David has traveled from China to South africa to witness first hand humanity's impact on the globe,
They are working on things like better batteries to replace oil used in transportation. And they are doing natural gas research.
we would like to bring a lot of our fellow travelers on the planet along with us. It would be sad
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
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
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,
His concerns regarding food delivery are shared well. A 2010 symposium hosted by the Global Harvest Initiative in Washington
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;¢
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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