Lifeboat Foundation

166 posts by Len Rosen

• NASA will pay Boeing more than twice as much as SpaceX for crew seats – September 2, 2022
• Will AR Smart Glasses Replace Smartphones and Become our Personal Buddy Bots? – September 1, 2022
• If You Are a “Doctor Who” Fan Then You Know About the Silurians – August 31, 2022
• Maersk Earmarks $2.1 Billion for Ships That Will Run on Methanol – August 30, 2022
• Americans keep moving to where the water isn’t – August 29, 2022
• The great drought and the great deluge, all at the same time – August 29, 2022
• Want a Good Reason to Capture Carbon Dioxide? — Use It to Power the Electrical Grid – August 28, 2022
• Digital Waste is a Growing 21st Century Challenge — We Need to Pay Attention – August 27, 2022
• And you thought physicists can’t tell a joke! – August 26, 2022
• Growing building sector carbon emissions threaten 2050 net-zero goal, report warns – August 25, 2022
• A Ticking Time Bomb Lies Off The Coast of Yemen — An Old Tanker with 1.1 Million Barrels of Oil – August 25, 2022
• California Announces A 2035 Ban on the Sales of New Gasoline Powered Cars – August 24, 2022
• 3D-Printed Homes Get Boost From Montana – August 23, 2022
• Scientists to take ‘CAT scan’ of B.C. volcano to locate best geothermal energy spotsRed Deer Advocate – August 22, 2022
• Can We Adapt Old Power Plants to Run on Green Hydrogen? – August 22, 2022
• Old Bones Carry Evidence of Why Ancient Empires Collapsed – August 21, 2022
• A Future Engineer at Age 17 May Have Invented an Electric Motor to Transform the Transportation Industry – August 20, 2022
• How Coating Cities in White and Blue Paint Can Lower Global Temperatures – August 19, 2022
• Inventor unveils ‘game-changing’ zero emissions hydrogen engine – August 19, 2022
• How Small Businesses Can Offset Their Carbon Footprints – August 17, 2022
• NASA’s Multibillion Dollar Boondoggle Space Launch System About to Begin Artemis – August 16, 2022
• How Technology Companies Can Get Their ESG Strategy to Appeal to Youth – August 16, 2022
• What If We Could Make “Bacon” Out Of Fungi? – August 15, 2022
• New Theory Emerges to Explain How the Continents Started Moving Here on Earth – August 14, 2022
• “It’s the environment, stupid,” States The Economist in its July 23, 2022 ESG Report – August 7, 2022
• What If We Could Eliminate Carbon Emissions from Existing Internal Combustion Engines – August 4, 2022
• Small Modular Nuclear Quickly Becoming a Reality in the Quest for Net Zero – August 3, 2022
• High Cholesterol May Be a Thing of the Past Using Gene Therapy – August 2, 2022
• Younger Generation is Falling Out from Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Older Generation Social Media – July 29, 2022
• Muon-Based Scanners Will See Through Almost Anything – July 27, 2022
• Canada’s Conservative Think Tank Asks Should CO2 Reductions Discriminate – July 25, 2022
• “The Crisis of the Day” Stated the U.S. Supreme Court When Ruling Against the EPA’s Oversight of the Environment – July 24, 2022
• A Green Hydrogen Economy Depends on This Little-Known Machine – July 24, 2022
• The Time for Carbon Labelling is Now – July 21, 2022
• Peanut Allergies — Why They Are a Thing and What to do About Them – July 20, 2022
• Everything Old is New Again with Chrome New Flex Operating System – July 19, 2022
• U.S. Eastern Seaboard is Seeing the Beginning of a Freshwater Crisis – July 18, 2022
• Universities have an urgent mission: Make lying wrong again – July 17, 2022
• Want to Get Your Next Car – July 16, 2022
• Are Social Media Apps and Sites Weapons of Mass Distraction? – July 16, 2022
• U.S. Government’s Office of Science and Technology Issues Call for Cislunar Strategies – July 15, 2022
• GMO Can Save the Potato Crop in Bangladesh and Indonesia – July 11, 2022
• Why Does Geothermal Get Missed in Conversations About Renewable Energy? – July 9, 2022
