World Congress on Sustainable Technologies

The World Congress on Sustainable Technologies (“COST”) is an integrative conference, which puts together efforts throughout the engineering, social and natural sciences. COST promotes the development and dissemination of new information regarding sustainable technologies and their impact on the environment. This year’s COST will be held from December 14 to 16 at Heathrow Windsor Marriott Hotel, Ditton Road, Langley in London, United Kingdom. It will present various prospects for reflection and collaboration, which could be of vital importance in improving the foundation and competence for organization, and application of art, technology, and science in sustainability. COST fuses together the academe and the industry by promoting awareness regarding new and modern improvements in sustainable technologies. During the conference, topics regarding all aspects of sustainable energies and technologies will be discussed and encouraged. They will be divided into seven general areas. Sustainable Energy Technologies Renewable Energy Managements, Economics and Environmental Impact Education Green Computing Sustainable Building Design Sustainability and Policy Waste Management Sustainable Energy Technologies Nanotechnology in Energy New Enabling Technologies Power Electronics and Energy Conversion Energy Harvesting Energy Efficiency in Utilization Off-Grid Isolated Energy Systems Renewable Energy Managements, Economics and Environmental Impact Climate Change Sustainable Waste Management Technologies Energy from Waste Pollution Prevention Environmental Policies and Planning Hazardous Chemical Education E-Society Education and Training Environmental Education Green Computing Technology as Green Enablers Advanced IT energy-aware technologies Smart Grid Applications Green Computing Geo-Energy Power Aware Networking E-Cycling Sustainable Building Design Photovoltaics and Solar Thermal Building Design an System New Building Materials and Recycling Creative Industries Sustainability and Policy Sustainable Technology Program Sustainable Applications Sustainable Innovations Sustainable Development Policy Waste Management Waste...

3 U.S. Innovations to Celebrate this Independence Day

Our nation, despite its relatively short existence as a country, has already made superb technological advances. It seems that our forefathers and today’s tech gurus have maintained their consistency in inventing scientific luxuries at a recurring frequency. This Independence Day, let’s celebrate U.S. ingenuity by recognizing three technological advancements that were born in America. The First Mobile Phone Marty Cooper is famed for developing the first ever handset unit, which acted as a precursor for today’s mobile phones. Known as the Motorola DynaTAC, it was a bulky, gray 2 lb. box. Users could only talk for 35 minutes per session. Back then, the only other option for making calls were landlines and telephone booths. As Cooper mentioned in an interview, the Motorola team had a daunting task of determining how phone technology could be packed into a self-contained mobile unit. There was no blueprint to reference and everything had to be done from scratch. Cooper and his co-workers shut down all ongoing engineering projects at Motorola so that everyone could focus on the infrastructure needed to make this device work. And soon, the first mobile phone was born. Good or bad, thanks to Cooper, we now do more calling than ever. The Computer Mouse Even though advances in technology have introduced touch screens and trackpads, the mouse, having been around for the last three decades, remains a functional entity for office computers.  American engineer, Doug Engelbart invented the mouse peripheral. It was just a minor component of his even larger project. Engelbart’s presentation at the 1968 Fall Joint Computer Science Conference in San Francisco has been dubbed “the mother...