Yearly Archives: 2013

Energy Update: Speculation on the Cold Fusion Front

What is cold fusion as we understand it today? The answer is: "nobody really knows." It is certainly not nuclear fusion as we understand it...

Meet Atlas the Robot Out to Win the DARPA Challenge

He looks a little like Robby-the-Robot, the fictional robot of the 1956 science fiction film The Forbidden Planet. Both Robby, seen below in the picture...

Gizmos & Gadgets: New Optical Lens Has Zoom In Function

Engineers at the Jacobs School of Engineering in San Diego are perfecting a contact lens that can view images normally or magnify them by...

Industrial Manufacturing Update: Ford Adopts Aggressive Water Management Strategy

Ford Motor Company has set a water reduction target in its manufacturing and assembly line processes of 30% per vehicle by 2015. The application...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for July 12, 2013

This week's headlines have one thing in common. They are all related to space.   SpaceX Grasshopper Leaps 325 Meters This Time; NASA Announces Successor to Curiosity...

Transportation and Energy Update: Fuel Cell Cars Looking Even More Likely

Some time ago I wrote about the fuel cell plans of major automobile manufacturers like Ford, Daimler and Nissan. The three pledged to have...

Floods in Toronto, Floods in Calgary, Train Derailment in Quebec – How are they Related?

Not all of you who read this blog know that Toronto on Monday experienced a record weather event. At around 5 p.m. local time...

As a Retiree Living Off Investment Income What Should Be My Take On Energy Stocks? – Part 2

In today's New York Times, Justin Gillis writes about young people reacting to President Obama's climate speech at Georgetown University a couple of weeks...

Agriculture Update: Beeologics May Help Save Honey Bees from Colony Collapse Disorder

In June of this year, Monsanto, the company so many love to hate, sponsored the Honey Bee Health Summit at its St. Louis, Missouri,...

Energy Update: Desertec Foundation Walks Away from Solar and Wind Project Consortium

The DESERTEC Foundation was launched in 2009 to harness the solar energy falling on the desert to light the world and solve the world's...

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