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Book Synopsis Powering the Future by : Robert B. Laughlin
Download or read book Powering the Future written by Robert B. Laughlin and published by Basic Books (AZ). This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nobel laureate imagines the techonolgies that will allow us to harness alternative fuel sources and power society, despite the lack of carbon-based fuels, in an intriguing look at two centuries into the future.
Book Synopsis Powering Cities of the Future by : Wun Han Chow
Download or read book Powering Cities of the Future written by Wun Han Chow and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Empowered: A Tale of Three Cities Taking Charge of their Energy Future by : Bentham Paulos
Download or read book Empowered: A Tale of Three Cities Taking Charge of their Energy Future written by Bentham Paulos and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2015 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Energy in America is undergoing a period of rapid change, driven by new technologies, consumer empowerment, and the imperative to reduce emissions that cause global warming. But many utilities are dragging their feet, or actively impeding progress. People who want to save energy or install solar panels are finding their efforts at odds with utilities seeking to preserve their profits. Seeing an existential threat to their business model, utilities across the country are pursuing policy changes that will make it less viable for customers to generate their own electricity. Impatient with the slow pace of change, an increasing number of cities are taking matters into their own hands as their citizens seek energy that is local, affordable, and clean. Empowered describes how city officials and activists in Boulder, Minneapolis, and Madison are fighting back against entrenched utilities, and taking charge of their energy future.
Book Synopsis Transportation and Power Grid in Smart Cities by : Hussein T. Mouftah
Download or read book Transportation and Power Grid in Smart Cities written by Hussein T. Mouftah and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the increasing worldwide trend in population migration into urban centers, we are beginning to see the emergence of the kinds of mega-cities which were once the stuff of science fiction. It is clear to most urban planners and developers that accommodating the needs of the tens of millions of inhabitants of those megalopolises in an orderly and uninterrupted manner will require the seamless integration of and real-time monitoring and response services for public utilities and transportation systems. Part speculative look into the future of the world’s urban centers, part technical blueprint, this visionary book helps lay the groundwork for the communication networks and services on which tomorrow’s “smart cities” will run. Written by a uniquely well-qualified author team, this book provides detailed insights into the technical requirements for the wireless sensor and actuator networks required to make smart cities a reality.
Download or read book Future Cities written by John R. Beaumont and published by Research Studies Press Limited. This book was released on 1982 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Power after Carbon by : Peter Fox-Penner
Download or read book Power after Carbon written by Peter Fox-Penner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-19 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the electric power industry faces the challenges of climate change, technological disruption, new market imperatives, and changing policies, a renowned energy expert offers a roadmap to the future of this essential sector. As the damaging and costly impacts of climate change increase, the rapid development of sustainable energy has taken on great urgency. The electricity industry has responded with necessary but wrenching shifts toward renewables, even as it faces unprecedented challenges and disruption brought on by new technologies, new competitors, and policy changes. The result is a collision course between a grid that must provide abundant, secure, flexible, and affordable power, and an industry facing enormous demands for power and rapid, systemic change. The fashionable solution is to think small: smart buildings, small-scale renewables, and locally distributed green energy. But Peter Fox-Penner makes clear that these will not be enough to meet our increasing needs for electricity. He points instead to the indispensability of large power systems, battery storage, and scalable carbon-free power technologies, along with the grids and markets that will integrate them. The electric power industry and its regulators will have to provide all of these, even as they grapple with changing business models for local electric utilities, political instability, and technological change. Power after Carbon makes sense of all the moving parts, providing actionable recommendations for anyone involved with or relying on the electric power system.
Book Synopsis Supercities On, Under, and Beyond the Earth by : Jeff Dondero
Download or read book Supercities On, Under, and Beyond the Earth written by Jeff Dondero and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-02-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As more and more people inhabit the Earth and live longer on it, Super Cities, will explode with populations of 20, 30, even 100 millions or more. But how will these cities accommodate such masses? Who will build them and where? How can they be sustained and their inhabitants provided for? Here, Jeff Dondero imagines the super cities of the future and explores the ways in which they can be sustainably built, how transportation will move masses of people without cars, how people will be fed and where waste will go, and how we will move to cities underground, under the sea, in the atmosphere, into space and on to other planets. It describes some of the smart systems for buildings and homes and some of the new ways food and materials enough for such masses will be supplied. Will super cities be the answer to our bursting population? And if they will, how can we best sustain and supply them? Dondero offers suggestions and a blueprint for the future.
