Posted on Monday November 23rd by Alex Lessard-Pilon | 63
More than a third of U.S. sewer systems are beyond their capacity and are dumping waste into rivers and lakes — but only a fraction of these violations draw fines from regulators. Meanwhile, as many as 20 million people get sick each year from unsafe drinking water. (NYTimes)
- Green businesses are migrating to the Rust Belt, where the remnants of what used to be automotive and industrial manufacturing can be re-purposed to build components for solar products, hybrid cars, and wind farms. (LATimes)
- By 2016, 25% of new cars will have an automotive data system, like OnStar or Ford’s SYNC. Eventually, you’ll be able to control heating and AC from your phone, and your car will book itself for repairs. (Economist)
- Here’s a rundown of New York’s 20 biggest residential real estate deals of the last decade. Not all of them fetched what their owners might have wanted, but when you’re talking about $40 million and $50 million properties, who’s counting? (Curbed)
- Airplanes, believe it or not, do not fly themselves. This is a huge misconception constantly perpetuated by media outlets and even, sometimes, by aviation experts and pilots. “Baby-sitting a flying computer” is how one reader put it, to the great dismay of the writer. (Ask the Pilot)
Pic via Flickr/Stuck in Customs
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:56 pm
A big fat trillion dollar stimulus. That’s what it would take to fix all of our current infrastructure, right? And if we want to upgrade to other first world country standards, another trillion? We’re doomed.