As well as adapting to climate change, Grahm is pioneering techniques to reduce the industry's impact by reducing its more energy intensive infrastructure.
In this paper, ways of enhancing the utilization of existing, capital intensive infrastructure by small, incremental additions are explored.
They depend on gains in productivity resulting from relatively intensive infrastructure and management inputs, and their net returns are sensitive to cost increases.
Nowadays, the capital intensive infrastructure investments, such as the expansion of district heating networks and the introduction of significant heat saving measures require highly detailed decision-support tool.
I expect Ether to ramp quickly towards success, and it will be extremely hard for competitors to enter the space given the capital intensive infrastructure needed to do something like this.
What's interesting is that this has the potential to be done in near real-time — think seconds and minutes, not hours in advance — and automatically by connecting Limejump's Virtual Power Plant platform to a company's machinery and other energy intensive infrastructure.
A series of labor intensive infrastructure and energy projects have also been underway to help reduce unemployment and promote social welfare.
In contrast, some systems are fully electronic at the point of care and although this implies intensive infrastructure requirements (a computer at every registration and nursing station, for example), it also reduces data entry requirements considerably while providing real-time or close to real-time access to data.
This new environment can be considered as a framework on top of a set of computing and data-intensive infrastructures that will provide researchers with tools, protocols, data and expertise to improve medical imaging research and patient health care.
Cities best exemplify the costs of delaying action on climate change and locking into resource-intensive infrastructure and behaviours.
