ChEnected Posts by Douglas B. Clark

Douglas B. Clark

Community Manager & Editor, ChEnected
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Douglas Clark is a copywriter and speechwriter with a healthy appetite for all things digital. He has more than 15 years' agency and independent experience in corporate and marketing communication, and his clients come from diverse industries, specializing in anything from financial products and toothpaste to software for the visualization of computational fluid dynamics data. Among his clients are Accenture, American Express, Coca-Cola, Colgate-Palmolive, Hewlett-Packard, and Panasonic.

Electric Cars the Star of Frankfurt Auto Show

September 27, 2011. By Douglas B. Clark
The Frankfurt Auto Show earlier this month showed a wide range of electric cars, from small and affordable to high-powered sports and luxurious sports cars. Two noteworthy newcomers stood out. Students at Germany's Technische Universität München presented the Mute, a concept car with an light frame of aluminum and plastic.

Conductive Nanotube Cables Could Advance Renewable Energy and More

September 21, 2011. By Douglas B. Clark
Researchers at Rice University have announced a nanotechnology success that could play a significant role in making renewable energy more practical and could contribute to many electrical applications where weight is a factor. The breakthrough: researchers have created carbon nanotubes that are approaching electrical conductivities seen in metal wires, a goal that has been pursued since the 1980s.

Marcellus Shale Gas Volume in Question

August 31, 2011. By Douglas B. Clark
The latest debate over Marcellus shale gas isn't about hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, but over how much gas there is to be removed. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) recently published its estimate of gas trapped in Marcellus shale that can be extracted with current technology, but the figures differ dramatically from past estimates.

Solar Canopy Capable of Generating 73,000 Megawatt Hours Annually

August 29, 2011. By Douglas B. Clark
Drawing on the inspiration of the Bedouin tent of the Arabian Peninsula, architectural firm Predock Frane has designed Solaris, a solar canopy that drapes a massive area and acts both as a landscape and structure.The structure is entered via a tunnel passage. To make energy generation possible, intelligent solar "balloons" [...]

Tattoos as Diagnostic Devices

August 15, 2011. By Douglas B. Clark
There's not much sexy—let alone unobtrusive—about many of today's medical monitoring devices, given the many wires and electrodes that are often needed to collect data from a patient. But that may be about to change. A professor of materials science has created an "electronic tattoo" that can monitor various body functions

World's First 3D-Printed Plane Takes to the Skies

July 28, 2011. By Douglas B. Clark
Scientists have successfully flown the world's first 3D printed plane. Created entirely with printing technology, the plane went from design to completion in one week. Thanks to its novel manufacturing process, it has no fasteners and even its moving parts were printed all at once.

New Tech Allows Solar Cells to Be Printed on Paper

July 13, 2011. By Douglas B. Clark
Researchers at the MIT have developed materials that make it possible to print photovoltaic cells on paper or fabric. Much like a document in any office, the paper emerges from a printer, but when exposed to light, it generates enough energy to power an LCD clock display.