Riding between New York and Boston last week on a comfortable and uncrowded Amtrak Acela train it dawned on me that my comfort came at a price. An uncrowded train meant Amtrak was not earning as much revenue as it might have from this run. Beyond that, I wondered, what of the environmental impact of [...]
Entries from August 2009
August 6, 2009
Reading on Smart Grid
Greentech Media’s research group recently released a free 145-report on smart grid. If you are new to smart grid, it’s a good tutorial on the issues. It features a helpful taxonomy [] of building blocks of the smart grid. And it’s a handy reference guide to the vendors with profiles on over thirty companies that [...]
