Maybe my insight is not new.  But I thought it was interesting nonetheless. I have been working on a project in the solar energy arena.  My company is developing a two axis tracking system that will improve the energy harvest of flat roof and residential solar installations.  Its going really well.  A real mechatronic challenge.  The magic is in […]

The Solar Power International 2010 just finished at the Los Angeles Convention Center.  This is probably the largest get together of people in the solar industry in the United States.  The top vendors from all over the world were present. Among the many interesting developments, many new product technologies, many new solutions focused on cost […]

Robotics researchers have been pushing the envelope for the last 30 years since the inception of “artificial intelligence”.  The basics of artificial intelligence programming is the modeling of human expertise and mimicking human behavior in a variety of circumstances. One aspect of artificial intelligence gave rise to expert systems.  Complex systems like diesel locomotives are […]

Recently, I did some industry analysis on jobs and revenue.  How many dollars of sales are required to “create or save” a job in a given industry.  I only looked at a couple of industries and found that it ranged from $219,000 to $275,000 in sales for certain types of processed materials to employ a […]