The Imagined City

Green California Summit Sacramento, California

April 26, 2017

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Live Better with Electricity (mid 1950s)

The Westinghouse Gold Medallion Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jyrTgtPTz3M&feature=youtu.be

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The Westinghouse Gold Medallion Home “Where Electricity does everything”

Why? • Promote the use of cheap electricity Automation • Lights go on automatically in the front

(motion sensors) • Television camera tells the hostess guests

have arrived (wireless doorbell camera) • Electric control and weather center (think

Nest) • Laundry program determines best options

for each fabric – the first home laundry that can think! (today’s washers and dryers)

Cooking • Miraculous electronic oven (think

microwave) • Recipes in microfilm file appear on a screen

(think internet recipes on a tablet)

Climate Control • Walls that cool in summer and heat in winter • Automatic controls tied to weather center

irrigates when the ground gets thirsty (weather- based irrigation controllers)

Entertainment/Education • Latest hit record played at the press of a

button automatically (Pandora,Spotify) • Special speakers that surround you with

music (surround sound) • Home movies produced and directed by you

with home movie projector (multiple apps) • A planetarium and latest maps of the world

at the push of a button (the internet) The Problem • Electricity was produced using fossil fuels

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Project X, Walt Disney’s Utopian Metropolis

• A planned community intended to serve as a test bed for new city living innovations • Florida created a special government district that gave The Walt Disney Company the

standard powers and autonomy of an incorporated city • Never came to fruition; Epcot Center and Disney World evolved on the proposed site.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Disney_World http://www.esquire.com/entertainment/news/a35104/walt-disney-epcot-history-city-of-tomorrow/

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The Short Happy Life of Electric Vehicles Early milestones for electric vehicles 1835: first small electric car powered by non-rechargeable batteries 1896: to overcome range limitations and lack of charging infrastructure a battery exchange service Implemented by Hartford Electric Light Company for electric trucks. 1900: Percentage of cars by power source • 38% - electric (33,842 cars) • 40% - steam • 22% - gasoline 1911: first gasoline-electric hybrid car 1926: year last entirely new Detroit electric was likely sold What caused the demise of electric cars? • Mass production of the Ford Model T in 1913 brings down the

cost of gasoline cars (1/3 to ½ of electric car cost) • Cheap Texas oil • More developed road network/desire for longer travel distances • Range limitations/lack of charging infrastructure • Slower speeds — about 20 mph or 32 km/h • Tough economic times during World War I • Stigma that electric cars are for women

The Economical Electric, Life Magazine, February 5, 1914

https://energy.gov/articles/history-electric-car

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Transportation Future Passed

http://www.cnn.com/2014/04/07/tech/are-flying-cars-finally-becoming-a-reality/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/recapping-the-jetsons-episode-03-the-space-car-67174086/

Smithsonian Magazine, 1958

The Jetsons

The Terrafugia TF-X

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SkyTran – Pod Transportation

• Maglev Technology

• 1/10 energy cost of light rail

• Yas Island, Abu Dhabi pilot Images courtesy of: www.skytran.com

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Cities are where its happening!

• Hawaii the first state in the nation to enact legislation for 100 % renewable electricity (by 2045)

• San Diego; Salt Lake City; St. Petersburg, Florida; Greensburg, Kansas; and Georgetown, Texas, are a few of the 23 American cities, both large and small, that have passed resolutions to adopt 100 percent clean power.

http://governor.hawaii.gov/newsroom/press-release-governor-ige-signs-bill-setting-100-percent-renewable-energy-goal-in-power-sector/ http://www.go100percent.org/cms/index.php?id=18

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Some U.S. Cities Committed to 100% Renewable Energy

City, State Year Aspen, CO Achieved Greensburg, KS Achieved Ithaca, NY Achieved Kodiak, AK Achieved Burlington, VT Achieved Georgetown, TX 2017 Palo Alto, CA 2017 Lancaster, CA 2020 San José, CA 2022

City, State Year San Francisco, CA 2030 Scituate, MA 2030 East Hampton, NY 2030 Rochester, NY 2031 Salt Lake City, UT 2032 Santa Barbara, CA 2033 Del Mar, CA 2035 San Diego, CA 2035 St. Petersburg, FL TBD

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The World Longest Elevated Cycling Path • Opened March 12, 2017, Xiamen,

China • 8 kilometers long,(4.97 miles) • 13 connections to public transport • Bike stations each house 355 bikes,

253 parking spots • 30,000 lights for safety • 2.5 million riders first half of 2017 • Links five neighborhoods and three

financial centers

http://www.archdaily.com/806710/the-worlds-longest-elevated-cycling-path-opens-in-china?mc_cid=65154df516&mc_eid=b7037f9a01

Image Credit: Arch Daily

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Sustainable Westchester (New York) EV Program

• NYC buying 1,000 all-electric Chevy Bolts (200 miles per charge) • New York offering $3 million in clean vehicle municipal grants • Volkswagen mitigation settlement gives $117 million to New York

Info courtesy of EarthKind Energy / www.earthKindEnergy.com

• Electric Vehicles - 5x more efficient than gas vehicles, which lose ~80% of their energy as heat.

