innovation
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How do we get off fossil fuels when we’ve always feared change?
People generally oppose anything that feels too new, which is a problem in a world that needs a lot of innovation.
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Food-safety regulation thwarts start-up’s dream to bring you home-cooked meals
Is there a way to sensibly regulate food safety without drumming out innovation -- and homemade pupusas?
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8 bright ideas for a cleaner future
Check out the awesome finalists from OpenIDEO's Renewable Energy Challenge.
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A Kenyan kid turns his friends’ poop into clean energy
Leroy Mwasaru and his team tackled shoddy sanitation with a bioreactor that produces cooking fuel from so-called waste.
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Critical List: Head of ARPA-E resigns; Tim DeChristopher appeals his conviction
Arun Majumdar, the head of ARPA-E, the energy equivalent of DARPA, is stepping down next month. Today, Tim DeChristopher is appealing his conviction for disrupting a federal drilling auction. Europeans installed more solar power than any other kind of power last year.
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Embattled teen genius actually better, smarter than most people
Back in August, the Internet discovered Aidan Dwyer, a 13-year-old go-getter who worked out a way to make solar panels more efficient. Because nobody likes a 13-year-old go getter, the Internet basically told him NO YOU'RE WRONG.
Okay, so he should have measured power instead of voltage when testing his solar panel design. But it turns out Dwyer is totally getting the last laugh here, and is proving that nerdy 13-year-old go-getters actually are just better at life than most people on the Internet. Dwyer's spoken at PopTech's annual innovation conference and is scheduled to speak at the World Future Energy Summit. -
California study is NOT about technological limits. Why glass is 100% full
A recent state sponsored study shows that California could reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 60% compared to 1990 by 2050 with today’s technology(pdf). That has sparked a debate. The glass-half-full crowd, among whom I usually count myself would argue that if we have the technology today to achieve a 60% reduction, if we start implementing […]
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Introducing the self-inflating bicycle tire
PumpTire has developed the world's first self-inflating bike tire, which actually takes in air and inflates to ideal pressure as you ride. This won't keep you from ever getting a flat or anything, but it could spare you a lot of tedious adjusting and checking of tire pressure.
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The small-c conservatism of U.S. power companies
The U.S. power sector is biased in favor of the familiar. It's not well-suited to producing the risk-taking and innovation we need in clean electricity