Infrastructure
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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. -
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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Data center development, the subject of much public-sector conversation and policy, is predicted to expand, driven by the growth of AI. It's also expected to come at a cost and bring a selective benefit.
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Over the past year, two SpaceX rockets failed to land at sea, while another Falcon 9 blew up in flight, destroying supplies headed for the International Space Station.
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The Aliso Canyon methane leak in California is bad, but it's only a small portion of the methane leaked from the natural gas industry's sprawling pipeline and storage infrastructure.
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When it comes to social media, research suggests transit agencies should engage their critics.
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In recent years, officials have spent millions of dollars in creative engineering to strengthen the highway against landslides and heavy rain coming down the coastal mountains, and high surf crashing in from the ocean. Will it be enough?
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In a world of interconnected systems, a pull here and a tug there to solve one problem starts a ripple effect, sometimes with unintended consequences. What tools can help urban managers make sense of all this complexity?
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The ships will be powered with biofuels made out of beef fat, municipal waste, palm oil, algae or camelina, a plant in the mustard family.
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NASA and a group of corporate and academic partners are exploring a wide range of technologies that could make aircraft of the future far more fuel-efficient, including all-electric jet engines.
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The American Society of Civil Engineers has released a report detailing infrastructure shortcomings in the nation's capital, noting particular problems with levees, public transit and roads.
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The likelihood that the drought won’t end this year — and that climate change might usher in a drier future — has put a lot of attention on water storage.
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The corporate exodus to office parks that began in the 1960s is reversing.
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SpaceX’s contest for university students and independent engineering teams includes building functional, scale-model Hyperloop pods and launching them down a 1-mile track.
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Solar power remains a tiny fraction of the energy market in Maine, but business is booming in the state.
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The state's Transportation Department estimates that it has invested $100 million in new technology over the last five years.
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Although Internet-connected devices in the home may provide benefits like saving energy, the constant stream of data could be used against you.
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The satellite will map the hills and valleys of the ocean surface from orbit, 800 miles above the earth.
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Emil Jacobs' "cTrain" idea involves trains that travel both above and below a single track and increase car supply based on demand.
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Three agencies in the two states have turned to private company INRIX to learn more about how traffic flows on public roads.
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While at the 2016 Detroit Auto Show, Ford CEO Mark Fields described his plan of slowly unveiling self-driving features such as lane correction software and self-parking features before releasing a fully autonomous vehicle.
