Reuters | By: Alex Whiting | GPE – September 19, 2017: More than 1.3 billion people live on agricultural land that is deteriorating, putting them at risk of worsening hunger, water shortages and poverty, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) said. Originally published September 12, 2017: People’s use Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Victoria Moores | September 18, 2017: Emirates president Tim Clark believes the Hyperloop, a vacuum-tube mass-transportation concept, could be used for aviation applications such as baggage transit. “This technology is in its infancy, but it’s like drone technology and the revolution in automotive. This is Read more…
Reuters | By: Anna Pujol-Mazzini | September 14, 2017: Asian glaciers are set to shrink by at least a third by 2100 due to climate change, researchers said on Thursday, threatening millions who depend on their meltwaters for drinking, farming and hydro-electricity. The scientists’ prediction is based on an assumption Read more…
Clean Technica | Nexus Media | By: Marlene Cimons | September 17th, 2017: Trees provide beauty when they bloom and shade when it’s hot. They are a symbol of the environment, hence the term “tree huggers” to describe eco-activists. They even inspire (often florid) poetry. And now, scientists have learned Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Michael Barnard | September 17th, 2017: Electric cars and other vehicles continue to gain momentum, just as autonomous features are becoming mainstream. But while potential job losses due to autonomy are a strong focus, the multitude of impacts electrification will have on road transportation aren’t as Read more…
Clean Technica | Nexus Media | By: Marlene Cimons | September 16th, 2017: Orange isn’t just the new black. It’s also the new green. Twenty years ago, an orange juice producer dumped thousands of tons of orange peels and pulp onto a barren section of a Costa Rican national park, Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: William Steel | September 13, 2017: With the complete toll of Hurricane Irma beginning to reveal itself, renewable energy stakeholders take stock of lessons learned. Haiti-based micro-utility start-up Sigora Haiti is one such group. Holding a concession from the government of Haiti to be sole Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jennifer Runyon | GPE – September 12, 2017: As homeowners and businesses continue to install energy generating equipment like batteries and solar PV behind their meters, forward-looking utilities such as San Diego Gas and Electric (SDG&E) are piloting projects that will help them figure out Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julian Spector | GPE – September 12, 2017: For most, the payoff is not here yet, according to a new NREL study. But it’s coming as PV deployment increases. With so few utility-scale solar-plus-storage projects actually built, we don’t have much data on how their economics Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Trefor Moss | GPE – September 12, 2017: Orders for helicopters and planes are up as the Chinese government reforms flight restrictions. Originally published August 25, 2017: Above Shanghai’s skyline, things are eerily quiet: the helicopters and small planes that whir over other cities Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Steve Hanley | September 11th, 2017: The China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, a state owned corporation that is roughly equivalent to NASA, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and SpaceX all rolled into one, says it is making plans to build T-Flight — a T-Flight flying train concept Read more…
Clean Technica | By: James Ayre | September 10th, 2017: The scale of the world’s current micro plastics pollution problem can’t be overstated. Plastics, and more importantly their nearly invisible half-broken-down remnants, are now everywhere. They’re in the food you eat, the water you drink, and even often enough in Read more…
The FCPA Blog | By: Aaron Narva | September 08, 2017: The growing complexity of third-party relationships, and the immediate regulatory and reputational risks of those third parties has procurement teams, compliance officers and legal departments working to figure out the best way to proceed. When and how should they Read more…
Avionics | By: Woodrow Bellamy III | GPE – September 07, 2017: Research, operation and future considerations for augmented reality technologies have been expanding throughout the global aviation industry over the past decade, though published exploration of A/R can be traced back as far as the 1990s. We highlight some Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: John Croft | GPE – September 07, 2017: In a Thales advanced technology laboratory in France, engineers are testing a next-generation air traffic controller workstation that will let controllers know if their visual scan needs a tweak. In Ottawa, Ontario, Searidge Technologies engineers Read more…
