(1) Perovskite Solar Cells; (2) Sodium-Ion Batteries; (3) Nanomembrane Desalination & Pumped Hydro; (4) Aeroponics & Reforestation; and (5) Never-Charge EVs & V2G. — Grand Lake, Colorado. Altitude: 8,369'. A few miles from the Rocky Mountain National Park is a historic town that looks like it might have come off the set of Westworld. Like Aspen, Vail, or Breckenridge, tourism is its lifeblood. Surrounding a rustic town square are dramatic peaks that wouldn’t look…

Change your thoughts, change your reality. — Most of us subconsciously share the same ideas about what “success” looks like. Go to the best school. Work the most prestigious job. Make lots of money realizing someone else’s dreams. Get a big house. Buy expensive things. Forget where the last forty years went. Retire one day (if lucky). …

It’s not half as hard as people make it out to be — but you need the right habits. — I see the posts every day on LinkedIn. “It’s like the Paper Chase.” “You might not see me for three years.” “The cold calls are terrifying.” “Exams will be impossible without study groups.” Law school is coming. Students are worried. …

Building the right daily habits will help you survive. — It should be a revelation to no one — the ones who get ahead in the legal and corporate worlds are not always the smartest. What the people at the top have in common is the ability to adapt to their environments. You can be the most intelligent person in…

Meta’s vision has promise, but it continuously flounders on execution. — Facebook is moving away from its social networking roots and adopting a deliberate strategy to craft the future of social virtual reality (“VR”). In a bold (or, to some, bizarre) move, it has changed its company name to Meta and has deemed its vision for the future of VR “the…

One solution to the housing, climate, and fiscal crises may be settling the seas. — Imagine new developments, cities, and even nations rising on the ocean’s surface. Years from now, cutting-edge architects, scientists, and tech firms may pool their resources to uproot themselves from the scarcities of dry land and put down permanent residence in bays, harbors, ports — or international waters. Self-sustaining ocean research…

What the world’s former innovation capital can learn from 21st-Century Dubai. — Groundwater provides 0.5% of Dubai’s fresh water. The other 99.5% comes straight from the sea — via a series of vast desalination plants built into the Persian Gulf. A technological marvel transforms 2.8 billion gallons of the Gulf into 416 million gallons of fresh water daily. The result is the…