Here is what seems a very good idea. Use insulated shipping containers (empty containers seem to lay around in stacks all over the place), add some LED lights and a tenth as much water as normal farming, and you have a hydroponic farming food...
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It is not quite true that this will be the first solar roadway concept, but we should not be surprised if France is indeed the first to install a commercial scale version of roads with imbedded solar cells. Check out the video, and read...
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I had the opportunity to keynote the annual Landmark Solutions Innovation Forum and Expo. Landmark, a Halliburton business line, is the leading technology solutions provider of data and analytics, science, software, and services for the exploration and development of energy. In the speech I...
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I come across lists of emerging technologies all the time. This one, from the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies is particularly good. This institute was founded in 2004 by philosopher Nick Bostrom and bioethicist James J. Hughes. The list of 7 technologies that...
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It was not really that hard to foresee the decision announced by Shell Oil today that they are abandoning their efforts to drill for oil in the Arctic, namely in the Chukchi Sea. You might recall the controversy here in Seattle about the basing...
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