Science Daily | Source – Wildlife Conservation Society | GPE – September 07, 2017: Scientists used historical data and models to predict that almost 900 million tons of sediments would be retained by 6 potential new Andean dams on the Amazon river system. Scientists investigating the effects of six planned Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Geoffrey Styles | GPE – September 05, 2017: Bloomberg’s renewable energy affiliate forecasts that wind and solar power will make major inroads into the global market share of natural gas within a decade. This is a crucially important question for major oil companies who are betting Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Alyssa Abkowitz and Liza Lin | September 04, 2017: Alphabet unit is seeking engineers to fill jobs related to AI, cloud computing in country seen as having certain advantages over U.S. Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL -0.34% Google is ramping up its presence in China, hiring Read more…
Reuters | By: Stephen Nellis | August 29, 2017: SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Alphabet Inc’s (GOOGL.O) Google on Wednesday unveiled tools to make augmented reality apps for mobile devices using the Android operating system, setting up its latest showdown with Apple Inc’s (AAPL.O) iPhone over next-generation smartphone features. Phone-based augmented Read more…
Financial Times | By: Various Authors | August 24, 2017: Unanimous privacy ruling dents government attempts to register country’s 1.3bn people Narendra Modi’s plans to widen the scope of India’s vast biometric identification system have been dealt a blow by judges on the Supreme Court, who have ruled that Indians Read more…
The Hill | By: Michael Delagarza | August 19, 2017: In January, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson announced: “Given the vital role elections play in this country, it is clear that certain systems and assets of election infrastructure meet the definition of critical infrastructure, in fact and in law.” Read more…
Water & Wastewater International | GPE August 10, 2017: BATH, UK – Algae ponds are being used to remove nutrients and treat wastewater in a joint project between the University of Bath and utility Wessex Water. Originally published July 31, 2017: The project is investigating utilising algae ponds to treat Read more…
Forester Network | By: Margaret Buranen | August 04, 2017: A common purpose runs through many, likely most, stormwater projects in the greater Seattle area and other western Washington cities, certainly in the projects profiled in this story. Their shared goal is to improve and protect water quality in one Read more…
Reuters | By: Jonathan Saul | August 07, 2017: The risk of cyber attacks targeting ships’ satellite navigation is pushing nations to delve back through history and develop back-up systems with roots in World War Two radio technology. Ships use GPS (Global Positioning System) and other similar devices that rely Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Tom Nockolds | August 3rd, 2017: Community energy is a global phenomenon. Wherever we find people, we tend to find communities stepping forward to have a greater say and determination in what their future energy supplies should look like. These people are ensuring that their communities Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By Bob Davis and Eva Dou | July 27, 2017: The semiconductor industry, a stalwart of the global economy, is succumbing to fierce nationalistic competition. At a muddy construction site the size of 12 baseball stadiums, globalization is turning into nationalism. Truck after truck delivers Read more…
Reuters | By: Gertrude Chavez-Dreyfuss and Anna Irrera | July 28, 2017: Technology companies looking to raise money by issuing digital coins are moving forward with their plans despite a U.S. regulator’s decision that their offerings may be subject to tough securities laws. Such initial coin offerings, or ICOs, have Read more…
Rigzone | By: Matthew V. Veazey | July 27, 2017: Telematics device designed to track frac tanks, construction equipment and other assets. The commercial telematics firm SkyBitz has unveiled a two-way global satellite communication and tracking device for oil and gas assets – the Galaxy GTP4050. “It is largely intended Read more…
The Guardian | By: Senay Boztas | July 27, 2017: A pilot scheme in the Netherlands is sifting sewage for cellulose, which it says can be recycled into valuable products. When you flush the toilet, you’re probably not thinking about bike lanes or home insulation. But that’s where your used Read more…
Reuters | By: Brenda Goh | July 27, 2017: China to speed up bullet trains in September: state media. China plans to raise the speed of its bullet trains back up to 350 kph (217 mph), state media reported on Thursday, six years after a deadly high-speed rail crash prompted Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Mark Nensel | Jul 25, 2017: The US Transportation Security Administration (TSA), working with US intelligence experts, built a large personal electronic device (PED) laden with explosives and tested it “on a real airplane, on the ground [and] pressurized,” US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Victoria Moores | Jul 25, 2017: The UK Department for Transport (DfT) and UK CAA are tightening their unmanned aircraft vehicle (UAV) rules, just as research was released on the potential collision damage to commercial aircraft. Under the proposed rules, drones weighing more than 250 Read more…
ARS Technica | By: Megan Geuss | July 25, 2017: Without planning and cooperation, EU countries could be up against a water problem. Unless you work at a coal, gas, or nuclear plant, you may not think about water when you think about electricity (certainly at a household level; they Read more…
