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Electrifying urban ridesourcing
Ridesourcing fleets (such as Lyft and Uber) present an opportunity for the rapid uptake of battery electric vehicles (BEVs), but adoption...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Jun 14, 20191 min read
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Making plastics on Mars
In 2016, Emerging Futures, LLC was hired by Opus 12, Inc. to help them develop a NASA-sponsored concept for converting raw materials on...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Jun 14, 20191 min read
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EF is a semi-finalist!
Emerging Futures, LLC has been chosen as a semi-finalist in the Mars Society's 2019 Mars Colony Prize contest! We are among 25...
Jeffery Greenblatt
May 29, 20191 min read
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Envisioning 1,000 people on Mars
For our submission to the Mars Society’s 2019 Mars Colony Prize designing the first human settlement on Mars, Emerging Futures teamed up...
Jeffery Greenblatt
May 1, 20191 min read
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Hybrid photoelectrochemical and photovoltaic cells
Appearing today in Nature Materials, Emerging Futures CEO Jeffery Greenblatt joins three other co-authors from Lawrence Berkeley National...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Oct 29, 20182 min read
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Modeling Pathways to Long-term Greenhouse Gas Reductions in California
Watch Emerging Futures CEO (and "Policy Modeling Superhero," according to Stanford Professor John Weyant) Jeffery Greenblatt, along with...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Oct 7, 20181 min read
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ASTER tool presentation to NASA
Emerging Futures' CEO Jeffery Greenblatt presents an update on the development of the ASTER modeling tool (Analysis of Space...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Sep 21, 20181 min read
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How much water is on the Moon?
Earlier this month, NASA announced the unequivocal discovery of water ice in lunar polar regions in a PNAS article. This is exciting...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Aug 26, 20182 min read
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Cars Against Humanity: Are Autonomous Vehicles Good or Bad for the Environment?
Join Emerging Futures CEO Jeffery Greenblatt in a fun mock debate discussing the merits of autonomous vehicles (AVs): are they good or...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Jun 21, 20181 min read
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Benefits of shared, automated, electric vehicles in NYC
Shared automated electric vehicles (SAEVs) hold great promise to improve transportation access in urban centers while drastically...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Mar 28, 20181 min read
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Years of Living Dangerously Interview
Almost one-fifth of all carbon emissions in the world come from the transportation sector, but society finds itself at a fork in the...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Mar 21, 20181 min read
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Energy and climate policy consulting practice launched on Pi Day
Today we are proud to announce the expansion of Emerging Futures' scope of practice to include energy and climate policy modeling,...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Mar 14, 20181 min read
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Challenges of separating "solar fuels"
To limit climate change, we must meet our energy needs without increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2). Although still at an early...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Feb 21, 20181 min read
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Space commodities exchange venture launched
Emerging Futures is proud to announce its formal collaboration with Finsophy, Inc., an engineering, software, banking and financial...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Sep 1, 20171 min read
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Space geoengineering the climate
Emerging Futures' Chief Scientist was invited to present his research on space geoengineering at the first-ever Gordon Research...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Jul 23, 20171 min read
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Which is better, the Moon or Mars?
Both the Moon and Mars have been on spacefaring nations’ radars for the past several decades, with NASA shifting back-and-forth between...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Jun 20, 20171 min read
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How many people could the water in Mars’ Utopia Planitia support?
As reported recently in Space.com (1), NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the University of Texas, Austin have determined underground...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Nov 26, 20163 min read
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Presentation at IAC 2016
Emerging Futures presented an analysis of a large-scale Earth-Mars human transport system at the 67th International Astronautical...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Sep 30, 20161 min read
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Climate commitments of the United States
Current intended nationally determined contributions (INDCs) are insufficient to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting temperature...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Sep 26, 20161 min read
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Making Oxygen and Fuel on Mars
An ongoing challenge in the long-term campaign to explore Mars is the mass and complexity involved in transporting consumables from Earth...
Jeffery Greenblatt
Sep 21, 20161 min read
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