Book Synopsis Future Cities and the Energy Cloud by : Joaquin A. Peirano
Download or read book Future Cities and the Energy Cloud written by Joaquin A. Peirano and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Future Power Sources for Cities by : Andrew Currie Migliano
Download or read book Future Power Sources for Cities written by Andrew Currie Migliano and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Future of Buildings, Transportation and Power by : Roger Duncan
Download or read book The Future of Buildings, Transportation and Power written by Roger Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Designing the Urban Future by : Scientific American Editors
Download or read book Designing the Urban Future written by Scientific American Editors and published by Scientific American. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We expect a lot from our technology. More and more products are created not only to perform multiple complex functions, but also to react to stimuli, patterns and information in a way that solves problems. Cars are being designed with systems that can detect a collision and automatically apply the brakes. Nest's thermostat learns your schedule and programs itself. Our phones are smart. Our TVs are smart. Since upping the ante is kind of "our thing" as a species, smart cities were the next logical step in trying to create a better, brighter, more sustainable and economically sound future. In this eBook, Designing the Urban Future: Smart Cities, we take a good look this relatively new concept, starting with Section 1, "Cities of the Future," which tackles what makes a city smart. In broad terms, smart cities encourage sustainable economic development and promote a high quality of life, and several stories elaborate on the trend toward urbanization and the qualities needed for a city to survive and thrive. Two articles by David Biello examine issues of sustainability in both new and existing cities. In "Street Talk," Michael Easter and Gary Stix ask urban leaders to name the top innovation would make any city more livable. Section 2, "Drivers: Innovation and Creativity," delves into how cities can and do make the most use of their best resource: human capital. Carlo Ratti and Anthony Townsend argue that people and their creativity will drive development in "The Social Nexus." Section 3 looks at readying cities for climate change, including a piece entitled "Chicago Goes Green" which examines Chicago's forward-thinking plan to eliminate a significant amount of its greenhouse gas emissions in the coming years. In the same vein, the Section 4 covers "efficient" buildings, and opens with two pieces that discuss the pros and cons of LEED certification, respectively. In "Castles in the Air," Mark Lamster analyzes the green rebirth of the skyscraper and why building of these behemoths has increased in the post-9/11 world. Subsequent sections break down other characteristics of smart cities: making power more renewable, transportation more sustainable, and water cleaner. The last section tackles urban public health, and one piece details the use of a program called EpiSims to answer the question: What if smallpox struck Portland, Oregon? In short, while the definition of "smart city" might still be murky, the purpose is clear. If we want to address ongoing issues of climate change and water shortages; if we want to create more livable cities for all classes of people; if we want to encourage sustainable economic and social development; then making cities smarter IS the smartest thing we can do.
Author :National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Publisher :National Academies Press ISBN 13 :0309371422 Total Pages :341 pages Book Rating :4.3/5 (93 download)
Book Synopsis The Power of Change by : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Download or read book The Power of Change written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Electricity, supplied reliably and affordably, is foundational to the U.S. economy and is utterly indispensable to modern society. However, emissions resulting from many forms of electricity generation create environmental risks that could have significant negative economic, security, and human health consequences. Large-scale installation of cleaner power generation has been generally hampered because greener technologies are more expensive than the technologies that currently produce most of our power. Rather than trade affordability and reliability for low emissions, is there a way to balance all three? The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies considers how to speed up innovations that would dramatically improve the performance and lower the cost of currently available technologies while also developing new advanced cleaner energy technologies. According to this report, there is an opportunity for the United States to continue to lead in the pursuit of increasingly clean, more efficient electricity through innovation in advanced technologies. The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies makes the case that America's advantagesâ€"world-class universities and national laboratories, a vibrant private sector, and innovative states, cities, and regions that are free to experiment with a variety of public policy approachesâ€"position the United States to create and lead a new clean energy revolution. This study focuses on five paths to accelerate the market adoption of increasing clean energy and efficiency technologies: (1) expanding the portfolio of cleaner energy technology options; (2) leveraging the advantages of energy efficiency; (3) facilitating the development of increasing clean technologies, including renewables, nuclear, and cleaner fossil; (4) improving the existing technologies, systems, and infrastructure; and (5) leveling the playing field for cleaner energy technologies. The Power of Change: Innovation for Development and Deployment of Increasingly Clean Energy Technologies is a call for leadership to transform the United States energy sector in order to both mitigate the risks of greenhouse gas and other pollutants and to spur future economic growth. This study's focus on science, technology, and economic policy makes it a valuable resource to guide support that produces innovation to meet energy challenges now and for the future.
