Born in California, OceanWell is developing a planet-friendly technology to harvest water molecules from the ocean using reverse osmosis (RO) membranes in a new way. Unlike the heavy industrial RO process typically conducted on land, OceanWell passively extracts freshwater from the deep sea without harming marine life. Its LifeSafe circulation ...
Over the last decade, competition has intensified between gas and electric utilities to meet all building energy needs for homes and businesses, including sectors like heating and cooking. Policy incentives to transition from gas to electric appliances as part of greenhouse gas emission reduction strategies and improvements in electric technologies ...
This presentation will analyse how digital capitalism renews wealth inequalities and urban segregation through the transformation of urban housing markets by real estate platforms. Focusing on post-apartheid South Africa, I examine how housing, a foundational site of racial capitalism, has been re-coded financially, algorithmically and legally into an asset class ...
Organisms have been making exquisite inorganic materials for over 500 million years. Although these materials have many desired physical properties such as strength, regularity, and environmentally benign processing, the types of materials that organisms have evolved to work with are limited. However, there are many properties of living systems that ...
Despite ominous foretelling of a slowdown, the computational throughput has increased by orders of magnitude over the last decade. Energy efficiency is critical not only to maintain this incessant advancement, but also to ensure that electronics does not become a drag on the finite energy resources of the world. This ...
We are at the beginning of one of the most significant industrial transitions in history, moving from an economy based almost exclusively on carbon-producing fossil energy - coal, oil and gas - to one eventually fueled by renewable energy - sun, wind, steam, and innovative technologies that generate and enable ...
In 2023, Wild Care's Executive Director Stephanie Ellis was tasked with incubating two sets of Osprey eggs, raising the chicks and finding them suitable wild foster nests. This year, she has been placing Osprey eggs (from USDA) into active nests, and working with a local utility company to get chicks ...
