Early in October I had the opportunity to address the annual energy customer conference of the DHL company, in Houston. DHL provides extensive logistic support to the oil, gas, renewable energy sectors, from package to equipment delivery to warehousing services. The gathering in Houston...
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It’s an advertorial by Siemens called Greening the Work Week. Really quite good. In the Washington Post connected to article on the future of energy by Chris Mooney who is consistently great on science policy journalism.
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This is a pretty astonishing development. Almost all new U.S. electricity generation installed in Q1 2016 was in the form of renewables, either solar or wind. The actual numbers from a FERC update… New Wind Generation – 700 MW added New Solar Generation –...
Continue ReadingTechnology Review always does excellent lists of new and breakthrough technologies that seem fairly close to commercial viability. Here is their new list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies for 2016…I’ve grouped them into domains of a sort… Biotech and Biology Immune Engineering – Immunotherapy is...
Continue ReadingHere 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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