Archive for February, 2012
Five Energy Technologies To Watch
Technological breakthroughs could have a large impact on energy, and not just transitioning to sustainable energy sources. Grid-scale storage of electricity — very expensive techniques to store electrical power by converting to potential energy (like compressed air or pumped water) may be replaced by flow
Onshore Wind May Be Cheaper Than Oil This Decade
Damian Carrington via guardian.co.uk Electricity produced by wind turbines in the UK may be cheaper than that generated by burning gas within five years, even if the climate-warming pollution from the latter is allowed to be pumped straight into the air. That is one startling
How Big Will Phone Screens Get?
At first, screens larger than Apple’s 3.5 inch iPhone was a smart differentiation, but when will the expansion end? Rob Pegaro via Digital Dialogue […] worldwide shipments of phone displays 4.5 in. or bigger will balloon from 9.48 million last year to 159.45 million this
Emerging Trends by World Economic Forum
I’ve summarized a list of emerging tech trends that Andrew Maynard summarized from the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Emerging Technologies assessment: Informatics for adding value to information [Big Data] Synthetic biology and metabolic engineering Green Revolution 2.0 – technologies for increased food