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发表于 2014-4-2 21:59:58 | 显示全部楼层 |阅读模式
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TED AngelaLee Duckworth演讲的肢体语言很丰富。并且最后提到了一个以前我们读过的一个阅读材料,春困里的一道鸡血大餐。。。enjoy


Part I: Speaker

Article 1   

AngelaLee Duckworth: The key to success? Grit



[Rephrase 1]


[Speech, 6:13]

Source : TED
http://www.ted.com/talks/angela_lee_duckworth_the_key_to_success_grit

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 楼主| 发表于 2014-4-2 21:59:59 | 显示全部楼层
Part II: Speed


Article2
Floating Farms
Thanks to rising sea levels and disappearing soil, agriculture's future might be all wet.



By Jesse Hirsch on March 19, 2014
[Warm Up]

On the roof of a million-dollar Honolulu penthouse, with dazzling views of the ocean beyond the city, an unlikely group of revolutionaries is eating octopus — and plotting to disrupt our future. There’s a patent attorney, a documentary filmmaker, several academics, a fish farmer and a former agriculture commissioner (the former governor sent his regrets). Most attendees are wearing bright floral shirts; nobody wears shoes. Scotch and wine keep the mood light in the face of a weighty agenda.

For this is the annual meeting of Blue Revolution Hawaii, a group of futurists who are working out how people can live — and farm — in the deep blue sea.

“What other frontier is monumentally significant to humanity?” asks Blue Revolution founder Pat Takahashi. “I’ll tell you: Nothing.”

If you ponder humanity’s prospects for the next 50 years, things can look a little bleak. Climate change is shrinking our coastlines. Unsustainable farm practices are depleting our soil. Billions of new mouths will need to be fed. In a world of swelling populations and dwindling farmland, some predict we’re running out of places to go — and to grow food. What’s to be done?

To the members of Blue Revolution Hawaii — and like-minded thinkers around the globe — the answer is patently obvious. More than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface is water. Our future is on the ocean.

[245 words]



A Real ‘Waterworld’

[Time 2]

If you’ve never seen the $172 million Hollywood epic “Waterworld,” here’s a rough summary: It’s two hours of a web-footed Kevin Costner battling goons on Jet Skis. But underneath the bad acting and explosions, the film’s basic concept — mankind driven by necessity to live on the open ocean — bears an uncanny resemblance to the Blue Revolution vision.

It’s a vision both bizarre and idyllic: cities built on modified oil-drilling platforms or groups of old cruise ships, tethered together. Big translucent globes are submerged near the cities, teeming with farmed fish. Thirty-foot-wide pipes extend down to 3,000 feet, pumping up water to be desalinized. Humans drink the water, and use it to irrigate plants. Electricity is sustainable and virtually infinite, powered by seawater itself. “It’s a shame that we always seem to wait for a tipping point, for things to get truly awful, before people take action,” says Bill Spencer, an advisor to Blue Revolution Hawaii.Though few existing projects match Blue Revolution’s scope, there is a current vogue for living and growing on water. A New York design firm has been growing plants on man-made islands near Manhattan and Philadelphia. On the western coast of Vancouver, 14 floating greenhouses and a two-story house are tethered together on repurposed fish floats.

In Thailand and the waterlogged Netherlands, movements are well underway to construct floating homes, greenhouses, hospitals and prisons. The Japanese architecture firm Shimizu (also known for their plans to put solar panels on the moon) has fantastical designs for floating “lily pad cities,” complete with artificial forests and skyscraper greenhouses. Even Lockheed Martin, the aerospace conglomerate, is getting into the action — by testing offshore energy solutions in the Pacific.

[302 words]

[Time 3]

Besides Blue Revolution Hawaii, a venture called the Seasteading Institute is the most serious U.S. player in the ocean colonization movement. “[Seasteading] will catch on as people discover you can farm the ocean just like you can farm the land,” says Charlie Deist, research coordinator for the Seasteading Institute. “You can have a relatively pure version of homesteading.”

Based in the Bay Area, the group is suffused with the big talk and zeal of a startup, as well as some of the funding — PayPal founder Peter Thiel has given them well over $2 million. Their dreams are grandiose and ideologically driven; John Locke and the right to individual liberty feature large. The institute believes the first ocean settlements will exist by2020, and has partnered with an upscale Dutch design firm to facilitate that vision.

