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Infrastructure Innovations
Timing Is Everything
Because solving infrastructure problems requires large investments, people
tend to consider all large-scale investments as a Distribution Buildup phase
that necessarily enables future growth. Let’s use the system model and the S
curve to compare and contrast two recent technology developments labeled
as infrastructure projects.
The rst one, Project Amp, involved the US government’s efforts to jump-
start the widespread use of solar energy. On June 23, 2011, cnet.com reported
[27]:
The Department of Energy has issued a $1.4 billion conditional loan guarantee
to fund a massive project that would ...