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The good news is that, as with COVID, an
international high tech consortium will be able to reverse and
lower the rising global temperature in the very near future and
my article proves why and how this can be possible, even before
2100 when the +6C heat will be unbearable otherwise. More experts
are now in agreement with this geoengineering approach: Check out
the latest YouTube 13-minute
carbon capture to reverse climate change by Matt Ferrell
from Brilliant.org:. Brilliant.org is a learning site
“for ambitious people of all ages.”
Our
Story #1 is a breakthrough for biological piezoelectricity put to
work for generating electricity. With any embedded circuitry,
including pacemakers, the battery charging can be a challenge so
this invention is hope for many such self-contained electrical
circuit devices that will also contain an internal power source.
The Related Articles from SciTechDaily also show how piezoelectricity
is charging power cells.
Story #2 challenges the USDOE and the R&D
community here in the US, who have already known about the
superiority of thorium over any other nuclear fission reactor for
decades. I have heard lectures and watched many on YouTube as
well, all promoting the need for research into a commercial molten
salt thorium reactor for safety, efficiency, and smaller
containment, without fuel rods. Well now it seems that China has
a prototype They also plan to build many more 100 MW plants
by 2030. With the benefits, problems, and history of molten salt
reactors that include thorium online (https://whatisnuclear.com/msr.html), there
are hurdles to overcome which the Chinese apparently have solved
as they produce the world’s first operating thorium reactor.
Story #3
is an exciting one for the global warming future we are all
facing. Having a shirt fabric that has “radiative cooling
performance” that can be seen in a comparative infrared photo is
pretty convincing. I think everyone will want one. It will also
save on the cost of the increasing need for air conditioning to
escape the heat. Here comes “Personal Thermal Management” from a
metafabric.
Story #4
is a probably a surprise for all renewable energy people. Who
would have thought that a crystal ball holds the answer to
concentrated solar even on a cloudy day or during a full moon.
The company is https://rawlemon.com/ and
even offers a wall-sized window full of these crystal ball solar
generators. A
related article shows lots of pictures of the 35% increased
efficiency designs
Story #5
is also a first for paralyzed people. New
England Journal of Medicine has the complete study
of the UCSF invention that translates brain waves
into speech with complete sentences. With cognitive function
intact and affected speech center, this breakthrough, funded by
Facebook and others, allows such a patient to communicate once
again. The two-minute YouTube video is also a good summary https://youtu.be/_GMcf1fXdW8.
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1) New Nanotechnology will Enable
"Healthy" Electric Current Generation Inside Human Body
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Scitech Daily.com July 2021
A new nanotechnology development by
an international research team led by Tel Aviv University
researchers will make it possible to generate electric currents
and voltage within the human body through the activation of
various organs (mechanical force). The researchers explain that
the development involves a new and very strong biological
material, similar to collagen, which is non-toxic and causes no
harm to the body’s tissues. The researchers believe that this new
nanotechnology has many potential applications in medicine,
including harvesting clean energy to operate devices implanted in
the body (such as pacemakers) through the body’s natural
movements, eliminating the need for batteries.
1. Generator Produces
Electricity by Harnessing the Piezoelectric Properties of
Biological Material
Staff, SciTechDaily, 2012
1. Researchers Develop a
Self-Charging Power Cell
Staff, SciTechDaily, 2013
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2) World's First Thorium Reactor in China
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China is moving ahead with
development of an experimental reactor that would be the first of
its kind in the world, but could prove key to the pursuit of clean
and safe nuclear power. According to local news reports, the
Chinese government intends to finish building a prototype molten
salt nuclear reactor in the desert city of Wuwei in the coming
months, with plans to establish a number of larger-scale plants in
similar settings thereafter.
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3) New MetaFabric Cools Passively Human Body
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This nascent
field of technology is called personal thermal management (PTM), and in a new study, researchers say their 'metafabric'
could one day help wearers to beat excessive heat stress.
"The
metafabric exhibits efficient radiative cooling performance and
provides necessary breathability and wearing comfort for PTM,"
a team led by first author Shaoning Zeng from Huazhong University
of Science and Technology explains in a new paper.
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4) Solar Orbs Concentrate Solar Energy and Even Harvest
Moonlight
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This perfectly spherical glass ball is the work of a
German architect named André Broessel, who began working on it three years ago with
the aim of making solar power more efficient and less expensive, a
technology available to everyone, everywhere. "Our product is
democratic," he told me recently over email. "Imagine, we
are conceiving autonomous products able to concentrate the light
even during a cloudy day, which are generating sun powered energy
wherever you are in the world. Energy for free."
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