how long does it take to transfer this new tech to actual product to be placed in cars/trucks? If they can make these light enough and strong enough to power electric planes without lithium, why isn't there a manhatten style project to get this type of tech to production NASA may have just cracked the code for replacing lithium in batteries: ‘Double or even triple the energy’ (msn.com) Researchers at NASA’s Solid-state Architecture Batteries for Enhanced Rechargeability and Safety (SABERS) have created a high-performing battery that they believe can both hold enough electricity and discharge it fast enough to efficiently power an electric aircraft. SABER says it has addressed this issue with a new innovation that is able to increase a solid-state battery’s discharge rate by a factor of 10 — and then by another factor of five. “We’re starting to approach this new frontier of battery research that could do so much more than lithium-ion batteries can,” said Rocco Viggiano, principal investigator for SABERS at NASA’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, in a press release. “Not only does this design eliminate 30 to 40 percent of the battery’s weight, it also allows us to double or even triple the energy it can store, far exceeding the capabilities of lithium-ion batteries that are considered to be state of the art,” he added.
Oil lobby slowing thing down is my reasonable guess. In all seriousness patience. There’s a LOT going on in battery technology in all corners of the world. Capital doesn’t know where to go yet. Our Manhattan project in the mean time should be improving infrastructure and revamping our electric grid. If we can devote 50B to chips 25B to the grid seems reasonable. Both are strategic domestic investments
The biggest problem I see with battery tech is that there seems to be a game changing breakthrough announced every month…. It makes me wonder if the lack of investment and development is because people are afraid their tech will be considered outdated or inefficient by the time they can get it mass production….
Good read on quantam physics. Makes my brain hurt but it seems that it opens the door to parallel universes and/or teleportation. It is supposed to be a discussion for dummies but I still feel stupid just reading it, let alone trying to interpret the downrange implications. The Mysteries of Quantum Physics By Stanislav Kondrashov - Stanislav Kondrashov A Particle’s Dual Life At its core, quantum physics introduces us to the duality of particles. They’re neither just particles nor just waves. Depending on how we observe them, they can behave as either. Imagine if you could be both a person and a shadow at the same time! Entanglement – Nature’s Magic Trick Two particles can become ‘entangled’ in such a way that the state of one instantly impacts the other, no matter the distance between them. It’s as if they’re whispering secrets across the universe! The Uncertainty Principle Thanks to Werner Heisenberg, we learned that you can’t know both the position and momentum of a particle with complete certainty. The more accurately you know one, the less you know the other. A true cosmic conundrum! Quantum Superposition: Schrödinger’s Famous Cat A particle exists in all its theoretical states simultaneously until observed. This thought experiment posits a cat that is both alive and dead, till we check. It’s the universe’s ultimate cliffhanger. Quantum Tunneling Particles can sometimes do the impossible! They can pass through barriers, seemingly like magic, thanks to their wave-like properties. It’s like walking into a locked room and suddenly finding yourself on the other side.
Did you know some of the largest shareholders in alternative energy are Shell, British Petroleum, and Exxon-Mobil? Buy our old product. Next, buy our new product, but we want taxpayer dollars through grants to research our new product for us. Meanwhile we lobby the government to slow the transfer down because we want to linger at the plateau of the old product until we can't squeeze a dime out it while riding the rise of the new product. Oh, and if we make the supporters of the old product and the supporters of the new product hate each other, they will become even more fanatical in the consumption of both our old product and our new product. Genius level business administration here from the energy companies. How the 6 major oil companies have invested in renewable energy projects
New class of drugs that builds muscle and burns fat mimicing strenous exercise Drug that mimics exercise triggers weight loss and builds lean muscle While exercise mimetics have been in the works for some time, the UF researchers found that a compound known as SLU-PP-332 was able to target a specific estrogen-related receptor (ERR), which boosted skeletal fat oxidation, therefore increasing energy expenditure. In a mouse study, SLU-PP-332 ‘revved’ up a natural metabolic pathway that is normally excited through physical exercise. Compared to a control group of obese mice, the cohort given SLU-PP-332 twice a day for a month gained 10 times less fat and also lost 12% of their body weight in the process, with no changes to diet and exercise. "They use more energy just living," Burris said.
On a not really related note, I’m here in Gainseville visiting 90 year old parents, and my dad is out there doing a very easy bike like foot exerciser, sitting, while he is asleep. If science could capture that, we could all get hours of exercise while sleeping with potentially positive health benefits. Future state: My Apple Watch says I did 5000 steps last night while asleep!
