For the main arteries of its network, SpeedNet will use 64, 000-kilometres of Tepco's high-speed data links, which are strung along the streets and railway lines of greater Tokyo, sharing poles and conduits with its electricity cables.

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The preferred mode in Europe is to build not a few hugely expensive incineration behemoths but a larger number of smaller, community-based utilities that burn trash to provide electricity and heat through underground conduits.

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