Book Synopsis Powering Cities in the Global South by : Michael I. Westphal
Download or read book Powering Cities in the Global South written by Michael I. Westphal and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Millions of residents in some of the fastest growing cities in the world don’t have access to clean, reliable energy, and the challenge of reaching them is not getting easier. In 2012, only 58 percent of the urban population had access to electricity in low-income countries, and nearly 500 million urban residents worldwide used dirty and harmful cooking fuels like charcoal and wood. By 2050, it is projected that the world’s urban population will grow by 2.4 billion from 2015, with the growth concentrated mostly in Africa and Asia, creating unprecedented urban energy access challenges, especially for under-served populations. What’s more, the old carbon-intensive model of development undertaken in the global north is no longer tenable, given a greater concern for the health impacts of air pollution and the need to mitigate energy insecurity and climate risks. The latest installment of WRI’s flagship World Resources Report, Towards a More Equal City, provides solutions that can improve the health of residents, the environment and the overall economies of cities"--Publisher's description.
Book Synopsis The Renewable City by : Peter Droege
Download or read book The Renewable City written by Peter Droege and published by Academy Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the intolerable costs of climate change and inevitably declining oil, natural gas and uranium reserves, the vast majority of cities and urban communities are planned and managed as if such existential crises did not exist. Hence the transition from fossil fuel dominated cities to an urban future marked by a radically new, renewable energy infrastructure requires entirely new tools and frames of decision-making. This is an original guide to an entirely unprecedented urban transformation, to cities and towns powered by renewable energy. Squarely focused on action, it supports design, planning and management decisions and serves as a practical guide to practitioners, academics and political leaders in communities and cities worldwide, as a useful and well-structured reference text. It is built on the most successful of past and present urban sustainability trends and emerging infrastructure directions, presenting renewable energy applications as offering new and inevitable approaches to urban infrastructure planning and the design of cities.
Download or read book Urban Green written by Neil B. Chambers and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2011-07-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sustainable design is booming, but the men and women dedicated to reducing their carbon impact have lost sight of what they are trying to save: the natural world. Author Neil Chambers has been at the forefront of cutting-edge, sustainable architecture for years, and Urban Green is his revolutionary vision for bringing the power of the conservation and design movements together. He advocates looking to nature for the missing components of the green revolution: oysters that can clean water at up to 5 liters an hour; beavers that reshape their environments while simultaneously enriching ecosystems; and mountains that offer a new way of imagining how a city could be built. By designing our homes and cities in harmony with the natural world, we can take the next step in the sustainable revolution.
Book Synopsis The Challenges of Cities Today for Future City Life Through Sustainable Development by : Swaroopa Gupta
Download or read book The Challenges of Cities Today for Future City Life Through Sustainable Development written by Swaroopa Gupta and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Future city life: Cities are the core of global development. The need to improve quality of life, economic competitiveness and environmental viability will drive a new way of living. In the future, high-rise buildings will be like small towns, with homes, shops, workshops - even gardens and farms - all under one roof. The spaces around us will be flexible, changing to match our needs. Instead of owning things, we will pay to use a space or an item, then give it back, hand it off, or recycle after use. In the future, buildings will be self-sufficient, producing a surplus of energy, recycling their own waste, minimizing water usage, collecting rainwater, and reusing and recycling gray water. Buildings will also be fully automated and intelligent, with thousands of sensors making sure that lights are switched on or off, and that rooms are optimally heated only when they are occupied. Sensors throughout the city will provide essential information to keep it running efficiently and to keep people safe. The city will become a living organism, seeing, hearing and thinking. It will be intelligent and responsive. Real-time information will flow into the city control center, where it will be integrated and visualized. Journeys across the city will take people and packages from one mode of transport to another - via mega hubs. When we set out to meet friends, a navigation assistant will plan our route. Challenges of the cities today: The megatrend of urbanization will dramatically shape not only cities, but the entire world. Urbanization has created a pressing need for infrastructure investment, regardless of budget limitations and austerity programs. Cities must have functioning traffic systems, intelligent logistics, efficient energy supplies, and environmentally compatible buildings. Urbanization has radically changed the dynamics of urban-based manufacturing. Over the last 50 years, employment in cities has stabilized around a diverse and vital mix of businesses, from traditional forms of fabrication to technology-oriented activities. The most competitive cities will be the