Microsoft forecasts 2016

   
source: winsource.com

Microsoft Research is the 1,000-strong arm of the company that deals with The Future.

TECHIES vs. CLIMATE CHANGE

   All eyes were on Paris for the at the 2015 U.N. Climate Change Conference. But what if solving the global climate crisis is less about political willpower and of technical knowhow?

   Peter Thiel declared the cleantech sector  — solar panels, wind turbines, and more — a “disaster” in 2011. But today, the solar industry employs 174,000 people, more than Google, Apple, Facebook and Twitter combined, and job growth is 20 times higher than the rest of the U.S. economy.

   That includes the companies which gets data out of utilities and into the hands of companies that can use it, such as solar, energy storage, and energy management companies.

   Two major hurdles remain to be jumped — market size and the role of federal incentives.