#Tesla is driving the new Purpose Economy Tesla, the electric car company, is slowly reshaping how people think about driving.
Here s what Tesla is doing. The Purpose Economy is about more than just profits; it s about creating meaningful impact in service of people and the planet.
Spacex, and Tesla Motors. He has built successfully a number of companies, but more importantly, he has moved markets.
For this reason alone, Tesla would have to focus on the luxury end of the market.
Tesla s cars are designed and built for the Google or Apple executive. The Apple headquarters boast more Teslas than a Tesla showroom.
Early buyers were not price-sensitive and placed a premium on service and design. Tesla identified their innovator customer segment
and focused their energies on selling and servicing them in unique ways. For example, Tesla understood the busy schedules of their customers,
and had their service technicians visit owners for maintenance appointments rather than forcing them to sit waiting in a garage.
Tesla was reporting a profit, and the Model S had become the third best-selling luxury car, behind only the Mercedes E Class and BMW 5 Series.
and Google executives driving a Tesla, they want to be the first in their city and among their peer group to drive one.
Tesla has opened now showrooms around the world in affluent communities, moving beyond California and the innovators to the next segment of the adoption curve.
Tesla is building a network of car superchargers so that owners can drive coast-to-coast without range anxiety.
Tesla is covering the cost of the power for these stations. However, that is as far as Tesla has gone.
The next segment it needs to reach is the early majoritywho can move the company from a niche car manufacturer into a global powerhouse.
When compared to the early adopters, the early majority is pragmatic, less affluent, and more risk-averse.
Tesla is not going to be able to sell their current product to the early majority with much success;
Tesla won t succeed just by selling electric cars. They need to grow the overall electric vehicle market.
To this end, Tesla now sells their patented powertrain components to competitors. They are concerned less about the competition taking up market share than building the market
Musk and his team at Tesla have accelerated actually the development of technology for the market.
Tesla s success has created further hope for electric cars and spurred investment in research and development. Musk s initial customers were largely in Silicon valley
These more risk-averse groups will need power stations all around them and ultimately it will need to be easier than owning a gas fueled car.
Secondary Opportunity Maximizers Micro Grid Conversion Over the coming years, the national electric grid will be broken into a series of micro grids.
for example, confer resistance to disease or drought. That s why you have to collect everything.
Marlin and Loretta s farm operates using a small amount of off-grid electricity to run the aeroponic Tower Garden towers
partly due to politicians reluctance to interfere at the dinner table, the powerful influence of farming and food lobbies and a large gap in public awareness of
It contrasts government reluctance to act on diets with strong action to limit smoking. Although diet is a more diverse issue than smoking,
Electricity grid operators knew hours before the Northeast power failure at 4 p m. on August 14 2003 that things were going badly.
and a grid operator who was unable to require necessary flexibility from market-based electricity providers.
With three aging power plants shut down the day before the conditions were ripe for trouble. When an overloaded power line sagged from excess heat
Recent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) orders address parochial boundaries that limit flexibility and improve electricity transfers and cooperation across boundaries.
The power grid systems not a shortage of power plants are the problem. Take a look at the 13 major power outages that have occurred across the globe over the years
because we aren't building enough power plants. Only one of the outages July 2012 in India was due to more electricity demand than could be supplied by existing resources.
In the industrialized economies of North america andeurope people more often lose power due to a subtle and difficult challenge:
For decades the concern over power-grid reliability focused on ensuring that an adequate number of power plants were built.
And yet today most of the policy attention the financial needs and advanced planning are devoted to building enormous new power plants.
when growth in electricity use was high and the time it took to build a power plant was growing.
But when one looks at what has caused major blackouts insufficient power plants was only a factor in the India example where people are being added to the Age of Electricity
and services gradually reach more communities. In North america and Europe we have a different set of concerns.
While the attention of utilities and politicians has been on the largest power plants the practices for running the system were neglected in 2003.
Coordination and better information rather than more old-fashioned power plants are demonstrated the need that could provide more reliable power-grid systems.
when electricity providers arranged for alternate circuits. August 14 2003 Northeastern U s. and Ontario: A transmission system failed for many reasons all ones that people had seen in major outages years before.
