John Dodge and Dana Blankenhorn

Thinking Tech

Geothermal gives West a clean energy advantage

The real answer to getting the most from the West's geothermal abundance is to make that energy portable somehow. The two best-known ways of doing that are to turn it into hydrogen or ammonia, but that takes water, and the West is water-poor.

Business Brains

Would a rush-hour tax alleviate our worst traffic bottlenecks?

A congestion charging system has significantly cut down rush-hour traffic in Stockholm. Could it work in the sprawling cities of North America?

Pure Genius

Going green at the winery

In this BNET special report on Green Business Tactics hosted by Sumi Das you'll meet Frog's Leap winery's Jonah Beer who introduces us to dry farming and a future where his winery will be using 95% fewer inputs into the wine-making process at full efficiency. You'll also get to see Frog's Leap's solar set-up and LEED certified green building.

Rethinking Healthcare

Can your new knee be guaranteed?

How much care should be taken with drugs and devices that go into your body? When is that care enough to keep you out of court, if you think you were harmed? Can that new knee be guaranteed, and should it be?

Smart Takes

NASA fires laser 250,000 miles to hit lunar spacecraft traveling at 3,600 mph

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center manages to fire a laser and hit an object 250,000 miles away every 28 seconds. The target? Its Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft, which orbits the moon.

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