Rick Timmer Texas is the US leader in wind — and now it's ramping up solar - Electrek Electrek - Michelle LewisTexas likes to do things big. The Lone Star State leads the US with the most energy generated by wind power, and now it’s ramping up solar, which is projected to be the fastest-growing contributor to state’s
Rick Timmer The World's Tiniest Nuclear Plant Is Coming to Idaho Popular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertAn experimental nuclear reactor in Idaho could be the first of its kind in the United States: a commercial reactor providing power using fuel that reduces nuclear waste. The small power plant could power
Rick Timmer With the development of generalized AI, what’s the meaning of a person? – TechCrunch TechCrunch - Danny CrichtonFor the next installment of the informal TechCrunch book club, we are reading the fourth story in Ted Chiang’s Exhalation. The goal of this book club is to expand our minds to new worlds, ideas, and vistas,
Rick TimmerRobotics MIT showcases soft robotic sensors made from flexible, off-the-shelf materials – TechCrunch TechCrunch - Brian HeaterA team at MIT’s CSAIL demonstrated a new kind of “skin” designed to bring a sense of touch and place to soft robotic arms. The findings, which debuted in the IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters this find
Rick Timmer As Sea Levels Rise, Scientists Offer a Bold Idea: Dam the North Sea The New York Times - Claire MosesLONDON — One dam would stretch some 300 miles from the coast of Scotland to Norway. The other, roughly 100 miles, would rise in the waters between northern France and Southeastern England. Together, the
Rick Timmer3D Printing This new 3D printing breakthrough will blow your mind bgr.com - Andy Meek Researchers may have just figured out completely transform fields like medicine and biology, thanks to an innovative new 3D-printing technique that …
Rick TimmerCulture Duuuuude. What Happens if the Earth Gains Consciousness? WIRED - Michael Calore The interactive art pop-up The End of You tackles the environmental crisis through a transhumanistic lens. It'll even let you morph into a tree. …
Rick TimmerTechnology Rain may soon be an effective source of renewable energy Engadget - Jon FingasA generator can briefly light up 100 LED bulbs with a single drop. There have been numerous attempt to generate electricity using rain, but this may be one of the more effective solutions yet. Researchers
Rick TimmerTechnology Bill Gates orders £500m hydrogen-powered superyacht [updated] The Guardian - Rebecca SmithersBill Gates has ordered the world’s first hydrogen-powered superyacht, worth an estimated £500m ($644m) and featuring an infinity pool, helipad, spa and gym. The billionaire co-founder of Microsoft has
Rick TimmerDiamonds The sparkling rise of the lab grown diamond BBC Future - Harriet ConstableThere is little to differentiate lab grown diamonds from those that occur naturally other than the way they are made (Credit: Getty Images) Lab-grown diamonds are created using extreme pressure and heat
Rick TimmerFossil Fuels 6 Changes in Society Could Rapidly Pave the Way to a Sustainable Future, Study Finds ecowatch.com - World Economic Forum • Despite efforts to achieve net-zero by 2050, global emissions are still rising. • A new study suggests ways to fast-track efforts to decarbonize the …
Rick TimmerMilitary The Navy's Surprise Unmanned Fighter Is a Glimpse of War's Near Future Popular Mechanics - By Kyle MizokamiThe Navy converted manned combat jets into unmanned ones. Nobody had any idea they were doing it. In a surprise announcement, the U.S. Navy revealed on Tuesday that it had successfully flown tests involving
Rick TimmerU.S. Dept. of Defense Trump’s new nuclear weapon has been deployed Defense News - Aaron Mehta WASHINGTON — A new nuclear warhead requested, designed and produced under the Trump administration, has been deployed aboard a nuclear submarine, the …
Rick TimmerNetherlands How the Dutch Use Architecture to Feed the World archdaily.com - Niall Patrick Walsh The Netherlands is the world’s second-biggest exporter of agricultural products. This is remarkable when one considers that the only country which …