• Will the 21st Century See an End to Human Labour? – July 7, 2022
• A Biodegradable Spray Applied to Fresh Produce Could Eliminate a Lot of Foodborne Illnesses and Plastic Packaging – July 3, 2022
• GridRaster Uses the Metaverse to Build High Tech Prototypes and Finished Products – July 1, 2022
• Have Physicists Solved the Plasma Problem Holding Back Fusion Power? – June 29, 2022
• Is the Militarization of Outer Space Inevitable? – June 28, 2022
• Satellite Images of our Oceans Reveal Oil Slicks Covering an Area Twice the Size of France – June 25, 2022
• How Machine Learning is Speeding Up Biomedical Breakthroughs – June 24, 2022
• The 14th Century Black Death Started in Kyrgyzstan – June 20, 2022
• From Pessimism to Optimism Despite the Headlines – June 20, 2022
• Carbon Engineering-Occidental Petroleum Partnership to Build 70 to 135 Direct Air Capture Plants by 2035 – June 17, 2022
• Agricultural Emissions Taxes Are Coming in an Effort to Deal with Methane – June 16, 2022
• Physicians’ Group Asks for a Ban on Ads – June 13, 2022
• Biden Health Officials Warn of Substantial Increase in Virus Cases – June 12, 2022
• Is Monkeypox the Latest Zoonotic Disease to Transfer from the Wild to Humans Accelerated – June 11, 2022
• Japan’s Asteroid Mission Return Sample Supports the Idea of Panspermia – June 9, 2022
• What is Kinetic 7 and is it the Breakthrough Energy Source the Hype is Promoting or is it a Hoax? – June 3, 2022
• Oceanix Busan in South Korea Could Be The World’s First Floating City – June 1, 2022
• David Suzuki Foundation Produces a Plan for 100% Clean Renewable Energy with a Serious Omission – May 29, 2022
• COVID-19 in 2022—The Beginning of the End or the End of the Beginning? – May 28, 2022
• Imaging Technology Reveals Ancient Civilization in Amazonia – May 26, 2022
• SpaceX States It Will to Get to Mars Before NASA While the Latter Lists its Objectives to Get There – May 24, 2022
• Improvements to Membrane Technology Facilitates Better Carbon Capture – May 22, 2022
• San Diego Air & Space Museum – May 20, 2022
• Where are the Leaders to Meet the Challenges of the 21st Century? – May 20, 2022
• U.S. health officials say a third of people live in areas with so much virus they should consider masks indoors – May 18, 2022
• China, US Are Racing to Make Billions From Mining the Moon’s Minerals – May 18, 2022
• Soft Robots Powered by Light May Clean Up Future Oil Spills and Decontaminate Drinking Water – May 18, 2022
• Is Solar Energy from Outer Space in Our Future? — Part Two: Alternatives to the Geosynchronous Solar Array – May 16, 2022
• Is Solar Energy from Outer Space in Our Future? — Part One: Building a Geosynchronous Solar Power Plant – May 15, 2022
• Is Society in General Turning its Back on Intellectual Discussion and Scientific Discovery? – May 10, 2022
• A portable wind turbine that fits in your backpack? Yes please – May 9, 2022
• Planning a Career Path in the Face of Disruptive 21st Century Change – May 8, 2022
• Jeff Bezos Wants Manufacturing to Move Off Planet and NASA is Exploring the Possibilities – May 7, 2022
• What If We Use Rockets Rather Than Airplanes to Get Around Our Planet? – May 6, 2022
• World Health Organization Acknowledges Undercounting of COVID-19 Deaths – May 5, 2022
• Thermal imaging of cities shows how much of the energy we produce goes out the windows and doors of our buildings – April 30, 2022
• A Headline Yesterday Stated the Green Energy Transition Has Stalled — Why? – April 29, 2022
• Russia’s Attack on Ukraine is Making Everything on this Planet Worse – April 26, 2022
• Promising Stem Cell Therapy Could Help Spinal Cord Injury Sufferers Regain Ability to Walk – April 25, 2022
• Will Rising Gas Prices Speed Up the Transition To A Zero-Emission Future? – April 23, 2022