Blue Revolution Hawaii is more motivated by science than politics, and the group has yet to attract a wealthy patron. But what it lacks in capital, it makes up in know-how. Blue Revolution’s brain trust includes experts in oceanic energy, mariculture (aquaculture as practiced in the ocean) and more traditional, land-based farming. This loosely aligned cluster of men believes that the building blocks already exist for a necessary transition to the ocean.

[214 words]



Uncharted Waters
[Time 4]

Of all the questions raised by water-based living, the problem of power looms large: How will these communities turn on the lights? Blue Revolution’s answer centers on a 100 percent renewable energy source called ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC, pronounced oh-tek). Simply explained, the process uses heat from the ocean’s warm surface water to vaporize a refrigerant like ammonia. This vapor spins a turbine, driving a generator to produce electricity. The electricity is used to pull up frigid water from the deep ocean, which condenses the ammonia into liquid again. It’s a closed-cycle, perpetual loop, powering itself — and creating plenty of surplus energy.

Until recently, OTEC has been stymied by a lack of capital. Though the technology has been proven sound, big investors haven’t wanted to risk the up-front costs (on the scale of $1 billion) to set up an OTEC plant in the sea. That all changed this fall.

Lockheed Martin, which partnered with a company called Makai Ocean Engineering on prior OTEC experiments, will soon enter construction on a large OTEC plant off the coast of southern China. This plant will provide 10 MW of energy to a resort community; Duke Hartman of Makai is bowled over by the implications. “We think this project will show OTEC’s value to the world,” he says.

And OTEC’s value goes beyond the energy produced. At the Natural Energy Laboratory of Hawaii Authority (NELHA) — a coastal research facility where Blue Revolution members have worked and studied — 40-inch pipes stretch far into the ocean, pulling up seawater from 2,000 feet down. This icy water is then divvied between a variety of agricultural concerns. Private companies use it to breed kampachi fish, oysters, shrimp, lobsters and abalone. Another company uses the water to produce over 2 tons of edible sea vegetables each week. Desalinized water is bottled for multiple niche “deep-water” companies. The water has even been used in more traditional agriculture, growing wine grapes and strawberries on the NELHA property.

[346 words]

[Time 5]  

This deep ocean water (DOW), which makes up 90 percent of the ocean’s volume, is a natural byproduct of the OTEC process. It’s loaded with a rich, beneficial cocktail of phosphates, nitrates and silicates. DOW is highly pure, almost entirely free of surface water contaminants — it’s been out of contact with the surface for centuries. An “open-loop” OTEC system would vaporize and desalinate this precious water, making it ideal for drinking and irrigation.

OTEC could be a vital linchpin in sustainable deep-sea living. Rather than having to ship in mainland food, vegetables could be grown directly in the ocean. The same agricultural diversity seen at NELHA could be handily replicated on deep-sea structures.

Advances in deep-ocean mariculture — which has been referred to as “free-range fish farming” — also bear promise for ocean colonization. Spencer recently obtained permits for his deep-ocean fish-farming operation, Hawaii Oceanic Technology, Inc. He intends to use suspended underwater pens — mesh spheres that keep farmed fish in and predators out — to grow yellow-fin tuna in a 250-acre operation. Similar technology is already being deployed by other companies, though not on Spencer’s scale; his newly patented spheres are 55 meters in diameter, capable of producing 3,000 tons of fish.

Deep-ocean mariculture is not without its critics — Monterey Bay Aquarium Seafood Watch, for one, fears that we’ve yet to assess its full environmental impact. But it has already proven to be vastly more sustainable than wild-caught fish, inland aquaculture and even conventional farming. Spencer says that to get cows to produce the same amount of meat as just one of his spheres, you’d need 16,000 acres of land, and more than a billion gallons of fresh water. “It just makes more sense to farm our protein in the open ocean,” he says.

[316 words]

Proof of Concept
[Time 6]   

Much like “Waterworld” (well-known for its crippling price tag), the biggest hurdle to ocean cities is the expense.

The Seasteading Institute drew up a feasibility study last year for a “semi-submersible, mini-modular platform.” It’s designed not unlike a deep-water oil-drilling operation, built to house 360 people. Estimated costs to build and tow it into the ocean would be almost a quarter of a billion dollars. The group is also exploring other, cheaper options, such as mooring a collection of old cruise ships. But even at its most affordable, Deist readily admits: “At this point the barriers to entry may be too high for most individuals.”

