January 24, 20251 yr Device Uses Wind to Create Ammonia Out of Thin Air The process requires no external power to produce the green energy fuel https://spectrum.ieee.org/ammonia-fuel-2670794408
January 24, 20251 yr a lightcell is an engine that uses light to make electricity lightcells burn hydrogen/fuel mixed with sodium illuminant hot sodium illuminant emits near monochromatic light, which tuned photovoltaic cells collect to make electricity https://www.lightcellenergy.com/
January 24, 20251 yr Frequent social media use tied to higher levels of irritability https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-01-frequent-social-media-higher.html
January 24, 20251 yr https://www.nationalgeographic.com/environment/article/wildfire-miracle-home-survival-design-neighborhood
January 24, 20251 yr Sweden is Building the World’s Largest City Made Entirely From Timber https://time.com/7207873/sweden-stockholm-wood-city-sustainability/
January 24, 20251 yr Trump crossposting Twitter account advertises fake memecoins that make $1.25 million https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/single/fake-trump-twitter-account-memecoins
January 24, 20251 yr How Invasive Plants Are Fueling California’s Wildfire Crisis Non-native grasses and eucalyptus trees were brought to California centuries ago for agriculture and landscaping, but they’ve changed the state’s natural fire dynamics. https://www.wired.com/story/how-invasive-plants-are-fueling-californias-wildfire-crisis/
January 24, 20251 yr "The New York Times reported last year that G.M. was collecting data about people’s driving behavior, including how often they sped or drove at night, and selling it to data brokers that generated risk profiles for insurance companies. Some drivers reported that their auto insurance rates increased as a result." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/technology/general-motors-driving-data-settlement.html
January 24, 20251 yr World’s only floating nuclear plant generates record 1 billion kWh power before refuel The two reactors of the floating nuclear power plant underwent refueling after five years of operation https://interestingengineering.com/energy/floating-nuclear-power-plant-one-billion-kwh-russia
January 24, 20251 yr https://gripped.com/profiles/climbers-using-xenon-gas-which-is-banned-in-sports-to-climb-everest/
January 24, 20251 yr New water purification technology helps turn seawater into drinking water without tons of chemicals "“Our device reduces the chemical and energy demands of seawater desalination, significantly enhancing environmental sustainability and cutting costs by up to 15 percent, or around 20 cents per cubic meter of treated water,” said Weiyi Pan, a postdoctoral researcher at Rice University and a study co-first author." https://news.umich.edu/new-water-purification-technology-helps-turn-seawater-into-drinking-water-without-tons-of-chemicals/
January 24, 20251 yr Why the next energy race is for underground hydrogen Hydrogen can be used in chemicals and as a green fuel. Vast underground stores could help make it an economical option. https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/01/23/1110435/geologic-hydrogen/
January 24, 20251 yr How the Wealthiest Avoid Income Tax https://www.propublica.org/article/the-secret-irs-files-trove-of-never-before-seen-records-reveal-how-the-wealthiest-avoid-income-tax
January 24, 20251 yr P.E.I. homeowner captures sound and video of meteorite strike on camera, and scientists believe it's a first 'It probably would've ripped me in half' https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-charlottetown-meteorite-strike-first-audio-1.7430018
January 24, 20251 yr China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/china_tokamak_plasma_record_claim/
January 24, 20251 yr Clean energy pioneer’s lab destroyed in suspected arson attack in Liverpool "Luke Evans, the chief executive of Scintilla CME and a PhD student at the University of Liverpool, was due to submit his work in March. His research centres on advanced fuel cell technology that converts organic waste into clean energy, and could be crucial in the transition away from fossil fuels." https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jan/15/clean-energy-scientist-lab-destroyed-fire-liverpool
January 24, 20251 yr China claims major fusion advance and record after 17-minute Tokamak run 1,066 seconds of steady-state high-confinement plasma operation and all that https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/22/china_tokamak_plasma_record_claim/ I spotted a small mistake in the article. It said 'Creating plasma and keeping it contained is hard. Tokamaks do it in a chamber, often doughnut-shaped, that contains gases that are heated to high temperatures and subjected to enormous pressure until they becomes a plasma'. Inside the tokamak is near perfect vacuum. The pressure is very low, about 1/10,000,000 atm - the opposite of enormous. Still, it's a record to keep the plasma going for that long. Usually, when fusion starts, the reaction generates so much heat that destroys the coherence of the beam pretty quickly. The trick is to constantly adjust the current in the magnets to keep the beam going.