Underlying lower voltage lines overloaded. Soon lightning struck a second 345-kv line. Cascading transmission line disconnections continued until the entire northern Midwest was separated from the Eastern power grid forming three isolated islands with power. 52000 people in the upper Midwest Ontario Manitoba
Sprouts are unobtrusive little nutritional powerhouses so you can easily add them to your favorite healthy wrap
they suspect the seeming pathogen resistance could be due to the fact that European bats have adapted to the pathogen
Potatoes Potatoes have been blamed for increasing blood glucose levels insulin resistance excess weight and Type 2 diabetes.
and the evolution of resistance to pests offers critical data for scientists as they breed
But scientists have learned now that flowers are buzzing right back with electricity. Plants generally have a negative electrical charge
And scientists have known for years that bees'flapping wings create a positive electrical charge of up to 200 volts as they flit from flower to flower according to a news release.
which reduces their resistance to bark beetle infestations much the way that starvation reduces the resistance of people to infections.
The successes of Liu and his students include laying the foundation for a policy to subsidize the cost of electricity used by the reserve's human residents;
while also boosting wheat's drought tolerance and disease resistance. Though the new strain of wheat won't be available for a few years British farmers
The nearest town to the power plant was built the newly city of Pripyat which housed almost 50000 people in 1986 according to the World Nuclear Association.
and generates electricity. In most nuclear reactors where water is used as a coolant and to moderate the reactivity of the nuclear core as the core heats up
and disease that are stalking the 21st century's economic powerhouse. The 10 Most Polluted Places On earth Chinese officials however have started barely to acknowledge the problem.
And Beijing is surrounded by a vast network of coal-burning power plants. But as foul as it is Beijing's air isn't even China's worst:
The government has set a goal of making the country carbon neutral by 2021 Much of its electricity already comes from clean sources like hydro-geothermal
And many states by improving energy efficiency and shifting to clean energy are already moving into position to meet upcoming limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants
limits on carbon pollution from power plants. Urge the EPA to support strong limits on carbon pollution.
Lehner's most recent Op-Ed was Electric Vehicles Approach Popularity Tipping Point This Op-Ed was adapted from a post on the NRDC blog Switchboard.
if the bacteria would eventually develop a resistance to the immobilizing effects of the cranberry
Black burn scars that hollow out the living giants attest to their resistance to flames. A 1993 study published in the journal Science examined these scars
or they are resistant to a pesticide like Roundup (manufactured by Monsanto Corp.).One widely used method of incorporating insect resistance into plants is through the gene for toxin production found in the bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) according to the World health organization.
GMO crops that are modified with the Bt gene have a proven resistance to insect pests thus reducing the need for wide-scale spraying of synthetic pesticides.
In addition to pest resistance GMO crops can be engineered for disease resistance drought tolerance added nutrients hot or cold temperature resistance and other beneficial traits.
and there's been widespread resistance to the development and marketing of GMO crops and other organisms.
Potatoes engineered with a lectin gene (for resistance to pests) were linked to stomach damage in rats that consumed the potatoes according to a report from the University of California Davis
Scientists at the University of Michigan think they have a technology that emulates this process to display pictures without chemicals or electrical power.
Another U s. Department of agriculture effort to turn manure from a dairy farm into a powerhouse for the farm's electricity gets a similarly shallow treatment that ignores the influence of methane from manure as a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming.
After reducing carbon-dioxide emissions from power plants the phasing-down of HFCS is the next-biggest step the United states can take toward achieving its goal of reducing greenhouse-gas emissions by 17 percent by 2020 according to the World Resources Institute.
Although an ally of Sparta during the long Peloponnesian war Thebes had become the lodestar of resistance
The UCS Food and Environment program citing substantial scientific evidence has warned that the routine use of antibiotics in livestock is a major factor in antibiotic resistance in humans a huge and growing public-health problem.
and archaea as exemplified by antibiotic resistance. When a specific bacterium develops a defense against some drug the corresponding gene can pass horizontally to others in the same colony.
