With an increasing amount of sensitive business being conducted online, cybersecurity is becoming a necessity.
The industrializing world is bulking up on hydroelectric power, developed nations need to rebuild and modernize existing facilities. Here’s how to profit.
How technology is used makes for successful innovation.
Truth is stranger than science fiction. Google (NSDQ: GOOG) launched an energy subsidiary a few weeks ago.
For now, I’d stick to the established players in nuclear power and the big construction and consulting firms that develop, design and maintain the facilities. But keep an ear to the ground on Thorium reactors.
The Copenhagen Accord disappointed many and served as a rallying cry for opponents, but investors need to read between the lines to pick the likely long-term winners.
Although innumerable stories emerge each day about solar, wind, fuel cells, nanotechnology and other bleeding-edge technologies, the engine behind the industrial revolution and the father of clean-tech largely goes unnoticed–hydropower.
As an emerging tech expert I tend to follow companies on the vanguard of research; the stocks can be very volatile until the big payoff shows up. And timing these moves is next to impossible. My strategy is to buy a handful of small companies that show promise and hope a couple hit it big–venture capitalist style. If you’re risk tolerant and patient, it’s a good way to spice up your portfolio.
Big program spending doesn’t command the share of the defense budget it once did. But cybersecurity is one industry that continues to benefit from government largesse.
But building a national Smart Grid is a very daunting task, but regional coalitions comprising industry, government and consumers are banding together to push for smaller, local Smart Grids.
