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Jan 12, 2022

Equilibrium and The Free Energy (Introduction of Bioenergetics Part2)

Posted by in category: futurism

This Video Explains Equilibrium and Its Relationship With The Free Energy (Introduction of Bioenergetics Part2).

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Jan 12, 2022

A Team Is Developing Robotic Arms to Feed People With Spinal Injuries

Posted by in category: robotics/AI

To develop a robotic arm that can safely feed people.

Jan 12, 2022

Podbike to begin delivering its four-wheeled enclosed electric bike-car this year

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

After bringing in €3.2 million in funding and raking in a list of pre-orders, Podbike says it will deliver its first electric bike-car known as the Frikar later this year.

The Norwegian mobility company Podbike has attracted attention for years as its innovative and curious-looking four-wheeled electric vehicle has taken shape.

The enclosed bike-car offers better all-weather protection and improved aerodynamics compared to a typical commuter electric bicycle, though the top can be removed for summer operation if all-weather protection isn’t required.

Jan 12, 2022

A coffee table that holds an electric fireplace is the ultimate winter essential

Posted by in categories: electronics, habitats

A fully electric hearth puts a modern spin on an ancient household fixture.

Fire and light have always been at the center of homes, be it a TV or a fireplace. The latter has, of course, become less practical these days, and its absence from many homes has also resulted in a shift in family interaction. “Hearth and home” is a phrase that still carries some meaning today, and a designer is bringing back that long-forgotten home centerpiece by making it not only more practical but also safe as well.

Jan 11, 2022

Woodside pitches massive solar and battery plant, minuscule dent in emissions

Posted by in categories: solar power, space, sustainability

Oil and gas giant submits plans for up to 500MW of solar and battery storage to supply renewable power to industrial customers — including its own LNG operations — in WA Pilbara region.


Oil and gas giant Woodside has kicked off the new year by firming up plans to develop a massive solar and battery project in Western Australia’s Pilbara region, to supply renewable electricity to local industrial customers, including its own Pluto LNG facility.

In a submission to the W.A. Environmental Protection Authority on Monday, the company proposed the Woodside Solar Facility to be built in 100MW phases to a total capacity of up to 500MW, ultimately comprising around 1,000,000 solar panels and including battery energy storage infrastructure of up to 400MWh.

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Jan 11, 2022

How John Deere created its autonomous tractor

Posted by in categories: business, mobile phones, robotics/AI

A farmer can put the tractor to work with a swipe of a smartphone app and then walk away to attend to other business.

Jan 11, 2022

Amazon Will Buy Thousands Of Ram ProMaster Electric Delivery Vans Every Year

Posted by in categories: sustainability, transportation

Amazon says it will buy thousands of Ram ProMaster electric vans a year beginning in 2024.


The folks at Inside EVs noticed something in a press package from CES 2022 that most others missed. It said, “As part of a separate agreement with Stellantis, Amazon will be the first commercial customer for Stellantis’ new Ram ProMaster Battery Electric Vehicle launching in 2023. Stellantis, with input from Amazon, designed the vehicle with unique last mile delivery features and Amazon will deploy the vehicles to routes across the United States. Building on the current relationship and as part of the long-term agreement, Stellantis and Amazon will be putting thousands of BEV ProMasters on the road every year.”

Amazon has bought thousands of delivery vans from Mercedes, Ford, and Stellantis to bring packages to its customers in North America for years. Even though it has a 20% ownership stake in Rivian and expects to purchase 100,000 of its electric delivery vans, its need for such vehicles is so massive that it will continue to buy trucks from traditional manufacturers to get the hundreds of thousands of packages it delivers every day from its warehouses — called fulfillment centers — to its customers.

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Jan 11, 2022

Euler’s 243-Year-Old ‘Impossible’ Puzzle Gets a Quantum Solution

Posted by in category: quantum physics

A surprising new solution to Leonhard Euler’s famous “36 officers puzzle” offers a novel way of encoding quantum information.

Jan 11, 2022

🤔 How do we “talk” with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope?

Posted by in category: space travel

🚀 Launch was a team effort including NASA’s Near Space Network, ESA, and #NASA’s Deep Space Network (DSN).

📡 As the spacecraft travels to the second Lagrange point, nearly 1 million miles from Earth, the #DSN will continue enabling communications.

Jan 11, 2022

Unblock research bottlenecks with non-profit start-ups

Posted by in category: government

A type of non-profit start-up could be a better way to support projects that enable research. These would have full-time scientists, engineers and executives, and total funding of about US$20 million to $100 million that would last around 5 years — longer than most grants or venture-capital funding rounds allow. And they would be set up to pursue predefined milestones, such as improving the resolution of a measurement system by tenfold, or gathering a pre-specified amount of data. We call them focused research organizations (FROs).


‘Focused research organizations’ can take on mid-scale projects that don’t get tackled by academia, venture capitalists or government labs.