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Company plans 'ghost town' experimental center
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September 8, 2011, Thursday
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NEW Mexico, home to several of America's premier scientific, nuclear and military institutions, is to be home to an unprecedented science project - a 50-square-kilometer simulation of a small town.
A US-based technology company plans to build the state's newest ghost town to test everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks and smart-grid cyber security systems.
Although no one will live there, the development will be modeled on a typical American town of 35,000 people, complete with highways, houses and commercial buildings, old and new.
Pegasus Global Holdings Chief Executive Officer Bob Brumley said the US$200 million project, known as The Center, will be a first of its kind in the US, creating a place for scientists at the state's universities, federal laboratories and military installations to test their innovations for upgrading cities to 21st century green technology and infrastructure in a real-world setting.
It will also enable them to rub shoulders with investors, meaning it could ultimately draw enough new businesses to give the state a technology corridor like that in California's Silicon Valley, Brumley said.
He added: "The idea for The Center was born out of our own company's challenges in trying to test new and emerging technologies beyond the confines of a sterile lab environment.
"The Center will allow private companies, not for profits, educational institutions and government agencies to test in a unique facility with real-world infrastructure, allowing them to better understand the cost and potential limitations of new technologies.
"This could give New Mexico a leadership position in the commercialization of federal research. It will serve as a magnet for investors."
A US-based technology company plans to build the state's newest ghost town to test everything from renewable energy innovations to intelligent traffic systems, next-generation wireless networks and smart-grid cyber security systems.
Although no one will live there, the development will be modeled on a typical American town of 35,000 people, complete with highways, houses and commercial buildings, old and new.
Pegasus Global Holdings Chief Executive Officer Bob Brumley said the US$200 million project, known as The Center, will be a first of its kind in the US, creating a place for scientists at the state's universities, federal laboratories and military installations to test their innovations for upgrading cities to 21st century green technology and infrastructure in a real-world setting.
It will also enable them to rub shoulders with investors, meaning it could ultimately draw enough new businesses to give the state a technology corridor like that in California's Silicon Valley, Brumley said.
He added: "The idea for The Center was born out of our own company's challenges in trying to test new and emerging technologies beyond the confines of a sterile lab environment.
"The Center will allow private companies, not for profits, educational institutions and government agencies to test in a unique facility with real-world infrastructure, allowing them to better understand the cost and potential limitations of new technologies.
"This could give New Mexico a leadership position in the commercialization of federal research. It will serve as a magnet for investors."
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