Beck Learns About the Largest Testing Center in the World…and It’s Privately Funded Here in the U.S.
- Posted on June 12, 2012 at 9:38pm by
Tiffany Gabbay
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On Tuesday evening, Glenn Beck held a fascinating discussion with Bob Brumley, managing director of Pegasus Global Holdings, a private international technology development firm which is creating the largest testing and evaluation center in the world, right here in the U.S. — and without government assistance.
The Blaze first posted about the project last month — see that report here.
According to its website, The Center for Innovation, Testing and Evaluation (CITE) will be the first testing and evaluation facility of its kind dedicated to “enabling and facilitating the commercialization of new and emerging technologies.” The site continues:
CITE will be modeled after a mid-sized modern American city, integrating real-world urban and suburban environments along with all the typical working infrastructure elements that make up today’s cities. This will provide customers the unique opportunity to test and evaluate technologies in conditions that most closely simulate real-world applications.
CITE will represent a 20th century American city with a population of approximately 35,000 people and be built on roughly 15 square miles. CITE’s test city will be unpopulated. This unique feature will allow for a true laboratory without the complication and safety issues associated with residents.
CITE will be a catalyst for the acceleration of research into applied, market-ready products by providing “end to end” testing and evaluation of emerging technologies and innovations from the world’s public laboratories, universities and the private sector.
According to the company, these innovations, if successfully manufactured, will provide a vital component to U.S. manufacturing viability and “superiority.” It also promises to deliver jobs to a “highly experienced and well educated workforce” while at the same time “helping to change the environment for the better through commercialization of advanced innovations in energy, transportation, infrastructure, healthcare and the environment.”
Just some of the planned areas CITE hopes to test and evaluate include are listed below:
- Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
- Green Energy: Alternative Energy Power Generation (e.g. Geothermal, Solar)
- Smart Grid Technologies
- Telecommunications
- Resource Development (e.g. Desalinization)
- Security
As a privately-owned, privately-operated test and evaluation center, CITE also claims to be “open and accessible to a wide array of public and private customer segments – domestic and international.”
“The structure and policies in place at CITE are specifically designed to remove legal, cultural and budgetary impediments as are currently prevalent in the process of moving beyond basic research and development activities.”
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Comments (96)
jsciai
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:49amDateline China: satellite images reveal failed America urban planning. Large cities are abandoned with no people living there. Residents have been rounded up and put into cancentration camps at an unknown location. Capitalism has failed and our glorious revolution will now take over this bankrupt capitalist pig country.
Report Post »Just wait and see.
Oldscout47
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:28amMy take is that our time and money would be better spent on restoring civility, morality, compassion, charity, etc. It seems to me that we have more than enough gadgets.
Report Post »PlowMan
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:43amThe point is, it’s not OUR time or OUR money. It’s a private company and they should be able to spend THEIR money the way THEY want.
Report Post »Blazebanned
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 9:34am@Plowman.
Report Post »If you watched the interview Beck did with this guy,they do get govt. money in some fashion.My take from the interview is this, this city is being built as a way of test the total take over by our govt. of the people. Go back and listen to this guy very carefully,you might get the same impression as i did.One example, govt. being able to control your home thermostat.Really?Yea these are cities just to test “ideas”,yea right…..
king1
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 9:46amyour right about the civility/morality but if the private sector does not take the iniative then the left will get the gov you & me to pay for it and do it wrong.
Report Post »SLOWBIDEN
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:29amThe city is being built to test a cyber attack from emf waves. How to protect the power grid and so forth.
Report Post »tharpdevenport
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 2:59pmThey already do that in some places in the U.S., like in one overseas country. “Smart Meters” or some such. IF they think you use too much electricity, they cut it for a while or reduce the wattage. IF they think you have your house to cold during the summer, then can rest your temperature from their location, to something higher like 75 degrees (this ACTUALLY HAPPENS, by the way).
