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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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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A small group of instigators with vision, experience, and the means to make things happen sees the University District as a place to implement and evaluate the best smart city strategies of today.
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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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A new kind of off-world solar energy plant could soon provide the whole planet with plenty of power—we just have to finish figuring out how to build and operate it.
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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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A pair of projects to build compressed natural gas fueling stations to support the conversion of truck fleets to cleaner-burning natural gas won the backing of the Western New York Power Proceeds Allocation Board for nearly $1.6 million in funding.
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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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Lyft, the taxi-like service that provides rides through a smartphone app and uses part-time "community" drivers in their personal vehicles, defied state regulators when it expanded into Hampton Roads last week, according to correspondence released by the Department of Motor Vehicles.
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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.
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The DWP hopes to smooth relations in rural eastern Sierra Nevada communities that are up in arms over the $680-million project, which would generate fewer than 10 permanent jobs and no property-tax revenue.
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By providing the public with an objective accounting of conditions in areas as small as a few thousand residents, Cal/EPA has created a powerful tool to spur regulators to act in highly polluted neighborhoods, state officials and environmental activists say.
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In India, a company called Protoprint aims to mobilize disadvantaged workers to gather and recycle waste plastic to produce filament yarn for 3D printers.
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Today, in many U.S. cities, an innovative, shared infrastructure is being erected, fueling a renaissance in how people live, work, and play.
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Supporters of Seattle's ride-service companies submitted more than 36,000 signatures to place a referendum on the November ballot to block new regulations that would have limited the number of cars they operate in the city.
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Electric vehicles could travel farther and more renewable energy could be stored with lithium-sulfur batteries that use a unique powdery nanomaterial.
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Yolo County has become the first county government in the state to not only zero-out its electric bill with renewable energy, but also to become grid positive.
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