How To Persuade The Unpersuadable
Carefully nuturing your strong belief in a project/product/service can persuade the know-it-all naysaying boss to get behind a winning idea.
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Feb 28, 20211 min read
Trackless Trams Better Option than Light Rail?
Smooth-riding autonomous buses called trackless trams may be a less expensive alternative to light rail.
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Feb 12, 20212 min read
Demand for Light Duty Trucks At An All Time High Been Trending For Decades
Decades in decline sedans are now less than 10% of car sales. Pickups, MiniVans and SUV are highly preferred in America. EV versions soon!
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Feb 4, 20211 min read
Buy American-Talk Versus Practice
Pushing Federal Procurement to favor "Made in the USA" is appealing but ignores supply chain realities and international trade agreements.
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Feb 3, 20213 min read
Businessweek Interviewed Pfizer CEO Regarding Covid
U.S. underperformed responding to COVID but efforts of private industry & cross-collaboration with agencies and academia saved us from worse
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Feb 1, 20211 min read
Neighborhood/Building Power Issues-MicroGrid Networks to the Rescue
Batteries to stabilize electric delivery will become common in buildings and neighborhoods. A small cube unit is made by Fluenceenergy.com
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Jan 31, 20211 min read
Austin Skyline 43 Towers Rising or Planned
Pandemic aside corporate RELOs are hitting records & high rise builders are aligned with 17 on the way & 26 in-the-works or in planning.
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Jan 30, 20211 min read
Mega-Batteries Siphon Excess Grid Power & Redistribute at Peak Demand-Mighty Moss Gets a New Life !
Everything that is old is new might be the 2021 anthem for the Mighty Moss electric generating plant. New life from surging battery tech !
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Jan 23, 20212 min read
Carbon Dioxide Capture to Make Oil Extraction and Use Carbon Neutral
Sucking CO2 from air may save the planet. OXY envisions a future that removes CO2 using it to extract oil & making its use carbon neutral.
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Jan 22, 20213 min read
Progress in Human Molecular Genetics
Molecular Genetics is yielding new therapies but gene banks are mostly from european ancestry thereby limiting understanding of all diseases
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Jan 17, 20211 min read
Apple Enters Fiercely Competitive EV Market
Electric Vehicle makers include Tesla, traditional automakers, Rivian&Others and new entrants Alibaba, Baidu, Foxconn and now Apple.
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Jan 14, 20213 min read
Infrastructure "Everybody Wants Some" But "It Don't Come Easy"
To most of us lay folks infrastructure projects make lots of sense especially now when growth is needed but completing them is difficult.
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Jan 9, 20211 min read
Automakers Not Chipping Away-Demand for PCs, 5G & Gaming in Pandemic has left Auto-Chips Lagging
Carmarkers somewhat stalled by lower auto-chip production as industry tries to adjust to changing demand brought on by the pandemic fallout.
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Jan 3, 20214 min read
30 Years On-The Human Genome Project Impact, What the Future Portends
Timely publication of the COVID sequence, DX tests, MOAB RX & vaccines that followed stem from transformed rules of research out of the HGP.
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Dec 15, 20202 min read
Solid State EV Batteries Game-Changing Technology will Prototype in 2021
Exciting times as Toyota announces plans to demonstrate a prototype EV using a solid-state battery doubling range & cutting charge time 66%
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Dec 2, 20201 min read
Google's DeepMind AlphaFold Predicts Protein Folding Reliably & Quickly From AA Sequence Using AI
To reliably & quickly predict protein folding based on the known amino acid sequence is a goal that is being realized by Google using AI
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Nov 18, 20201 min read
High Living
Around Austin-Residential high living off of eastbound West 5th.
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Nov 18, 20202 min read
Electric Vehicles-"There's No Turning Back"
Biden's plan calls for reinvigorating $7.5K cash for buying an EV & for 500,000 charging stations on US roadways to alleviate range anxiety.
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Nov 5, 20203 min read
Green Investing Booms Again
The S&P Global Clean Energy index beat the S&P500 recently. The number of VC delays has double since 2010 to $36B from US, EU, China & ROW.
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Nov 2, 20201 min read
Frost Building
Around Austin-The Frost Building. Photo Credit Mark Stene.
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