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Mar 1, 2021

HPQ Receives TREKHY®, First Mini-Generator Based On Clean Hydrogen Produced By Combining Water And Powder Packet

Posted by in categories: chemistry, robotics/AI, security

Innovative silicon solutions provider HPQ Silicon Resources Inc. (“HPQ” or the “Company”), announced that it has received the TREKHY® system, a portable hydrogen-based mini-power generator, jointly developed by the French companies Apollon Solar SAS (“Apollon”) and Pragma Industries SAS (“Pragma”).

While continuing to work with Apollon on the development of new generations of more efficient silicon powders for hydrogen production, HPQ signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Apollon and Pragma to study the commercial potential of the TREKHY® autonomous power generator in Canada.

The TREKHY® provides energy on demand. The system uses a compact fuel cell to provide electrical power. The integrated fuel cell combines hydrogen and oxygen to provide useful electricity + H2O. Hydrogen is produced through a chemical reaction resulting from contact between water and a powder bag. Each bag delivers 30W of power for more than one hour. (Video of the system in operation). In January 2021, a Japanese distributor purchased 300 TREKHY® systems to equip the survival shelters of the Japanese Civil Security.

Mar 1, 2021

Off-grid construction site taps into hydrogen fuel cell tech to power operations

Posted by in category: energy

Circa 2020


With the development of new technology, the way construction sites operate is changing.

Mar 1, 2021

Decarbonizing US Energy: An Aggressive Market-Driven Model for Fusion Power Development

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, economics, engineering

National Academies study says fusion can help decarbonize US energy, calls for public-private approach to pilot plant operation by 2035–40.

Electricity generated by fusion power plants could play an important role in decarbonizing the U.S. energy sector by mid-century, says a new consensus study report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, which also lays out for the first time a set of technical, economic, and regulatory standards and a timeline for a U.S. fusion pilot plant that would begin producing energy in the 2035–40 time frame.

To achieve this key step toward commercialization, the report calls for an aggressive public-private effort to produce by 2028 a pilot plant design that can, when built, accommodate any of the developmental approaches seeking to realize fusion’s potential as a safe, carbon-free, on-demand energy source.

Mar 1, 2021

Perseverance Seen From Space

Posted by in category: space

The ESA’s Trace Gas Orbiter (part of the ExoMars 2020 mission) has revealed images of the Perseverance rover and where it landed.


A little over a week ago (February 18th, 2021), NASA’s Perseverance rover landed in the Jezero crater on the surface of Mars. In what was truly a media circus, people from all over the world tuned to watch the live coverage of the rover landing. When Perseverance touched down, it wasn’t just the mission controllers at NASA who triumphantly jumped to their feet to cheer and applaud.

In the days that followed, the world was treated to all kinds of media that showed the surface of Mars and the descent. The most recent comes from the Trace Gas Orbiter (TGO), which is part of the ESA-Roscosmos ExoMars program. From its vantage point, high above the Martian skies, the TGO caught sight of Perseverance in the Jezero crater and acquired images that show the rover and other elements of its landing vehicle.

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Mar 1, 2021

Hyper-accurate positioning is rolling out worldwide

Posted by in category: satellites

Upgrades to satellites in orbit and systems down below will bring centimeter-level accuracy to the masses.

Mar 1, 2021

World’s Richest Men, Musk and Bezos, Fight Over Satellite Fleets

Posted by in category: futurism

Elon will win.


The world’s two richest men are duking it out before U.S. regulators over celestial real estate for their satellite fleets.

Mar 1, 2021

Does Water on Mars = Life? | Countdown to Mars

Posted by in category: alien life

Mars is on the outer boundary of our solar system’s habitable zone, meaning it’s a region where liquid water could form and exist for long periods of time. We know that water is the source of life on Earth, but could it also point to the same on Mars?

Watch the NASA’s Perseverance Mars Rover touch down on Mars LIVE on our TikTok TODAY starting at 3:15P ET! http://tiktok.com/@discovery

Feb 28, 2021

Do telomere length tests really reveal your biological age?

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, life extension

Curiosity about how well our bodies are ageing has fuelled an industry around telomere length tests, but the much touted “biological clock” in our DNA isn’t what we thought.

Feb 28, 2021

Club IA Tesla

Posted by in categories: augmented reality, education

The future of education with augmented reality 🧑 🏫🧠


El futuro de la educación con Realidad Aumentada 🧑‍🏫 🧠.

Feb 28, 2021

‘Like a horror movie’: Caterpillar silences tomato’s cry for help, scientists find

Posted by in categories: chemistry, entertainment, food

“Scientists found that a caterpillar called the tomato fruit worm not only chomps on tomatoes and their leaves, but also deposits enzyme-laden saliva on the plant, interfering with its ability to cry for help. If it all sounds a bit improbable, starting with the concept of plants crying for help, scientists also scoffed at that idea when it was first proposed a few decades ago. But it has been shown time and time again that when under attack, plants can emit chemical distress signals, causing their peers to mount some sort of defense. A classic example is the smell of a freshly mown lawn, which prompts the release of protective compounds in nearby blades of grass that have yet to be cut. In some cases, plant distress signals can even summon help from other species. That’s what happens with the tomato. When caterpillars nibble on the plant’s leaves, the leaf pores release volatile chemicals that are detected by a type of parasite: a wasp that lays eggs inside caterpillars. (Not to overwork the horror-movie analogy, but as with the hapless astronauts in the “Aliens” franchise, it doesn’t end well for the caterpillar.)”


While there’s a famous horror-movie spoof about killer tomatoes, no one seems to have made one about caterpillars—the insect pests that eat the juicy red fruits of summer.