I‘m reminbded of a caller to I believe Mark Levin’s show who broke news I hadn’t heard about: he bought a celiing fan with lights and put in some 60 watt bulbs. When he turned it on, then dimed to 40. Why? New EPA regulations — the nanny state now has now has it built in to where they FORCE YOU to use the amount of wattage they want — silly you, if you had just said 2 + 2 = 5, everything would be hunky dory!
Give anybody but yourself control of your power and ability to alter it as they see fit, and they WILL. After all, everybody knows better in the Federal Conglomerate than you. You’re just some Bible hugging, gun clinging bubba — you don‘t know what’s good for you.
Report Post »thecrone3
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:24pmI’m glad to see that so many others are suspicious of this. Mr. Brumley mentioned investors, who do you think will be investing in this company? Progressives. You can’t tell me this is going to be free of government grants or what about foreign governments? There may be good intentions, however it won’t be long before it morphs into something really bad. What really bothered me was that it sounded like Glenn was buying into all this.
Report Post »Countrygirl1362
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:25amThe government will find a way to regulate them out of business.
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 11:01amNo. The Build-a-Burger people need to test their future new cities after the big take over and kill off
Report Post »Bill923
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 6:26amVery interesting. Can’t wait to see what kind of informations their experiments garner.
Report Post »jcldwl
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 5:02amI see nothing good from this. It is just a test to build cities that will control everything people do. He said on Glenn’s show that perhaps humans could be used in the city to test things. So they tire of rats and monkeys in cages and now are building cities where they can use human guinea pigs. This is nothing but scarey. Would any of you really want to live in a centrally controlled city where everything you do is systematically controlled by someone else? Not me. I am surprised Glenn is so interested in this. Everything is done by the private sector and the government takes over anything they see as useful to control people with. This is the perfect idea for the Orwellian left.
Report Post »copey99
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:33pmYou do realize people, under their own free will, sign up as test subjects all the time. It might not be on this same scale, but they still do it.
Report Post »dane7902
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 3:10amPoliticians like to mask tax hikes as “inventing in our future” (GAG!). This is what real investing in our future looks like!
Report Post »trappedinwv
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 1:43amIf this is the same as the other story, thank you Blaze for reposting for those of us whom missed it the first time.
Report Post »PROSECUTE_PUBLIC_SERVANTS__FOR_CONSTITUTIONAL_TREASON
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:41amWith more than 10K population, Russia will be adding it to the nuke list. Don’t worry. 14 square miles Russia would deliver a small package.
Report Post »TyrannyNoMore
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 8:47amIt is not population, but strategic importance that determines targeting. Most of the warheads used would be of the 400 kiloton yield variety. Besides, Russia and China depend on our scientific discoveries for their own use. They would not kill the goose, not just yet anyway.
Report Post »DissenterKnight
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 11:57amBack in the day, the Soviet targeting list included a generally unpopulated stretch of the Ohio River between Parkersburg, WV and Huntington, WV. Why? More than a dozen power plants including one that powered the principle enrichment facility for nuclear grade material; scores of manufacturing sites that produced everything from food to synthetics to steel. Low population density. High strategic asset density.
Report Post »Maxim Crux
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:03amMaybe they can hire some Solyndra people to do the solar work
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:46amThey have soda machines that automatically stop at 16 ozs
Report Post »Bryan B
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 11:53pmAre they hiring ????
Pray for Jett………
Report Post »CygnusX1
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 11:47pm–
Ummm….Haven’t the Chinese already built a few of these “Ghost” cities?
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Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 12:25amThe Chicom’s will see a “use” for at least one of their colossal failures.
Report Post »spirited
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 11:32pmYes, and Michelle Obama doesn’t want “food deserts”.
Pegasus is “privately funded”
Report Post »>by whom???
stang289
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 11:18pmAgenda 21 !
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:56amThe borg?
Report Post »BobtheMoron
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 11:15pmWho cares?
Report Post »SilentReader
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 11:10pmFascinating! Hopefully the government won’t get involved and use it for even more control over we the people! That’s my only fear!
