Aurich Lawson | Getty Images reader comments 5 with 5 posters participating Share this story Earth Day is April 22, and its usual message—take care of our planet—has been given added urgency by the challenges highlighted in the latest IPCC report. This year, Ars is taking a look at the technologies we normally cover, from ..
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reader comments 126 with 60 posters participating Share this story Battery-electric power is commonplace in cars and trucks and is being tested in planes, helicopters, and container ships. Now, battery power is coming to trains, in place of the diesel-fueled generators that have powered locomotives for more than a century. Last week, Union Pacific Railroad ..
reader comments 87 with 57 posters participating Share this story Every year, the Journées Européennes Patrimoine (European Heritage Days) weekend in September offers visitors a chance to visit numerous monuments all over Europe. Among the attractions in Paris this year was an orange-colored electric train with a name that has become a byword for speed ..
reader comments 98 with 59 posters participating Share this story On the shore of Lake Baikal, deep in eastern Siberia, one of the most ambitious feats of modern Russian rail engineering is nearing completion. The Baikalsky tunnel, carved through 7 km of mountain rock, has taken seven years to build, with construction teams laboring in ..
Enlarge / Using hydrogen in some of these applications probably makes more sense than building out a network of hydrogen filling stations for passenger cars. Scharfsinn86/Getty Images reader comments 112 with 53 posters participating, including story author Share this story In just the last week, General Motors signed agreements with not one but two companies ..
reader comments 18 with 16 posters participating Share this story Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com. You may have played one of the most successful titles in tabletop gaming, Alan Moon’s Ticket to Ride. But have you tried all of the game’s expansions ..
Enlarge / JR East unveils to the media its new test bullet train “ALFA-X” in Rifu, Miyagi prefecture on May 9, 2019. JIJI PRESS/AFP/Getty Images reader comments 123 with 64 posters participating Share this story This week, Japanese railway company JR East showed off its new Alfa-X, a high-speed bullet train that is designed to ..