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I frequently talk against the rush of transitioning to electric battery-powered buses. The technology is just not there yet, and we risk making public transit worse and reduce actual bus service if we don't slow down.
This article based on a TTC report makes a good case as to why.
The TTC had announced they would no longer buy hybrid bus, now they are considering buying 200 because electric isn't ready.

'Call the Ayatollah'— Senator Graham backs Trump's 50-day Russia ultimatum, alludes to response against Iran: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/call-the-ayatollah-senator-graham.html

The new party The Left by Jeremy Corbyn and Zarah Sultana, despite not even having an official name yet, is currently polling at 15%, and hence even with Labour.
This is an incredible feat and I wish best of luck to the party and its success!

A Knowledge Graph Informing Soil Carbon Modeling
Nasim Shirvani-Mahdavi, Devin Wingfield, Juan Guajardo Gutierrez, Mai Tran, Zhengyuan Zhu, Zeyu Zhang, Haiqi Zhang, Abhishek Divakar Goudar, Chengkai Li, Virginia Jin, Timothy Propst, Dan Roberts, Catherine Stewart, Jianzhong Su, Jennifer Woodward-Greene
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10965

A Knowledge Graph Informing Soil Carbon Modeling
Soil organic carbon is crucial for climate change mitigation and agricultural sustainability. However, understanding its dynamics requires integrating complex, heterogeneous data from multiple sources. This paper introduces the Soil Organic Carbon Knowledge Graph (SOCKG), a semantic infrastructure designed to transform agricultural research data into a queryable knowledge representation. SOCKG features a robust ontological model of agricultural experimental data, enabling precise mapping of dat…

Scaling green hydrogen and CCUS via cement-methanol co-production in China
Yuezhang He, Hongxi Luo, Yuancheng Lin, Carl J. Talsma, Anna Li, Zhenqian Wang, Yujuan Fang, Pei Liu, Jesse D. Jenkins, Eric Larson, Zheng Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.13674

Scaling green hydrogen and CCUS via cement-methanol co-production in China
High costs of green hydrogen and of carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) have hindered policy ambition and slowed real-world deployment, despite their importance for decarbonizing hard-to-abate sectors, including cement and methanol. Given the economic challenges of adopting CCUS in cement and green hydrogen in methanol production separately, we propose a renewable-powered co-production system that couples electrolytic hydrogen and CCUS through molecule exchange. We optimize sy…

Germany shifts stance on frozen Russian funds, now supports use for Ukraine, Bloomberg reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/09/17/germany-shifts-stance-on-frozen.html

Trump gives "green light" to Patriot: historic support for Ukraine | News Pulse: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/trump-gives-green-light-to.html

German Quantum Systems takes 10% ownership in Ukrainian defense robotics firm Frontline: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/16/german-quantum-systems-takes-ownership.html

Germany denies knowledge of Patriot missiles en route Ukraine, contradicting Trump's claim: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/germany-denies-knowledge-of-patriot.html

Germany to supply Ukraine with long-range missiles 'very soon,' Merz says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/17/germany-to-supply-ukraine-with.html