These were my comments about Beck’s Brumley interview on my facebook page when I posted the GBTV show today:
,,,and a full-fledged ghost city created by a group of private business people creating the largest testing and evaluation center in the world, without government funding…a billion dollars over 10 years…test self-driving cars…a place to take their technology and putting it in an actual environment…there’s an interstate highway system…it will be built as if the city grew that way…will have a light industrial are…a suburban area…test smart grid…underground this city will be operated…post WWII suburbs…more sophisticated downtown neighborhoods…will be able to test EMPs…an interview with Bob Brumley of Pegasus Global Holdings…defense and security, aerospace, and innovation…I live in between the book ends…Asamof and Orwell…
Report Post »smokey888x2
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 10:53pmMaybe we could get a few million liberals to move to CA as a test …… oh, they’re already broke and Progressive!!
Report Post »Taxpaying Contributor
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 10:41pmFree reign to private equity!
Report Post »Not a dime of mine!
And all support otherwise
vtxphantom
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 10:37pmRacoon City without the virus. I like the idea this city and what it does.
Report Post »VRW Conspirator
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 10:59amYeah..I was thinking the same thing…this is a Umbrella Corp. test facility. They can have humans move into the city for “testing”???
Smart cars – no driver control?
Smart grid – no resident control?
Smart infrastructure – no citizen control?
City of the future or future prison for an increasingly dependent culture without the means to recognize or be self sufficient??
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 10:14pmWho is John Gault?
Report Post »What_Did_I_Miss
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 11:20pmJohn Gault was a famous French unicycle rider famous for singing raunchy songs during his act.
Report Post »He is frequently confused with John GALT, a fictional character in a novel called Atlas Shrugged.
I hope that answers your question. Now, I am going to go out and ride my unicycle.
The-Monk
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 9:59pm“Beck Learns About The Largest Testing Center in the World….”
…and The Blaze did a story on this place back on May 10th.
“http://www.theblaze.com/stories/why-is-a-ghost-town-being-built-in-the-middle-of-new-mexico/
Report Post »oneshiner
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 10:15pmHmmm? They tested the A bomb there. Aliens landed there, something in the water? We had some friends who just moved to Roswell. hmmm?
Report Post »scuba13
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 10:38pmOneshiner hmmm…and maybe that‘s the origin of Encinom’s stupidity.
Report Post »Melvin Spittle
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 11:18pmIt is stated in the article. Now read them both and you will note the purpose of the followup article;) I remember reading it as well and seemed to me that it might be redundant until I read them both.
Report Post »The-Monk
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 7:51pm@Melvin Spittle
Yep, I missed that “here” link. Just wanted people to be able to read both stories.
Report Post »phrogdriver
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 9:57pmThis is boring. I’m going to switch to the SciFi channel and watch “Eureka”.
Report Post »lylejk
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 10:31pmYou beat me too it. lolol
Sad teh Eureka is ending this season; one of the few shows that I care to watch. :)
Report Post »BoliverBBucklenutz
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 10:43pmThats the town I would like to live in…
Report Post »TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 9:50pmBeck was good on THE FACTOR tonite! I don’t hear his show but love it when he does FOX once in awhile.
Report Post »Sirfoldallot
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 9:43pmThis may be where investors need to go , not GM.
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 9:43pmStill… seeking Damn Utopia!
Report Post »DissenterKnight
Posted on June 13, 2012 at 11:53amHumanity will always seek utopia. In our genetic memory we remember what it was like to live in harmony with our Creator and the rest of creation. We know that we’ve fallen, no matter how much we deny it or try to fill the void left in our hearts by the gap we created. So, seeking utopia is normal. It’s even easy to find utopia; all you have to do is admit that you’ve lost it by nature of being human, that there’s nothing you can do to find or reclaim it on your own, turn to Christ and accept His payment of the debt you owe, and then live the best that you can. In time, utopia will find you.
Report Post »possom
Posted on June 12, 2012 at 9:41pmOld news.
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