Blue Revolution Hawaii hopes to kick off deep-sea habitation with something called the Pacific International Ocean Station, in tropical waters at least 12 miles off Oahu. This massive, self-sustaining deep-ocean structure would be powered by OTEC, house a couple hundred people and pursue a robust slate of agriculture and research endeavors. Total cost: $1.5 billion.

It’s been suggested that Blue Revolution should start smaller, with incremental research projects that don’t require such massive up-front capital. But Takahashi thinks the only way to start the revolution is to go big. And investors are certainly showing some interest in our oceanic future. There’s Thiel, who’s aiming to launch an oceanic business incubator called Blueseed on a boat off the coast of California this fall. Walmart heiress Christy Walton has funded a venture capital fund called Cuna del Mar, which is pumping untold millions into deep-sea mariculture. And Google founder Eric Schmidt just spent $94 million to kit out an ocean research vessel called the Falkor.

“We need a billionaire investor,” Takahashi says. “How do you capture their interest? Not with some cautious research project, but with something huge, that ensures their legacy forever.”

[316 words]

[Rest ]

In his less hopeful moments, Takahashi admits this outcome is far from guaranteed. Blue Revolution Hawaii started three years ago, and thus far hasn’t made much progress in bankrolling their hugely ambitious venture. And even if some wealthy patron takes the plunge, Blue Revolution’s plans remain speculative; there is no proof of concept. When asked if ocean cities are viable, Makai’s Hartman laughs. “We’re just engineers here. We’ll leave that kind of thing to the dreamers,” he says.

But despite some internal doubts, Blue Revolution’s meeting ends upbeat, with toasts to the ocean and general good cheer. Takahashi wraps things up with an emotional speech, saying this will be the legacy project of each man in the room. For theirs is an endeavor built of wonder, of pushing the bounds of mankind’s capabilities. In a hundred years, Takahashi says, people will be very thankful for the work they’ve done.

“There is no future but the ocean around us,” he says, glass raised high.

[183 words]

Source : Modern Farmer  
http://modernfarmer.com/2014/03/floating-farms/  

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 楼主| 发表于 2014-4-2 22:00:00 | 显示全部楼层
Part III: Obstacle


Article3   

Farm App Harvests Big Data


By Gloria Dawson on March 26, 2014
[Paraphrase 7]

When Jesse Vollmar told his mom he wanted to start a technology company that utilized data to help farmers run their business, his mother was worried. It wasn't the business plan that had her concerned but the uncertain future.

After all, she has some experience with uncertainty. She’s a farmer.

“Why don’t you just get a job with Google? You will move up so fast and be running the show there and have a paycheck,” Dawn Vollmar recalls telling him.

She wasn’t too surprised with their son’s career choice though. He had been building technology for their fifth-generation organic farm in Michigan for years. But FarmLogs, which Jesse founded with Brad Koch, a high school friend, is a far cry from the grain elevator database he built for his family back in college.

The software utilizes various sets of big data, like those from the National Weather Service, with detailed precipitation information, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, which supplies crop history for 23 million fields in the form of satellite imagery.

And it’s safe to say her son has a stable future ahead of him. FarmLogs recently announced it had received $4 million in investor financing. Although the platform is only two years old, it is used by 5 percent of row farmers in the U.S. and across 130 countries. Their growth was spurred in part by their participation at Y Combinator, a prestigious startup boot camp of sorts, which aids startups with seed capital and connections in the industry, in exchange for equity in the company.

FarmLogs simplifies almost every aspect of running a farm: budgeting for the season, scheduling and monitoring work on far-flung fields, finding market commodity prices, and reminding farmers when to bring their tractors in for service. The software utilizes various sets of big data, like those from the National Weather Service, with detailed precipitation information, and the National Agricultural Statistics Service, which supplies crop history for 23 million fields in the form of satellite imagery.

While big data is starting to be used in nearly every business sector, farming has lagged behind. Startups that might be inclined to distill large quantities of data for customers are “ignoring farming,” says Vollmar. And the companies that are using big data on the fields are expensive and lack the knowhow and nimbleness of tech startups. FarmLogs combines the field experience with technical knowhow, and they offer free versions of their software for farmers.

“When you come into our product as a new farmer you can start clicking on your field and we already know the rain fall and crop history and what yield looks like for those fields,” says Vollmar. With this information, a budget for the season can be done in a matter of seconds, says Vollmar. “Agriculture really boils down to a science. It’s agronomy. And it can be optimized by applying data science.”

