Innovations in Local Governance

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Rizal Philippines
October 31, 2017

Strides in innovation in local governance


Three local executives were featured  in an interview at ANC about the achievements in their innovation in local governance.  Those that I remembered were mayors of San Felipe Zambales, and Angono Rizal

Indeed much progress have been achieved in towns and cities where there are no dynasties and the local execs are educated, ambitious and intelligent.

The contest being conducted by DILG like ranking the towns in competitiveness, GOLD awards, Gawad  Galing  awards have done wonders in improving the local governance.  Among them was Taytay Rizal for promoting garments industry

From GMA news - 2015 winners of Gawad Galing Pook Award

However some body erred in the interview that their programs will continue thanks to the council resolutions. However preserving what one has done before is contrary to innovation

Hydrogen Fueled Cars in Korea (and in the World)

New ideas create better quality of life and wealth

Rizal Philippines
October 18, 2017

From Business Korea - Promoting Hydrogen Cars
Arirang TV channel announced yesterday the forays of Korea into clean renewable energy pushing for 50,000 hydrogen fueled cars in 2010 and hundred more hydrogen fuel recharging station.   The byproduct of hydrogen cars is pure water.  Hyundai and Kia are at the forefront of such technology.  Hyundai plans to produce 3,600 such cars dubbed as fuel cell electrical vehicles (FCEV)  which surpasses Toyotas  plan of  3,000 such vehicles. Its main model  now is the Tucson FE.   The market for such car would be in Europe and America.

The hindrance to growth of FCEV is the high cost of  hydrogen charging station. It costs nearly 3 million bars to build one.  A single charge can power the cars up to 500 km and can take as quick as 3 minutes which overcomes the limitation of a battery powered car.  

Most battery powered cars have range of 100 miles on a charge;  but Tesla Model 3 has 200 miles thanks to Panasonic Lithium Ion battery

However this August, Hy6ndai was reported to switching back to battery powered EVs because of such limitation. Even in US there are only 38 reported hydrogen charging stations with most of them concentrated in California.  For battery powered cars, the US a major market is crisscrossed by the electric grid for recharging.  Most EV cars, however have limited range

And are still unaffordable for most.  But its a way to face the growing scarcity of  fossil fuels, and to combat climate change

The future of drones in farming: precision farming mapping and spraying

New ideas create better quality of life and wealth

Rizal Philippines
October 15, 2017

The Verge:    $15,000 drone for precision farm spraying

The Chinese TV channel recently featured the use of drones in agriculture.  The announcer mentioned the use of  Artificial Intelligence in the said drones to spray fertilize and map the farms, more efficiently (faster and cheaper than what humans are capable of.  They are also safe and lessens exposure of humans to pesticide.  Price ranges from $3,000 to $15,000

The Agras as the drones are known are made by DJI and features  8 blades and can carry about 2 gallons of pesticide and can cover 7 to 10 acres in one hour.  It is 40x more efficient than human spraying and faster

Business Insider - Use of Drones in Precision Farming

The use of drones in the military: patrol, recon and even armed flights are well known, in photography but  little is reported its use in agriculture

An innovation in police work/transportation - a flying motorbike for Dubai police

New ideas create better quality of life and wealth

Rizal Philippines
October 15, 2017



Talk about innovation in transportation and police work.  Dubai police recently added to its gadgets the flying  motorbike. With all the traffic in MM, we can see the need and use for this innovation.  It is more or less like a hovercraft, VTOL vehicle and inspired by drones.  (Its is powered by vertical blades just like a drone and with controls just like the drones.   The flying motorbike is added to a long list of of gadgets of Dubai police:    Lamborghini patrol cars, self driving robots and android cops.  It is something from out of a scifi movie

From CNN - Dubai police acquires flying motorbikes

It is designed by a Russian tech company called Hoversurf  (it is start up funded by crowdfunding but has line up of innovative transportation products that are futurustic)can fly for 25 minutes and can fly independently also and top speed of 40 mph (still slow)   Hoversurf plans to produce these vehicles in Dubai.  Hoversurf is soliciting investors

A solution to MM traffic woes.  It will be head ache though to our civia aviation