Farmedhere employs local workers to reduce transport requirements. Local youths in the Windy city Harvest urban agricultural training program also get the opportunity to work on the farm.
as Chinese customers and tourists bought them in bulk to send them home or to sell them online.
banning travellers from leaving the territory with more than 1. 8kg (4lb) of formula. Last month, 10 people were arrested there for trying to smuggle more than the allowed amount into Mainland china.
These modules will be melded with other software to form what the team call a"Green Brain,
The aim is to get the"cybee"flying by 2015. The head of project Dr John Marshall, said:"
And if coaxing the machines into flight isn't enough of a challenge, the real innovation lies in getting the machines to mimic the collaborative behavior of a colony.
Mr. Torcellini greenhouse wouldn t look out of place on a wayward space station where pioneers have gone to escape the cannibal gangs back On earth.
And after the village shop closed in 1982, they had to travel to buy provisions. Nick Snelgar, who earns a living from growing herbs
Vegetable beds, herb gardens and orchards have sprung up on sites as varied and previously urban as the railway station forecourt and an elderly people's home, under the aegis of the Incredible Edible Todmorden campaign.
And, in addition to computer hardware and software, garage hackers and home-build enthusiasts are now merrily cooking up electric cars,
drone aircraft and rockets. But what about biology? Might biohacking tinkering with the DNA of existing organisms to create new ones lead to innovations of a biological nature?
and termites that can eat old cars. If regulation of biohacking is too tight, such innovations or, at least,
Transportation The industrial world addiction to cars is costly and will become more so. The U s. uses roughly 21 million barrels of oil per day.
The Texas Transportation Institute has found that in the United states alone 2. 3 billion gallons of gas is wasted each year in traffic jams.
Globally, the number of vehicles on the world roads will grow from 800 million now to 1. 1 billion in the next 15 years.
Public transportation is cited often as a cure for oil addiction. In the United states, rise of disabled elderly Americans will strain public transportation systems.
Futurist Fixes 1. Non Human (Robotic) Transportation: The same drone technology that the U s. military is using in Afghanistan could be put to use in the United states to transport goods between locations safer and faster than human drivers.
This could potentially free up roadways for humans as robot drivers could take a different route,
as covered in the November-December 2009 issue of THE FUTURIST. The U s. military hopes to soon use drones for cargo transportation and refueling.
This is certainly a realistic hope according to Missy Cummings, director of the Humans and Automation Lab at MIT.
In fact, one day soldiers guarding borders may see an army of remotely controlled robots rushing toward them.
Cummings reports that oeseveral U s. government agencies are seriously considering how to use unmanned vehicles in first strike or initial invasion settings.
In the unmanned vehicle invasion scenario, oethe UAVS do the initial strike; we send in robots on the beach
oebig Dog Robot, The Stanley self-driving car (originally covered in THE FUTURIST in May-June 2006.
Air-powered Cars and trains: As we featured in THE FUTURIST, September-October 2008, go-karts sporting air-powered engines whizzed around a racetrack in a test of mechanical engineering students prowess at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Nova scotia.
With support from Shell and inspiration from air-powered car concepts in Europe, the project aimed to develop a compressed air engine that would power a vehicle:
like gas-powered engines, the trick is to produce force on turbines, but to do so without creating emissions.
Though the go-karts could go 200 mph, they ran out of air quickly (and compressing the air in the first place requires energy that may not necessarily be oegreen),
and trucks to haul so many materials around. oeis teleportation possible? The Defense Advanced Projects Research Agency (DARPA) is willing to bet it is wrote
and even Star trek-like transporters. In quantum mechanics, a particle, such as an electron circling the nucleus of an atom,
In the March-April 2009 issue of THE FUTURIST, Dennis Bushnell, a chief research scientist at NASA
A pot for more-efficient food storage, a bicycle rigged to carry hundreds of pounds of cargo,
With sections focusing on food, water, shelter, health and sanitation, energy and transportation, and education, oedesign for the Other 90%focused on problem solving for the vast majority of the world people who survive under the poverty level
Co-author Carlton Himes, a UW undergraduate student, spent last summer exploring likely sites. Hooking nails to trees and connecting a voltmeter,
Coskata, which is backed by General motors and other investors, uses bacteria to convert almost any organic material, from corn husks (but not the corn itself) to municipal trash, into ethanol."
research director of the clean vehicles program at the Union of Concerned Scientists.""There are a lot of people diving into this right now,
Coskata won't have a pilot plant running until this time next year, and it will produce just 40,000 gallons a year.