UK Department for Transport | Military Aviation Authority | British Airline Pilots’ Association | GPE – July 26, 2017: The Department for Transport, the Military Aviation Authority and British Airline Pilots’ Association commissioned a study into the effects of a mid-air collision between small remotely piloted aircraft systems (RPAS, commonly Read more…
Waterworld International | By Paul Grad | GPE – July 25, 2017: Costing AUD$11.2 million, the Sydney Park project embodies Australia’s advanced stormwater management success. Helping the city to meet ambitious targets, as well as reusing water, what can the site share with other countries facing stormwater challenges? Sydney Park, Read more…
GE Reports | By: Nir Kshetri | GPE – July 25, 2017: No need for a bank: Just a smartphone and a blockchain. Here are four real examples, compiled by Nir Kshetri, a professor of management at The University of North Carolina-Greensboro, that show how blockchain could help boost the Read more…
GE Reports | By: Mark Egan & Dorothy Pomerantz | GPE – July 25, 2017: Ben Beckmann works as the lead scientist in the complex systems engineering lab at GE Global Research in Niskayuna, New York. In 2012, he made a seemingly inconsequential wager: He bet one of his colleagues Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Leithen Francis | GPE – July 23, 2017: Opinion: How China Is Using ‘Soft Power’ In Space Business. Originally Published Jul 7, 2017: China’s state-backed satellite industry has swooped into Indonesia and suddenly signed deals with two of the country’s top three satellite Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Zachary Shahan | GPE – July 23, 2017: We already published a great article from Nexus Media regarding Lazard’s new report showing the extremely low (and falling) costs of solar power and wind power. However, I’ve been wanting to highlight these awesome new findings since Larmion Read more…
The Council On Foreign Relations | Foreign Affairs | Issue: Natural Resources | Essay By David G. Victor and Kassia Yanosek | July/August 2017: The technology revolution has transformed one industry after another, from retail to manufacturing to transportation. Its most far-reaching effects, however, may be playing out in the Read more…
Clean Technica | By Zachary Shahan | GPE – July 23, 2017: Everything has its advantages and disadvantages, its pluses and minuses. So, naturally, there must be a number of solar power advantages and solar power disadvantages too, right? It’s been awhile since I ran down a list of solar Read more…
Clean Technica | By Zachary Shahan | GPE – July 23, 2017: If you’re considering solar, and you’re like most people, one of the first questions you may ask is: How much do solar panels cost? Solar is a great idea for many people, not only to cut their utility Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By Barry Cinnamon | July 20, 2017: At 1:30 on a Sunday afternoon in June, I experienced the second power outage at my Silicon Valley home this year. Then, last weekend a transformer explosion at a Los Angeles Department of Water and Power substation left 140,000 Read more…
Renewable Energy World | GPE – July 21, 2017: Transitioning to the energy landscape of the future is oftentimes distilled down to a rise in renewable power generation. But the reality is that myriad industries are evolving and contributing to the foundations of a cleaner future. Here, the emergence of Read more…
Photon | Post date: 20/07/2017: The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has accepted the Hawaiian Electric Companies’ plan charting the near-term actions that will lead to 100 percent of Hawaii’s power generation needs coming from renewable resources by 2045. According to Heco, the Power Supply Improvement Plan Update describes the Read more…
The New York Times | By: Christine Hauser | July 20, 2017: With a tweet and very little else by way of detail, the entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday raised the prospect of speedy, hassle-free travel along the busy section of the Eastern Seaboard between New York and Washington, D.C. Read more…
The New York Times | By: Paul Mozur and Jane Perlez | GPE – July 21, 2017: HONG KONG — When the United States Air Force wanted help making military robots more perceptive, it turned to a Boston-based artificial intelligence start-up called Neurala. But when Neurala needed money, it got Read more…
The New York Times | By: Paul Mozur and John Markoff | GPE – July 21, 2017: Sören Schwertfeger finished his postdoctorate research on autonomous robots in Germany, and seemed set to go to Europe or the United States, where artificial intelligence was pioneered and established. Instead, he went to Read more…
The New York Times | By: Paul Mozur | July 20, 2017: SHANGHAI — If Beijing has its way, the future of artificial intelligence will be made in China. The country laid out a development plan on Thursday to become the world leader in A.I. by 2030, aiming to surpass Read more…
Sagaret | Original In French | GPE – July 21, 2017: No buildings visible to the naked eye, no towers at Kengo Kuma. The famous Japanese architect, chosen to oversee the new Olympic stadium in Tokyo, has only one credo: to reintroduce nature in cities. What he plans to do Read more…
