One startup — backed to the tune of $2.5 million by former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt's investment firm, Innovation Endeavors, and Yahoo founder Jerry Yang's AME Ventures — thinks it has found a solution, harnessing the power of artificial intelligence.
A team of scientists from the National Institute for Farming Technology in Buenos Aires has found a way of harnessing the methane gas which builds up in the animals' stomachs and converting it into an alternative energy source.
But evolution is ever resourceful, and in one case it has found a way to harness a viral gene for the host's benefit.
Written before "Eye in the Sky," the hallucinatory 1957 novel that Dick considered his breakthrough, "The Minority Report" begins with the premise that a private corporation has found the means to harness the talents of "precognitives" -- men and women who can see murders before they happen, thus enabling the police to arrest people for crimes that have yet to be committed.
It's a source of energy so obscure it was once derided as a source of "perpetual motion". Now, a research team including Princeton scientists has found a way to harness this energy using a silicon-chip device, potentially enabling applications.
Great, you might think, a smart new start-up has found that it can harness the power of the crowd to fund technology that venture capitalists might be loathe to back.
But there are reasons to bet Facebook will justify the hype, for it has found a new way to harness a prehistoric instinct.
Adelegan is a charismatic engineer who has found an effective way to harness the energy from animal waste and won the $50,000 Intel Environment Award which will allow him to develop the technology further.
Throughout her 15 years of experience in the design industry, Rilke Szanku has found that her best work has harnessed the power of striking visuals grounded in solid strategy to meet client objectives.
She had just three months of training for the tough task, which would challenge many experienced climbers, and has had to sleep harnessed to a portable suspended ledge, although she has found it difficult to rest with so little room.
