Yeah…I’m a geek

Stewart Brand uses his time at TED to challenge existing ideologies around weighty issues like the environment, mass poverty, geo-engineering and energy provision/consumption.  While you may or may not agree with his views, they have the wonderful effect of getting people talking and discussing these critical concepts.
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One of the more significant challenges that solar radiation has had to deal with as a viable alternative energy source is storage.  To date, storage of solar energy has been inefficient and costly.  Well, some researchers at MIT seem to have discovered/developed an innovative, clean and cheap way by mimicking how plants store the sun’s energy.  [...]

SeaGen’s commercial scale wave power turbine has officially gone online and it putting power into the grid.  More than 4 times the size of other tidal power turbines, this is one of many different technologies that holds the hope of sustainable and clean power generation for the future.
“SeaGen’s power is being intentionally constrained to 300kW [...]

Well, it’s nice to see Canada leading the way in terms of gasification plants in North America.  While the tech is that all that new, it hasn’t really caught on outside of Europe until now.   PlascoEnergy Group constructed the first demo site in Ottawa back in 2006 and is now in the process of constructing the permanent [...]

Jeffrey Sachs is one of the world’s most prominent economists and has worked with the current UN General Secretary and world leaders, academics and global companies.  Currently a professor at Columbia University, Jeffrey Sachs has previously written End of Poverty, which Common Wealth partly covers in terms of content (extreme poverty).  Common Wealth goes much further [...]