Energy/Technology – Alex Berezow

If GPS Failed, We’d Be More Than Lost

Congress should fund a land-based navigation system in case the other one goes down. Read the rest at The Wall Street Journal.

Solar-powered flight is fun and quirky, but it is not a revolution.

It’s time to end the federal porn subsidy.

Ex Machina, a suspenseful new film about artificial intelligence, is disturbing for all the right reasons.

To harvest energy, scientists have proposed creating their own dust devils.

It’a a neat trick, but the bioelectrochemical cell essentially takes an inefficient process and reduces its efficiency even further.

Anti-technology environmentalists have made all sorts of wild, unsubstantiated claims about the supposed harms of fracking.

Researchers are looking for ways to produce renewable “fossil fuels” through the use of alternative technologies, such as synthetic biology.

Let’s pretend that you’re a cyberterrorist.

Techies and investors should keep an eye on this emerging technology.