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The Saudi Arabian General Investment Authority (SAGIA) has announced that GE will be a Strategic Sponsor of the sixth Global Competitiveness Forum (GCF) to be held from Jan. 21-24 in Riyadh, under the patronage of the Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Abdullah. Abdullah Azib, director of the Global Competitiveness Forum, and Walid Abukhaled, [...] Thomas Friedman, Sonal Shah, and Jonathan Zittrain? I don’t know, but I sure wish I was going to be there to see it. This meeting will be at the Sunday evening Socrates Society Benefit Reception and Dinner held as part of the Aspen Ideas Festival, presented by the Atlantic and the Aspen Institute. Thomas L. Friedman, [...] The technology behind Liquid Metal Battery came to the attention of Bill Gates through the lecturing of professor Donald Sadoway, whose solid-state chemistry classes can be viewed online. In an appreciation written for MIT’s 150th anniversary, Gates singled out Sadoway’s work on energy storage. In forming a company, Liquid Metal Battery took funding from [...] Minister of Knowledge Economy Choi Joong-Kyung traveled to Abu Dhabi to attend the second Clean Energy Ministerial earlier this month. Korea, the United States, Italy, Sweden and Germany signed an agreement that will strengthen the International Smart Grid Action Network (ISGAN). Rest A recently released Microsoft white paper is entitled The Central Role of Cloud Computing in Making Cities Energy-Smart. Download a copy from this page and read it in honor of Earth Day. Yours truly is proud of this next article since I was the attorney who helped the initial Ometric entrepreneurs secure their first license with USC. In a coup for Columbia’s high-tech field, startup company Ometric has been bought by Halliburton Energy Services, along with top technology from the University of South Carolina. Halliburton has paid [...] … What I admire about the steps that the UAE has taken is that it’s not only this institute, which is very impressive just to be part of and to view, but it’s also working while continuing your role as a leading oil producer, investing in renewable energy sources like wind and solar, and moving [...] The African Science Academy Development Initiative (ASADI) I saw an interesting summary (here at Biotechniques.com) about a recent research paper (here on PLoS Genetics) on ants and their microbiome and how it may have implications for biofuels. The paper is the joint product of researchers from all over the Americas, but it was lead by a bacteriologist at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. [...] I have written and posted about the work of Angie Belcher before so it is no surprise to hear this latest announcement. A team she leads has taken another step in the process of using a simple virus (millions of them) to develop key parts of battery technology. Now it is the cathode (Fabricating Genetically Engineered [...] |
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