Bacteria are less likely to develop resistance to a substance that only is hindering their movement as opposed to killing bacteria
Our work to date suggests that the bacteria cannot develop'resistance'to cranberry. What happens in the body
Instead scientists attempting to treat diseases of the cell's powerhouse the mitochondria refined the technique
just as microelectronics control electricity. The aim of such devices is to shrink beakers flasks and other lab equipment to create microchip-sized labs. As such they want to learn more about how fluids such as blood
That produces less resistance for the glacier on land which as a result slides toward the ocean faster than before Gudmundsson said.
His intention was to selectively introduce traits such as disease resistance and faster reproductive rate into native honeybees.
Though the Africanized bees can carry the Varroa mites that have been implicated in colony collapse disorder they have considerable resistance to the mites unlike native honeybees.
If researchers could isolate the trait that gives the Africanized bees their resistance they may be able to save native honeybee populations.
Earlier when he was a graduate student Bhargava also figured out what the famous Gauss did not.
One of Gauss's major discoveries was called the composition of binary quadratic forms A binary quadratic form is an expression
Gauss discovered a tricky way of taking two of these forms and using them to make a third one this is now known as Gauss Composition Bhargava says.
It has all sorts of amazing properties. The question I addressed in my Ph d. thesis was:
``Gauss presented it only for quadratic forms and it was an open question as to whether it was isolated or part of a bigger theory.
In my thesis I showed that Gauss composition is in fact only one of at least 14 such laws.
The dependent variable will be the ability of each soil to conduct electricity. Procedure: 1. Dry each soil sample in the sun or in an oven 2. Label four beakers as follows:
What's worse the bugs demonstrate increasing pesticide resistance. Entomologist Catherine Loudon and her colleagues at University of California Irvine with fellow researchers at the University of Kentucky used videography and scanning electron microscopy to investigate the possibility of creating synthetic leaf traps as a sustainable and nontoxic
Reducing emissions The president's plan will direct the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish standards for greenhouse gas emissions for new and existing power plants.
which would build on the president's objective to establish 10 gigawatts of renewable energy on public land by the end of 2012 which was fulfilled ahead of schedule.
In a natural setting without electricity anyone located outside of a narrow belt of land near the equators
Before its implementation the Appalachians were a bull's-eye for acid pollution due to a large number of power plants along the Ohio Valley Thomas said.
Resistance is not futile. In fact it can stave off colon cancer and ease inflammatory bowel disease and other digestion problems.
The resistance in this case comes in the form of so-called resistant starches certain kinds of carbohydrates that resist digestion in the small intestine
He also advocated building more fences around large reserves a suggestion that was met with some resistance by at least one ecologist present at the conference who questioned Leakey after his talk about the fence's ability to stop elephants.
because fat is weighing down on kidneys crushing them Kwakernaak said The researchers speculate that the cause might be from the fat triggering inflammation or insulin resistance
and insulin resistance the latter being a precursor to diabetes. Their study was published last month in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
and asthma-inducing particulate matter into the air a big fire is like setting a coal-fired power plant in the middle of a forest.
Expect it to meet a resistance if not an active opposition that is proportional to your own passion.
if you meet resistance to science throw facts at those who resist. If that doesn t work throw more facts at them
In order to accommodate the new consumers developing countries are rapidly constructing new buildings roads and power plants.
and there will be fewer and fewer remaining coal-power plants to replace with gas. Additionally the amount of methane leakage from natural gas facilities remains highly uncertain.
Still DÃ az Sierra expects some resistance to the notion that whole trees display circadian rhythms.
and improve the effects of diabetes by reducing insulin resistance. The U s. Food and Drug Administration recently approved omega-3s for infant formulas because of the overwhelming evidence that it improves cognition and visual functioning in children.
and industrial sources as well as the estimated emissions associated with electricity including local generation and imported electricity.
Whenever there is resistance and you work your muscles to exhaustion such as when you can't do just one more pushup you're building muscle.
By the end of the century the country had secured its place as a manufacturing powerhouse and a veritable economic superpower.
More than 30 million people in seven states depend on the mighty Colorado for water to grow crops fuel power plants and keep cities such as Las vegas alive.
or diverting water from the Mississippi river to politically unpopular solutions such as decommissioning water-based power plants and limiting population growth.
