#New graphene framework bridges gap between traditional capacitors batteries Researchers at the California Nanosystems Institute (CNSI) at UCLA have set the stage for a watershed in mobile energy storage by using a special graphene material
You could print a MASSIVE heat exchanger to reclaim heat from waste water power plants your house...You like fresh air
And of course the water going down the drain in your shower is nice and toasty; you could use it to preheat the incoming cold water a
#Sewer Sensors Detect Homemade Bombs As They're Being made Could the secret to finding illicit explosives labs before they harm anyone be hiding in a city's poop?
A European union-funded research project spearheaded by the Swedish Defense research agency FOI aims to sniff out the telltale signs of bomb-making through the sewer system.
It would position sensors throughout sewers to alert authorities when traces of chemicals used to make explosives get flushed down the drain
and will be put to the test in actual sewers next year. Scientists have looked previously into sewer sensors as a way to examine drug usage on a citywide level.
Poop! It holds so many of our secrets.##New Scientist S
#Drug Cures Mice Of Down syndrome With A Single Dose Cure Down syndrome with a single injection?
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#How To Detect Counterfeit Drugs Growing up in Pakistan in the 1980s, Muhammad Zaman and his family always knew which pharmacy to trust
If a fertilized egg is a person because of its mere potential to be one then everytime you scrub off your chest with a loofah under the shower you are committing genocide.
and onsite micro hydro turbine systems will power a cluster of five remote outbuildings. 3) San francisco startup Cruise Automation is making a $10, 000 sensor system (due out next
The two robots communicate their positions converge to a common docking location and the dock successfully both indoors and out.
even if it is super salty briny water, gives the possibility that if there's life on mars, that we have a way to describe how it might survive,
The device could be used to test water near mining sites, water treatment plants or just about anywhere clean,
dams and barriers designed to defend the land from flooding. So far, the machine biggest wave reached just over 16.4 feet,
the micromotors removed 88 percent of the carbon dioxide in the same timespan. n the future, we could potentially use these micromotors as part of a water treatment system,
adding that in the future, these micromotors could likely be used as part of a water treatment system, like a water decarbonation plant e
or sewage can be a tedious, time-consuming process. Also, each family of bacteriophages can have a different genome organization
The venture capital research firm CB Insights lists 53 US-based unicorns, saying the hefty valuations have been fueled by a flood of private equity investors seeking an early piece of the next
physicists will peer into the resulting particle showers for new discoveries about the universe, said Ryszard Stroynowski, a collaborator on one of the collider's key experiments and a professor in the Department of physics at Southern Methodist University,
Flood of data from ATLAS transmitted via tiny electronics designed at SMU to withstand harsh conditionsan SMU physics team also collaborates on the design,
Sekula said. 10 times as many Higgs particles means a flood of data to sift for gems LHC Run 2 will collide particles at a staggering 13 teraelectronvolts (Tev),
and around the world to sift through the flood of data, quickly analyze massive amounts of information,
and forcing the city to shut down four water filtration plants. The city government said operations resumed at two plants on Wednesday
#Liquidity Launches To Bring Clean water To Everyone Liquidity Nanotech is trying to change the world.
The company is launching today onstage at Disrupt NY 2015 with the Naked Filter, a consumer water bottle with its proprietary water filtration membrane built-in.
water purification methods and filters are available today but often force users to choose between effectiveness and convenience,
percent bacterial removal for safe drinking water. Though the tech is strong, the challenge of adoption still remains.
Many are already using some type of at home method of water purification but with little success. Ultimately,
and aims to become the ntel Insideof the water industry. Industrial applications in everything from medical and pharma to oil and gas are huge s
#Y Combinator, Tim cook Back Nebia, A Shower That Uses 70%Less Water As a health spa owner in Mexico city, Carlos Gomez Andonaegui often fretted about the cost of water.
000 feet in the heart of the country where it is near no major natural water sources.
Today, Gomez Andonaegui and his cofounder Philip Winter are unveiling the fruits of their work with a new shower head that uses 70 percent less water.
the shower creates millions of tinier water droplets with a surface area that is 100 times larger than the drops that normal shower heads produce.
Because of that, Nebia shower head has a flow of 0. 75 gallons per minute, compared to the standard 2. 5 gallons per minute under EPA standards. howers have been the same for 100 years.
The shower is the most intimate part of your day that you spend with water. Nebia flat, circular shower head is made of a high-density polymer with nozzles that spray out micro droplets.