"Still, consumers will need some way of getting that fuel into their vehicle. Less than 1 percent of the nation's 170,000 gas stations sell E85, said Mike Omotoso, senior manager of the global power train group at J. D. Power & Associates."
"Even if you produce it county by county, you still need an infrastructure, "he said.""People aren't going to go to some remote location for fuel."
Growing Crops In Recycled Shipping Containerstake an unused parking lot in the middle of downtown Atlanta, Georgia on Ponce de Leon Avenue, put five 320-square foot recycled shipping containers tricked out with proprietary technology to reduce overall energy consumption
One year after their first five pods, Podponics has 16 pods on leased land from the City of Atlanta at Hartsfield-Jackson International airport.
The land can t be used because of a specific flight pattern of Hartsfield, so it was just sitting idle.
IFPRI researchers found areas with highly dense roads also had a lower rate of land degradation and deforestation."
and in such areas, the roads were not affecting deforestation as we would expect.""Degradation of forests
and NASA showed periodic interest in the idea as a way of feeding astronauts on extremely long space missions.
And, with a lengthy supply chain that involves sitting in a refrigerated truck for days,
Low-cost sensors, clever software and advancing computer firepower are opening the door to new uses in energy conservation, transportation, health care and food distribution.
The smart industrial gear includes jet engines, bridges and oil rigs that alert their human minders when they need repairs,
Computers track sensor data on operating performance of a jet engine, or slight structural changes in an oil rig, looking for telltale patterns that signal coming trouble.
Computers pull GPS data from railway locomotives, taking into account the weight and length of trains, the terrain and turns,
(and at the W Hotel in Paris). Ultimately he hopes to design a Wikicell production machine that could be sold to restaurants, companies,
If you re not familiar with Lely Astronaut A4 robotic milking system, it essentially a boxed area that the cows walk into and are milked at their leisure.
The appeal of the Astronaut A4 isn t only that it automates the milking process,
According to Lely, the Astronaut system produces 10 to 15 percent more milk than conventional farmers who typically milk twice a day.
which users produced videos showing how they use the Lely Astronaut system and how it affects their farm.
but provides a suite of technologies to meet a variety of farming needs like forage harvesting vehicles, automated feeding systems,
The hands off milking system that the Astronaut A4 provides allows farmers to spend less time milking
we wouldn't have Nasa engineers getting us there. We use that narrative as inspiration
but Australia lack of control of the transport and slaughter process after the animals have arrived at their destination port.
Regulatory authorities also have little control over practices on the ships: the stockpeople, vets and crew are employed by the industry so there is no independent authority to oversee the process.
either a heavy, ungainly contraption put out by a cash register manufacturer or the special sled-equipped ipod Touches at the Apple Store.
to be replaced with the ipod Touch-based mobile terminals. Nordstrom Rack is hardly alone; it's following an industry trend of dumping the aisles of cash registers seen in stores for decades.
I suspect many small stores will keep their counters but dump the large cash register in favor of the mobile payment terminal,
The use of a sled around the ipod Touch means that the clerks can swipe credit
a merchant need just replace the sled with a new one that supports the technology--much cheaper than replacing today's point-of-sales terminals.
Instead, it has a QRC sticker the clerk scanned to tell his mobile terminal what printer to send the receipt to over the network.
with the Passbook service in ios 6. Passbook is marketed as a convenient way to hold airline, rain, and theater tickets.
Perhaps the biggest driver for change is personal technology, which has untethered workers from their office,
closer to their workforce and rapid transit. oethis trend will not mean an overall decline in office demand,
¢Accessible by foot, bicycle or mass transit;¢¢Built to harvest all of the water and energy from the site;¢
accounting for more than the entire transport sector, and it is also one of the sectors most at risk from climate change,
because entrepreneurs and small organizations i e. oegarages have been critical drivers of diverse technological innovation in the U s. for several centuries,
(and corresponding consumption) are key macro-scale drivers of biodiversity loss. It is unclear what role synthetic biology and its products will play in these relationships.
I might argue that a bigger driver is the opportunity to profit from using land for production purposes.
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