Not exact matches
Their civic and business
infrastructure requires massive amounts of
electricity and, given the
way so many are currently planned, their private and public forms of transportation emit enormous CO2 emissions.
Now the film has inspired engineers to develop a
way to cope with cyber attacks on crucial
infrastructure, such as
electricity grids, water utilities and banking networks.
The ONLY
way they will ever have
electricity is with distributed renewable energy, principally photovoltaics — which are vastly less expensive than building a whole new grid - based
electricity generation and distribution
infrastructure.
This shift, combined with the other transformations in the energy ecosystem require new
ways of thinking about the
electricity system and power generation that can be supported by the existing grid
infrastructure.
Tyler Hamilton at Clean Break thinks that the «momentum is on the side of battery technology and the
infrastructure to support it needs to be extended and upgraded, instead of created from scratch» and «millions of «smart» electric cars plugged into the grid can offer an extremely valuable
way of managing
electricity supply and demand and smoothing out peaks.»