EcoGeek has an interesting article explaining how advances in nanotechnology can lead to the creation of a kettle that boils faster. The advance is significant not just because it could help consumers and businesses save money and time by bringing water to a boil faster, but because it suggests that a variety of other products—such [...]
Energy Daily has an insightful article about an intriguing new generation wind turbine developed by BroadStar Wind Systems. The new design, which can be viewed at the right, is unlike most wind turbines. It apparently, however, has some substantial advantages including the fact that it can be manufactured, transported, installed and maintained at a lower [...]
IBM recently announced that it has developed a new supercomputer capable of performing 1,000 trillion calculations per second. It is a little hard to wrap your brain around such mind-boggling numbers, but last year I wrote an article discussing an IBM supercomputer that was capable of performing 70 trillion calculations per second. In the piece, [...]
Marcel Proust once said, “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” I was reminded to this quote yesterday after reading John Markoff's insightful article on Pax Scientific -- a company that has applied biomimicry to create new industrial designs for everything from aerospace designs to parts [...]
It has been said that the reason doctors and surgeons have not embraced simulated training to the same degree as airline pilots is because they don’t “go down” with their patients. The implicit message is that pilots have an incentive to utilize the very best training tools. This distinction is important because as 3-D display [...]
It is common knowledge that only about 20 percent of an iceberg floats above the waterline. Yet, if you are a ship captain, you need to concern yourself with the remaining 80 percent. If you don't, you could end up sharing a fate similar to that of Edward John Smith, the captain of the Titanic. [...]
It has been widely reported that the Internet can reduce greenhouse emissions by 1 billion tons over the next decade as result of companies such as EnerNoc and Verdiem developing better methods to monitor and control residential and business energy usage. This is undoubtedly true, but people to begin thinking even more broadly about the [...]
As regular readers know, in addition to authoring Jump the Curve, I also had another book, Green Investing: A Guide to Making Money through Environment-Friendly Stocks, published this past spring by Platinum Press. In the past few days, BusinessWeek has run an intensive interview with me entitled ”Clever Plays in Cleantech” and today I appeared [...]
Over the past few days, I have discussed how the future of advertising is on the wall. I have also reviewed why the future of robotics may be on the wall. Well, at the risk of beating a dead horse, I would now like to add yet another future technology—solar power—to the wall. I recently [...]
At my core, I’m a techno-optimist—I sincerely believe that technology will address many of society’s most pressing issues. This is especially true in the field of energy. I written before about why I’m bullish on solar’s long-term potential and this recent article describing the new Masdar Headquarters in Abu Dhabi now provides me further reason [...]
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