Infrastructure
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The local government’s Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to appropriate the funds for a “comprehensive technology infrastructure remediation project.” It comes in response to a critical IT outage last summer. -
National Grid is expected to install the devices for 121,000 customers in the city. They will enable people to track energy usage via a portal, and will immediately alert the utility to power outages.
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A new report from the Urban Institute outlines how many of the projects developed as part of the 2021 Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, including technology work, have been slow to finish and deploy.
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The conflict between national solar companies and their Maine counterparts reflects deep divisions over how to credit homeowners and small businesses for the power they generate on rooftops and in backyards.
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The Melton Hill Dam campgrounds are peppered with solar panels, and when you take the short drive to the overlook above the dam, the first thing you see is a 70-foot-tall wind turbine.
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A series of tough environmental regulations -- coupled with unexpected competition from cheap shale gas, mild weather and global market forces -- has caused an epic collapse in the U.S. coal industry over the past two years.
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NextEnergy is calling for solutions to urban problems, just as urban governments are looking for them.
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More and more, governments are turning to bank loans rather than bonds. But too often the terms of the loans -- and who is first in line to collect -- are secret.
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Experts from the two fields are starting to collaborate — but not nearly enough.
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U.S. Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz says Texas can play a major role in shrinking the country’s carbon dioxide footprint and addressing climate change — if it chooses to.
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The regulations target both the emission of methane — the key component of natural gas — and smog-forming volatile organic compounds.
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Researchers argue that if society is going to switch to automated driving, people must first trust the technology.
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The hyperloop propulsion technology was on display yesterday, however the more significant test will come when Hyperloop One brings all components together and attempts to accelerate a pod inside a miles-long tube.
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The current water filtration system was custom made over 30 years ago, and is breaking more frequently, needing specialized parts. The new system will upgrade the city's drinking water for years to come.
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Critical transportation projects all over the state are being shortchanged and threatened with delays because of the Legislature’s failure to find a way to fund them.
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While the technology of fracking has helped lower oil and natural gas prices, the nation needs to understand its scientifically true environmental impacts before the next fracking-driven oil boom occurs.
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More governments look to private partnership as new responsibilities mount.
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First unveiled by Musk in 2013, the hyperloop would speed travelers at 760 miles per hour through a network of sealed tubes, the passengers riding in capsules that would surf on electromagnetic waves within the tubes.
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The city is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to help keep certain neighborhoods affordable. But it might be making things worse.
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Five buses will be outfitted with Mobileye Shield+ system, which uses four sensors placed on each side of the vehicle to detect incoming traffic and avoid collisions.
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It's a daunting technical challenge. But the key question is whether such engineering is socially acceptable.
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