According to the EPA the production of electricity is the source of 33 percent of U s. greenhouse gas emissions.
Over 70 percent of U s. electricity comes from plants that burn fossil fuels usually coal and natural gas.
and promotes insulin-resistance obesity and diabetes. A second criticism is that because the term superfood is not scientific it can mean very little and prompt some consumers to eat one kind of food over another.
Kale has received a lot of attention in recent years for its powerhouse nutritional benefits making kale (along with blueberries spinach beans and certain other vegetables) one of the so-called superfoods.
#Why Scientists Are concerned About Tree-Burning Power plants (Op-Ed) Sasha Lyutse is a policy analyst for the NRDC.
Ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday 41 leading scientists sent a letter to the U s. Environmental protection agency (EPA) calling on the agency to protect U s. forests from the growing sucking sound created by biomass power plants.
As power plants look for alternatives to fossil fuels some are turning to burning wood or other plant materials known as biomass to generate electricity.
The biomass industry argues that because trees grow back biomass offers a carbon neutral form of energy.
Power plants account for 40 percent of the U s. carbon footprint. That makes EPA's effort to reduce carbon pollution from power plants a key part of the climate fighting initiatives of the administration of President Barack Obama
and ensuring that a rigorous accounting for biomass carbon emissions will be critical to the effort's integrity.
or otherwise convert them to electricity and to use the electricity and heat in the applications that most effectively reduce carbon emissions is for EPA to follow the science.
It's critical that EPA heeds the science community's call and follows through on the standard it set for itself in issuing rules for the bioenergy industry.
First he advocated building more fences around large reserves a suggestion that was met with some resistance by at least one ecologist at the conference who questioned Leakey after his talk about the fence's ability to stop elephants.
This verdant vegetable is a powerhouse of nutrients. It's reputed to benefit digestion the cardiovascular system
This move will save as much energy as three power plants generate and result in energy savings of about $1 billion a year for consumers.
and consume about half the electricity used by the U s. industrial sector. Over the next 30 years the motor standards alone will save enough electricity to power every home in the United states for a year and save consumers about $23 billion.
The DOE also issued final efficiency rules for distribution transformers and microwave ovens as well as proposed standards for furnace fans.
which will rely on energy efficiency as a tool to cut carbon pollution from power plants and is helping scale up efforts already underway to make homes buildings industrial processes equipment appliances and electronics more efficient.
The team found several genes associated with how long the seeds stay dormant resistance to pests and longer shelf life.
#EPA Aims To Slash Power plant CO2 by 30 Percent Nearly every state in the U s. now has a greenhouse gas emissions reduction goal to meet under the Obama administration's new Clean
Slash the country s overall carbon pollution from the electric power sector by 30 percent below 2005 levels by 2030.
That means every state except Vermont which has no power plants that apply under the new rule will have to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants according to a rule the U s. Environmental protection agency (EPA) proposed Monday.
The proposed new rule scheduled to go into effect in June 2015 after a period of public comment would apply to about 3000 electricity generating units at 1000 power plants nationwide
The rule is the second of two climate change-related rules affecting the coal industry and the electric power sector.
The first which the EPA proposed last fall aims to cap emissions from unbuilt coal-fired power plants.
because it would require existing coal-fired power plants to cut their carbon emissions. Specifically the rule proposes a unique carbon emissions reduction guideline for each state
For nearly each state the EPA is requiring two sets of emissions reductions goals for power plants:
For example a state can choose to slash emissions from power plants only within its borders or work with other states to slash emissions at a regional level.
and how often the state's fossil fuel-fired power plants operate while factoring in how much the state's renewable power resources
and energy efficiency measures help to reduce the carbon footprint of electric power generation there. There are some big exceptions to those goals however.
The rules don t apply to coal-fired power plants in U s. territories. Four coal-fired power plants on Native american reservations are excluded also from state emissions reduction goals.
Those power plants include the Four Corners Power plant in New mexico which is a major contributor to that area being polluted the most by coal-burning power plants in North america.
