An Eco-Vision of the Future City
PDF CNN has a very interesting article about a ‘green city’. As CNN puts it ‘Earth’s perfect green city already exists — in pieces. We’ve gathered the world’s most innovative buildings, utilities and initiatives into our eco-topia. It’s an eco-fantasy now, but not for eco-long!’
In the list of sustainable technology initiatives is the Smart Grid which CNN describes as ‘[the] power chassis will be a smart grid that communicates with the equipment it powers, activating and deactivating appliances depending on demand or cost at a given time of day. Customers in Boulder, Colorado, are test subjects on just such a grid, where sensors alert utility managers to problems, and renewable sources can be plug-and-play integrated.’
The article is well worth a read.