Rick TimmerThe Brain 'Freezing' our bodies is the key to long-distance space travel — but can we do it? TNW - The Cosmic CompanionLong-distance space travel, traveling at sub-light speeds, will require a way to make the journey with a crew of aging humans. While it’s possible to avoid some of that through time dilation (a quirk physics
Rick TimmerWorld Economic Forum A clean energy future with hydrogen could be closer than we think weforum.org - Benoît Potier • The cost of hydrogen is expected to drop sharply and imminently. • Hydrogen technologies could provide 20% of the world's CO2 abatement needs by …
Rick TimmerClean Energy Special solar panels could work when the sun goes down futurity.org - Andy Fell-UC Davis A special kind of solar cell could work at night, researchers say. In fact, the specially designed photovoltaic cell could generate up to 50 watts of …
Rick TimmerMilitary A New and Controversial U.S. Nuclear Weapon Goes to Sea Popular Mechanics - By Kyle MizokamiThe missile submarine USS Tennessee is the first to deploy with the W76-2 warhead. Somewhere in depths of the Atlantic Ocean the USS Tennessee is carrying out a mission it’s carried out dozens of times:
Rick Timmer Boeing’s massive wing-folding 777x just flew for the first time Popular Science - Rob VergerHere’s how the aircraft’s long wings and giant engines boost its efficiency. On Saturday, Boeing flew its newest passenger plane for the first time, and after it landed in Seattle, its wingtips did something
Rick TimmerScience Inside SpinLaunch, the Space Industry’s Best Kept Secret WIRED - Daniel Oberhaus The company is building a massive centrifuge to accelerate rockets and send them screaming into space. Last summer, a secretive space company took up …
Rick TimmerBusiness Electric Vehicle Batteries Will ‘Dwarf’ The Grid’s Energy-Storage Needs Forbes - Jeff McMahonThere will be more than enough batteries in electric vehicles by 2050 to support a grid that runs on solar and wind—if the two are connected by smart chargers, according to experts at the International
Rick TimmerFossil Fuels Turning carbon into concrete could win UCLA team a climate victory — and $7.5 million Los Angeles Times - Julia RosenGabe Falzone and his teammates had been up since 5 a.m., anticipating the arrival of the concrete mixer. When the truck pulled into the alley behind UCLA’s Boelter Hall, hundreds of narrow red cylinders
Rick TimmerScience Mass Timber, Not Steel, Is the Future of Construction Popular Mechanics - By Caroline DelbertCould fire-blocking timber construction be part of the carbon-neutral city of the future? Scientists from Germany’s Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research think so. In a new paper, they argue that
Rick TimmerSpace Travel NASA bombshell: Stunning statement reveals agency's breakthrough space travel scheme express.co.uk - Jacque Talbot NASA has announced the development of its first-ever travel destination and commercialised real estate. The agency, in collaboration with Axiom Space, …
Rick TimmerMilitary How Do You Stop a Hypersonic Weapon? DARPA Is Looking for the Answer Popular Mechanics - By Kyle MizokamiDARPA awarded Northrop Grumman to help develop defenses against a generation of new missiles. The Pentagon’s main research and development agency is pushing to start testing anti-hypersonic weapons this
Rick TimmerThe Future How AI Will Change The Way We Work In 2020 Entrepreneur - Hyther NizamSeveral ways in which innovation in AI and machine learning (ML) will change our lives in the next five years. You're reading Entrepreneur Middle East, an international franchise of Entrepreneur Media.
Rick TimmerGraphene High-value "flash graphene" can be made from cheap trash newatlas.com - By Nick Lavars Graphene’s potential as a game-changing material is well understood, but the search is very much on for new and improved ways to produce it. …
Rick TimmerLeadership This is what our working lives will look like in 2040 Fast Company - Julia HerbstIn November of last year, we finally caught up to the future envisioned in 1982’s Blade Runner. Perhaps unsurprisingly, things didn’t pan out exactly how Ridley Scott envisioned. We still don’t have flying
Rick Timmer High-Intensity Warfare Is Back and America Practicing for the Next Big Conflict nationalinterest.org - David Axe A big deal.Key point: Washington realizes that it faces a real challenge from other great powers. As a result, the Pentagon is practicing …
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