TIFFS: Judge denies suit to keep Fresno’s Fulton Mall closed to vehicle traffic

Number 12 in the Transport in a Fine Fix Series. Motor vehicles traveling north and south on Fulton Street through the historic Fresno Fulton Mall are to return. A Fresno judge blocked a local advocacy group’s attempt to keep cars and trucks and what-not from transiting through on the portion of the pedestrian promenade that … Read more

Several interests requesting EPA enact rules to target methane

Carbon dioxide (CO2) isn’t the only greenhouse gas (GHG). Yet, of all GHG emissions, CO2 has gotten and continues to garner the lion’s share of attention. Of all greenhouse gases, CO2 is the leading GHG contributing to climate change in the industrial age, apparently – in California weighing in at 86.5 percent. While CO2 in the … Read more

‘Fuel’ing America’s transportation future: And the winner is …

The fuel that’s going to drive America’s transportation future: What will it be? One authority, Diesel Technology Forum Executive Director Allen Schaeffer, in the “Bright Future For Diesel In The Natural Gas Revolution” press release, shed some light. “While the nation’s truckers will ultimately be the ones to answer that question, according to international and … Read more

Battery-energy storage does not exist by wind-farm application alone

Yesterday (Oct. 22, 2014) I posted: “CATS: Tehachapi-area project for storing energy North America’s largest.” I presented information on the testing of a battery-storage provision at Southern California Edison’s (SCE) Tehachapi, California Monolith substation. Do I believe this is a good use of resources and a good idea? I do. I’ll get to telling you … Read more

CATS: Tehachapi-area project for storing energy North America’s largest

Number 31 in the Clean Air Technologies Series. One of the great advances – in my opinion – in the area of automation, is the rechargeable battery – specifically, the application thereof. In the motorcar realm, the battery is what enables such vehicles to keep on keepin’ on, as the expression goes, by holding a … Read more

California high-speed rail clears important legal hurdle

It was in “California style high-speed rail: Will it prevail?” that I presented several of the issues surrounding the project still needing resolving. To repeat, I wrote: “Meanwhile, Tim Sheehan in The Fresno Bee on June 5, 2014 in ‘Kings County lawsuit challenges Fresno-Bakersfield high-speed rail’ wrote: ‘The Kings County Board of Supervisors, the Farm … Read more

Putting pollution in its place about town, at home, on the job

There is no shortage of ideas when it comes to thinking of ways to get air pollution under control. I’m not going to say in doing so it won’t take work. It will. Now, add to this a dash of innovation here and a dash of inventiveness there, and talk about light at the end … Read more