January 24, 20251 yr I spotted a small mistake in the article. It said 'Creating plasma and keeping it contained is hard. Tokamaks do it in a chamber, often doughnut-shaped, that contains gases that are heated to high temperatures and subjected to enormous pressure until they becomes a plasma'. Inside the tokamak is near perfect vacuum. The pressure is very low, about 1/10,000,000 atm - the opposite of enormous. Still, it's a record to keep the plasma going for that long. Usually, when fusion starts, the reaction generates so much heat that destroys the coherence of the beam pretty quickly. The trick is to constantly adjust the current in the magnets to keep the beam going. We already have a working fusion reactor. It has been working for nearly five billion years. Fully working. No need to mess with it. All we need do is to collect the trillions of kilowatts it pours down onto a variety of desert areas, store some of the heat in molten salt and run our steam generators 24/7. The Maghreb area of North Africa has access to this amazing reactor for twelve hours a day and it is fully usable 97% of the day time hours in a year. Part of the Noor solar thermal power plant in Morocco. Why make things so difficult trying to replicate the sun on earth. We are NOWHERE NEAR doing that and anyone who thinks we are needs his head examined. We can do this NOW. The heat can be stored for nighttime use and that is what happens at these concentrated solar thermal plant. The solar energy absorbed by a square meter of the Sahara in an hour is between two and three kilowatt hours of energy. FAR more than we get in our feeble solar systems on UK rooftops where the energy available is about 850 to 1000 watts per square meter. The power is easily transmitted to far flung places on ultra high voltage DC lines which lose very much less power than AC systems - 3.5% for 1000km - much less than AC - especially under sea. https://www.climatechangenews.com/2019/01/22/solar-plant-size-3500-football-pitches-powers-moroccos-sunlit-ambitions/
January 24, 20251 yr https://www.solarpaces.org/moroccos-ourazazate-noor-iii-csp-tower-exceeds-performance-targets/
January 24, 20251 yr We already have a working fusion reactor. It has been working for nearly five billion years. [ATTACH type=full" alt="61874]61874[/ATTACH] Fully working. No need to mess with it. All we need do is to collect the trillions of kilowatts it pours down onto a variety of desert areas, store some of the heat in molten salt and run our steam generators 24/7. The Maghreb area of North Africa has access to this amazing reactor for twelve hours a day and it is fully usable 97% of the day time hours in a year. [ATTACH type=full" alt="61875]61875[/ATTACH] Part of the Noor solar thermal power plant in Morocco. [ATTACH type=full" alt="61876]61876[/ATTACH] Why make things so difficult trying to replicate the sun on earth. We are NOWHERE NEAR doing that and anyone who thinks we are needs his head examined. We can do this NOW. The heat can be stored for nighttime use and that is what happens at these concentrated solar thermal plant. The power is easily transmitted to far flung places on ultra high voltage DC lines which lose very much less power than AC systems - 3.5% for 1000km - much less than AC - especially under sea. It's a question of space. We'll need fusion reactors to travel to the stars.
January 24, 20251 yr Widespread power outages in Northumberland and Durham. More or less most of the rural communities are off grid right now. No charging today then... [ATTACH type=full" alt="61871]61871[/ATTACH] Not a day to use the A68. charging : Yes you can. You've got to stay home, so you can charge off your exercise bike.
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