4 years ago I founded a small social media constancy. The idea was to manage the coming deluge of social media for businesses. Turned out to be a pretty good idea. At first many businesses didn’t believe that social media was going to be as important as it has become. What seemed completely obvious to [...]
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If the US went carbon neutral tomorrow, China’s output would make up for it in 3.5 years
Tech planet Journal is project of The Future 500. The Future 500 works closely with Rich and Liz Muller on global warming issues and the best ways to address the challenge. The most pressing issue as Dr. Muller sees things is that China and India already eclipse the USA in carbon footprint and will only [...]
Digital Energy May Prove the Cheapest Energy of All
How are we going to deal with the ever increasing energy demands of a growing global population? As the developing world comes increasingly into the 21st Century, the demands of these people for a better way of life, what has been an energy intensive way of life, will only increase. This (if nothing changes) will [...]
How about a printed house which grows like, and has the structural strength of bone?
I’m up for it. In fact I’d put money down right this moment if I could get a house like the one described in the attached article. 3D printing is about to change a lot of things in manufacturing, housing may be revolutionized in the not too distant future. It would be cool to see [...]
Come Correct: 100 Quotes on Innovation
Innovation is what will drive a cleaner more efficient society. It is the continued development of technology, IT, transport, and energy where the low hanging (in relative terms) “green” fruit is. So much emphasis is placed on a complete (and quick) revolution in energy and other parts of the economy. But revolutions often come at [...]
Kids in Ethiopia Get Tablet Computers, Hack the System, Learn to Read, No Instruction!
From the edge of the Rift Valley in East Africa comes an amazing experiment. The One Laptop Per Child Organization simply dropped off boxes of tablet computers at a couple of remote villages and observed what happened. The villages were illiterate and were not (according to the article) exposed to the printed word. Without instruction [...]
“We Are Ok” Is #1 Shared Term This Morning (On Facebook)
I was on social media from the first drops of rain on. Of course I tend to spend a fair amount of time in various social media anyway. But as of last night it seemed as if everyone in the universe was on Facebook and Twitter- which apparently they were according to the attached article. [...]
Johns Hopkins Computer Model Predicts 10 Million Without Power Due to Sandy
I am just outside of Washington DC to the south and west, and even here, 100 miles inland, the winds have already started to pick up. The core is far out in the Atlantic right now. It is a massive storm. (From JHU.edu) “An engineer at The Johns Hopkins University predicts that 10 million people [...]
Who Wants to 3D Print a House? I do!
3D printing is absolutely amazing and now one can buy a 3D printer for $500. This is revolutionary. People have already constructed complicated tools, including things like guns (which work) using 3D printers. So why not “print” a house. I am all for it. (From Popsci.com) 3-D printers can make airplanes and their parts, food [...]
Open Source Solar
This guy may fundamentally change the energy game and he’s giving the technology away. (From Zenman Energy) We hope to create a low cost, expandable solution that can create power plants of any size, from a few kilowatts up to many megawatts. Once we have a working prototype our entire focus will be directed at [...]