• Navigating ESG Requirements is a Work in Progress for Companies Pursuing a Greener Future – April 22, 2022
• With coal surge, China puts energy security and growth before climate – April 22, 2022
• How Close Are We to Rocket-Delivered Cargo and an Earth Starport Transportation Network? – April 19, 2022
• In Urban Planning You Would Think a Healthy Population Would be High on the Agenda – April 18, 2022
• Whirl and Hurl Launch Technology to be Tested by NASA – April 16, 2022
• New Heat Engine With No Moving Parts Could Fully Decarbonize the Power Grid – April 15, 2022
• Technological innovation is spurring evolutionary changes. Here’s how humanity may look 10,000 years from now – April 15, 2022
• The space economy is ready for lift-off: First into orbit, and then to the Moon – April 15, 2022
• The Transistor Gets an Upgrade That Will Reduce Energy Requirements – April 14, 2022
• When It Comes to Science We Need to Understand the Past to Divine the Future – April 12, 2022
• Extraterrestrial Intelligence Messaging Has Changed Recently – April 11, 2022
• Hypersonic Aircraft Planned to Connect Tokyo to Los Angeles in an Hour – April 11, 2022
• Elon Musk’s Hyperloop Concept to Become a Reality with Alberta’s TransPod – April 9, 2022
• New Federal Government Tax Credit for Carbon Capture Offered to Fossil Fuel Companies – April 8, 2022
• Canada’s Environment Ministry Approves Offshore Oil Project While Touting 2030 Emissions Reduction Plan – April 7, 2022
• Methane emissions jumped – April 7, 2022
• Carbon Capture is Turning Into a Trillion Dollar industry for Spinning Out New Products – April 3, 2022
• Wind and solar energy amounted to 10% of the global energy consumption in 2021 – April 2, 2022
• Taking Definitive Action on Your Sustainability Goals – March 29, 2022
• A billion of the world’s most climate-vulnerable people live in informal settlements — here’s what they face – March 28, 2022
• 5,000 Plus Exoplanets with Many More to Come — Is There an Earth Two Out There? – March 27, 2022
• What Is the Splinternet? And Why You Should Be Paying Attention – March 25, 2022
• Conversations Among Autonomous Vehicle Designers and Those Building Road Infrastructure Are Yielding Interesting Results – March 25, 2022
• A Talk Sponsored – March 24, 2022
• Gene Editing Now Has A Next-Generation CRISPR Tool – March 23, 2022
• Nuclear Energy Company Proposes a New Reactor to Take Care of the Waste Problem – March 22, 2022
• Saudi Scientists Invent Composite Device to Generate Energy and Freshwater – March 21, 2022
• NASA Wants Technology to Allow Us to Breathe on Mars – March 18, 2022
• Russia May Have Used an Artificial Intelligence Killer Drone in Ukraine According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists – March 17, 2022
• New Thinking Is Needed to Get Us Out of the Many Fixes We Are In – March 14, 2022
• As Governments Move Past COVID-19 They Continue to Undercount Cases and Deaths – March 12, 2022
• Science competitions can help to catapult your science into the real world – March 7, 2022
• Powerful New Magnet May Lead to a Fusion Energy Future Sooner Than Later – March 7, 2022
• Drugs pollute rivers, add to resistance crisis – March 7, 2022
• Understanding peer review: what it is, how it works and why it is important – March 7, 2022
• Seldom Has Politics Superseded the Pursuit of Scientific Discovery and Sharing – March 6, 2022
• New York City Pursues Net-Zero in the Borough of Queens – March 5, 2022
• How Two Technologies Disrupted Our World in the Last Two Centuries – March 4, 2022
• When the Dark Web meets the Metaverse – March 3, 2022
• Intriguing Theory of How Complex Life Evolved on Earth — It Has to Do with the Planet’s Spin – March 3, 2022
• What might explain Huntington’s Disease? – March 3, 2022
• South Australia Sets a New Renewable Mark Reaching Zero Demand – March 3, 2022
