Yearly Archives: 2013

Energy Update: An Environmental Engineer’s 2030 Forecast

In this month's Report on Business Magazine, a  supplement that comes with The Globe and Mail, one of Canada's national newspapers, Stanford University's Mark...

Energy and Environment Update: Crowdsourcing to Hunt for Power Plants

A team of researchers are asking the public to help them locate and count all the sources of CO2 coming from power plants on...

Agriculture Update: UK Scientists Create A New Wheat Strain Through Embryology Not Genetic Manipulation

Initial results from a selective breeding program at the National Institute of Agricultural Botany based in Cambridge in the UK, indicate the successful creation...

Gizmos & Gadgets: Flying Cars! Really?

One of my readers recently asked me to write about flying cars. I have looked at this technology in the past and considered it...

Energy Update: Solar Power to the Poor

Off-the-grid solar power is one of the solutions that could dramatically alter the lives of an estimated 1.5 billion humans who today have no...

Gizmos & Gadgets: Meet the GiraDora, A Low Tech Washer and Dryer

If you ever have used a salad spinner to dry out your lettuce then you know the principle behind the GiraDora, loosely meaning "spinning...

Climate Change Update: We Did It! We Passed 400

It's official. The observatory atop Mauna Loa in Hawaii recorded on Thursday this week that we had reached 400.08 parts per million of CO2...

Headlines at 21st Century Tech for May 10, 2013

Another interesting week of technology and science announcements has led me to pick the following five stories:   World's Biggest Companies Tackling Climate Change; Idaho Potato Gets...

Robotics Update: Hire These Robots to Build Your IKEA Furniture

My wife and I have been downsizing and ridding ourselves of over 40 years of furniture collecting as we prepare to move to our...

Space Update: Our Human Behaviour Here on Earth is Perfectly Suited for Mars

It occurred to me today as I was reading about researchers being able to reliably predict snowstorms on Mars, that what we humans are...

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