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Dr. Wencai Zhang: “Our goal is to contribute to the supply chain of these critical materials while also making a positive environmental impact. We specifically aim to reduce the environmental consequences that can be associated with produced water.”
How can lithium, one of the most demanded minerals for clean energy products like electric vehicles, be harvested without harming the environment? This is | Technology.
Roadmap: Quantum algorithms and quantum machine learning could assist high-energy physics, ranging from studying neutrino oscillations to reconstructing particle trajectories in colliders.
Why do we take so many selfies? Because we are afraid of dying, say psychologists.
Many of us have phones filled with selfies documenting everything from holidays to duvet days.
But what’s behind the modern fascination with taking photos of ourselves?
Psychologists have come up with a rather morbid answer: fear of dying.
Building a nuclear fusion reactor capable of providing green energy for homes and industry is the goal of many physicists around the world, but many roadblocks stand between our present and this green energy future. While some of those hurdles have been overcome, building robust materials capable of surviving the hellish conditions inside tokamaks is the next frontier.
As engineers construct next-generation fusion reactors, like the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER) in southern France, labs around the world are working on creating exotic materials capable of containing super-hot plasma while also generating electricity. One of those labs is MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI), which is dedicated to finding ways to make future reactors more robust and reliable.
This is another episode in our series on the great figures in developmental bioelectricity. We interview (~1 hour) Mustafa Djamgoz, who has made pivotal discoveries about the role of bioelectricity in the problem of cancer and its eventual solution.
Mustafa’s book: / beat-cancer.
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Lithium metal exposed to the heat of a fusion reaction chamber’s hot plasma can serve as a coolant to protect the reactor vessel.
Researchers have developed biohybrid robots controlled by fungal mycelia, leveraging the mycelia’s electrical signals to enhance environmental responsiveness. This novel system allows robots to react to stimuli like light.
Imagine aliens finding the golden record only to search earth and find a floating sign in space saying “301 moved permanently”.
TL;DR
The concept of a stellar engine, as discussed on Kurzgesagt’s YouTube channel, proposes using thrusters to move our entire solar system. The Shkadov Thruster, a passive solar sail system, would harness the Sun’s energy to propel the system, but it would be extremely slow, potentially moving 100 light-years in 230 million years. To increase speed, astrophysicist Matthew Caplan designed an active engine using the Bussard ramjet concept, known as the Caplan Thruster, which could move the solar system 50 light-years in a million years. This engine uses the Sun’s materials for fusion propulsion, generating thrust to push the Sun.