Emerging technologies for a more sustainable future

New Electricity Technologies for a Sustainable Future

There is a growing concern over continuous reliance of our economic and energy systems on conventional electricity sources and their long-term environmental, climate change, and security of supply implications. At the same time, much hope and belief is vested in the ability of future technological progress to tackles these issues. However, informed academic analysis and policy debates on the fu...

Thermoelectricity for future sustainable energy technologies

— Thermoelectricity is a general term for a number of effects describing the direct interconversion of heat and electricity. Thermoelectric devices are therefore promising, environmental-friendly alternatives to conventional power generators or cooling units. Since the mid-90s, research on thermoelectric properties and their applications has steadily increased. In the course of years, the devel...

LED based lighting and communications: An emerging technology for a greener more sustainable future

The paper discusses on the effect that the growth in our energy consumption as a species is having upon the planet, and how the global lighting and telecommunications industries are major contributors. We demonstrate that through the adoption of LED based lighting combined with visible light communications, substantial economical and power savings by orders of magnitude can be made over existin...

Emerging Instructional Technologies : the near Future

Twenty years ago it would have been hard to imagine that computer networking would have such a profound influence on the field of instructional design and technology (IDT) and throughout society as a whole. The quest to build a better mouse trap is now guided by emerging technologies that continually strive toward being faster, smaller, more intelligent, and distributed. Predicting the future o...

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