10 futuristic tech innovations that are mean we are not all entirely doomed
If you thought Trump, Brexit, climate change and the increasingly absurd global political situation (not to mention orange skies) were all pointing at some sort of impending apocalypse, you’re not the only one. Add in house prices, economic unrest, rising cost of living, seemingly endless natural disasters and terrorist attacks and the result is millions of young people feeling fearful, disenfranchised and robbed of the sort of security, financial and geographical freedom their parents enjoyed. However, a group of the world’s leading futurologists has come together to help sketch a picture of a future that is not actually all doom and gloom. If they are to be believed, the future will not see us living in a sort of dystopian Albion, eating chlorinated chicken and singing the National Anthem in Wetherspoons while the polar bears float off on the last remaining shreds of ice cap.
Report Tracks Five Key Trends in Clean Tech Market Growth (Energy Priorities Archives)
Private investment in "clean tech" -- primarily renewable energy technologies -- is climbing, while some of the funded companies are making headlines with their initial public stock offerings. Meanwhile the oil president puts on a green face, which puts smiles on the faces of biofuels producers and feedstock growers. Where does it all lead?
“Challenges and Opportunities for a Clean Technology Revolution: A Venture Capital Perspective” by Varun Mehra – Aleph
Introduction Climate change and global warming have put markets, governments, and society in a unique yet pressing situation; standing idly by as carbon emissions and pollution externalities exacerbate current climate conditions is not a viable solution to economic prosperity. However, there does not need to be a negative correlation between environmental degradation and GDP growth. In order to meet the needs of rising populations, markets must rethink their energy dependence and move towards achieving low-carbon growth.
Current Trends in Clean Technology Investments – I'm Jacek
No doubt about it, clean technology is growing, not only due to government and internationally set renewable energy targets such as the 2020, Kyoto, etc… but also because it’s simply something that we need to implement in order not to completely botch up this little planet of ours. However, as with anything there are current trends in the sector, and it’s sub specializations. Today we look at the current trends in clean-tech and talk a little about what is currently hot and where is the outlook. Solar The solar sector is currently seeing a price war, with the average currently at approximately $1.50/watt, and most manufacturing coming out of China, western companies are having difficulties competing on price.
Trends in Clean Technology Transfer
A new report on technology transfer, “Advancing technology transfer for climate changemitigation,” examines the international governance of technologytransfer, the performance of different instruments in delivering newtechnologies and proposals aiming at increased technology transfer. The study also examines a number of critical conditions fortechnology oriented treaties that can effectively promote technologytransfer – both within or outside the UNFCCC framework – in two technology spheres:carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies and energy-efficiencyapplications within the building sector. Image: Intellectual Property – Ownership Concentration for Clean Technology Source Related EPRI launches Clean Energy Incubator Network with NREL and DoE
Four technology trends that will take down the barriers of protectionism
With time, as issues of cyber security and IP are better addressed, remote monitoring and location agnostic manufacturing will underscore our efforts of dissolving boundaries and democratising markets. (Image: Shutterstock) We live in interesting times! As we worry about the rise of protectionism, we are also optimistic about the surface of technologies that are taking down barriers and create one collaborative global entity of connected people and devices through decentralization. A key global business risk which continues is the uncertainty regarding economic policies led by increasing trend of protectionism.
CleanTech Index: Even the miners are supporting it now!
The Australian CleanTech Index outperformed the ASX in September and in the first quarter of the financial year. Over the last three years it has outperformed the ASX200 by 46%. It is no wonder then that the miners and explorers in Sydney and on the Terrace in Perth are turning their attention to supplying the sector of the future. After a wave of Lithium companies emerging over the last few years, we are now seeing rebranding and refocus of many companies into Cobalt and Graphite, both of which are key components in various cleantech products. Industry is moving ahead as well with an uptake in many cleantech solutions been seen as just good business.
The Top Ten Trends In Clean Technology for 2011
The Web site, earth2tech, has named the top clean-tech trends of the year, with the plummeting cost of solar panels topping the list, followed by India’s emergence as a renewable energy powerhouse. Earth2tech reports that the price of solar panels dropped 40 percent in 2011, in large part because Chinese manufacturers flooded the market with low-cost solar panels. That should help spur the installation of more solar panels on rooftops, and also means that some solar power developers are foregoing large solar-thermal power projects in favor of residential solar.
