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Jun 27, 2020
SpaceX to Offer High-Speed Internet from Space to Rural Canada
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: Elon Musk, internet, space travel
Elon Musk’s company, SpaceX, has applied to offer high-speed internet to people living in rural parts of Canada, the offer has yet to be accepted by the Canadian telecom company.
Jun 27, 2020
An All-Electric ’63 Mercedes-Benz? How One UK Startup Is Bringing Vintage Cars Into the Zero-Emission Future
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: futurism, transportation
Jun 27, 2020
Designing A Mars Habitat Concept
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: habitats, space
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They need to make the first Mars colony look like this! 🔴 🚀.
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No patch of grass is out of reach for this absolutely massive machine! 😱 🙌.
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Every pool table should have the ability to turn on augmented reality guidance!
Jun 27, 2020
Brabus Unveils a New Black Ops Boat for Seafarers With Secret Missions
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: energy
Packed with twin 450 hp outboard engines, the speedster is capable of cutting through the seas at a blistering 60 knots and its engine’s power-to-weight ratio represents the best in class. In fact, these motors tip the scale at just 705 lbs—some 300 lbs less than competing models—which gives the svelte vessel 40 percent more torque than its competitors.
Jun 27, 2020
Smart farms of the future: Making bioenergy crops more environmentally friendly
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: biological, economics, food, robotics/AI, sustainability
Farmers have enough worries—between bad weather, rising costs, and shifting market demands—without having to stress about the carbon footprint of their operations. But now a new set of projects by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), including scientists at the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI), could make agriculture both more sustainable and more profitable.
The three projects, funded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), leverage Berkeley Lab’s strengths in artificial intelligence, sensors, and ecological biology. They aim to quantify and reduce the carbon intensity of agriculture, including the farming of biofuel feedstocks such as corn, soy, and sorghum, while also increasing yield.
Crop-based biofuels have the potential to supply up to about 5% of U.S. energy demand, according to the DOE. Two of the new projects are part of the SMARTFARM program of DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). This initiative aspires to make the biofuel supply chain carbon negative—meaning it removes or sequesters more carbon than it emits—which would greatly improve biofuel’s benefits to the broader economy and environment. Scientists also hope that the increased productivity will have the effect of lowering costs and increasing farmers’ income.
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This robotic system is able to autonomously clean up to 90 plates at once!
Jun 27, 2020
Low-cost solar-to-hydrogen cell achieves breakthrough 17.6% efficiency
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: economics, energy, sustainability, transportation
Hydrogen’s impressive energy density offers some compelling advantages that could see it make a huge difference in the electric aviation and eVTOL sectors, as well as in renewable energy, where it’s a lightweight and transportable, if not particularly efficient, way to store clean energy that’s not necessarily generated where or when you need it. It’s also being pushed as a means of exporting green energy, and Japan and Korea in particular are investing heavily in the idea of a hydrogen energy economy powering everything from vehicles to homes and industry.
For this to come about in a globally positive way, it’s imperative that clean, green hydrogen production becomes cheaper, because right now, the easiest and cheapest ways to get yourself a tank full of hydrogen are things like steam reforming, which produces up to 12 times as much carbon dioxide as it does hydrogen by weight.
Green, renewable production methods are thus hot topics for researchers and industry, and a new breakthrough from scientists at the Australian National University (ANU) could make a significant contribution.
