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Miami's Smart Grid: Blueprint for the Future
Thursday, April 23, 2009 - Anuradha Menon
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For all the gee-whiz coolness of modern-day electronic devices — flat-screen high-def TVs, 2-lb. laptop computers, the iPhone — the national power grid we plug them into is almost as old and unchanged as Edison's light bulb. We rely on the grid to juice everything from vacuum cleaners to dialysis machines, but it is a dinosaur, a leaky, money-wasting, carbon-dioxide-spewing system that remains shockingly vulnerable to accidents and terrorist attacks.That's the good news.    (source: time.com)


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