Forester Network | By: Laura Sanchez | GPE – July 21, 2017: It began innocently enough—a resume sent via email in Microsoft Word document format. But what transpired once power plant managers opened the files was unquestionably sinister. Originally posted July 10, 2017: Authorities report that since May 2017, hackers Read more…
The Third Pole | By: Katherine Purvis, July 19, 2017: The Indian government’s policy of using treated sewage water to run operations in coal-fired power plants is not economically viable and will do little to resolve conflicts over water use. An ambitious plan to reduce the dependence of India’s coal-fired Read more…
WaterWorld | By: Andrew Heath | GPE – July 21, 2017: Water infrastructure in the U.S. is in serious need of investment. The latest estimates from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) suggest that the nation’s drinking water infrastructure needs $384 billion in new investment and our sewage and stormwater systems Read more…
Rocky Mountain Institute | By: Kevin Brehm | July 12, 2017: Market responses show rural electric co-ops and municipal utilities can save money with solar. On March 22, 2017, Rocky Mountain Institute’s Shine Program released a request for proposals (RFP) for community-scale solar on behalf of a group of rural Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Brian Christopher Greene and Deanne M. Barrow | GPE – July 19, 2017: Part One: Technological and cost breakthroughs are expected to lead to rapid growth in the number of utility and behind-the-meter storage projects. Industry insiders say the energy storage market in 2017 feels Read more…
OECD | Report | GPE – July 18, 2017: Since the beginning of China’s economic transformation in the early 1970s, investment has been a key driver of China’s growth and has contributed to substantial improvements in living standards. Report originally published October 27, 2016: Over three decades of average annual Read more…
Pacific Institute | By: Rapichan Phurisamban and Peter Gleick | GPE – July 17, 2017: In February of 2017, the Pacific Institute released a white paper entitled Drinking Fountains and Public Health: Improving National Infrastructure to Rebuild Trust and Ensure Access, which highlighted the limited evidence of a link between Read more…
Fortune International | GPE – July 16, 2017: The current focus of China on infrastructure development was explained in a special report originally published online by Fortune International on May 23rd 2013 – excerpted below: China is at a crossroads. Its leaders are committed to dramatically transforming the world’s second-largest Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Sven Lindström | July 13, 2017: The stars are aligned for a breakthrough of small-scale solar energy in urban areas. This could completely change the world, the planet’s source of energy generation and save the environment. However, there are also obstacles to this bright future Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Dr. Thomas Hillig | July 11, 2017: The Caribbean island of Sint Eustatius has changed its power generation paradigms by reducing diesel consumption with a 1.89 MW solar PV and 1 MW/572 kWh Li-Ion battery energy storage system. THEnergy has performed a data analysis for Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Michele Capots | July 12, 2017: Hurricane Sandy, known as Superstorm Sandy, was the deadliest and most destructive hurricane of the 2012 Atlantic hurricane season. Almost 2.5 million people were left without power in the aftermath of the storm. Damages were estimated to be more Read more…
Reuters | By: Colin Packham | July 14, 2017: SYDNEY (Reuters) – Australia on Friday proposed new laws to compel companies such as U.S. social media giant Facebook (FB.O) and device manufacturer Apple (AAPL.O) to provide security agencies access to encrypted messages. The measures will be the first in an Read more…
Time | By: Melissa Chan | Jul 12, 2017: Scientists have successfully teleported an object from Earth to space for the first time, paving the way for more ambitious and futuristic breakthroughs. A team of researchers in China sent a photon from the ground to an orbiting satellite more than Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Giles Parkinson | July 11th, 2017: Chief scientist Alan Finkel says it is clear that investors in the energy market prefer wind and solar because they are cheaper to build than traditional generation such as hydro and coal. Speaking to the National Press Club 12 days Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julia Pyper | GPE – July 12, 2017: Oil companies have realized that renewables aren’t going away—and they want to get in on the action. Originally published – June 13, 2017: Wind and solar have reached a point where they’re impossible for the world’s largest oil Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julia Pyper | July 11, 2017: The oil giant’s New Energies division launched last year with an annual investment budget of just $200 million. Royal Dutch Shell is accelerating its move into alternative energy, with plans to spend up to $1 billion per year on its Read more…