FarmLogs is cloud-based, meaning it lives online, is easily accessible to smartphones and can be updated on various platforms by many users. It also makes nimble development easier. FarmLogs pushes updates to its users regularly.

Dave Kermicle used various software systems and lots of spreadsheets before he started using FarmLogs to manage his 3,500 acres of corn, soybean, and wheat in Illinois. He doesn’t know what the cloud is, but he likes that his information is “just all there.” It’s not perfect, nothing is, he says. But when he calls FarmLogs with suggestions, he’s listened to, usually by Vollmar himself. Kermicle recently suggested adding more categories to the equipment maintenance feature. Those additions will be rolling out soon.

FarmLogs can also be particularly helpful for organic farms, where record keeping is key for certification.

The next stage for FarmLogs is to incorporate data from specific farms, small data, into the program by connecting tractors and combines to the internet. A simple dongle plugged into to a tractor will relay information, such as how much fertilizer was used in a particular area, how many seeds were planted, and eventually yield data. This information will be combined with the big data already in use. Was it the rain or the new seeds that helped this season? This data will help farmers find out. Vollmar expects to roll this out in beta in time for the upcoming wheat harvest, or summertime for those not on the fields.

‘One way that older generations can convince the family to step up and take over the farm is by being open minded to technology.

Farmlogs was obliviously inspired by Vollmar’s upbringing, but FarmLogs also developed out of frustration. “Big companies like John Deere and Trimble really have not been making the right kind of improvements at the pace that the broader technology industry has moved at,” he says. But big-ag may be catching up. Climate Corporation, which combines useful data for farmers along with insurance, was recently purchased by Monsanto. John Deere, DuPont, and Dow Chemical have joined forces to use data relayed from tractors to make recommendations to farmers on planting, seeds, fertilizers and other inputs.

Farmers are no longer asking if they need technology but what kind, says Vollmar. “Internet connectivity out in rural areas has now reshaped what’s possible.”

Even those farmers who are still skeptical get something out of Vollmar’s sales pitch. “This is a way for you to bridge the gap between your sons and your grandsons that you want to take over the farm,” he tells them. “I think that one way that older generation can convince the family to step up and take over and be part of the farm is by being open minded to technology and allowing them to utilize that on their farm.”

Although his family’s farm uses his technology, Vollmar won’t be taking over the family farm himself anytime soon. For now, working on FarmLogs, he says, “is the way for me to make the biggest impact on the farming community.”

[1036 words]

Source: Modern Farmer
http://modernfarmer.com/2014/03/farm-app-harvests-big-data/

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发表于 2014-4-2 22:00:44 | 显示全部楼层
沙发~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Speaker:Success depend much more on learning quickly and easily.Talent do not make you great,but grit can.
Grit means passion on long-term goal and hardworking for future reality for years.This really matters the success.And moreover,ability to learn can change our future.

01:34
Describe the how human will live in the film waterworld.And it is possbile if the climate change goes on.Many countires are making experiment on floating manmade land.

01:16
Blue Revolution Hawaii is more motivated by science than politics.Besides this,Seasteading Institute wants to farm the ocean as farm the land.

01:26
To support water-based life,energy is necessary.So OTEC was invented and under research.But not many investors want to put money on this on risk program.OTEC can provide more than energy.

01:38
OTEC can used to develop deep-ocean mariculture,which including many aspects of farming.But deep-ocean maricluture may also raise some problems.

01:58
All these ocean programs are expensive.And the cost suggests that researchers should start smaller.But some people think that revolution need to be big.And they really need big investors.

06:09
Main Idea: Farm App that can help farmers make their farm better
A new farm app that have various big data,called FarmLogs,can simplifies every aspects of running a farm.
Few companies have put attention on this field before.Because it is a complex field.FarmLogs combines field experience with technical knowhow.And it works well.
The next generation of FarmLogs is to incorporate data from specific farms and small data.Combining with big data,FarmLogs can help these farms more.
And moreover,FarmLogs can make family community better as a technology product.

发表于 2014-4-2 22:03:50 | 显示全部楼层
哇,今天还挺早~~~~

Speaker:
The woman talks about the key to success. Study shows that the most important characteristic emerged as a significant predictor of success is grit. Grit is passion and perseverance for very long-term goals. But how to build grit in kids? We need to be gritty to get our kids grittier.

