With 14 years of experience leading projects for the Jurong Rock Caverns – the world’s first undersea hydrocarbon storage caverns, recognised as one of the top 50 engineering feats in Singapore – Tan Wooi Leong (Managing Director, Energy & Industrial at Surbana Jurong) is adept at navigating challenges. Now, he’s
It comes up again and again: cryptocurrency is bad for the environment. Blockchain burns electricity. Bitcoin has an unforgivably huge carbon footprint. But how true is this, really? Recently, cryptocurrency has been in the news again, with everyone from economists to TV stars taking a stance against its validity and
In early 2009 Bitcoin was unveiled, thus unleashing the age of cryptocurrencies and the blockchain technology that powers them. Today Bitcoin and other cryptos have grown dramatically, and blockchain technology has been more popular than ever as a result. According to IDC, organizations will spend $6.6bn on blockchain solutions
“Imagine a world where there’s an entirely new layer of mobility. Where you can fly to work. You can fly home, without the need for more expensive carbon-hungry roads, tunnels, bridges. A new era of mobility is possible.” That’s the vision of Ricky Sandhu (CEO and Founder at
Hungry? You probably don’t know the half of it. Globally, around 690 million people survive on under 1800 calories a day. Nearly nine percent of the entire world population are undernourished, and if you find yourself wondering: “How much would it cost to end world hunger?”, the answer is
While much of the world’s focus is rightly on reducing carbon emissions from hydrocarbons and manufacturing industries, buildings are also major emitters of carbon. Building and construction activities together account for 36% of global final energy use and 39% of energy-related carbon dioxide emissions when upstream power generation is
