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Jun 24, 2022

Giant Australia-to-Singapore Solar Project Targets 2024 Build

Posted by in categories: solar power, sustainability

A plan to export solar power from Australia to Singapore is advancing.


Development backed by billionaires aims to export clean power from the Northern Territory via a 2,600-mile high-voltage undersea cable.

Jun 23, 2022

As chemical fertilizer shortages persist, peecycling — the process of recycling human urine — could increase the yield of nutrient-rich crops

Posted by in categories: chemistry, cybercrime/malcode, food, internet, military, satellites, sustainability

The need to find alternative sources for fertilizer have become urgent as chemical fertilizer shortages from the Ukrainian war threaten countries globally.


A Chinese military analyst suggested countermeasures for the Starlink satellite system developed by Musk’s SpaceX – including ways to hack or destroy the service.

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Jun 23, 2022

First helicopter flight powered solely

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

The company aims to be 100% SAF certified by 2030.Airbus carried out the first-ever helicopter flight using 100 percent sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).


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An Airbus H225 has performed the first ever helicopter flight with 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) powering both Safran’s Makila 2 engines.

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Jun 23, 2022

Texas plans for massive $408m EV charging infrastructure expansion

Posted by in categories: life extension, sustainability

As electric vehicles have become more popular across America, Texas is now putting forward a plan to expand charging infrastructure.


Vitamins are sometimes overlooked in the fight against aging compared to the vast variety of creams and serums, but research shows that vitamins are a key part of slowing the aging process. While topical serums and creams may slow the appearance of aging in areas where they are applied, they cann.

Jun 22, 2022

Can robotics help us achieve sustainable development?

Posted by in categories: governance, robotics/AI, sustainability

An international team of scientists, led by the University of Leeds, have assessed how robotics and autonomous systems might facilitate or impede the delivery of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Their findings identify key opportunities and key threats that need to be considered while developing, deploying and governing robotics and autonomous systems.

The key opportunities robotics and autonomous systems present are through autonomous task completion, supporting human activities, fostering innovation, enhancing and improving monitoring. Emerging threats relate to reinforcing inequalities, exacerbating , diverting resources from tried-and-tested solutions, and reducing freedom and privacy through inadequate governance.

Jun 20, 2022

The right kind of filter can keep microplastics out of drinking water

Posted by in category: sustainability

Slow sand and membrane filters can knock out nearly all of the tiny pollutants.

Jun 20, 2022

MIT researchers have built a new LEGO-like AI chip

Posted by in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI, sustainability, wearables

With a more sustainable world goal, MIT researchers have succeeded in developing a new LEGO-like AI chip. Imagine a world where cellphones, smartwatches, and other wearable technologies don’t have to be put away or discarded for a new model. Instead, they could be upgraded with the newest sensors and processors that would snap into a device’s internal chip – similar to how LEGO bricks can be incorporated into an existing structure. Such reconfigurable chips might keep devices current while lowering electronic waste. This is really important because green computing is the key to a sustainable future.

MIT engineers have developed a stackable, reprogrammable LEGO-like AI chip. The chip’s layers communicate thanks optically to alternating layers of sensing and processing components, as well as light-emitting diodes (LEDs). Other modular chip designs use conventional wiring to transmit signals between layers. Such intricate connections are difficult, if not impossible, to cut and rewire, making stackable configurations nonreconfigurable.

Rather than relying on physical wires, the MIT design uses light to transfer data across the AI chip. As a result, the chip’s layers may be swapped out or added upon, for example, to include extra sensors or more powerful processors.

Jun 20, 2022

Texas plans to place charging stations for electric cars every 50 miles on most interstates

Posted by in categories: business, sustainability, transportation

AUSTIN, TexasTexas is planning to add enough electric vehicle charging stations throughout the state to support 1 million electric vehicles with dozens of new stations to allow for easier long-distance travel.

In a draft plan released this month, the Texas Department of Transportation broke down a five-year plan to create a network of chargers throughout the state, starting along main corridors and interstate highways before building stations in rural areas.

The plan is to have charging stations every 50 miles along most non-business interstate routes.

Jun 20, 2022

From Pessimism to Optimism Despite the Headlines

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, climatology, evolution, Peter Diamandis, sustainability

Why we need to adopt an abundance mindset.


Peter Diamandis shared an email blast about dire headlines that keep us on edge: the war in Ukraine, food and gasoline prices, climate change, and the neverending pandemic. Getting away from bad news is difficult, it appears, because of the way we are wired. Mass media feeds the bad far more than the good.

In his missive, Peter talks about Matt Ridley, a zoologist, who wrote and published The Rational Optimist in 2010. The book takes a profoundly optimistic view of human progress, a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our day. Ridley coined the phrase “moaning pessimism” to describe the current state.

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Jun 19, 2022

Elon Musk, SpaceX And Tesla Sued For $258 Billion In Alleged Dogecoin ‘Pyramid Scheme’

Posted by in categories: cryptocurrencies, Elon Musk, space travel, sustainability

Plaintiff Keith Johnson seeks a class-action suit against Musk, SpaceX and Tesla.