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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A new viral video details the purported benefits of roads that generate solar power.
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The strategy has raised phenomenal amounts of public revenue to pay for infrastructure projects.
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Electrochemical approach has potential to efficiently turn low-grade heat to electricity.
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A new fuel-cell concept, developed by an Michigan State University researcher, will allow biodiesel plants to eliminate the creation of hazardous wastes while removing their dependence on fossil fuel from their production process.
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Tesla Motors CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the world will need to build several lithium-ion battery factories to meet a "quasi-infinite demand for energy storage."
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There is growing anecdotal evidence that net-zero energy homes are on the rise. Escalating costs for fossil fuel heat, the recent relentless winter and the falling costs of renewable energy technology are spurring interest.
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In 2012, more electricity was added to the grid from new wind power projects than any other source.
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Desalination may not seem like a promising possibility for West Texas. But neither did the generation of significant amounts of energy from wind turbines at one time, and wind energy has become a reality.
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Five Montana Tech environmental engineering students have built a bicycle-powered water treatment system that can treat more than 800 gallons of water a day for pathogens.
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Colorful, see-through solar cells invented at the University of Michigan could one day be used to make stained-glass windows, decorations and even shades that turn the sun's energy into electricity.
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They might look like pieces of modern art from afar, but four wind turbines recently installed at Montgomery County Community College's west campus in Pottstown are spindly symbols of a push toward greener facilities.
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Baltimore Gas and Electric Co. can't install smart meters for some customers because they don't want the technology, but the utility also faces a logistical challenge in tens of thousands of other cases: There's no way to get to the old meter to switch it out.
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A German architect claims his spherical solar collector improves photovoltaic efficiency by 35 percent - and even works using moonlight.
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The U.S. Energy Department Monday announced $10 million in funding to test wave energy prototypes in the waters off of Marine Corps Base Hawaii.
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On April 25, 1954, researchers from Bell Laboratories astonished reporters by hooking a hand-size silicon panel to a toy Ferris wheel, aiming a light at the contraption and making the wheel turn.
