by TreeHugger
Slashing Water Waste with Smart Software Could Save Billions of Dollars
5:12 pm in Design & Architecture, Science & Technology, software, water crisis by TreeHugger
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"Any industry that mislays 25-30% of its product in the process of delivering it might reasonably be thought to have a problem."
Between the water treatment plant and the tap in your kitchen, a lot can happen to water. Old pipes sometimes have slow leaks that are hard to detect, and sometimes there are bigger leaks that can waste a lot of potable water in a short time. According to a World Bank report published a few years ago, these leaks cost at least $14 billion a year.
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Learning Machines are Upon Us
One-size-fits-all is rarely optimal, and that goes for cars too. Engineers have to consider many tradeoffs when they tune a car's drivetrain, and settings that work well in one condition usually don't work as well in another... But that might be about to change thanks to work by Ford and Google. Using sophisticated predictive software to analyze your driving habits, they could optimize the vehicle's operation to squeeze the most out of every drop of fuel or kilowatt-hour of electricity. Read on for more detai...
