Our Cities Could Get a Whole Lot Smarter

Posted by dnetesn on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @02:54PM
from the nautil.us dept.

http://nautil.us/blog/our-cities-could-get-a-whole-lot-smarter

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Re:Our Cities Could Get a Whole Lot Smarter by rverghes on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @04:49PM (#8529837)

I saw this title and immediately thought of the Alpha Centauri wonder, The Self-Aware Colony:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwqN3Ur-wP0

Probably not the connotations the author wanted.

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Re:Our Cities Could Get a Whole Lot Smarter by fennecfoxen on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @05:58PM (#8530247)

But how can anyone be against 50% savings on maintenance for all your base facilities?!?! :)

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Re:Our Cities Could Get a Whole Lot Smarter by maerF0x0 on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @06:00PM (#8530260)

also this: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-roadways

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Re:Our Cities Could Get a Whole Lot Smarter by aetherson on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @06:10PM (#8530307)

I thought this was a fairly convincing takedown of the solar roadways project:

http://www.extremetech.com/extreme/183130-solar-roadways-pas...

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Re:Our Cities Could Get a Whole Lot Smarter by maerF0x0 on Wednesday October 29, 2014 @07:23PM (#8530552)

Take down seems to forget that we have to replace road surface sometime and _if_ the claim that the solar roadway is net cost cheaper, then it seems to be the best choice. We dont have to dump $51T all at once, or even over 51 yrs timespan. Plus, doing it incrementally has the advantage of evolving in response to field reports/experience.

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