Greentech Media | By: Julian Spector | July 11, 2017: The new company, Fluence, will combine AES’ expertise in utility-scale storage with Siemens’ global sales and engineering resources. Two of the biggest names in energy storage development have decided to join forces. AES, a leader in megawatt-hours deployed, will launch Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Perry Williams, Bloomberg | July 7, 2017: Elon Musk’s Tesla Inc. has won a tender to supply what the billionaire says is the world’s largest lithium-ion battery to back up the state of South Australia’s blackout-plagued power grid, making good on a promise first made Read more…
Bloomberg | By: Brian K Sullivan | 7 July 2017: Texas struggled through its driest year in history in 2011. Four years later was its wettest ever. The Mississippi River rose to all-time-high flood levels in 2011. In 2012, its second-lowest. After a six-year drought that made agricultural irrigation a Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Telis Demos | July 9, 2017 7:00 a.m. ET: Big banks start rollout of machines that could be accessed with customers’ biometric data via a smartphone. In 2015, Citigroup Inc. C 0.41% began testing an ATM that would scan a customer’s iris and make Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: John Farrell | July 6, 2017: Two key moves will propel San Francisco toward an all-renewable electricity mix by 2030, potentially making the city — the 13th largest in the nation — a model for others eyeing a similar transition. In April 2016, city policy Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Jess Shankleman, Bloomberg | July 6, 2017: BlackRock Inc. exceeded a $1 billion fundraising target for wind and solar investments for its latest global clean energy fund, underscoring investor interest in renewable energy amid policy uncertainty in key markets. The second Global Renewable Power Fund, Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Joe Ryan, Bloomberg | June 29, 2017: As Elon Musk races to finish building the world’s biggest battery factory in the Nevada desert, China is poised to leave him in the dust. Chinese companies have plans for additional factories with the capacity to pump out Read more…
The Washington Post | By Darryl Fears | July 4 at 10:18 AM: The $19 billion bid to clean the Chesapeake Bay and restore its health rests on a simple plan: cut the amount of nutrient waste — involving nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment — that causes most of the bay’s Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | July 4th, 2017: Germany reached a new renewable energy record in the first half of this year, generating 35.1% of its electricity from renewable energy sources, according to the country’s trade body, the German Renewable Energy Federation. In news published only days Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Renewable Energy World Editors | June 27, 2017: The U.S. Conference of Mayors in Miami yesterday approved a resolution calling for 100 percent renewable energy in cities across the U.S. by 2035. “What better way to kick off Donald Trump’s energy week than with a Read more…
Reuters | By: Andrés González and Arno Schuetze | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 1:18pm EDT: Spanish power company Gas Natural (GAS.MC) has fired the starting gun in what is expected to be the biggest upheaval among European utility companies for a decade. Chairman Isidre Faine has contacted his counterpart Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Michael J Dyment and Mark G. Mykityshyn | June 26 – July 09, 2017: The rapid growth of the U.S. small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) market is being driven almost entirely by the private sector, with thousands of professionals and companies working to Read more…
Reuters | Tue Jul 4, 2017 | 5:43am EDT: The Three Gorges and Gezhouba, two of China’s top hydropower plants, have closed capacity by as much as two-thirds, state media said on Tuesday, as torrential rains across the south triggered drastic steps to ease pressure on the Yangtze River. Days Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | June 30th, 2017: Renewable energy sources generated more than a quarter of the UK’s electricity in the first quarter of this year, with onshore wind setting a record high of 8.3%, helping to further dismantle the UK’s reliance upon coal energy. In Read more…
Clean Technica | June 29th, 2017 | By: John Farrell: While most programs so far have targeted home comfort (central air conditioning or electric water heating), there are other sources of electricity consumption that remain untouched. In the past decade, two major trends have threatened the ability of electric utilities Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Bradley Olson | June 29, 2017 7:00 a.m. ET: After weathering years of protests, pipeline operator TransCanada is struggling to attract customers amid low crude prices and competing oil-transportation options. Keystone XL is facing a new challenge: The oil producers and refiners the pipeline Read more…
Rocky Mountain Institute | By Courtney Fairbrother, Leia Guccione, Mike Henchen and Anthony Teixeira: PURPOSE OF THIS REPORT: This report explores challenges to effective innovation at U.S. electric utilities, with a focus on pilot and demonstration projects. We offer recommendations for utilities, regulators, and DER technology providers to support more Read more…