Time2: 2'45"
Underneath the bad acting and explosions, mankind driven by necessity to live on the open ocean bears an uncanny resemblance to the Blue Revolution vision, which is both bizarre and idyllic.
Many countries start to construct floating things.
uncanny resemblance 惊人的相似

Time3: 1'31"
Besides Blue Revolution Hawaii, a venture called the Seasteading Institute is the most serious U.S.player in the ocean colonization movement, but Revolution Hawaii is more moticated by science than politics.

Time4: 2'38"
OTEC is a kind if renewable energy source which can creat plenty of energy, but it has been stymied by a lack of capital.
Lockheed Martion will soon enter construction on a large OTEC plant off the coast of southern China, which not only produces energy but also breed sea animals and produce sea vegetables.

Time5: 2'15"
The deep ocean water(DOW) is a natural byproduct of the OTEC process.OTEC could be a vital linchpin in sustainable deep-sea living. Rather than having to ship in mainland food, vegetables could be grown directly in the ocean.

Time6: 2'13"
At this point the barriers to entry may be too high for most individuals. It’s been suggested that Blue Revolution should start smaller, but the only way to start the revolution is to go big. And investors are certainly showing some interest in our oceanic future.


发表于 2014-4-2 22:15:47 | 显示全部楼层
占~~~~~~~谢谢瓜瓜~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
----------------------------------------------------
Speaker: 今天的Speaker好赞呦~~~口音听着很舒服也很励志~~~~~
         The speaker started teaching 7th grade math when she was 27 years old and she found that intelligence is not the
         only difference between her best performing students and other students. She started looking at this phenomena at
         a motivational perspective and she found that success does not relate to intelligence. Success is  depend on grit,
         which is passion and perseverance day in and day out, year after year. To them, life is like a marathon but not a
         sprint. Harvard University has discovered that the ability to learn is not fixed. But how to motivate children and
         keep them grited is unknown now. The speaker suggested that we need to be grittd in order for our kids to be gritter.

time2: 1min 50"
       A movie described the same idea as the Blue Revolution Hawaii does. Many countries have tried to build different kinds
       of buildings on the sea.
time3: 1min 31"
       Seasteading Institute is the most serious U.S. player in the ocean colonization movement besides Blue Revolution Hawaii.
       Blue Revolution Hawaii has attracted patrons and they expected that their first ocean settlements will exist by 2020. But
       what it lacks in capital, it makes up in know-how.
time4: 2min 38"
       A description of the OTEC energy system. Although it was once difficult to attract large investors, this situation has changed
       this fall and a large OTEC plant off the coast of southern China is going to be contructed. And OTEC's value goes beyong the
       energy produced.
time5: 2min 17"
       Deep ocean water is a natural byproduct of the OTEC process. Advances in deep-ocean mariculture also bear promise for ocean
       colonization. Spencer said that deep-ocean mariculture can produce more food with less resource used.
time6: 2min 06"
       Building mariculture plants needs a lot of money and the barriers to entry may be too high for most individuals. It's been suggested
       that Blue Revolution should start smaller, but Takahashi thinks the only way to start the revolution is to go big. They need to attract
       billionaires in order to get enough fund for the development of the project.
Obstacle: 6min 49"
       Jesse Vollmar wanted to started a technology company that utilized data to help farmers run their business. Framlogs founded by Vollmar
       and his friend utilizes various sets of big data to help farmers and has attracted large amounts of investment. Framlogs is cloud-based,
       which means that farmers can get the information they need online. Framlogs can also be particularly helpful for organic farms. The next
       stage for FarmLogs is to incorporte data from specific farms, small data, into the program by connecting tractors and combines to the
       internet. One way that older generations can convince the family to step up and take over the farm is by being open minded to technology.

发表于 2014-4-2 22:20:55 | 显示全部楼层
[Warm up]01:13.10
The annual meeting of Blue Revolution Hawai predicts that the future of human beings is on the ocean.

[Time2]01:54.71
Some projects in some countries plan to investigate resources that can be used in the water, and some scientists are trying to take best advantage of figuring out the energy solutions in the sea.

[Time3]01:20.50
A venture called the Seasteading Institute also engages in the ocean colonization movement.Blue Revolution Hawaii tries to get a patron.

[Time4]01:54.70
The scientists can prove the feasibility of OTEC, but the premise of using OTEC is sufficient fund.

[Time5]01:52.42
Deep ocean water is a natural byproduct of the OTEC process and it is very pure.OTEC plays a very important role in sustainable deep-sea living. This paragraph mainly talks about the advances and the criticism of deep-ocean mariculture.

