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Jan 4, 2022
Western Australia’s Solar SPS Push Continues
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: government, solar power, sustainability
Government-funded solar panel based standalone power system installations in WA’s Esperance region completed, with more on the way.
Jan 4, 2022
This ground-breaking water jet could jump-start the electric boats revolution
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: computing
Italian start-up Sealence is promising dramatic gains in the speed and range of electric boats thanks to a radical new pod-shaped waterjet, reports Hugo Andreae.
Gobbo first proposed the idea back in 2007, using computer simulations to test its potential, before developing the first working prototype in 2010. However, it wasn’t until the arrival of Professor Ernesto Benini, an expert in fluid dynamics from the University of Padua, that its full potential started to be realised in 2016.
The team behind the project now comprises 21 different specialists including engineers, designers, hydrodynamicists and even a powerboat racer, who together form the parent company Sealence.
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Jan 4, 2022
How Elon Musk Learnt To Succeed. Just Two Rules For Learning Faster
Posted by Mark Parkins in categories: Elon Musk, robotics/AI
Do you collect facts or nurture knowledge?
From SpaceX & Tesla, to Neuralink, OpenAI and The Boring Company, Elon Musk has demonstrated the ability to optimise the learning process, and it all comes down to two simple rules.
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Jan 4, 2022
This Microsoft Model Excels at Common Sense Reasoning
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: futurism
Jan 4, 2022
Converting trash to valuable graphene in a flash
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: materials
Circa 2020
Flash heating of carbon-rich wastes creates graphene, which has many commercial uses.
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Jan 4, 2022
A “talking” cat is giving scientists insight into how felines think
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: education
Cats are being taught to communicate using a button-word system. Scientists are listening closely.
Jan 4, 2022
Chemists find new way to break down old tires into material for new ones
Posted by Quinn Sena in categories: biotech/medical, health
Circa 2020
A team of chemists at McMaster University has discovered an innovative way to break down and dissolve the rubber used in automobile tires, a process which could lead to new recycling methods that have so far proven to be expensive, difficult and largely inefficient.
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Jan 4, 2022
Self‐healing crystal voids in double perovskite nanocrystal
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: mobile phones, robotics/AI, satellites, solar power, sustainability
From the Terminator to Spiderman’s suit, self-repairing robots and devices abound in sci-fi movies. In reality, though, wear and tear reduce the effectiveness of electronic devices until they need to be replaced. What is the cracked screen of your mobile phone healing itself overnight, or the solar panels providing energy to satellites continually repairing the damage caused by micro-meteorites?
Jan 4, 2022
Old Martiki mine in Kentucky to be turned into a 200MW solar farm
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: solar power, sustainability
The renewable energy firm Savion is building the 200 megawatts Martin County Solar Project on a former coal mine on the border of Kentucky and West Virginia.
The solar energy generation facility will be located on approximately 1,200 acres on the old Martiki mine site in Martin County, interconnecting with Kentucky Power’s 138-kilovolt Inez Substation. The old Martiki coal mine is an abandoned mountain-top strip mine that was shut down in the 1990s. When completed, the project will produce enough energy to power the equivalent of more than 33,000 Kentucky homes.
The Martin County project that includes up to a $231 million investment recently cleared its last regulatory hurdle. It may be the biggest utility-scale coal-to-solar project in the country. The coal mine in Kentucky was one of the roughly 130,000 such sites that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) had earmarked for renewable energy projects.
