How COVID-19 is Tracked via Sewage
Sewers were one of the earliest and most impactful advents of public health in urban areas, and it’s exciting that we’re still finding new ways to use them to that end.
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Grid Scale Energy Storage 30x cheaper than Lithium-ion! How do they do that?
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Frank
- May 16, 2022
- energy storage breakthrough
- energy storage elements
- energy storage solutions
- energy storage systems
- energy storage technologies
- grid scale energy storage
- lithium ion battery
- lithium ion battery manufacturing
- modular storage system
- thermal photovoltaic
- thermophotovoltaic
- TPV
- utility scale energy storage
Utility scale energy storage is a hot topic right now as grid operators look for ways to economically adopt intermittent renewable sources like wind and solar into our global electrical systems. Now a team at MIT has combined and improved several existing technologies into a flexible modular solution that could be as much as 30x […]
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Will DNA replace hard drives as data storage in the future?
Lex Fridman interviews Chris Mason. Chris Mason is a professor of genomics, physiology, and biophysics at Cornell, doing research on the long-term effects of space on the human body. He is the author of The Next 500 Years: Engineering Life to Reach New Worlds.
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How Electricity Actually Works
Veritasium conducts an experiment to see how electricity actually flows.
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Nuclear fusion breakthrough achieved with new projectile technique
For decades the promise of nuclear fusion power has remained elusive. However, researchers may have cracked the code to make it happen sooner rather than later. Nuclear fusion has been achieved using a new projectile technique that accelerates fuel to 200 times the speed of sound. First Light Fusion, a UK based start-up, used a […]
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Will Future Computers Will Be Radically Different?
For decades, digital computers have been dominant, but will that continue to be the case in the future? It wasn’t in the past.
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Has quantum mechanics proved that reality does not exist?
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Frank
- February 26, 2022
- experiment shows reality does not exist
- frauchinger-renner
- frauchinger-renner paradox
- hossenfelder
- paradox
- Physics
- Quantum
- Quantum Mechanics
- Quantum Physics
- quantum physics reality
- quantum reality
- reality does not exist
- science without the gobbledygook
- Wigner's friend
- Wigner's friend experiment
In the past years you may have seen headlines claiming that objective reality does not exist because some quantum mechanics experiment has shown it. In this video Sabine Hossenfelder explains what this is all about and why this experiment doesn’t show that reality doesn’t exist.
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What Caffeine Does to the Body
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Frank
- February 4, 2022
- anatomy
- caffeine
- caffeine addiction
- caffeine anxiety
- caffeine diuretic
- caffeine headache
- caffeine heart palpitations
- caffeine withdrawal symptoms
- coffee
- coffee caffeine
- diuretics
- energy drink
- energy drinks
- heart
- heart palpitations
- how caffeine affects the brain
- how caffeine works
- human anatomy
- is caffeine bad
- is caffeine bad for you
- kidney
- quit caffeine
- tea caffeine
- tea caffeine vs coffee
Jonathan from the Institute of Human Anatomy discusses how caffeine interacts with the various tissues throughout the human body and produces it’s various effects, including potential side effects, safe amounts, and other considerations to keep in mind when using caffeine. Video Timeline 00:00 – 00:36 Intro 00:37 – 01:36 What Exactly is Caffeine? 01:37 – […]
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The Rise of Vertical Indoor Farming
Plenty CEO Arama Kukutai joins Emily Chang to talk about the future of climate tech, why 2022 will be a critical year for Plenty’s business model, and how vertical farming can help provide produce anywhere in the world, year round.
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How Vertical farms could take over the world
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Frank
- January 27, 2022
- controlled environment agriculture
- Farming
- food
- future agriculture
- future farming
- indoor agriculture
- indoor farm
- indoor farming
- indoor farms
- indoor vertical farming
- plant factory
- plenty
- sustainable farm
- sustainable farm practices
- sustainable farming
- sustainable farming practices
- sustainable food system
- sustainable food systems
- urban agriculture
- urban farming
- vertical agriculture
- vertical farm
- Vertical Farming
- vertical farming technology
- vertical farms
I recently started a hydroponic garden to have access to fresh lettuce and spices. It’s a fascinating field and it could lead to the most innovation in agriculture in centuries — like vertical farming. Vertical farming saves water, land, and energy — and it could be how we grow food on Mars.
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