No disagreement big oil companies learned from the boom and bust cycles. They are the most financially savvy companies around.
would be great for boats and off grid coastal residents worldwide. wish it could be scaled up to commercial production to help islands currently paying for fuel to produce electricity for traditional desal. hopefully the advances in solar and batteries will help create power to run traditional desal on a larger scale soon
How researchers remade ‘the world’s most widely used petrochemical’ – without using fossil fuels | What's possible? Ask Toronto | The Guardian Shampoo. Antifreeze. Food packaging. Electronics, textiles and building materials. These things and so many more all have one common ingredient: they contain ethylene, the world’s most widely produced and widely used petrochemical, which is used to help make products lightweight, durable or waterproof. But producing conventional ethylene releases enormous amounts of greenhouse gases that contribute to the climate crisis. Not only does ethylene use fossil fuels, predominantly natural gas, as a constituent raw material, it also uses fossil fuels as the energy source for its production. “For every tonne of ethylene, one to two tonnes of carbon dioxide are emitted through the conventional manufacturing process,” says Dr Christine Gabardo, a former postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto, who is pioneering a breakthrough innovation that makes ethylene without fossil fuels and is ready to scale it up commercially. Now CERT’s chief technology officer, Gabardo explains that the team has been able to create ethylene using a process called CO2 electrolysis that works at ambient temperatures and the only energy input is renewable electricity. Copper forms the basis of a catalyst that splits water and carbon dioxide, then converts them into hydrocarbons such as ethylene. There are no harmful emissions and all the chemical by-products can be used by various industrial processes. Gabardo says that CERT’s mission is to make a big impact with the technology, explaining how this new process actually uses carbon dioxide, either from direct air capture or industrial sources, rather than producing it. “We consume three tonnes of carbon dioxide for every tonne of ethylene that we produce, instead of emitting it through the high-temperature process.” So with the use of carbon dioxide as a raw material, combined with not producing carbon emissions, Gabardo says that this new method avoids up to five tonnes of carbon dioxide emissions for every tonne of ethylene produced. She adds that this ethylene is chemically identical to regular ethylene, so it won’t need to be recertified – it can simply slot into a vast number of existing industrial applications.
Ewww, Amp-hours. I wouldn't trust any company that measures its batteries by Ah. Even Watt-hours doesn't offer enough information, but at least it's a measurement of energy. Amp-hours tell me nothing. I'd wait till they can tell me what the energy density (Wh/kg, Wh/l), cycle life, and cost/Wh is before I can take them seriously.
new process to drill cavities to pump water into which is then heated and turned into electricity Startup develops incredible way to harness hard-to-reach clean energy source: ‘It’s going to be really important’ (msn.com) The “enhanced geothermal” method creates an artificial underground reservoir by drilling into rocks thousands of feet below our feet. These reservoirs are filled with water and other necessary fluids, which are then heated by the geothermal source to create steam that moves turbines, which create energy. The Cape Station development could upon completion become the world’s largest geothermal station to use next-gen technologies, and Fervo expects it to generate 80 times more energy than its existing Nevada pilot site, which showed a possible 3.5 megawatts of generating capacity over a 30-day test run, Canary Media said. .................................... Modeling from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory predicts around 90 gigawatts of power can be installed by 2050 in the United States, and the Fervo project in Utah will be a significant contributor to that possibility.
now that they can claim the intellectual property rights, I suspect that China will be the first to mass market these much higher efficiency panels. I have an interest in panels but am hoping to get the next gen and hoping that the US advances the manufacturing of these so I don't end up buying chinese panels Solar panel world record smashed with ‘miracle material’ (msn.com) A team from the Chinese solar technology firm Longi set a new world record of 33.9 per cent for a silicon-perovskite tandem solar cell, breaking the previous record set in May this year by King Abdullah University of Science & Technology (KAUST) in Saudi Arabia. The new efficiency record also broke the theoretical limit of 33.7 per cent for the first time of standard single junction cells, which are found in commercial solar panels. “This provides meaningful empirical data to demonstrate the advantage of crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem solar cells over crystalline silicon single junction solar cells in terms of efficiency,” the company noted in a statement. “The emergence of crystalline silicon-perovskite tandem technology has opened up a new track for the development of next-generation high-efficiency solar cell technology. This means that the same area, absorbing the same light, can emit more electricity.”
Sign me up. Found a spot in my pancreas during a CT and then MRI scan. I’m having it biopsies at Moffitt on the 20th.
Let’s give them some of their own medicine and steal their technology. I’d also like us to clone a panda bear if possible and give them the finger. https://dcist.com/story/23/11/07/dc-pandas-national-zoo-china/
getting closer. scientists have discovered a protein on cancer cells that activates a self destruct sequence Major cancer breakthrough as scientists discover 'kill switch' that destroys cells (msn.com) Scientists say they have identified a 'kill switch' that triggers the death of cancer cells in a major breakthrough. Researchers at the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center in Sacramento, California, believe they have discovered a protein on a receptor that can "program" cancer cells to die, describing it as a "a potential one-two punch against tumors". "CD95 receptors, also known as Fas, are called death receptors. These protein receptors reside on cell membranes. When activated, they release a signal that causes the cells to self-destruct," the cancer center said in a statement. ..................................................................... "Previous efforts to target this receptor have been unsuccessful. But now that we've identified this epitope, there could be a therapeutic path forward to target Fas in tumors," Tushir-Singh added.
