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SPONGE CITIES READINGS & REFERENCES FOR BEGINNERS
SOURCE: NOAA By Kevin Policarpo, RBTUS What are 'sponge cities' and how can they prevent floods? Sponge cities are “...urban areas with abundant natural areas such as trees, lakes and parks or other good design intended to absorb rain and prevent flooding.”[1] A...
SPONGE CITIES READINGS & REFERENCES FOR BEGINNERS
SOURCE: NOAA By Kevin Policarpo, RBTUS What are 'sponge cities' and how can they prevent floods? Sponge cities are “...urban areas with abundant natural areas such as trees, lakes and parks or other good design intended to absorb rain and prevent flooding.”[1] A benefit of these cities is that they can hold more water in rivers, plants and soil, which make them more resilient to droughts....
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PROPELLER CLUB MARITIME DAY PANELISTS DECRY THREATS TO MARINERS & JONES ACT
BY STAS MARGARONIS Mariners stranded by the Iran War in the Strait of Hormuz are facing food and water shortages, shore leave for mariners working on commercial vessels is disappearing and the Trump administration extended a Jones Act waiver outsourcing American maritime jobs, these were some of the highlights of the Propeller Club Maritime Day 2026 presentations. The Propeller...
CHINA LAUNCHES LARGEST ALL ELECTRIC CONTAINER SHIP & OTHER MARITIME NEWS MAY 7, 2026
China just launched the world's largest pure electric container ship. 128 meters long. 742 container capacity. 19,600 kWh of battery. Zero emissions in operation. Cutting 1,462 tonnes of CO2 annually...the batteries are containerized. Ten standard shipping containers full of batteries. Which means you don't charge the ship. You swap the containers. Recharging speed equals the time it takes a...
CHINA BUILDS 63% OF WORLD’S SHIPS & U.S LESS THAN 1%: SOUTH KOREA CAN HELP
HYUNDAI SAMHO SHIPYARD, SOUTH KOREA By Seungheon Lee* The U.S. shipbuilding crisis is not an economic footnote — it is a national security emergency. And the fastest path to fixing it is through Seoul. If the United States and China went to war tomorrow over Taiwan, the outcome might hinge less on aircraft carriers or missiles than on a question almost no one is asking: which side can build...
RBTUS International Shipping Reports for May 1, 2026
U.S. Shipbuilding: The United States Did Not Just Outsource Shipbuilding. It Outsourced Demand. https://gcaptain.com/the-united-states-did-not-just-outsource-shipbuilding-it-outsourced-demand/ Maritime Decarbonization IMO Carbon Plan for Shipping Faces Growing Revolt as U.S. Courts ‘Silent Majority’ https://gcaptain.com/imo-carbon-plan-faces-growing-revolt-as-u-s-courts-silent-majority/ Global...
AS CHINA BUILDS UP DRONE CAPABILITY, TAIWAN & U.S. STRUGGLE TO CATCH UP
Photo: CCTV News By Stas Margaronis and Kevin Policarpo As China builds up is drone capability, Taiwan and the United States are struggling to catch up. China’s Drone Build-Up According to a Small Wars Journal report: “Across the Taiwan Strait, the PLA Rocket Force has an arsenal of thousands of ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, and glide bombs. Chinese firms account for nearly 90% of...
AI SAFETY SHOULD BE NATIONAL SECURITY PRIORITY ONE
Photo: U.S. War Department IN THIS REPORT An Overview of Catastrophic AI Risks Anthropic Says Trump Administration Ignores Safety Dangers of Fully Autonomous Weapons Challenges in Countering the Threat BY KEVIN POLICARPO A.I. is growing more powerful and more dangerous and poses growing national security risks that are largely ignored. The Center for AI Safety is an American nonprofit...
NEW FACTORS COMPLICATE CHINA’S TAKE-OVER OF TAIWAN
BY STAS MARGARONIS, RBTUS The recent purge of top military commanders by Chinese President Xi Jinping, growing resistance within Taiwan to the KMT opposition party’s support for a Chinese take-over and Japanese support for Taiwanese sovereignty are complicating China’s attempts to acquire Taiwan. A big question mark is whether President Donald Trump’s lack of support will undermine Taiwan’s...
U.S. DATA CENTER BOOM BOOSTS ELECTRICITY PRICES & OPPOSITION
BY KEVIN POLICARPO The boom in data center construction, enabling AI, is running into growing opposition from Americans concerned about higher electricity bills. That in turn is challenging the Trump administration to relieve the data centers’ pressure on higher electricity bills. Trump’s Solution for Data Centers Is Questioned In his State of the Union address, President Donald Trump...
UCLA: SEA LEVEL RISE IS WORSENING HAZARDOUS SITES CONTAMINATION
BY KEVIN POLICARPO More than 5,500 hazardous sites across the U.S. are projected to be at risk of coastal flooding by 2100, according to a University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) research team report.[1] Oil and gas wells and industrial facilities that emit quantities of hazardous substances make up the largest proportion of contaminated sites, the report said: “Oil and gas wells and...
U.S. SALTWATER INTRUSIONS ARE ON THE RISE
BY KEVIN POLICARPO REPORTING IMPACTS ON: U.S. COAST LINE 43 STATES NEW WORK S. ATLANTIC COAST DELAWARE TEXAS LOUISIANA U.S. COAST LINE The research website ScienceDirect published a report about saltwater intrusion and sea level rise threatening U.S. coastal communities which found: “The United States (U.S.) coastal plain is subject to rising sea levels, land subsidence, more severe...