by Michael Belfiore | Jun 2, 2020 | Blog
I wrote about Zurich-based Climeworks in a carbon dioxide capture roundup in Bloomberg Businessweek last year. Since then, the company has grown from 63 employees to more than 100. They’ve also launched a subscription service for carbon capture and sequestration on...
by Michael Belfiore | Sep 4, 2019 | Blog
One of the major roadblocks to going full renewable on the world’s electric grids is the storage problem. Intermittent renewable sources of energy, such as wind and solar, only provide grid power some of the time, for example when the sun is shining or the wind...
by Michael Belfiore | Feb 28, 2019 | Blog
With all the talk of a Green New Deal going on right now, what seems to get lost is the reality that we’re already past the point where simply reducing or even eliminating carbon dioxide emissions isn’t enough to avoid the calamity of climate change. Yes,...
by Michael Belfiore | Nov 9, 2015 | Blog
When I wrote about DARPA’s Revolutionizing Prosthetics program in Popular Science back in 2007, the editors, without running it by me first, called it out on the cover with a headline that sold the project as creating a “bionic arm that’s better than...
by Michael Belfiore | May 14, 2015 | Articles, Blog
Bloomberg Businessweek has my writeup in the May 11-17, 2015 issue on Top Flight’s hybrid power drones. A gasoline engine on board charges the batteries that run the rotors, giving the drones 2 hours or more of flight time versus the 15-30 minutes more typical...
