High Speed Trains are Killing the European Railway Network
High speed rail is destroying the most valuable alternative to the airplane; the “low speed” rail network that has been in service for decades.
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Interesting possibilities arise when you combine old technology with new knowledge and new materials, or when you apply old concepts and traditional knowledge to modern technology.
Technology has become the idol of our society, but technological progress is—more often than not—aimed at solving problems caused by earlier technical inventions.
There is a lot of potential in past and often forgotten knowledge and technologies when it comes to designing a sustainable society.
A World Without Trucks: Underground Freight Networks
If water, sewage, gas and oil can be transported through underground pipelines, why not consumer goods as well?
High speed trains: planes on wheels
From an ecological point of view, the strategy to move travellers from airplanes to high speed trains just doesn’t make sense.