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Eat This Drone

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Drones have the potential to be very useful in disaster scenarios by transporting food and water to people in need. It’s a process that’s fast, simple, and cheap. These advantages let an edible drone to carry more payload (which is useful to carry water) and have prolonged flight time and distance.

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A closer look at humidity control methods for EV electronics

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It’s a well-known trope that water and electricity don’t mix, but keeping the two separated is often deceptively difficult, because the simple solution of just sealing the box is insufficient on its own.

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Brookhaven team develops molybdenum-soy catalyst that rivals performance of noble metals for hydrogen production

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The hybrid material effectively catalyzes the conversion of liquid water to hydrogen gas while remaining stable in an acidic environment. One key step is splitting water (water electrolysis). Source: BNL. Click to enlarge. But these two approaches had not yet been tried together. High-protein soybeans turned out to be the best.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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US intelligence and defense agencies say such environmental changes can lead to energy insecurity, water and food shortages, and social instability. The distributed nature of a SABMF network reduces feedstock supply risk, does not burden local water supplies and maximizes rural development and job creation. Protection of IPRs.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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The conference was sold out; it was also essentially a PowerPoint-free zone; the basic format relied heavily on brief introductory remarks from sets of speakers representing the diverse stakeholders, followed by questions from attendees. Electricity is a cheap entity—not a commodity, but is its fundamentally very cheap.

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Devil In The Details: Is Copenhagens 2 ºC Guardrail Obsolete?

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The 2 ºC maximal warming limit was cited at the UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm in 1972, and revisited several decades later, in 1995, by the Wissenschaftlicher Beirat Globale Unweltveränderungen (WGBU), Germany’s national advisory council on climate change. “We Source: WGBU. Click to enlarge. The >2 Degree Target.

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What Robotics Experts Think of Tesla’s Optimus Robot

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What excites me is the idea of cheap and accessible hardware! In the brief demo, they showed it had a reasonably high loading capacity (holding plant-watering water cans, and lifting bars of aluminum in the factory). Hire some PhDs and go to some robotics conferences, Tesla: IROS 2022 is coming up in a few weeks!

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