Debora Frodl: Data Driving the Future of Clean Tech
Clean tech is increasingly about IT-enabled distributed and fully integrated energy systems that have the potential to transform lives around the world — as well as the prosperity and productivity of countries across the globe.
Sun-Powered Desalination for Villages in India
Off-grid Indian communities with salty groundwater could get potable water through a proposed solar technique.
Around the world, there is more salty groundwater than fresh, drinkable groundwater. For example, 60 percent of India is underlain by salty water — and much of that area is not served by an electric grid that could run conventional reverse-osmosis desalination plants.
Bigger, Better Gas Turbine to Meet the Growing Demand For Power in ASEAN
Running on Waste Heat
Gang Chen’s thermoelectric devices turn waste heat into electricity for vehicles and other machines.
It’s estimated that more than half of U.S. energy — from vehicles and heavy equipment, for instance — is wasted as heat. Mostly, this waste heat simply escapes into the air. But that’s beginning to change, thanks to thermoelectric innovators such as MIT’s Gang Chen.
Paul Bulla: How Urban Waste Is Powering Rural Sustainability
Dr. Dan Wicklum: Environmental Innovation in Canada’s Oil Sands
“There can be no economy where there is no efficiency.”
Eight million homes and businesses without electricity after Superstorm Sandy in 2012, tens of thousands left in the cold by last winter’s polar vortex.
Power generation increasingly resembles an extreme sport — is your utility company ready for the next round?
