Let's get one thing straight right up front. A booming domestic energy economy producing and using more domestic oil and natural gas is a good thing. The potential for expanded supply of these fuels is important for jobs, economic growth and our collective future.
The question is what role natural gas will play in the future of trucking, which is today dominated by diesel fuel.
Science has published an interesting and useful new paper on methane leaks in natural gas operations -- but the New York Times chose to highlight the one thing in it that's both unoriginal and shaky. Understanding that flaw reveals some useful pointers for policymakers.
Henry Ford was fond of saying that "nothing was particularly hard if you divided it into small jobs." He followed his own advice, built world’s first assembly lines that cranked out 15 million Model Ts, and left his competitors in the dust. Engineers are now taking Ford's advice to the extreme and breaking down the factory to bits and bytes.
President Obama today announced two new manufacturing innovation institutes. One is focused on digital manufacturing and design innovation that will be headquartered in Chicago, Illinois; the second is focused on lightweight and modern metals manufacturing that will be headquartered outside of Detroit, Michigan.
"To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die."
~Thomas Campbell, Physicist
Over the last three years, electric vehicle sales in the US have been steadily increasing but only adding a small number of new buyers every year, according to the Electric Drive Transportation Association. In Europe, meanwhile, countries like Germany have seen numbers stagnate. One of the biggest issues facing the wider uptake of electric cars is the still-lagging battery technology.
CHICAGO, IL --- GE Capital, Commercial Distribution Finance (CDF) announced today that it will provide financing to information technology (IT) solution providers that are part of the AT&T Partner Exchange(SM) reseller program. The program helps solution providers create custom solutions for their business customers by bundling AT&T's advanced mobility, cloud and IP networking solutions with hardware, software and managed services.
This 3D simulation of the Chelyabinsk meteor explosion by Mark Boslough was rendered by Brad Carvey using Sandia National Lab's Red Sky supercomputer. Andrea Carvey composited the wireframe tail.
