has been adopted over the last 5 years to identify a group of industries and industrial applications which exploit the commercial value of technologies that benefit the environment; particularly as it impacts the human condition. This basket of effected industries is quite diverse and includes businesses as far a field as energy and agriculture. Some predict every consumer product will someday be affected. Unlike the technological waves in recent decades, Green Technology is almost entirely materials science based.
Much of the coming green revolution also relies on the availability of "Alternative Energy" sources to both eliminate the emission of green house gases that cause global warming and to make the limited resources we have on the planet perpetually "sustainable". Alternative Energy is defined as both energy sources other than mined hydrocarbons (e.g. solar energy in replacement of oil and natural gas) as well as alternative methods to process mined hydrocarbons that are more efficient than current means (e.g. use of fuel cells in replacement of combustion engines.)
The vast number of "Green Technologies" fall into one of two broad categories. These are:
1. those intended to deal with global warming by either reducing greenhouse gas emissions or in the alternative its potential harmful effects on the planet, and
2. those technologies associated with establishing economic "sustainable growth" which includes recycling, resource reduction and many aspects of the biosciences.
Each of these two categories has several major associated industries addressing some aspect of achieving their goals. And of course many of the important industrial and technological revolutions taking place today touch on both. For example, fuel cells both decrease the green house gases that cause global warming by potentially eliminating air pollution from automobiles and they also make our energy sources more "sustainable" by reducing the amount of hydrocarbon-based fuel needed to generate the same amount of energy as compared to current combustion engines, i.e. far greater miles per gallon.
The renewable sources are useful as they are cost effective. The non-renewable sources of energy or fossil fuels are getting expensive as the reserves are getting exhausted with increasing usage. Besides, fossil fuels are spoiling the atmosphere as well as the aqua life. On the other hand, the renewable sources of energy are environment friendly and do not affect the natural order of the planet. The sources will never exhaust and will cause no trouble in case the demand will be increased by the passage of time.
It is time that we must start to think about things at larger canvas. It is time that we should realize our duty to the mother earth and change the way we are behaving from ages. The change is only possible if we are ready to rely on the latest techniques and to reject the conventions. Let us come and join hands to save our planet that is the last hope of life of human beings.
Global Warming
There seems to be little debate that human activity has increased the level of air pollution and CO2 in the earth's atmosphere and that this will increase global temperatures. The ultimate effect to humanity of this rise in the planet's temperature is a matter of great debate but the fact that this will result in significant changes to how we live and work is not. Today there are essentially two approaches to global warming.
The first is best known from the work of former Vice President and Nobel Peace Prize Winner as presented in his film "An Inconvenient Truth" holds that global warming should be addressed at its root cause by all of humanity working in consort through technological/industrial innovation and international governmental policy to reduce the quantity of air pollution and CO2 emissions being generated.
The second approach is best expressed in the work of the environmentalist Bjorn Lomborg as presented in his writings and books, such as "Cool It" which holds that a "rational as opposed to fashionable" approach to global warming is to recognize that the least expensive method of dealing with its effects is to treat them as they occur sometimes at the very local level. This is based on the premise that when the actual effects are examined in a sober and scientific way, policymakers will discover addressing them piecemeal is significantly less costly in capital than the effort that would be necessary to reduce green house gas emissions to a point where the Earth's temperature actually began to fall again.
Those technologies that are intended to deal with the root causes of global warming as proposed by Al Gore and the larger environmental movement work by reducing the emission of the green house gases that are changing the earth's atmospheric temperature. Green house gases are either of the type we commonly think of as "Air Pollution", such NOX (Nitrous Oxide) and SOX (sulfur dioxide) and the non-pollutant CO2 (carbon dioxide) which we exhale.
GEN Bio and Green Technologies Projects will be collaborated with Governments and Businesses worldwide and enhance the institution's research activities, to make the "World a Better Place!".
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