Then the shower bracket is made from anodized aluminum. It connects to any standard pipe in the home.
For now, it not connected to any kinds of software. However the team thinks there are long-term possibilities to build an Internet-of-Things model that could tell consumers how much water
so that the Nebia can come to developing countries where water is extremely scarce. f everyone in California were to switch over to this shower head,
and sink back down again in a fluid motion. That because all of the building materials enough 5-inch tiles and aluminum studs construct thousands of 6-inch cubes are packed flat
so they can go back to a charging dock (similar to a Roomba) when theye running low on energy. t like 3d printing upside down,
drinking water reservoirs, quarry lakes, irrigation canals, remediation and tailing ponds, and hydro electric dam reservoirs.
This simple and affordable alternative to ground-mounted systems is particularly suitable for water-intensive industries who cannot afford to waste either land or water.
or extract materials is valuable for uses such as separating components of oil, gas and wastewater,
If the material is used for wastewater treatment applications, you wouldn want the particles themselves to become pollutants
and then dock with chemical receptors in another neuron to trigger a response. A'Smoking Gun'for Neurotransmitter Release In this latest research
At high concentrations, bacteria can be toxic in drinking water. But at lower levels virtually undetectable by current culturing techniques they can cause an ff flavor,
With drinking water, if there off flavor, even if the water isn toxic, you don want to drink it.
In addition to contamination of drinking water bacteria and other microbes can also contaminate rivers and lakes for example, the algal blooms in Hong kong.
#Bug-killing book pages clean murky drinking water A book with pages that can be torn out to filter drinking water has proved effective in its first field trials.
The resulting levels of contamination are similar to US tap water the researchers say. Tiny amounts of silver or copper also leeched into the water,
noting that 663 million people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water.""All you need to do is tear out a paper,
wells etc and out comes clean water-and dead bacteria as well, "she told BBC news. The bugs absorb silver
A book could filter one person's water supply for four years. Dr Dankovich had tested already the paper in the lab using artificially contaminated water.
but it also has shown success with real water sources that people are using.""One location gave the paper a particularly tough challenge."
"There was one site where there was literally raw sewage being dumped into the stream, which had very high levels of bacteria."
"There's a lot of interest in developing new products for point-of-use water treatment, "she told the BBC.
and on real water sources. Next, Dr Lantagne said, the team will need"a commercialisable, scalable product design"for a device that the pages slot into.
"Dr Kyle Doudrick studies sustainable water treatment at the University of Notre dame in Indiana. He agreed that the book system would be especially powerful
#The'drinkable book'saving lives A book with pages that can be torn out to filter drinking water has proved effective in its first field trials.
The resulting levels of contamination are similar to US tap water, the researchers say. Tiny amounts of silver or copper also leached into the water
noting that 663 million people around the world do not have access to clean drinking water.""All you need to do is tear out a paper,
wells etc and out comes clean water-and dead bacteria as well, "she told BBC news. The bugs absorb silver
A book could filter one person's water supply for four years. Instructions are printed on the book's pages,
but it also has shown success with real water sources that people are using.""One location gave the paper a particularly tough challenge."
"There was one site where there was literally raw sewage being dumped into the stream, which had very high levels of bacteria."
"There's a lot of interest in developing new products for point-of-use water treatment, "she told the BBC.
and on real water sources. Next, Dr Lantagne said, the team will need"a commercialisable, scalable product design"for a device that the pages slot into.
"Dr Kyle Doudrick studies sustainable water treatment at the University of Notre dame in Indiana. He agreed that the book system would be especially powerful
#New Nanoparticles Clean the Environment, Drinking water Nanoparticles are between 1 and 100 nanometers in size.
for filtering fresh drinking water, and much more. Now, researchers from MIT and the Federal University of Goias in Brazil have developed a new technique that uses ultraviolet (UV LIGHT to extract man-made pollutants from soil and water.
they developed the idea of using their discovery for water purification. How it works The nanoparticles are prepared from molecules (synthetic macromolecules commonly called plastics) that have a protective,
Current water purification infrastructures have UV irradiation systems optimized to kill bacteria, this irradiation is more than sufficient to precipitate our nanoparticles,
Harnessing nanoparticles in Africa Theresa Dankovich uses nanotechnology to purify drinking water in Africa. By filtering water through paper embedded with silver or copper nanoparticles,
One page can filter 26 gallons of drinking water; one book can filter a person water needs for four years.
