There is a strange kind of logical error where people have a fear of climate change choose depopulation as one of the first solutions. Firstly what is the climate change problem? There are climate models on supercomputers that predict temperature increase of 2-8 degrees by 2100. They stop right there and do not question the …
Commercial heat pump makers have developed next generation cold climate heat pumps. Next-generation cold-climate heat pumps—a key clean energy technology that can potentially save households $500 a year or more on their utility bills while also slashing harmful carbon emissions. The DOE Challenge specifies that prototypes deliver 100% heating capacity without the use of auxiliary …
In 2011, Nextbigfuture covered a peer reviewed paper that discussed the maximum wind power that could be taken before it acted like doubling atmospheric CO2. Basic circulation model indicates that increasing global wind power by 18-34 times from 1 Terawatt today will be like doubling atmospheric CO2. This would be counter to the stated goals …
In 2021, the California Air Resources Board voted to require that new, small off-road engines – like the ones found in leaf blowers and lawn mowers – meet zero-emission standards starting in 2024. In addition, portable generators, including those found in recreational vehicles, must be zero-emission by 2028. The rules do not ban the possession …
Various unfortunate events have been some blaming climate change. The Maui fire, Canadian wildfires, years of California wildfires and food inflation. Maui Grass Problem Maui did not fix its vegetation problem for years. The root cause of the Maui fire was addressed in the Wall Street Journal, NY Times and other reporting. The WSJ titled: …
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $100 million in funding to support clean energy technologies by providing a path to market for promising technologies. Developing and deploying innovative energy technologies is key to delivering a clean energy future and achieve net-zero emissions economy-wide by 2050. Between the 2019 and 2021 cohort, ARPA-E …
Living Carbon is a startup funded with $36 million that just planted a forest of genetically modified trees to absorb more carbon. Living Carbon is a San Francisco-based biotechnology company that produced genetically modified poplars. The new trees are intended to be a large-scale solution to climate change. The company’s researchers used a crude technique …
Canada has already gotten less extreme cold, longer growing seasons, shorter snow and ice cover seasons, earlier spring peak streamflow, thinning glaciers, thawing permafrost, and rising sea level. The annual average temperature in Canada has increased at roughly twice the global mean rate. Patterns are different across regions of the country, however. Temperatures have increased …
FuelCell Energy (FCE) is developing high-temperature fuel cells that can work with natural gas and coal plants to improve efficiency and cleaner energy. The Connecticut-based firm has developed a new type of fuel cell that uses molten carbonate electrolytes. This electrochemical cell can capture CO2 from a power plant’s flue gas while generating additional electricity …
I, Brian Wang, spoke at Technology Universe 2022 which was held in Portugal. I discussed antiaging and aging reversal, which is shown in the video below. I think the most interesting projects and companies are Rejuvenate Bio and NewLimits. There are 171 companies working on aging damage repair and aging reversal. My talk also discussed …
Nextbigfuture spoke with John Chappell, Director of Business Development – Energy at BlockApps. BlockApps is a leader in Enterprise Blockchain. They were incubated out of Consensys in 2015. ConsenSys is the leading Ethereum software company. Blockapps has an easy-to-use, powerful Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform on the market called STRATO. BlockApps has partnered with …