[Time6]01:41.90
although the biggest barrier for the ocean cities is the expense, and it has been suggested that Blue Revolution should start smaller, with incremental research projects ,Takahashi still insisted that billionaire investor is needed.

[rest]01:10.92
The prospect of Blue Revolution Hawaii is not guaranteed, but Takahashi still believed that their work will be appreciated by the future generation.

Obstacle 05:37.27
Jesse Vollmar invented an app called Farmlogs intended to combine the field experience with technical knowhow to help farmers work in the farm. The passage mainly talks about the prospect of Farmlogs, a new app that combines big data and farm together, and the agricultural information that Farmlogs can provide, the application of Farmlogs, the future of Farmlogs and how farmers should treat such advanced app.
发表于 2014-4-2 22:35:20 | 显示全部楼层
首页!!!!!!!!!!!!

谢谢瓜瓜~

time:1:06.09
The future agriculture above water.
We are running out of places.Our future is in the ocean.
________________
time:1:45.06
Description of future farms above water.
Plans of Blue Revolution Hawaii and other parts.
_________________
time:1:04.80
A U.S institution also focus on this possiblity.
Blue Revolution Hawaii is scientific more than politic.
_______________
time:1:40.70
How can OTEC achievie its goal?How will it work?
Lack investment before(because of high risk).New plan to build one near southern China.
Some functions of the water.
______________
time:1:39.86
Details of how it work.Deep ocean water gurantee water for human and agriculuture.
Advantages of mariculture.Free fish farming.
Limitation of mariculutre.Need lots of spcae and resources to produce those in the land.
________________
time:1:39.85
The cost and expense is huge.Need billionaire investor.
Some investors show interest(venture capital).
The plan needs to be big and gurantee investors' legacy.
__________________
time:0:58.40
The plan of Blue Revolution Hawaii has a long way to go.The outcome is not ensured.
But Takahashi is confident and thinks this plan will be great in a hundred year.
_______________
time:5:22.39
The new idea of a farming app--provides big data for farmers.
FarmLogs simplifies many aspects of farming--what it can do to help farmers?
The idea is new--startups ignore farming--need apps to help farmers.
The features of Farmlogs--attach to internet,can be updated and download easily.
The example--a user use FarmLogs.
The next stage of Farmlogs--small data,specific farms information.
Old farming style should welcome new technology.Internet makes it possible.




发表于 2014-4-2 22:50:16 | 显示全部楼层
谢谢楼主!

Speaker
managerment consultant to teacher
IQ does not matter most in learning,
reseached people in super chanllenging tests, grit matter most.
Research in chicago public school, grit matters most to possibilities of graducating.
We know little about grit.
Talent does not make you gritter.
Growth mind set-- ability to learn can grow
Speed
1--02:04
Film has the idea of living on the ocean, using ocean energy to support city life,desalining sea water for drink.
In reality, some cities built floating homes, greenhouses, hospital and prisons on the ocean.
2--01:18
Besides Blue Revolution Hawaii, SI is another institute works on ocean colonization movements.
BRW is motivated by science, SI is motivated by politics.
3--02:12
The biggest problem of living on water is energy-- OTEC can be used.
Use energy from ocean's warm surface water to vaporize a refrigerant like ammonia, which spins a turbine to generator to produce electricity.
Just recently, OTEC found capital and will construct OTEC plant off the cosat of South China.
Besides energy producing, OTEC has other values, such as fishing, providing desalinized water and growing normal agriculture.
4--02:06
Deep ocean water is plenty, rich in nutrition, and pure, can be used in drinking, irrigation and fish farming.
And using deep-ocean fish farming are more efficient in producing protein.
5--01:44
Waterworld costs a lot.
A lot of investor has pumping moilions into it.
Obstacle--05:32
IV created a techonolgy software for farm management.
This software help farmers to run a farm by utilizing various sets of big date with detailed precipitation information and NASS
It needs time to build up big enough data pool, but it will help new farms finally.
It can be used in different kinds of farms, such as organic farm, small farm.
Old generations can use this to convince the family to take over.
发表于 2014-4-2 23:20:56 | 显示全部楼层
占一个..      

我好像听到growth mind set了

百忙中写个回忆防被删
speaker
the ability to learn things fast is more important than IQ, and the ability is not born but can be trained.
great (是这个单词?)  motivates people to keep doing for years and years。


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