Innovation Pipeline

The planet’s oceans hold tremendous reserves of natural resources. Among those is one not-so-obvious asset: cold water. It has the potential to help cool buildings onshore in a system called seawater conditioning.
Development is moving ahead in Honolulu and San Diego. In Hawaii, a large seawater conditioning program received a $10.75 million investment by Honolulu Seawater [...]

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With the hunt for powerful energy generation innovations in full swing, there’s been some investment moving into the ocean. Let’s face it, waves and currents aren’t likely to stop anytime soon.
SRI researchers have cleverly applied a biological muscle technology to the guts of a wave generating buoy. The researchers recently demonstrated the buoy in [...]

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Looking back on the historic computer collaboration demonstration in 1968, it was as if a time traveler from the future had returned to San Francisco to share a glimpse of the future. There were other major technology milestones achieved that year with the first man walking on the moon.
The assassinations of Martin [...]

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University projects involving greentech are capturing a lot more mindshare of students and professors these days.
At University of California Berkeley’s engineering school, a big shift has happened over the past three years. In 2005 there were few professors focused on the topic of energy. Today roughly 50 percent of the faculty say they’re working on [...]

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