SMART CITIES
THE UK DEPARTMENT for Business , Innovation and Skills ( BIS ) offers a broad definition of a smart city . According to BIS , it considers the concept a ‘ process ’ rather than a static outcome , where increased citizen engagement , hard infrastructure , social capital and digital technologies make cities more liveable , resilient and better able to respond to challenges . These challenges include environmental issues and how technology and innovation will lead to a better quality of life and a reduction in energy consumption within cities . The effective management of energy production , distribution and consumption is one of the major hurdles facing cities of the future – particularly in the face of increased urbanisation . It ’ s thought that cities represent three quarters of energy consumption and 80 % of CO2 emissions worldwide . They also house half the world ’ s population , a figure set to rise to 75 % by 2050 . Clearly that brings with it a number of potential environmental problems such as CO2 emissions . generate significant CO2 emissions and pollute the urban environment , and locating somewhere to house these emissions is extremely important for smart cities of the future .
But there are businesses and projects out there trying to confront the issues that cities will have to deal with and more specifically , as far as carbon capture is concerned , how we can reverse engineer the presence of CO2 from ambient air . An example of one such project was that undertaken by a team from the University of Amsterdam and the Vrije Universiteit . As part of the iGEM 2017 initiative set up by MIT in Boston , this group looked into reimagining the way we look at C02 .
Dealing with CO2 Many cities have industrial hubs that
24 March 2018