Entries for 'Panos Prevedouros PhD'

Long term risks to taxpayers: How Projects Get out of Control Using the Wrong Procurement Methods....

...urban trends are driven more by the masses and less by the political, academic and "environmental" elites that love to dictate how the hoi polloi should live....

“It takes a lot of energy to extract and process solar-grade silicon,” says co-author Seth Darling. “And in China, that energy tends to come from dirtier and less efficient energy sources...."

“Hawaii’s driving never really went down – it just flattened out and then started going up again as opposed to the mainland, which made a U-turn....”

The renewable mandates make Hawaii more unaffordable and the mothballed interisland cable is yet another boondoggle....

U.S. shipbuilding is less than 1% of the world share....

...Hoopili’s traffic impact will be immense with or without rail....

These nine stations are the relatively easy ones to build... A couple of them are in empty fields....

"CitiBike has put out 6,000 bikes at 325 locations at a cost of $6,833 per bike."

Many well-known people such as Governors Lingle and Abercrombie, Chancellor Virginia Hinshaw, Blue Planet Foundation's Henk Rogers, and Hawaii's only billionaire Pierre Omidyar have Sopogy egg on their face....

The answer comes quickly in the introduction of this well-researched article in The Atlantic Cities....

The Atlantic Cities magazine published a condensed analysis of seven main reasons that explain why U.S infrastructure project cost more than elsewhere....

This brief analysis is a simple case of a picture is worth one thousand words....

...wastes productive land, wastes taxpayer funds, and lies about sustainable green jobs....

My first transportation wish for 2014: Hawaii needs a motorcycle helmet law....

The quotes below are a sample of the responses I received to part 1 ....

...thanks to Senator Schatz’s flawed advocacy, our electricity costs will increase....

... presented at the 2013 American Dream conference in Washington, D.C. in mid-October ....

From developments in China to politicians' pay....

Honolulu's public is starved for traffic congestion relief. The power elite has responded with let them have rail....

Waste-to-energy and Geothermal power plants are among the best choices....

Up to 5,000 new apartment and condominium units are being planned by the HCDA in Kakaako....

...the true cost to own a base Tesla S in Hawaii is 17% more than California and 34% more than Colorado....

Even though total wind power capacity grew by 30 percent last year, with 13,000 megawatts in new wind turbines, the actual portion of our electricity coming from wind energy did not increase proportionally....

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Where does Honolulu rank among 300 cities? It ranks 284th for the 1993 to 2007 period, and 217th for the 2007 to 2011 period....

...poop from 70 homes can power VW Bug for 10,000 miles!

Each EV that clocks about 50 miles per day consumes as much electricity as a modest house with 4 people....

"...a 2011 Nissan Leaf that's a bargain to drive in Washington — $28.29 for 1,000 miles — is pricey in Hawaii, where those 1,000 miles would cost $97.21."

The long term economy of Waste to Energy (WtE) plants is very good....

Global Metro Monitor update of the Brookings Institution. Yet another non-flattering economic statistic....

Census data strongly suggests that Hawaii, and Oahu in particular, are stable communities with very mild growth....

Why? Because transportation infrastructure deployment lags demand by decades....

By some estimates, Jones Act makes goods in Hawaii 33% more expensive than they could be....

Oahu will grow taller thanks to strong volcanic forces that lift it up from the bottom of the ocean....

... cutting wasteful projects is productive and necessary to avoid a nosedive....

...the sudden loss of Senator Inouye would be similar to the sudden and complete loss of Hawaiian Airlines....

BRT would provide the same transit ridership for about one tenth the cost....

the No.1 transit bus in the nation will be dismantled and reconfigured to provide life support for the rail.

You might think that I am referring to some Don Quixotic syndrome. But their Wind Mill Deficiency is actually more real and its effects on society are seriously deleterious.

Tren Urbano (or City Train) in San Juan, Puerto Rico is a perfect comparison with Honolulu's heavy rail....