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For centuries, arsenic has been known to be a classic poison, causing deaths of many historic figures. While now just a murder-mystery cliché to many, arsenic is still actually causing harm, with dangerously high levels in food and water around the world.
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Employees have inadvertently exposed vulnerabilities in network security that pose serious long-term threats. It’s far too easy to imagine a worst case scenario: targeted cyber attacks, a blowout, or a spill.
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Jeff Surma, a chemical engineer by training and now something of an energy visionary, has not only proven that InEnTec, his small startup, can profitably vaporize garbage by turning it into grid power, he’s also convinced that the process could scale up nationally.
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As China produces increasing amounts of pollution and CO2, it is also progressing by leaps and bounds in carbon-capture and storage projects.
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A milestone U.S. carbon capture demonstration project just began operation in Texas, which, as an emerging technology, companies still struggle to make cost-effective. Now up and running, the $400 million retrofit captures CO2 from the first of two steam methane reformers supplying hydrogen to Valero’s Port Arthur refinery. The CO2 is then piped […]
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David Keith, Harvard professor of applied physics, thinks he’s developed a way of capturing CO2 directly from the atmosphere, and, as he says, it’s practically a way to “print money.”
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Watch a demonstration of an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) conducted by BP to improve pipeline inspections in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.
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ChEnected sat down with Chuck McConnell of the Department of Energy to hear his thoughts on coal, shale gas, and oil and how they mesh with sustainability and our energy future.
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The U.S. is highly dependent on foreign countries for rare earth elements (REEs) and strategic and critical materials (S&CMs). Dr. Tedd Lister and Dr. Eric Peterson of the Idaho National Laboratory propose “urban mining” to address the concerns associated with traditional mining.
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While Fukushima has had an extraordinary effect on nuclear energy, it’s still with us and there’s a lot changing. Hear how the industry is evolving and where it’s headed.
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Billionaire investor Peter Thiel, who started Paypal and is now famous as Facebook's first, far-sighted investor, announced his next group of 20 young Thiel Fellows, who will each receive $100,000 to pursue personal technology projects, while skipping traditional college. This hefty stiped carries a rigorous demand: quickly learn entrepreneurship from the ground up, and begin to build the new and innovative companies of the future.
Watch a video in the panel at right about the program's first class in 2011.
Opting for tech bootcamp, this third group of "20 Under 20" Thiel Fellows includes Christopher Walker, who dropped out of college to form a software company, and Zach Hamed, a Harvard junior who's leaving to work on education software. Their iconoclastism reflects Thiel's contrarian opinion of higher education as an over-priced bubble, far away from necessary networks of angel investors and mentors.
For two years, instead of attending college, each Thiel Fellow is immediately plugged into the Foundation’s network of entrepreneurs and investors. This supportive environment will nourish endeavors spanning robotics through cyberdefense, neuroscience, and fashion.
Peter Thiel also reflected on past classes in a recent press release, “When we created the fellowship more than two years ago, our intention was to help people learn and accomplish more than they might have. They exceeded our expectations, and proved that qualities like intellectual curiosity and grit are more important than a degree in determining success in life.”
