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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Texas Central Railway has proposed building the first leg of the train system, from Houston to Dallas, by 2021, using an estimated $10 billion in private funding.
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The world's largest solar thermal electric plant has begun operating its three generating units, which will soon deliver enough clean energy to power more than 140,000 homes in California.
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The relentless penetration of IT has a long history of changing building systems and up next are LED systems.
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The Department of Transportation will push the development of a short-range radio system aimed at stopping crashes by allowing cars to exchange basic facts about speed and direction.
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Next year, some Oregon drivers will start paying a cent and a half for every mile they drive. Washington has quietly been inching down the same road.
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From Isle of Man to Saudi Arabia, renewable desalination is gaining interest around the world as solution to water scarcity and food crisis
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Google and the Danish toy company have teamed up to create Build With Chrome, a website users can visit using the Chrome Web browser to build Lego models.
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The American Chemistry Council has released a new video that provides a quick overview and some compelling statistics about the benefits of recovering energy from waste.
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President of the Rockefeller Foundation Judith Rodin explains how cities can unleash the full range of financing for resilience projects and infrastructure.
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The California drought will soon expose the geographic, political, personal and institutional divisions that complicate meaningful congressional action.
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Amtrak is in the market for more than two dozen high-speed train sets capable of transporting passengers between Washington and Boston faster than its Acela Express service.
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In the world’s most productive region of agriculture, food waste is being transformed into natural gas.
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The beginnings of what could be a rail fuel revolution are unfolding at a plant on the outskirts of Houston, where a company is building tender cars to fuel locomotives with natural gas.
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Hawaii considers $700 million proposal to connect the electrical grids of Maui and Oahu
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Building the 21st Century City May Require Thinking as the Romans Did
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Mayors Unveil Survey of Energy Efficiency and Technologies in America’s Cities During U.S. Conference of Mayors Meeting in Washington, D.C.
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Listen: FutureStructure Podcast - Generational change in energy independence and autonomous vehiclesBeyond the big picture of energy independence and autonomous vehicles, one 5 year old reminds us that the possible and the practical is in the eye of the beholder.
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Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin’s Cockrell School of Engineering have developed a new source of renewable energy, a biofuel, from genetically engineered yeast cells and ordinary table sugar.
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