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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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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George Takei, who portrayed Sulu on "Star Trek" and has more than 8 million followers on social media, plugged a North Idaho couple's idea for transforming roads, sidewalks and parking lots into solar surfaces. The next day, Scott and Julie Brusaw saw their crowdfunding campaign pass the $1 million goal.
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The state Department of Motor Vehicles says it has adopted regulations governing how car manufacturers can test autonomous vehicles on California roads, effective Sept. 16 this year.
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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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In the past few years, net-zero buildings have been gaining momentum. Once considered a crazy idea, they’re now coming of age as a realistic goal for a building. More than 400 such buildings are documented globally, with about one-fourth in the U.S. and Canada.
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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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Check out this fascinating interview with Rachel Yoka, editor of the new book Sustainable Parking Design and Management.
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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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The wearable web amounts to a reimagining of how we experience the Internet: how we access information, how we capture information, how we share information and how we communicate with others. And that may be just the beginning.
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Utilities are generating massive amounts of data, bringing to the forefront challenges of how to store it, analyze it and integrate it to provide actionable business insights.
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The California High-Speed Rail Authority approved its Fresno-Bakersfield section Wednesday -- the second piece of what is planned as the backbone of a statewide passenger train network.
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The way we live and interact with everyday things like buying milk or using a crosswalk, to complex equipment like satellites or the international space station, are being radically personalized by the convergence of Big Data, advanced analytics and the Internet of Things.
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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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The fast-growing cohort of people who drive zero- and low-emission cars and trucks can take satisfaction in their lower environmental footprint. But there’s a downside, at least for states and the federal government.
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