FutureStructure Infrastructure
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Each winning city will receive an individualized Readiness Workshop and host of tech tools to help further its efforts toward becoming a smart city.
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Some 1,500 intersections in Los Angeles to get upgraded with new traffic signal equipment.
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The Boring Company will construct a four-mile tunnel to connect a rail station with Ontario International Airport in the Los Angeles region. The tunnel will accommodate zero-emission and possibly autonomous vehicles.
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The debate over energy policy has been raging for decades, but has intensified as Maine has become one of the most oil-dependent states -- and the site of an insurgency of renewable energy initiatives.
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Drone-captured images map data crucial for gauging river health and habitat conditions essential to the survival of local wildlife.
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The proprietary technology can sort compostables, recyclables and usable garbage out of a single-stream trash bin system, diverting more than 95 percent of waste from the landfill.
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Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s $1.2 million Resilient Grid Initiative will install high-voltage switches and increase the carrying capacity of the system.
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IBM is trying to solve a big problem with solar power: You can't pump out much electricity on a cloudy day.
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Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Va., is expected to cut energy consumption by 40 percent upon the 2017 completion of a 15-year retrofitting project.
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Once a middle-class status symbol, Toronto's 3,200 residential towers are aging into overcrowded homes for the poor. Several efforts are underway to refurbish the towers and stitch them into the modern city.
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The City Council unanimously approved a $100,000 contract with a consulting firm that will explore the feasibility of treating brackish water pumped from the San Joaquin River.
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Leaders discussed strategies for putting new technologies into place to deal with such problems as air pollution, drought and climate change while also calling for 50 percent of California’s power to come from renewable sources by 2030.
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The more water people save, the more money utilities lose. But new pricing models could change that.
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The team will work on improving several aspects of the process solar power plants use to turn heat from the sun into a fluid with thermal energy that can be converted to electricity.
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Adding batteries to rooftop solar energy systems has “huge” potential to reshape the industry.
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The project will reduce flooding, improve water destined for the Los Angeles River and recharge the San Fernando Groundwater Basin with up to 13 million gallons of water per year.
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We must make cities “smart” by using computer systems and the Internet to better balance demand for things like energy, transport and waste management with secure and reliable supply.
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Investments in buildings often lag, leaving significant potential untapped.
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The state is on its way to weaning off an 80 percent reliance on nonrenewable energy sources.
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A report ordered by the Maine Legislature may have raised more questions than it answered about how the state should proceed with solar.
