Yet the extraction of the raw materials required to produce them, the pollution commissioned in their manufacturing, the infrastructure and noise and burning of fuel needed to transport them are trashing a natural world infinitely more fascinating and intricate than the stuff we produce.
Radios for cellular wireless infrastructure require low-noise amplifiers (LNAs) with very demanding requirements on noise and linearity performance.
"Transportation infrastructure makes lots of noise and vibration," he said.
Recurrent ecological themes were Water, Vegetation, and Fish and Wildlife; recurrent human themes were Garbage and Graffiti, Odor, Infrastructure, Other People, and Noise.
"We are aware of issues about air quality, noise and infrastructure but the best position for us is saying, 'We support this in principle but how are you going to manage it?'".
Critical infrastructure is the white noise of a well-functioning economy.
In July, AeroAstro started ground-based trials, tracking car park spaces, runway infrastructure, airport vehicles and noise-monitoring sensors over a 50km radius from Gulfport-Biloxi airport which serves the greater New Orleans and Alabama areas on the Mississippi coast.Small satellites are also lowering the cost of being able to own and use space systems.
And I'm also reading two academic titles connected to my current project of writing about Lagos: Kristin Mann's Slavery and the Birth of an African City: Lagos, 1760 1900, and Brian Larkin's study of infrastructure in Nigeria, Signal and Noise.
Typically, such external costs include air pollution, noise, congestion, accidents, infrastructure damage (wear), operations and, of course, CO2 or greenhouse emissions.
With over half a million producing gas wells in the U.S. this infrastructure is a major source of noise pollution across the landscape.
Thousands of Hong Kongers, young and old, came together on January 16th to make some noise about spending on public infrastructure.
