The truth at any cost lowers all other costs — curated by former US spy Robert David Steele.
India has 900 million mobile users, but only 8 percent of those enjoy mobile Internet access. Thanks to four college drop-outs, the other 92 percent can now search the Web, too–by text. Read on. In India, browse the web through texts By Betwa Sharma | May 20, 2013 DELHI — In 2009, four students dropped …
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Russia to emerging countries: We’ll build, operate your nuclear reactors Do you run a developing country where you’d like to build and operate nuclear reactors, but you just don’t have the expertise or the money? Then you could turn to Russia for an all-in-one 60-year bargain. State nuclear power company Rosatom “is offering a special …
Startup New Energy Technologies says that it has made a significant advancement toward large-scale production of “spray on” solar power generating windows. New Energy debuted a prototype of its “SolarWindow” technology in 2010. It has been gradually moving toward commercialization ever since, and today announced improvements that it says will bring it closer to manufacturing …
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Why China isn’t taking American trash anymore By Tyler Falk | May 10, 2013 Quick, what’s the biggest U.S. export to China? Soybeans? Officially, yes, it’s the biggest single product. But combined, the U.S. exports more scrap and waste to China than any other single product — $11.31 billion in 2011. Growth of waste exports …
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Small-town mayors: the cutting edge of climate action How two mayors of small towns in right-wing America are showing the way to energy and climate progress: through local action. By Chris Nelder IBM uses cell phone data to redraw African bus routes With data from thousands of cell phones, IBM is creating a better commute. …
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The rise and $23 billion fall of text messaging Text messaging, the 20-year-old thumb-happy talk replacement that radically changed people’s communications habits and enriched cellphone carriers, is on a decline. Mobile operators like Verizon and Vodafone lost a combined $23 billion of potential revenue in 2012 as users opted for other ways to send short …
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Solar power produced 100% of new energy on U.S. grid in March Solar power added twice as much to the grid in the first quarter of 2013 as it did in all of 2012. Solar power accounted for 100 percent of new energy on the U.S.’ power grid in March 2013 – an energy matrix …
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