Reinsurance News | By: Marianne Lehnis | 28th June 2017: Along with wind and sun, China has harnessed the power of insurance to catalyse its clean energy revolution, after having successfully pioneered government led re/insurance partnerships to safe-guard regional development with an index insurance scheme that makes a post-disaster payout Read more…
Clean Technica | By: Joshua S Hill | June 27th, 2017: Renewable energy sources are now providing more electricity than nuclear power for the first time ever in the United States, according to figures issued by the US Energy Information Administration and highlighted by Ken Bossong’s Sun Day Campaign. The Read more…
Reuters | Breaking Views | By: Richard Beales | Wed Jun 28, 2017 | 4:47pm EDT Who’d be in charge of a corporate IT network with hacks, phishing and now a double dose of so-called ransomware to contend with? This week’s cyber attack hit targets from Ukraine to the United Read more…
Air Transport World | By: Aaron Karp | Jun 28, 2017: American Airlines has reached an agreement with technology firm Analogic to buy $6 million worth of computed tomography (CT) airport checkpoint screening machines that the carrier hopes to deploy at US airports later this year following US government certification Read more…
Zurich Insurance | By: Angela Skow | GPE – June 29, 2017: Challenges of our nation’s aging infrastructure: Our aging infrastructure costs millions in repairs, business interruption and supply chain risks. Whether P3 construction projects may sway the pendulum remains to be seen. There is a lot of buzz in Read more…
Video Above: “What Are Microgrids?” Greentech Media | By: Jeff St. John | June 27, 2017: One of the country’s biggest microgrid providers plans to share technologies and markets with one of California’s top BTM storage startups. Microgrids require a hefty combination of technologies to execute properly. They also require Read more…
Reuters | Wed Jun 28, 2017 | 2:42pm EDT: A German regulator has suspended the launch of a law obliging German telecom companies to keep telephone and Internet data for up to 10 weeks to help fight crime, citing a court ruling. The data retention law, which had been due Read more…
Renewable Energy World | By: Steve Sawyer | June 21, 2017: ‘A remarkable achievement,’ is the only thing I can say about where the European offshore wind industry finds itself today. It has taken a lot longer and cost a lot more money and effort than we thought back in Read more…
Technology Decisions | By: Jonathan Nally | Tuesday, 27 June, 2017: Local governments around Australia are implementing strategic plans to place themselves at the forefront of the smart cities revolution. Twenty years ago, no-one had heard of smart cities. Today, the concept is rapidly growing all around us. And in Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Sam Schechner | Updated June 27, 2017 7:08 a.m. ET: EU orders Google to treat rival comparison-shopping services equally in its search results. The European Union’s antitrust regulator on Tuesday fined Alphabet Inc.’s GOOGL -1.42% Google a record €2.42 billion ($2.71 billion) for favoring Read more…
LinkedIn | By: Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson | GPE – June 27, 2017: Over the past few years we’ve developed artificially intelligent machines that can do many things that used to require human minds: understanding speech, diagnosing disease, checking the terms of a contract, designing a mechanical part from Read more…
Kansas State University | Seeker | By: Glenn McDonald | GPE – June 27 2017: Kansas State University scientists stumble upon a surprisingly simple method for making industrial graphene: blowing stuff up. Apparently, when it comes to making graphene, the 21st-century “miracle material” taking manufacturing by storm, you can do Read more…
The University Of Manchester | GPE – June 27 2017: Newsfacts: Graphene sieve turns seawater into drinking water; New research shows graphene can filter common salts from water to make it safe to drink; Findings could lead to affordable desalination technology. About Graphene Membrane: Graphene-oxide membranes have attracted considerable attention Read more…
Engineering News | By: Terence Creamer | 26th June 2017: Recent renewable energy price reductions, together with sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA’s) formidable solar and wind resources, have made solar and wind technologies the cheapest sources of power in several countries, which carries significant implications, a newly published academic paper argues, for Read more…
Aviation Week & Space Technology | By: Tony Osborne | Jun 23, 2017: China’s UAVs are selling well in Asia and the Middle East. It was not the most dynamic of exhibits on display at this year’s Paris Air Show, but the unexpected appearance of a Chinese-built armed UAV in Read more…
The Guardian | By: Damian Carrington | Saturday 24 June 2017 07.01 BST: Freedom-of-information data reveals threat of drought that would devastate wildlife, with government slow to act on water management. A quarter of England’s rivers are at risk of running dry, with devastating consequences for wildlife, according to data Read more…
The Wall Street Journal | By: Jim Carlton | June 23, 2017 8:00 a.m. ET: Project to replace decades-old structure near San Francisco Bay has seen delays and unexpected construction issues. The coastal mountains that frame the working-class city of Fremont, California – next to San Francisco Bay – harbor Read more…