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Plan 9 by Nokia Bell Labs: Now Released with MIT Licensing

By Dick Weisinger

Forty years ago Bell Labs was a center of technology innovation. Researchers from Bell are credited with developing technologies like the transistor, the laser, the photovoltaic cell, and radio astronomy. In the area of software, Bell researchers created Unix and…

Hydrogen Energy: A Zero Carbon Emission Goal by 2050

By Dick Weisinger

“Net Zero” is a an environmental goal to keep the CO2 gas in the atmosphere balanced. The net difference of all greenhouse gases emitted and the C02 gases removed from the atmosphere needs to balance out to zero. An even…

Technology: Can Data from Patent Registrations Predict the Rate of Future Innovation?

By Dick Weisinger

For more than a decade a group of researchers at MIT have tried to develop a method to predict the possibility of up-coming innovations and how long it may take before the capability can be realized. They began with an…

Battery Breakthrough: Rust

By Dick Weisinger

Joe Biden is pushing an agenda that promotes renewable energies like solar and wind. A major roadblock towards achieving greater use of these alternative energies though is the ability to store them during off-peak periods. Improved storage technologies will be…

Technology: Improving Solar Cell Efficiency

By Dick Weisinger

Recent research suggests that new materials and designs could lead to dramatic increases in solar cell efficiency. Researchers are closing in on 50 percent solar cell efficiency and new materials and manufacturing techniques may be able to increase that further.…