• Nationally, it costs less than half as much to travel the same distance in an EV than a conventional gas powered vehicle.

• Group purchase programs doubled or tripled EV adoption rates Winchester’s Municipal Solar Buyers Group pricing combined with EVs

creates savings equivalent to paying $1/gallon with gas vehicles.

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Shanghai: 3D printers made six houses in ten days

The UN estimates that by 2030 approximately three billion people will require housing and 3D printers are being promoted as one potential solution.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SObzNdyRTBs http://www.wired.co.uk/article/giant-3d-printer-builds-houses

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2030 Districts in North America • Membership organizations in designated urban areas

across North America • Goal: Meet the targets called for by Architecture 2030 in its

2030 Challenge for Planning • Creating high performance urban areas that dramatically reduce

environmental impacts of building construction and operations using shared benchmarking.

• Brings together property owners and managers with local governments, businesses, and community stakeholders

• Demonstrates that energy, transportation emissions, and water reductions can be achieved through collaboration, leveraged financing, and shared District member resources.

• San Francisco, Los Angeles and San Diego are the three California cities working on 2030 districts.

• More than 41 cities around the U.S. have 2030 districts or are working on benchmarking ordinances

http://www.2030districts.org/toolkits/learn-about-2030-districts

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The Texas Clean Energy Revolution

• Texas – produces more wind and solar than the next three states combined • Produces three times the natural gas of any other state • Second in alternative fuels vehicles • Has a statewide community choice program called “The Power to Choose” • Georgetown, suburb of Austin, first 100% renewable energy city • The Green Dallas program sounds like a city in California • Houston, the home of “Big Oil,” derives 50% of its energy from renewables.

http://www.npr.org/2017/03/07/519064002/texas-city-leads-the-way-on-renewable-energy

http://greendallas.net/energy/ http://www.powertochoose.org/

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The Las Vegas Surprise • Municipal buildings and operations

powered 100% with clean electricity since December 2016

• Most energy supplied by a huge new solar facility that was built nearby.

• Solar panels installed on parking garages, city hall and parks

http://www.yaleclimateconnections.org/2017/04/las-vegas-city-buildings-go-100-renewable/

• Some hydroelectric power from Hoover Dam. • Same level of greenhouse gas emissions as in 1950. • The city’s annual electricity bill is now $5 million less than nine years ago. • Casinos are actively working on sustainability efforts. - From Yale Climate Connections, April 4, 2017

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The 1950s Redux We need not wait any longer. We are poised to wake up to a world running completely on renewable energy. The exciting truth that has gone missing in the debate is the fact that an entirely renewable energy supply will be CHEAPER, more sustainable, and more price stable, as well as cleaner and safer than our existing sources of energy. - From Chapter 1, All Electric America January 2016

http://allelectricamerica.com/ http://allelectricamerica.com/first-chapter/

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B017E0Z1XE/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1

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Quay Valley: City of the Future? • 100% solar city • Connected to the HyperLoop • In the Central Valley midway

between L.A. and San Francisco • Emphasis on healthy lifestyle • Walkable/bikeable community • 7,200 acres • 75,000 residents • 20 million square feet of

commercial and industrial space • 95% capture and reuse of water • Future-proofed infrastructure

• fiber-optic to every door • fully wireless • universal networking • smart intermodal transportation • electric vehicle infrastructure and • energy storage and management

systems.

Will Quay Valley succeed or become another Project X?

www.quayvalley.com/http:/www.sfgate.com/news/article/Entrepreneur-has-big-green-ideas-for-a-new-2570827.php#photo-2711998

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What Would You Do in a New City Like Quay Valley?

Blue-green infrastructure – vegetation aligned with urban water bodies

Autonomous-vehicle-only zone

Home battery storage allowing use of only renewable energy

Fully integrated yet autonomous microgrids

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Carl Nettleton Nettleton Strategies LLC carl@nettstrategies.com 858-353-5489 www.nettstrategies.com Twitter: @nettstrategy LinkedIn: carl-nettleton-1802914

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