Energy efficiency is a strange “fuel.” You don’t get a monthly efficiency bill like you would for, say, heating oil or natural gas. But efficiency — or the lack of it — can have as big an impact on your [...]
How could shipping expenses, carbon emissions and time wasted in traffic all be reduced at once? One expert believes the answer lies with high-capacity vehicles, or HCVs. We might call them “extra-long trucks” or “super lorries,” but — whatever you [...]
Can smarter building techniques also make for faster construction? China’s Broad Group hopes to answer that question with a resounding “Yes” by completing the world’s tallest building in 90 days. The company plans to build the 220-story Sky City tower [...]
Thanks to innovations like ever-faster and more affordable PCs, smart phones and cloud computing, a small or mid-sized business today can enjoy an advanced IT infrastructure unimaginable even five or 10 years ago. One “perk of the future” that has [...]
By all appearances, Nissan’s “Taxi of Tomorrow” — which has just made its debut in advance of the New York International Auto Show — is a comfortable, user-friendly and well-engineered vehicle. It’s just too bad it doesn’t live up to [...]
There are lots of ways to measure how efficient a thing or process is: miles per gallon, GDP per barrel of oil, lumens per watt, etc. There are also, as Mark Twain (or was it Benjamin Disraeli?) said, “three kinds [...]
We’re not quite in the “Flintstones” era of smart-grid technology anymore, but we’ve got a long way to go before we see a “Jetsons”-like future. A new report from the GridWise Alliance, though, offers some tantalizing hints of the benefits [...]
It’s not a modern, technology-focused retelling of “Goldilocks,” but Mitsubishi’s “Pittari Home” aims to portray a future that’s “just right” from an energy and sustainability perspective. Set to go on display when Mitsubishi Heavy Industries reopens two newly revamped exhibits [...]
Schoolkids who have a chance to meet with an experienced astronaut tend to ask one question more than any other: “How do you go to the bathroom in space?” Put that NASA veteran in front of a group of moms, [...]
Is bigger necessarily more efficient? It all depends on circumstances. For example, an Amazon certainly enjoys an economy of scale no brick-and-mortar local bookstore can … as fallout in the book-selling business has proven. On the other hand, when conditions [...]
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