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Mekong Nations Eye Hydropower To Drive Energy And Economic Plans

September 08, 2017
Hydropower is the colossus of the renewable energy world – the single largest clean energy source available today accounting for more than 16% of total global electricity generation worldwide, and 85% of total global renewable electricity.
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Grayson Brulte: Disincentivizing Online Piracy Through Innovation

Grayson Brulte Brulte Company
January 06, 2015
You don’t have to read all the headlines about the online attacks on Sony Pictures Entertainment to understand the growing problem of piracy confronting the TV and movie industry.
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Projecting a Robot’s Intentions

Mit News
January 02, 2015

A new spin on virtual reality helps engineers read robots’ minds.

In a darkened, hangar-like space inside MIT’s Building 41, a small, Roomba-like robot is trying to make up its mind.

 

Standing in its path is an obstacle — a human pedestrian who’s pacing back and forth. To get to the other side of the room, the robot has to first determine where the pedestrian is, then choose the optimal route to avoid a close encounter.
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Zeroing in on the Big Picture

GE Look Ahead
December 31, 2014

Why, where and how companies will innovate in 2015

If patents are viable proxies for innovation, then “innovation is on the rise”, states the Thomson Reuter’s 2014 State of Innovation report. The computing sector alone logged in 300,000 unique inventions. Rounding out the report’s top five most innovative industries were telecommunications (126,000 patents), automotive (123,000), semiconductors (97,000) and medical devices (75,000). All five industries had more R&D activity in 2013 than in the year before.

 
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Steve Melito: Manufacturing, Entrepreneurship and Economic Strength

Steve Melito Fuzehub
December 30, 2014
What’s the best way to measure the strength of a state’s economy?
 
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Francisco J. Sánchez: Synchronized Factories — The Key to Latin America’s Industrial Future

Francisco J Sanchez Cns Global Advisors
December 29, 2014
In 2005, Bombardier, the Canadian aerospace and transportation company, opened the doors of a factory in Querétaro, Mexico. At the time, the move seemed like a serious gamble. Though Mexico offered low wages compared to Canada, could it provide Bombardier with the environment required for such a highly technical manufacturing plant?
 

Almost 10 years later, it is clear that the gamble paid off. The factory has flourished and employs more than 1,800 workers. Bombardier continues to generate profits from its Mexico plants and is expanding there.
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The Next Big (or Really, Really Tiny) Thing in 3D Printing

GE Look Ahead
December 23, 2014

How to print blood vessels. And apartment buildings

A wedding ring holding a piece of moon rock. Hydroponic garden structures tailored to any shape desired. Jet engine fuel nozzles. An Aston Martin template: These are but a few examples on the growing roster of 3D-printed structures that steadily made tech headlines over the past 18 months.
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Bruce Katz and Mark Muro: What States Need to Do to Grow Their Advanced Industries

Bruce Katz Brookings Institution
Mark Muro Brookings
December 22, 2014
Voters said unequivocally in this year’s midterm elections that economic growth and quality jobs are their top concerns. The divided federal government that resulted from those elections seems likely to take incremental but not transformative steps on critical economic issues. In other words, less gridlock but little impact.
 
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Andrew Tatem: How Mobiles Could Aid Disaster Response

Andrew Tatem Worldpop
December 19, 2014
There are now more mobile phones in use than there are people in the world to use them — some 7.2 billion phones. Mobile phones are becoming integral parts of our lives, penetrating into areas of the developing world that lack much of the fixed infrastructure taken for granted elsewhere. This makes them an excellent potential source of information about population movements.
 
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Charles McConnell: Energy Sustainability Through a Global Lens

Charles Mcconnell Rice University
December 17, 2014
Transformative technology continues to be the single largest enabler for a sustainable energy future in this world, and any number of studies also point to the fact that there is no more important contributor to the health and well-being of people than the supply of energy.
 

In future columns, I’d like to discuss in detail these technologies and how they are so important to a sustainable future. But what is energy sustainability, and how can it be viewed globally?
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