When it comes to managing the risks from major storms you can do things like bury power lines.

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The team is planning all sorts of other capabilities for the tech, including navigation systems -- "Power lines are like highways in the sky, " says one of the researchers -- and auxiliary surveillance systems that power up when jacked in.

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It's something that's fairly important in terms of allowing people access to back in there, just to - at least where you can have one lane cleared, you know, from fallen trees, live power lines, stuff like that, get those streets cleared and then move on from there.

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The power and utility companies like to have control over the power supply and control over the transmission lines.

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In this part of the U.S., like most of the country, all the power lines are above ground, strung between flimsy wooden poles, exactly as they were over 100 years ago.

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There are some big power lines, but otherwise it looks just like any factory by a lake.

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The Infrastructure Planning Commission (IPC), a quango with the ability to force through important national projects over the objections of locals, is supposed to make it easier to build power lines, storage plants, wind farms and the like.

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There are several different kinds of technology, ranging from wired technologies that use standard Ethernet cable, power lines and home phone lines, as well as wireless technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, that might be appropriate for some applications, but not all.

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There's a Noguchi coffee table and a collection of chairs with modern lines designed by architects, including Frank Gehry's Power Play chair, which looks like it's made out of wood shavings.

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