Scientists'and climate change experts'reception of the proposed rules was mixed Monday with many saying they'll make a difference
but don't go far enough in curbing climate change-driving greenhouse gas emissions. Overall if the proposed rules survive possible legal challenges
#The coal industry and its unions railed against the proposed rule at public hearings the EPA held last year intended to glean public input on the existing-power plant rules before they were written.
#oethere has to be help getting technology into coal fired power plants#he said. To disallow coal altogether I think is a total mistake.
William Fleckenstein said Monday adding that the federal government does not appear to be doing much to encourage the construction of liquefied natural gas facilities to help reduce carbon emissions globally by helping coal-dependent countries switch to less carbon-intensive natural gas for electric power production.#
as an alternative to coal for electric power generation. I think pretty clearly the demand for natural gas has gone up already this will accelerate that Derry said Monday adding that there are no other sources of electric generating capacity that are currently available on a large enough scale to replace coal.
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because it may contribute to the rise of antibiotic resistance. Some countries have banned the use of antibiotics for growing food
Stricter policies to reduce antibiotic contaminants in foods will not only help to fight antibiotic resistance
However adding resistance starch to the diet mitigated some of this increase according to a study published today (Aug 4) in the journal Cancer Prevention Research.
#Watercress Named Top'Powerhouse'Veggie For a sure way to boost the health benefits of your next meal you may want to add watercress to the salad bowl.
Its tangy leaves ranked highest on a new list of powerhouse fruits and vegetables a new study says.
Watercress captured the No. 1 spot and a perfect score of 100 percent in the powerhouse-produce rankings.
The other powerhouses in the top 10 spots were Chinese cabbage chard beet greens spinach chicory leaf lettuce parsley romaine lettuce and collard greens the research found.
The study used powerhouse as a term to describe foods most strongly linked with reducing the risk of chronic disease.
See the full list of powerhouse produce The score is a nutrient-to-calories ratio said study author Jennifer Di Noia an associate professor of sociology at William Paterson University in Wayne New jersey.
and rank powerhouse fruits and vegetables Di Noia told Live Science. The findings are published online today (June 5) in the journal Preventing Chronic Disease.
Powerhouse produce Among the 47 raw fruits and vegetables involved in the study all but six of them blueberries raspberries cranberries tangerines garlic
and onions met the powerhouse criterion. These six had scores below 10 percent the minimum cutoff point to pass the powerhouse test.
In the study as well as in nutritional guidelines a food earned powerhouse status by providing on average 10 percent or more of the daily recommended intake of 17 qualifying nutrients in a 100-calorie serving.
These 17 qualifying nutrients which health organizations have identified as helping to protect against cancer heart disease
and garlic for example were considered not powerhouses. These foods have been hailed widely as nutritional superstars packed with valuable antioxidants and disease-fighting properties.
and vegetables that didn't make the cut as powerhouses were not good sources of the nutrients used to index the foods
Using the list The top half of the powerhouse list included mainly green leafy and cruciferous vegetables from kale and spinach to Brussels sprouts and broccoli.
The five lowest-ranked powerhouses were grapefruit (white) sweet potato leek blackberry and turnip. The list of 47 foods that the researchers looked at left out some popular foods.
and bananas were considered nutrient-poor foods with scores falling below 10 the powerhouse criterion. Still that doesn't mean people shouldn't include these foods in their diets to increase their overall intake of fruits and vegetables.
The list of powerhouse produce may help consumers focus on how to get the most nutrients from their foods Di Noia said.
I think the message is to encourage consumption of all of the foods on the powerhouse list which by definition are good sources of the qualifying nutrients Di Noia said.
#'Powerhouse'Produce: Researchers Rank the Top Fruits and Vegetables for Health Among fruits and vegetables leafy greens rank as the top powerhouse foods according to a new ranking of produce items based on their nutrient content.
Watercress snagged the No. 1 spot and other leafy greens rank in the top 10 according to the study.
Watercress Named Top'Powerhouse'Veggie To be called a powerhouse a 100-calorie serving of the food had to provide at least 10 percent on average of the daily recommended intake of 17 important nutrients.
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