Archive for the ‘sustainability’ category: Page 559
Sep 15, 2017
Scientists have invented a way to trigger artificial photosynthesis
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: solar power, sustainability
Sep 15, 2017
A Tunisian Energy Company Wants to Pipe Electricity from the Sahara to Europe
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: government, solar power, sustainability
The company TuNur aims to produce solar energy cheaply in the Sahara desert and distribute it to Europe. However, there are lingering questions about whether the company behind the project can actually pull it off.
Energy company TuNur is seeking approval from the Tunisian government for a 4.5GW solar park situated in the Sahara desert. If it’s given the green light, the project would distribute electricity to Malta, Italy, and France via submarine cables.
Sep 12, 2017
Autonomous Robots Plant, Tend, and Harvest Entire Crop of Barley
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability
Proof that traditional farms can be 100% automated already.
This is as autonomous as farming gets, without any humans having to get themselves dirty, or even go outside.
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Sep 11, 2017
Solar Physicist Explains How The Sun Controls Climate, Not Man
Posted by Brett Gallie II in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience, policy, sustainability
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmVxMZfy4eQ&feature=youtu.be
Are these huge solar flares causing massive hurricanes or Man made Climate Change? Interview with Harvard-Smithsonian Solar Physicist Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon about how solar cycle accounts for climate change.
In this exclusive interview, Infowars reporters Millie Weaver and David Knight talk with Harvard-Smithsonian Solar Physicist Wei-Hock “Willie” Soon about how solar cycle account for climate change. Soon uses science to dispel the false notion that CO2 emissions are to blame for ‘global warming’ and that it is nothing more than the politicization of pseudoscience for policy makers.
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Sep 11, 2017
UK wind electricity cheaper than nuclear: data
Posted by Saúl Morales Rodriguéz in categories: business, nuclear energy, sustainability
The price of electricity from offshore wind in Britain has dipped below the level guaranteed to Hinkley Point, raising questions about the construction of the vast nuclear power station.
The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy disclosed Monday the results of auctions for state subsidies for three new wind offshore farms.
Denmark’s DONG Energy won the auction to build Hornsea Two, which will become the world’s biggest offshore wind farm off the coast of Yorkshire in northern England.
Sep 5, 2017
Shenzhen: City of the Future. The high-tech life of China’s Silicon Valley
Posted by Derick Lee in categories: government, habitats, robotics/AI, solar power, sustainability
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- Technology and innovation hub, Shenzhen is known as China’s “silicon valley” and “the city of the future”.
- Once a fishing village, in just 50 years it grew into a megacity packed with skyscrapers.
- It hosts international technology exhibitions and forums and attracts creators and investors from around the world, contributing to its population boom.
- Inventors and engineers working here, create helpful robots, hybrid cars and smart car parks.
China has a saying; to see the past, visit Beijing, to see the present, go to Shanghai but for the future, it’s Shenzhen. Shenzhen has transformed itself from a tiny fishing village to a megacity in just 50 years, its population tripling since the 1990s. The city is a magnet for tech-savvy and inventive dreamers from all across China and the world, because of them Shenzhen has become the “silicon valley” of China, a true technology and innovation hub.
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Sep 4, 2017
Breakthrough Molecular 3D Printer Can Print Billions of Possible Compounds
Posted by Paul Gonçalves in categories: 3D printing, biotech/medical, solar power, sustainability
What will 3D printers ultimately evolve into? No one has a functioning crystal ball in front of them I assume, but a good guess would be a machine which can practically build anything its user desire, all on the molecular, and eventually atomic levels. Sure we are likely multiple decades away from widespread molecular manufacturing, but a group of chemists led by medical doctor Martin D. Burke at the University of Illinois may have already taken a major step in that direction.
Burke, who joined the Department of Chemistry at the university in 2005, heads up Burke Laboratories where he studies and synthesizes small molecules with protein-like structures. For those of you who are not chemists, small molecules are organic compounds with very low molecular weight of less than 900 daltons. They usually help regulate biological processes and make up most of the drugs we put into our bodies, along with pesticides used by farmers and electronic components like LEDs and solar cells.
Sep 2, 2017
Could These Robotic Kelp Farms Give Us An Abundant Source Of Carbon-Neutral Fuel?
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: food, robotics/AI, sustainability
By using elevators to grow kelp farther out in ocean waters, Marine BioEnergy thinks it can grow enough seaweed to make a dent in the fuel market.
Sep 1, 2017
Crippled water system, chemical plant blaze, vivid examples of Harvey’s cascading effects
Posted by Mark Larkento in categories: climatology, sustainability
Climate change, they didn’t listen then, perhaps they’ll listen now.
Crippled water system, chemical plant blaze, vivid examples of Harvey’s cascading effects.
Authorities said at least 45 people were killed due to the storm, a number expected to increase.