ones that anticipate the challenges of growth and balance these three fundamental goals: economic competitiveness, quality of life, and environmental protection. Sustainable mobility: Sustainable mobility is key for cost-effective and environmentally friendly urban development. People and goods must be transported within and between cities, so traffic patterns must be adapted accordingly. By relying on renewable energy, electro mobility will significantly reduce environmental impact. New technologies will reduce harmful local emissions and reduce the CO2 footprints of individual vehicles. Efficient Buildings: Today we face rising power consumption, higher energy prices, and resource shortages. Yet demand for networked smart buildings is growing. Energy consumption in efficient buildings can be reduced by up to 50% by using intelligent and energy efficient technologies. Safety and security: While considering the location of an urban development project, long-term security is among the most important site characteristics. Local civic authorities must be able to meet a variety of security challenges. Places like airports, harbors, railway stations, tunnels, stadiums and other public venues are particularly important to protect. High-traffic areas must be closely monitored. Advanced technologies protect cities, buildings, campuses, and critical infrastructure. Access control systems ensure that only authorized individuals can enter a facility. Evacuation systems help save lives by combining crowd flow simulations with voice alarms and emergency communications. Video surveillance systems monitor sensitive areas in real time. Power grids: Cities often face challenges such as integrating renewable and distributed generation, limited capacities, aging infrastructures and reducing costs and emissions while using a reliable power supply. Smart Grid technologies shift energy management away from a centralized, reactive and producer-controlled network to a decentralized, proactive and demand-controlled grid. It incorporates two-way communication for digital sensing and automated analytics across the energy conversion chain, from power generation to consumption. This turns our power grid into a demand-controlled tool, enabling us to generate and deliver power efficiently. Smart Grid enterprise IT platform, industry knowledge, and deep understanding of the energy conversion chain enables us to customize our solutions to the specific needs of utility companies. Water and waste water: Supplying the world's population with clean, potable water is one of the greatest challenges facing us. The requirements for urban water management are growing - today and into the future, our water supply networks must be more efficiently operated and intelligently controlled. Existing capacities must be used as effectively as possible in order to minimize operating costs. Simulations of various operating states enable the risk-free testing and optimization of plant operation. Efficient energy: Power is indispensable when developing a sustainable energy system. Electricity offers numerous ways to integrate renewable energy sources and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. There are four major challenges to managing power supplies effectively: economic efficiency, climate change, reliable power, and resource efficiency. In addition, power generated from renewable energies is increasing. The sustainable energy system of the future will depend on electrification and the ability to feed fluctuating renewables into the power grid. Healthcare Demographic change is one of the greatest challenges of our age. Not only is the world's population growing rapidly, but life expectancy is also significantly longer. Municipalities today need to invest in healthcare, not only for ethical and compassionate reasons, but also to remain competitive in ways that are environmentally and economically sound. By implementing customized solutions, healthcare providers save energy and reduce their emissions. These factors not only improve time and cost management, but also increase the quality of patient care.
Book Synopsis Inventing Future Cities by : Michael Batty
Download or read book Inventing Future Cities written by Michael Batty and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-12-11 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How we can invent—but not predict—the future of cities. We cannot predict future cities, but we can invent them. Cities are largely unpredictable because they are complex systems that are more like organisms than machines. Neither the laws of economics nor the laws of mechanics apply; cities are the product of countless individual and collective decisions that do not conform to any grand plan. They are the product of our inventions; they evolve. In Inventing Future Cities, Michael Batty explores what we need to understand about cities in order to invent their future. Batty outlines certain themes—principles—that apply to all cities. He investigates not the invention of artifacts but inventive processes. Today form is becoming ever more divorced from function; information networks now shape the traditional functions of cities as places of exchange and innovation. By the end of this century, most of the world's population will live in cities, large or small, sometimes contiguous, and always connected; in an urbanized world, it will be increasingly difficult to define a city by its physical boundaries. Batty discusses the coming great transition from a world with few cities to a world of all cities; argues that future cities will be defined as clusters in a hierarchy; describes the future “high-frequency,” real-time streaming city; considers urban sprawl and urban renewal; and maps the waves of technological change, which grow ever more intense and lead to continuous innovation—an unending process of creative destruction out of which future cities will emerge.
