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Tomorrow’s Bridges

Friday, May 6th, 2011
ABC Construction Technology Test Case 1

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
Durability is a problem for today’s bridges. Bridge components break down. Soils become unstable. Bridge decks deteriorate, often unnoticed. Replacing bridges can be costly, time-consuming, and disruptive to traffic. And the cycle repeats as bridges age. Innovative methods have been developed for designing and constructing new bridges, repairing existing bridges, stabilizing bridge foundations, and nondestructively testing bridges; but they are not routinely used. Today’s innovations, however, can become tomorrow’s standards.

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The Offshore Wind Power Opportunity

Wednesday, May 4th, 2011
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PIKE RESEARCH
This Pike Research report provides an in-depth analysis of global opportunities in the offshore wind power market, as well as an examination of key challenges facing the industry.

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Guest on The Infra Blog: Nicholas Santero, Research Scientist, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011
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Nicholas Santero is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His research uses life-cycle assessment (LCA) to improve the sustainability of engineered systems. At MIT, Dr. Santero is part of a team that is working to reduce the carbon footprint of buildings and pavements using cost-effective approaches. He has a Ph.D. and M.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. from the University of California, Davis, all in Civil and Environmental Engineering. He is a licensed professional engineer in California.

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Study Finds Access to Real-Time Mobile Information Could Raise Status of Public Transit: Part III

Wednesday, April 20th, 2011
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LATITUDE & NEXT AMERICAN CITY
Study participants felt that there were a number of inherent benefits to driving less, many of which aligned with their own personal goals—perks like good exercise, reducing one’s carbon footprint, feeling more immersed in their communities, or having more time to read or relax.

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The High Cost of Nuclear Power: Why America Should Choose a Clean Energy Future Over New Nuclear Reactors

Wednesday, April 6th, 2011
Figure ES-1: Electricity Delivered to the Consumer per Dollar of Investment (Levelized) – A Comparison of Select Low-Carbon Energy Technologies

U.S. PIRG
Nuclear power is among the most costly approaches to solving America’s energy problems. Per dollar of investment, clean energy solutions – such as energy efficiency and renewable resources – deliver far more energy than nuclear power. This fact has important implications for America’s energy policy. By directing resources toward the most cost-effective solutions, we can make greater progress toward a secure, reliable and safe supply of electricity to power America’s economy.

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NYC, April 15th: Regional Plan Association’s Regional Assembly 2011: “Innovation and the Global City”

Wednesday, March 30th, 2011
2011 Regional Assembly: Innovation & the Global City

This year’s Regional Assembly, “Innovation and the Global City,” will explore what global cities, from Singapore to London, and from Stockholm to New York, are doing to remain competitive on the world stage.

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CLEAN ENERGY TRENDS 2011

Friday, March 18th, 2011
Global Clean-Energy Projected Growth 2010-2020 ($US Billions)

CLEAN EDGE
When Clean Edge released its growth projections for solar and wind power 10 years ago, many observers, to put it kindly, thought we were being optimistic. We projected that solar power would grow from a global market of $2.5 billion in 2000 to $23.5 billion by 2010 and that wind power would grow from a global market of $4 billion in 2000 to $43.5 billion by 2010. But as we’ve highlighted above, we were actually quite conservative in our estimates, coming up around 300 percent short in our solar PV estimates and approximately 50 percent short in our wind estimates.

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The Promise & Challenge of Community Broadband Models

Thursday, March 17th, 2011

CENTER FOR SOCIAL INCLUSION
While most of us have access to broadband, more than 28 million Americans today live in areas where Internet access is not available. Communities of color bear the brunt of this digital exclusion even as broadband Internet technologies become more crucial to our nation’s social and economic development. With access to broadband affecting more and more aspects of our lives, digital exclusion creates additional barriers to opportunity and sustainable livelihoods for people already constrained by their race, gender and geography.

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Shining Bright: Growing Solar Jobs in Iowa

Tuesday, March 15th, 2011
Table 1. Solar capacity installation as projected in five-year, 300 MW model

THE IOWA POLICY PROJECT
Can solar energy help build the Iowa economy? This analysis answers that question with a resounding “Yes.” Iowa has almost all the right ingredients on hand: demonstrated ability to be a renewable energy leader with wind power, a solar energy industry that already employs people across the state, and more sunshine than New Jersey or Germany, both leading global solar markets.

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Energy 101: Solar PV

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems can generate clean, cost-effective power anywhere the sun shines. This video shows how a PV panel converts the energy of the sun into renewable electricity to power homes and businesses.
-USdepartmentofenergy on YouTube

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