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Distributed Ledger Technology: Urban Legend or Game-Changing Reality?

One thing is certain: distributed ledger technology itself is very real. The technology exists. But what about its impact? Is the usage of distributed ledger technology (DLT) the golden goose proponents claim it to be?…

The Colorado River Basin: Why We Need Watershed Scale Solutions

Entrepreneurs To Solve Wicked Water Problems While water scarcity, poor quality, lack of access to safe drinking water, sanitation and hygiene and inequity of water services are a global problem, the solutions are typically at…

Digital Technologies Are the Only Chance To Achieve the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals by 2030

Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 is highly questionable, as the status quo is difficult to disrupt. Difficult, that is, but not impossible. A report from 2019, “Digital With a Purpose: Delivering a SMARTer2030”,…

Senet and Helium Team Up To Bring Wireless IoT Network Coverage to Over 2,000 Cities, Major Ports and Key Logistics Corridors

On the heels of a partnership announcement earlier this year that Senet, a pioneer in cloud-based software and services for LoRaWAN network deployments had completed a network integration with Helium, a rapidly growing distributed networking…

Tech and Innovation Offer Promise for the World’s Most Water-Challenged Regions

It is estimated that currently 844 million people live without clean water, and 2.3 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation, according to water.org. Water scarcity affects more than 40 percent of the…

Hedera Hashgraph — Third-Generation DLT And Case Studies on Its Success

Blockchain is already so last year. Granted, 2020 lasted forever, but blockchain really is the first generation of distributed ledger technology (DLT). I am excited about Hedera Hashgraph, the third generation of DLT. The second generation,…

The Sunny Future of RECs

Welcome to the second article on Renewable Energy Credits (also known as RECs and SRECs.) Previously, we discussed what RECs are, how clean energy producers generate them, and how they’re traded among organizations and individuals…

Energy Trading Companies Form Eleox, A Unified Full-Service Enhanced Platform Dedicated to Modernizing and Streamlining Post-Trade Clearing and Settlement

An elite group of distinguished companies who market and trade natural gas in North America join in a new endeavor to form the new, independent company, Eleox. This group includes bp, Castleton Commodities International LLC,…

Remembering Love Canal: Why Residents Resist A Crypto Server Farm

Cryptocurrency “mining” — the ongoing calculations and redundant data storage associated with blockchain — is incredibly costly. One needs plenty of uninterrupted power to keep the servers running and cool. There are physical property concerns,…

Amazon QLDB: Centralized Blockchain Monitored by an Authority You Trust (Kinda)

Welcome to the third and final piece in our discussion of blockchain for enterprise. So far, we’ve addressed the basics of blockchain and some ways your business might benefit from it. We’ve also explored the soft…