Tesla’s PowerWall is the first mass-produced individual electric storage solution to hit the market. But does it offer any true ecological benefit? Is it cost-effective enough to be sustainable? Two specialists discuss these issues.
Engine efficiency is the key for automotive CO2 emissions management. While the internal combustion engine (ICE) fuel efficiency still has much room for improvement, what can we do with the environmentally friendly hybrid car? And...
Storing electricity? Some old solutions to this old problem are gaining momentum nowadays, thanks to recent improvements. Among these solutions, using electricity to obtain hydrogen and reconverting it later into energy or heat via fuel...
During the 20th century Governments and public agencies such as NASA played a major role in the innovation chain. The Internet itself was born through public programs, just as GPS and many other game-changing technologies....
Rising energy consumption round the world, rarefaction of fossil energy sources, climate change, the necessary reduction of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions… The development of new and renewable energy sectors, emitting few or zero GHGs has...
It’s 2025, a Digital Earth where continuous connections are everywhere, yet it’s a planet where infectious disease outbreaks can erupt anywhere and spread worldwide in days. To provide a strategic health care firewall against medical...
With the latest generation of connected objects, the collection of data related to our bodies and our everyday business has taken a new dimension. It now covers surprisingly varied objectives, from wellbeing to productivity and...
Our foodstuffs in the future may be full of surprises. The challenges are high, human imagination is boundless. Numerous emerging innovations can be noted. Some are still in the labs, others are seeking to gain a foothold in the marketplaces.
Entrepreneurs, investors and gurus are on the lookout for the next Facebook, the next killer app that will draw in one billion users before anybody has even started to grasp its potential. It’s difficult to...
Various technologies are now vying to develop an “augmented human being.” Step-by-step, they would gradually modify the basic data registers of life, such as intelligence, procreation, ageing. The “techno-prophets” – not all crazed illuminati –...
what we will witness will be the emergence of start-ups having two or three co-founders from different parts of the world in the same way it works for science collaboration now. It will be an exciting development to come.
Processing the data has become a sensitive issue inasmuch as they relate to our private sphere, to our intimacy. We do have tools that enable regulation of certain parameters – for example, whether we accept...
Nano-sciences and nano-technologies are opening up hitherto unmapped paths to our bodies and health. But nano-medicine does not avoid the heated debates associated to this new scale. Risk assessment cannot be limited to a cost-benefit...
Robots will soon be able to read texts for us, engage in conversations, clean our windows, deliver packets and parcels, prepare our pill-boxes and even help us get back on our feet should we fall,...
The world market for service robots will represent 25 billion euros in 2015 and could well be 100 billion euros by 2018 and 200 billion in 2023, according to the International Federation of Robotics. If...
Artificial intelligence (AI) and expert systems are less trendy in 2014 than they were back in 1974 but since that time they have never ceased developing and the processing power of today’s computers opens ever...
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