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The Climate Foundationâs SeaForestation project has won a Milestone XPRIZE for carbon removal, from Elon Muskâs foundation.
According to the prizeâs official site, the competition âis aimed at tackling the biggest threat facing humanity â fighting climate change and rebalancing Earthâs carbon cycleâ.
Funded by Elon Musk and the Musk Foundation, this $100 million competition claims to be the largest incentive prize in history.
Year 2022 Permaculture once a sorta outcast of the science world is now seen as the forefront of carbon capture for climate change đ đ
Since late 2021, WSP has been supporting the Climate Foundation in an exciting project to develop a prototype design for Marine Permaculture Arrays.
An oil tanker abandoned and anchored in the Red Sea could produce an oil spill that would spread over the southern half of the body of water and block ports, close desalination plants, and produce a food and water crisis for the people of Yemen.
A UN rescue plan for the rusting tanker off Yemenâs coast has ballooned in cost to $129 million. So far money raised is $34 million short.
Saw this coming 5 or 10 years back. Soon concept of being a model will be non existent. Probably by 2030. And, once can realistically animate and walk around and speak, end of actors and acting also.
Leviâs is partnering with an AI company on computer-generated fashion models to âsupplement human models.â The company frames the move as part of a âdigital transformation journeyâ of diversity, equity, inclusion and sustainability. Although that sounds noble on the surface, Leviâs is essentially hiring a robot to generate the appearance of diversity while ridding itself of the burden of paying human beings who represent the qualities it wants to be associated with its brand.
Levi Strauss is partnering with Amsterdam-based digital model studio Lalaland.ai for the initiative. Founded in 2019, the companyâs mission is âto see more representation in the fashion industryâ and âcreate an inclusive, sustainable, and diverse design chain.â It aims to let customers see what various fashion items would look like on a person who looks like them via âhyper-realisticâ models âof every body type, age, size and skin tone.â
Leviâs announcement echoes that branding, saying the partnership is about âincreasing the number and diversity of our models for our products in a sustainable way.â The company continues, âWe see fashion and technology as both an art and a science, and weâre thrilled to be partnering with Lalaland.ai, a company with such high-quality technology that can help us continue on our journey for a more diverse and inclusive customer experience.â
Researchers have âhackedâ the earliest stages of photosynthesis, the natural machine that powers the vast majority of life on Earth, and discovered new ways to extract energy from the process, a finding that could lead to new ways of generating clean fuel and renewable energy. We didnât know as.
Neurosityâs headset uses electroencephalogram technology, or EEG, to measure brain activity by placing small metal electrodes on a personâs scalp. If the electrodes detect decreased electrical activity in the brain, the Crown plays music and sounds, or pulses vibrations, hoping those actions will help the user focus.
But some developers, it seems, have taken Neurosityâs tech a step further, turning the Crown into a more traditional brain computer interface that can allow users to control a computer using only their mind.
One owner of the gadget claimed theyâve used it to drive a Tesla, moving the electric car short distances by doing some mental math, which signals to the device that the person wearing it is exerting a lot of cognitive effort.
Grimes got a new brain gadget for her 35th birthday.
âGetting a non invasive brain computer interface for my birthday (!!!!?),â she tweeted Friday. âYeah itâs a good time to be alive.â
Neurosity CEO AJ Keller confirmed that the singer, named Claire Boucher, had asked for one of the companyâs headsets, known as the Crown, in a custom white color.
Tesla Vision Park Assist provides visual and audio alerts of surrounding objects. This feature uses the occupancy network to predict high-definition outlines of objects 360 degrees around the car. Note: Tesla Vision Park Assist is for guidance purposes only and is not a substitute for an aware driver. Please be attentive and avoid obstacles as required.
This is after being parked for a while, interesting to see how park assist takes a bit to load previous data from before it was parked. Still really impressive work from the @Tesla team pic.twitter.com/LONqouXp85
A number of Tesla owners with vision-only cars who received update 2023.6.9 have shared initial videos of Vision Park Assistâs performance in real-world situations. Tesla Model 3 owner @EVBaymax, for one, observed that the distance estimates displayed in the vehicle are quite accurate, almost to the inch. The Model 3 owner actually verified Tesla Visionâs estimates with a tape measure, and it was quite accurate.
A Korean research team has developed a large-scale stretchable and transparent electrode for use as a stretchable display. The Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST) announced that a research team, led by Dr. Sang-Soo Lee and Dr. Jeong Gon Son at KISTâs Photo-Electronic Hybrids Research Center, has developed a technology to fabricate a large-area (larger than an A4 sized paper) wavy silver nanowire network electrode that is structurally stretchable with a high degree of conductivity and transparency.
Transparent electrodes, through which electricity flows, are essential for solar cell-and touchscreen-based display devices. An indium tin oxide (ITO)-based transparent electrode is currently commercialized for use. The ITO-based transparent electrode is made of a thin layer of metallic oxides that have very low stretchability and is very fragile. Thus, the ITO electrode is not well suited for flexible and wearable devices, which are expected to quickly become mainstream products in the electronic device market. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a new transparent electrode with stretchability as one of its main features.
A silver nanowire is tens of nanometers in diameter, and the nano material itself is long and thin like a stick. The small size of the nanowire allows it to be bent when an external force is applied. Since it is made of silver, a silver nanowire has excellent electrical conductivity and can be used in a random network of straight nanowires to fabricate a highly transparent and flexible electrode. However, despite the fact that silver nanowire is bendable and flexible, it cannot be used as a stretchable material.
Plants use photosynthesis to harvest energy from sunlight. Now researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have applied this principle as the basis for developing new sustainable processes which in the future may produce syngas (synthetic gas) for the large-scale chemical industry and be able to charge batteries.
Syngas, a mixture of carbon monoxide and hydrogen, is an important intermediate product in the manufacture of many chemical starter materials such as ammonia, methanol and synthetic hydrocarbon fuels. âSyngas is currently made almost exclusively using fossil raw materials,â says Prof. Roland Fischer from the Chair of Inorganic and Organometallic Chemistry.
A yellow powder, developed by a research team led by Fischer, is to change all that. The scientists were inspired by photosynthesis, the process plants use to produce chemical energy from light. âNature needs carbon dioxide and water for photosynthesis,â says Fischer. The nanomaterial developed by the researchers imitates the properties of the enzymes involved in photosynthesis. The ânanozymeâ produces syngas using carbon dioxide, water and light in a similar manner.
In the latest sign of growing interest in the flying taxi sector, United Airlines and air mobility startup Archer Aviation have announced an upcoming service for hops between downtown Chicago and OâHare International Airport.
The service will offer a sustainable, low-noise, and cost-competitive alternative to ground transportation for folks traveling to and from the airport, United and Archer said in a release.
