Infrastructure
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Two sites in Macomb County and a half-dozen in surrounding areas will get electric vehicle charging stations. The state can now begin spending remaining federal EV infrastructure funds.
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Spring days can produce an excess of surplus renewable energy in California — more power than electric lines can carry. Researchers have some ideas about where and how to harness that energy.
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Founded by former North Carolina Lt. Gov. Dan Forest, the North Carolina Blockchain + AI Initiative (NCB+AI) will work to pass pro-cryptocurrency legislation and support construction of data centers.
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The White House unveiled a new standard that gives states two years to update their energy and pollution policies.
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Solar efficiency has gone up and production prices have gone down combined with the fact that credits for solar will soon be drastically reduced means the payback time for most residential solar investment is four or five years.
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Somerville, Mass., is partnering with green companies to meet its environmental goals — and hopefully help other cities meet theirs.
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Gov. Jay Inslee last week announced a plan that would call for enforcing existing law under the state's Clean Air Act.
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The company has proposed a two-tiered drone highway network that could revolutionize package delivery into cities.
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In January, the Portland Water Bureau in Oregon flipped the on switch for the first project in the U.S. to produce energy from in-pipe hydropower in a municipal water pipeline.
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Light rail advocates claim such transportation systems introduce a whole new type of development, one that appeals to both working millennials and retired snowbirds.
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Someday, solar energy could generate two-thirds of our electricity, shoving conventional fuel sources such as coal and natural gas to a backup role, powering generators that run only when supplies are tight.
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The policy change would expedite the building-and-safety review inspection.
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The police department's new District 3 headquarters building is equipped with 40 geothermal wells, solar panels that can generate 330 kilowatts of energy, and 29 energy zones that allow for unused systems to be turned off.
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The Florida Department of Transportation has funded research on autonomous waterborne vehicles that could make bridge inspections faster, safer and more efficient.
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Lancaster, Calif.'s effort to build a seamless, integrated energy infrastructure points the way to long-term robustness and sustainability.
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The reason we have such congestion is not because we have low-tech vehicles that require excessive braking space -- it’s because we have failed at urban planning.
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This new solar farm can power the equivalent of about 500 homes.
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Though the industry won’t be impacted “significantly” for at least a decade, the landscape will begin to shift dramatically after that.
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There's a lot of room for improvement in the world's transportation infrastructure, and using big data is one way to close the gap.
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What if each of the 146 million U.S. electric customers could generate their own electricity?
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Cost, cybersecurity and privacy protection are just some of the unsolved challenges that stand between the technologies' potential and reality.
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