The development of better energy technology – in areas including storage, transmission and distribution – is an effective goal.
Municipal water supply systems include facilities for storage, transmission, treatment, and distribution.
As well as the storage, transmission and computing costs imposed on internet service providers (ISPs), there is the cost of the time which millions of people spend sifting through and deleting unwanted messages.
This concept could also be extended to include a small charge on electricity usage, known as a "wires fee" that could generate additional funds for research and development of advanced power generation, storage, transmission, and demand response technologies.
And while, as Lefteris Pavlides suggests, the technology exists to expand solar and wind facilities, we must acknowledge the challenges related to scale and storage transmission — and experience shows that even these energy sources are subject to not-in-my-backyard and environmental concerns.
But different environmental media for the storage, transmission, and transformation of information have their own peculiar virtues.
