Monthly Archives: December 2014

Chemicals Manufacturing: New Technologies, New Thinking

Posted on December 28, 2014 by Peter Spitz

Consider this quote from a high level Chinese spokesman: As supply of capital, land and other factors is on the decline and resource and environmental restriction become more serious, the proportion of first and second industries, which consume capital, land … Continue reading →

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Looking toward a technology future

Posted on December 19, 2014 by Peter Spitz

The end of the year is a good time both for reflection and look-ahead, I thought that an article from yesterday’s New York Post, taken from publications by scholars from Stanford and Duke, is worth covering in this blog, though some of this … Continue reading →

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Electricity storage becomes priority as solar and wind energy cost keeps dropping

Posted on December 2, 2014 by Peter Spitz

 The rapid advances in the use of solar and wind energy – more in Europe, but now also gaining momentum in the U.S.- has put electricity “storage” front and center. That is because there is no solar production at night … Continue reading →

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