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Sep 21, 2022

Solar flare, like SpaceX satellite crasher, disrupts comms

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A solar flare erupted from a departing sunspot on September 16, releasing a pulse of X-rays and extreme UV radiation which caused a shortwave radio blackout in Africa and the Middle East. Frequencies below 25 MHz were affected for up to an hour after the flare.

Solar flare strength is measured much like the Richter scale which measures earthquakes. Solar flares are classed A, B, C, M or X where each successive letter corresponds to a 10-fold increase in energy output. A-class solar flares are barely above background radiation emission from the sun.

Spaceweather.com reports that the September 16 solar flare, exploding out of sunspot AR3098, was an M8-class, meaning it was nearly an X-flare, the most powerful kind.

Sep 20, 2022

MIT Contributes to Success of Historic Fusion Ignition Experiment

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MIT students are part of the large team that achieved fusion ignition for the first time in a laboratory. Researchers around the world have been engaged in attempts to achieve fusion ignition in a laboratory for more than half a century. It is a grand challenge of the 21st century. An approach called inertial confinement fusion (ICF), which uses lasers to implode a pellet of fuel in a quest for ignition, has been the focus of the High-Energy-Density Physics (HEDP) group at MIT’s Plasma Science and Fusion Center. This group, including nine former and current MIT students, was crucial to a historic ICF ignition experiment performed in 2021. The results were published this year on the anniversary of that success.

Sep 19, 2022

What is Red Light Therapy?

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Everything you need to know about red-light therapy!


Red light therapy might sound like something that you would file in your mind alongside homeopathic remedies, or maybe even pyramid power. A completely unproven, unsubstantiated fad sold to the uneducated masses who inexplicably posses more money than sense. However, as it turns out red light therapy might very well be more than the latest cosmetic fad.

What exactly is red light therapy?

Sep 19, 2022

Geothermal Energy May Be Key to Lithium Battery Technology Sustainability

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The rapid development of geothermal energy can contribute not only to reducing greenhouse gas emissions but also to the production of environmentally sustainable lithium for EV batteries.


Jane Marsh describes how a Salton Sea project is producing both geothermal energy and lithium salts suitable for EV batteries.

Sep 18, 2022

Scientists discover bacteria that can use light to ‘breathe’ electricity

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Researcher are now looking to make the most of this new discovery.

Did you know that bacteria in the natural world breathe by exhaling excess electrons, causing an intrinsic electrical grid? In a new study, Yale University researchers discovered that light could supercharge this electronic activity within biofilm bacteria, yielding an up to a 100-fold increase in electrical conductivity, according to a press release published by the institution earlier this month.


Yale researchers have found that bacteria buried underground have developed a way to respire by “breathing minerals” through tiny protein filaments called nanowires. This process can be amplified by light producing electricity.

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Sep 18, 2022

Scientists claim nanogenerators could produce significant electricity from sea waves

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A group of researchers from China has found a way to use static energy to boost the power produced by wave energy. The invention could finally make the technology viable and efficient.

Sep 17, 2022

Vast Space to develop artificial-gravity space station

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PARIS – Vast Space, a Southern California startup founded by cryptocurrency billionaire Jed McCaleb, plans to establish an artificial-gravity space station in low Earth orbit.

McCaleb envisions a future where millions of people are living throughout the solar system. Since other companies are helping to reduce launch costs, McCaleb thinks the next important step will be creating large structures where people can live and work in space.

“Earth has finite resources, but out in the solar system, there is an enormous untapped wealth, both in terms of energy and matter, that could support many ‘Earths,’” McCaleb told SpaceNews by email. “Likewise, mankind needs a frontier. Every prosperous civilization has had one to push off into – nevertheless, we haven’t had one for some time. Without a frontier, the world becomes a zero-sum game, which is detrimental to the psyche of a civilization. And in terms of the long-term future of humanity, we will need to live off of the Earth eventually.”

Sep 16, 2022

“Brick toaster” aims to cut global CO2 output

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Industrial heat consumes a huge proportion of global energy. Rondo Energy says its brick-toasting heat storage device is so cheap and efficient that it makes decarbonization an instant no-brainer across a huge range of industries. Bill Gates agrees.

Sep 14, 2022

Prime Movers Lab Raises A $500 Million Early Growth Fund To Invest In Breakthrough Science

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The new fund will be focused on startups in energy, manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare, satellites and more.

Sep 14, 2022

Pulling Energy Out Of Thin Air

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During the middle ages, the concept of the perpetual motion machine would develop. The first law, known as the Law of Conservation of Energy, would prohibit the existence of a perpetual motion machine, by preventing the creation or destruction of energy within an isolated system.

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