes, 2020-10, As Oil Bankruptcies Surge, Vulture Investors Start Their Long Feast
- NS Energy, 2021-01, North America hit record bankruptcy debt across oil and gas sectors in 2020
- Houston Chronicle, 2021-01, Over 100 oil and gas companies went bankrupt in 2020
- Colonial Pipeline CEO warns of fuel shortages following cyberattack
- Why did renewables become so cheap so fast? And what can we do to use this global opportunity for green growth?
- The Guardian: What if Canada had spent $200bn on wind energy instead of oil?
- Columbia | SIPA: Reserve Base Lending and the Outlook for Shale Oil and Gas Finance
- Bethany McLean:
- Fracking March 18, 2019: "The statistics point to a one to two-million-barrel decline in production from the frackers"
- NBC News: April 8, 2019: Why much of the country is headed for $4 gas
- Seeking Alpha: April 9, 2019: U.S. Oil Production Is Starting To Grow Again
- Seeking Alpha: Oct 16, 2019: U.S. Shale Productivity Declines Even As DUCs Decrease
- Peak Oil, Feb 13, 2020: $207.5 billion in losses.
- Mar. 13, 2020: U.S. Oil Production Could Drop By A Quarter
- Oil Shock of 1973–74
- Dallas Fed: Breakeven Oil Prices Underscore Shale’s Impact on the Market ($49 to $54)
- CNBC: Missing $4,155? It Went Into Your Gas Tank This Year
- CNBC: Oil now a ‘bigger problem for markets than the coronavirus,’ analyst says
- Baker Hughes Rig Count
- CNBC: Exxon cuts capital spending by 30%, but CEO says it’s ‘committed to maintaining’ dividend
- May 6, 2020: Implied U.S. Oil Production Shows Material Drop And Looks To Be Headed For 10 Mb/D
- April 28, 2020: 3.77 Mb/D Reduction In U.S. Gasoline Supply, Bullish UGA
- May 19, 2020: UGA: Bullish With New Source Of Demand
- June 1, 2020: Bullish UGA, Undervalued By $8
- Saudi America, Bethany McLean
- June 18, 2020: U.S. Energy Dominance is Over
- June 2020, EIA Permian
- July 2020, Shale boss says U.S. has surpassed peak oil
- UGA: Bullish, Demand Exceeds Supply
- Oct 9, 2020 U.S. Oil Production Set To Decline More From Here On Out
- Bethany McLean
Suspended trains:
Graphene
Robots
Batteries
Capital
Oil
Microgrids and Solar
Peak Oil
Sea Ice
Policies:
Car ownership:
Other tech