• The Growing Threat of Ransomware – March 3, 2022
• My Take on the Future Metaverse Internet as Envisioned – March 3, 2022
• The mRNA Vaccines Are a Good Start But a New Approach to Vaccines is Needed as More Variants Emerge – March 3, 2022
• Planet Awash in Waste Needs to Adopt a Circular Economy Approach to Our Trash – March 3, 2022
• “Cream Cheese” That Never Came from a Cow – March 3, 2022
• Why I Write About Hydrogen – March 3, 2022
• The Rogue Planets I Read About in Science Fiction When I Was Younger Are Real – March 3, 2022
• Capturing Carbon Continues to be Controversial – March 3, 2022
• Peter Diamandis Describes How Applying AI to Drug Discovery is Causing Positive Disruption to Biopharma – March 3, 2022
• Fifth Generation Wireless Raises Issues for Airlines — Is the Concern Legitimate? – March 3, 2022
• Will the Pandemic Create a Generation of Lost Youth Who Have Seen Their Education Disrupted? – March 3, 2022
• Carbon as a currency – March 3, 2022
• What Technological Innovation Will Have the Greatest Impact in the Next 15 Years? – March 3, 2022
• What is the State of Sustainable Investments in 2022? – March 3, 2022
• Is Our Planned Obsolescence Economic Model Sustainable? – March 3, 2022
• Putting Space Garbage Trucks in Orbit is a Needed Priority This Decade – February 26, 2022
• The Future of Cooperation in Space May Permanently Alter Because of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine – February 25, 2022
• Can a Newly Invented “Bionic” Pacemaker Reverse Heart Failure? – February 24, 2022
• What Are the Critical and Emerging Technologies to Watch as Perceived by the White House? – February 23, 2022
• As a Former History Major It is Hard Not to Comment on the Growing Threat of Another European War – February 22, 2022
• What the James Webb Telescope Will Help Us to See: The Meaning of Existence – February 21, 2022
• Genetically Modified May Save Africa and Other Places From Disease and Starvation – February 14, 2022
• City Air is Just as Dangerous to Your Health as it was 20 Years Ago States The Lancet – February 14, 2022
• Will the Primary Purpose of the Metaverse be to Escape Reality or Create an Alternate One? – February 14, 2022
• Will We Discover Extraterrestrial Life This Decade? – February 14, 2022
• The Stark Reality of a Global Pandemic: The Official Numbers Don’t Tell the Entire Story – February 14, 2022
• Is the Artificial Intelligence Classified as Machine Learning Becoming More Personable? – February 14, 2022
• World Economic Forum 2021 Global Risk Report Doesn’t Sugarcoat Anything – February 14, 2022
• Habitat for Humanity is 3D Printing Homes – February 14, 2022
• Why Indoor Air Quality Is a Global Health Concern – February 14, 2022
• Three New Capabilities I Have Learned About Regarding Artificial Intelligence – February 14, 2022
• Ever the Optimist Peter Diamandis Shares His Top Ten Meta Trends of This Decade – February 14, 2022
• AlphaFold AI Revealing the Structure of Every Protein in our Bodies and More – February 14, 2022
• Technology, Human Behaviour and the March of Events Setting Us Up for Catastrophe – February 14, 2022
• Official End Date for the International Space Station Announced – February 14, 2022
• Why the Nuclear Option is a Necessity if Humans Are Ever Going to Get to Mars and Return Alive – February 14, 2022
• Rubber-like Programmable MetaMaterial Invented With Unique Phase Change Properties – February 14, 2022
• A New Meaning to the Word “Conversion” Entered My Personal Lexicon in the Last Week – February 14, 2022
• Reducing Our Global Carbon Footprint Requires Us to Rethink the Building Materials We Use – February 14, 2022
• How Even a Futurist Company Like SpaceX Can Forget to Check the Weather Report – February 14, 2022
• Making Scientific Discoveries Open to All – February 14, 2022