When it comes to automotive production, the automaker’s factories themselves tend to get a lot of the attention. Every automaker has a few large, well-known factories that produce the majority of their vehicles. While these factories are essential for producing cars and trucks efficiently, what goes on in them would not be possible without the […]
The Earthshot Prize is a global environmental prize which aims to discover and scale the best solutions to help repair our planet during this decisive decade. Every year, for the next 10 years, the Earthshot Prize will find and reward solutions to five “Earthshot” goals. These five environmental goals are to Protect and Restore Nature, […]
Silicon Valley has been the main high tech and venture capital hub in the US for decades. The Valley is typically viewed as San Jose, Santa Clara, Cupertino, Sunnyvale, Mountain View, Menlo Park, and Palo Alto. Typically, venture capital firms have invested in software, Internet and computer hardware startups: Google, Sun MicroSystems, Facebook, Twitter, Cisco, […]
Developers plan to add 54.5 gigawatts (GW) of new utility-scale electric-generating capacity to the US power grid in 2023, according to our Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory. More than half of this capacity will be solar power (54%), followed by battery storage (17%). Solar US utility-scale solar capacity has been rising rapidly since 2010. Despite […]
Australian culture encourages the vision of the bronzed, sporty Aussie male who can fix anything, build anything, without instructions, and while drinking a beer. Do It Yourself! I’m afraid I don’t really fit that mould, and most Australians don’t. It is a myth perpetuated by self-serving advertisers. So, it was odd to find myself in […]
David Waterworth with Dr Paul Wildman Due to the overwhelming and positive interest shown in our first article, we thought to do a second article as another take on the Toyota/Japanese car-manufacturing situation. Is Toyota not circling the drain, after all? Is Toyota dead tech walking? According to Statista, Toyota has consistently produced and sold […]
