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The Switch: How Solar, Storage and New Tech Means Cheap Power for All

by Chris Goodall · 6 Jul 2016 · 271pp · 79,367 words

went up to Cheshire, in the north of England, to see one of the world’s first commercial small scale biomass gasifiers. Sitting inside a standard shipping container, the Entrade E3 plant from Germany takes in small pellets of woody biomass and heats them in the absence of air to several hundred

Frugal Innovation: How to Do Better With Less

by Jaideep Prabhu Navi Radjou · 15 Feb 2015 · 400pp · 88,647 words

the public to tinker and make “almost anything”. A Fablab has been described as a “factory in a box”. Indeed, Fablabs’ contents fit into a standard shipping container, allowing them to be easily transported and installed in any city around the world. There are currently more than 125 Fablabs in 34 countries

Why the Dutch Are Different: A Journey Into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands: From Amsterdam to Zwarte Piet, the Acclaimed Guide to Travel in Holland

by Ben Coates · 23 Sep 2015 · 300pp · 99,410 words

northern Europe’s major gateways for trade – buoyed, ironically, by a rebounding German economy. When British dockworkers went on strike over the introduction of new standardised shipping containers, Rotterdam invested heavily in the new technology, and prospered as a result. In keeping with the pro-American principles of the Marshall Plan, much

The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services, Volume 2

by Thomas A. Limoncelli, Strata R. Chalup and Christina J. Hogan · 27 Aug 2014 · 757pp · 193,541 words

for many customers, treating them all the same way, even though they are all unique. * * * Standardized Shipping Containers A common way for industries to dramatically improve processes is to standardize their delivery mechanism. The introduction of standardized shipping containers revolutionized the freight industry. Previously individual items were loaded and unloaded from ships, usually by

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hand. Each item was a different size and shape, so each had to be handled differently. Standardized shipping containers resulted in an entirely different way to ship products. Because each shipping container was the same shape and size, loading and unloading could be

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Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy

by Christopher Mims · 13 Sep 2021 · 385pp · 112,842 words

we know it today, with all its interdependencies of ships, cranes, docks, trucks, railroad cars, and countless other bits of equipment, all built to accommodate standardized shipping containers, was proving nearly impossible to jump-start. Everything was a chicken-and-egg problem—huge investments in onshore cranes couldn’t be justified without

The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy

by Sasha Issenberg · 1 Jan 2007 · 534pp · 15,752 words

attendant five-seat middle block, home to the most undesirable middle seat possible— was really the consequence of building a hold wide enough for two standard shipping containers to sit side by side. The struggle to build the 747 nearly bankrupted not only Boeing (“within a gnat’s whisker,” its president said

Seasteading: How Floating Nations Will Restore the Environment, Enrich the Poor, Cure the Sick, and Liberate Humanity From Politicians

by Joe Quirk and Patri Friedman · 21 Mar 2017 · 441pp · 113,244 words

containers, and because of their flexibility and small size, they are suitable for installing and upgrading sanitation, housing, and communication.” Koen has already transformed a standard shipping container into a sleek school classroom fitted with twenty computer screens and two large TV screens featuring a teacher. Painted on the side of the

Moby-Duck: The True Story of 28,800 Bath Toys Lost at Sea and of the Beachcombers, Oceanographers, Environmentalists, and Fools, Including the Author, Who Went in Search of Them

by Donovan Hohn · 1 Jan 2010 · 473pp · 154,182 words

unnaturally smooth cliff, a palisade of steel. The carrying capacity of a container ship is measured in TEUs, or twenty-foot-equivalent units, because a standard shipping container is twenty feet long. One twenty-footer equals one TEU, a forty-footer, two. The China had a carrying capacity of 4,832 TEUs

The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier

by Ian Urbina · 19 Aug 2019

, and the economics of that response was at times perverse. For example, freight companies and their insurers began imposing piracy fees—upwards of $23 per standard shipping container—to cover additional security costs, which on bigger ships could mean a quarter of a million dollars per trip. Even factoring in the cost

Empty Vessel: The Story of the Global Economy in One Barge

by Ian Kumekawa · 6 May 2025 · 422pp · 112,638 words

first “accommodation platform” ever to be purpose-built. The idea behind the Safe Astoria was simple: to create a floating structure loaded with stacks of standardized shipping containers modified into living space. The Astoria was billed as a “floatel,” a construction that could house hundreds of the oilmen who built, maintained, and