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How Smartgrid Can Improve Safety For The Elderly

November 11, 2011 by Tom Raftery
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    Utility companies face significant challenges in the coming years, not least of which is the the need to increase revenues while helping customers reduce their consumption. One trump card they will have is the data from their smart meter rollouts. This will enable them to offer energy services around the data which would... [read more]

Database Shows Modes of Transportation By City

March 24, 2011 by Robert Rapier
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Within the U.S., there are cities in which a large fraction of the population walks to work, cities in which almost everyone drives alone to work, and cities in which more than half of the working population takes public transportation to work. A reader recently called my attention to a database he has developed that compares the various modes of transportation for more than 2,100 U.S. cities. The database is called Modes of Transportation to Work. [read more]

Let’s talk (carefully) about climate and population

November 18, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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Have you heard that we’re getting new neighbors? Demographers expect that the number of people living on earth—now about 6.8 billion—will grow to between 8 and 11 billion by 2050. Whether population tops out at the high or the low end of those projections will have a huge impact on climate change. So population control is again claiming... [read more]