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Showing 1 to 20 of 35 for “"Infrastructure Costs"”.
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A Cost Comparison of a Low Impact Development to traditional Residential Development along the South Carolina Coast
… face skepticism due to lack of knowledge of the costs, implementation, and long term effectiveness. LIDs have shown to produce environmental benefits through reduction in sprawl, management of stormwater runoff, and cluster development. This study compares the infrastructure costs and sale price …
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Integrated Energy Modeling Tool for Electric and Gas Infrastructure Decision Support
… company fully electrifying heat with a focus on infrastructure costs versus utilizing hydrogen blending, taking into account the current cost of green hydrogen. Previous research has separately discussed implications and costs of both hydrogen blending and electrification. The former leading to …
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Modelling the global prospects and impacts of heavy duty liquefied natural gas vehicles in computable general equilibrium
… adoption of natural gas vehicles such as vehicle costs, infrastructure costs, and fuel economics was performed. The fuel cost analysis showed that assuming production and distribution at scale, liquefied natural gas (LNG) can be competitive as a diesel fuel substitute for heavy duty vehicles in …
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Integrated water resources management under uncertainty: exploring interconnected technological, infrastructural and institutional solutions
… positive feedbacks to reducing municipal costs and increasing agricultural profit from production. Household adoption of xeriscaping is considered the most important technology to lower urban demands and offset the negative externalities of rural-to-urban water transfers. Additionally, an …
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Towards an information technology infrastructure cost model
… factors may prove capable of estimating total IT infrastructure costs. An online questionnaire was developed for this purpose, and was used to survey senior IT leadership teams. The data collected from this survey was then computed with Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) to illustrate the relative …
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Thermoelectrochemical model for RFB with an application at a grid level for peak shaving to reduce cost of the total electricity
… pro-vide reliability, and reduce grid-infrastructure costs. Redox flow batteries (RFB) area grid-scale storage technology that has the potential to provide a range of services.Desirable characteristics are long cycle life, high efficiency, and high energy density.A key challenge for …
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Metadata-Aware Memory Security
Cloud computing reduces infrastructure costs by allowing applications to run on shared servers, but it introduces critical memory security challenges, as users lack control over the underlying hardware and the software co-residing on the same server. One security challenge is physical attacks on …
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An evolution of the state of affairs of grid computing : current and future projections
… businesses are under continuous pressure of high infrastructure costs and lack of flexibility and reliability [4]. There are already various solutions that have evolved over decades to meet these needs but there is no overwhelming adoption of such technologies by corporations unlike in academia. …
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Modeling the water consumption of Singapore using system dynamics
… To overcome this scarcity, governments intensify infrastructure and project demand into the future. Growth in the economy, population, and affluence of cities increase water demand, and water demand for many cities will increase into the future, requiring additional investments in water …
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Cloud computing for digital libraries
… making services accessible to all at reasonable infrastructure costs and on-demand. This research aims to develop techniques for building scalable digital information management systems based on efficient and on-demand use of generic grid-based technologies such as cloud computing. In particular, …
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Challenges and strategies for increasing adoption of small wind turbines in urban areas
… large investments in electricity transmission infrastructure to be effectively utilized. In the meantime, several large and small projects have been developed in the Boston area. The urban environment presents many challenges to development including the interaction of urban buildings with wind …
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Formulations and methods for wind farm layout optimization
… has important implications regarding maintenance costs, electrical infrastructure costs, and most importantly, wind farm power generation. The wind farm layout optimization problem seeks to find the optimal layout of turbines that minimizes power loss from placing turbines in the wake cones of …
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Spatial and temporal disaggregation of whole system energy models through exemplar local multi-carrier networks
… use of alternative gases. This incorporates the costs and efficiencies of domestic technologies, district heating options, and the necessary levels of network reinforcement.;The methodology extends the use of an existing Energy Hub optimisation model into the multi-carrier assessment of domestic …
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Land use politics southern style : the case of cash proffers in Virginia
… on growth management and land use. Finally, the costs of servicing new development with public infrastructure have rapidly increased over time. Localities are in search of new revenue sources to cover these infrastructure costs. This dissertation addresses whether cash proffers can be considered …
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Evaluating social welfare implications of forestry policies when economic and environmental values matter in a British Columbia context
… is modeled through individual stands’ infrastructure costs and unprofitable stands are assumed to accumulate environmental social welfare. Finally, a timber supply area (TSA) in BC’s southern interior is used as a case study to explore the model’s policy implications in a real-world …
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Limitations on tidal-in-stream power generation in a strait
… turbine area per unit of power. As such, the infrastructure costs per watt may rise five to eight times as additional turbines are installed. This places significant economic limitations on utility-scale tidal energy production.
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The Big Box Bill of Rights
… municipalities--subsidies intended to cover site infrastructure costs--constitute the license for a contemporary public works project. The proposal therefore re-imagines the site of the Walmart Home Office, and specifically the legal right-of-way along Sam Walton Boulevard, as an expanded physical …
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Smart Growth's Weak Link: An Analytical Evaluation of Water and Sewer Planning in Maryland
… of open space, and high public service and infrastructure costs. Maryland's adoption of the Smart Growth legislative initiatives marks a potential advancement in the continuing evolution of government policies and programs designed to reduce inefficiencies by planning and managing growth at …
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Information selection and fusion in vision systems
… communication is essential. Because of infrastructure costs, power consumption for wireless transmission, etc., transmitting high-bandwidth video streams between cameras should be avoided. Fortunately, recently designed 'smart cameras', which have on-board processing and communication …
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Long-term Cyclic Lateral Response and Optimisation of Shallow Foundations
… wind power, demands substantial reductions in infrastructure costs, with foundations representing a major share of capital expenditure for both onshore and offshore wind turbines. Current design methodologies for gravity-based foundations (GBFs) have limited capacity to predict long-term cyclic …
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