Processes controlled by SCADA include water treatment and distribution electricity, heating, and, perhaps most worryingly, airplanes and trains.
An executive from a water company even wrote an open letter to Jay z, reminding him that it costs money.
has spurred changes to provincial environmental requirements for new mines with similar dams. Developed in collaboration between the ministries of environment and mines,
"On Aug 4, 2014, the massive dam storing tailings from the gold and copper mine gave way,
and reduce the risk of a dam failure. Potential risks The Environmental assessment Office will evaluate tailings management options
The investigation started weeks after the mine's tailings pond dam collapsed. The report concluded the construction of the mine's tailings dam foundation on a sloping glacial lake deposit amounted to loading a gun and pulling the trigger.
Energy and Mines Minister Bill Bennett immediately ordered inspectors to check on similar dam foundations throughout the province.
Mining in B c. There are 98 permitted tailings storage facilities at 60 B c. mines. A spokesperson for Imperial Metals was unavailable for comment.
president of the Mining Association of British columbia, said her industry knew the investigation into the dam's collapse would inevitably mean regulatory
The only full bathroom, with a shower, is on the first floor. The second floor is a loft space with six bedrooms, each with a bed, desk and chair.
We were able to uniformly populate our nanowire array with S. ovata using buffered brackish water with trace vitamins as the only organic component.
"In the future, we could potentially use these micromotors as part of a water treatment system, like a water decarbonation plant,"said Kevin Kaufmann,
as when viewed from the ground the shower seems to come from a focal point, known as a radiant, in the constellation.
since 2007 that the shower has coincided with a new moon, offering the best visibility of the light show.
The shower is active from around 17 july to 24 august but peaks between late evening on Wednesday and Thursday morning. i
and sinks of exospheric helium and argon that have remained unanswered for four decadesdr Benna said. hese discoveries highlight the limitations of current exospheric models and the need for more sophisticated ones in the future.
By doing this, the Robobee is able to crash into the water in a controlled way and sink.'
#New Building material Twice as Strong as Concrete, Low Carbon footprint Watershed Materials, a California-based building materials technology startup, has developed technology to produce high-strength masonry with a low carbon footprint
In place of these materials, Watershed Materialstechnology activates globally abundant natural clay-based minerals to form strong geopolymer reactions.
Applications for Watershed Materials geopolymer technology include: Mass production of sustainable masonry made from locally sourced,
#Wastewater treatment Captures Carbon emissions, Produces Energy A wastewater treatment process developed by engineers at the University of Colorado Boulder mitigates carbon dioxide emissions and actively captures greenhouse gases.
The treatment method, known as microbial electrolytic carbon capture (MECC), purifies wastewater by using an electrochemical reaction that absorbs more CO2 than it releases
Wastewater treatment typically produces CO2 EMISSIONS in two ways: the fossil fuels burned to power the machinery, and the decomposition of organic material within the wastewater itself.
Plus, existing wastewater treatment technologies consume high amounts of energy. Public utilities in the US treat an estimated 12 trillion gallons of municipal wastewater each year
and consume about 3 percent of the nation grid energy. Existing carbon capture technologies are energy-intensive and often entail costly transportation and storage procedures.
MECC uses the natural conductivity of saline wastewater to facilitate an electrochemical reaction that is designed to absorb CO2 from both the water and the air.
The process transforms CO2 into stable mineral carbonates and bicarbonates that can be used as raw materials by the construction industry,
used as a chemical buffer in the wastewater treatment cycle itself or used to counter acidity downstream from the process such as in the ocean.
The findings offer the possibility that wastewater could be treated effectively on-site without the risks or costs typically associated with disposal.
A carbon-negative wastewater treatment system could benefit power companies, the authors say, as the EPA Clean Power Plan requires power plants to comply with reduced CO2 EMISSION levels e
This work addresses key growing dimensions including GHG emission reduction, water management, and soil quality in an effort to establish more climate resilient farms.
clean water to be used for plant processes and solid-based fertilizer. The electric power needed to run the digester
Riverside engineers is the key component of a swimsuit that won an international design competition for its ability to clean water as a person swims.
since they do not have access to clean water. A recent discovery in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center (TTUHSC) research laboratory may make it possible to reduce the number of infections from this disease.
#Colorado river is contaminated after mine cleanup goes wrong Workers from an environmental protection team have caused accidentally an environmental disaster releasing millions of litres of toxic wastewater into a river in Colorado.
There is no running water onboard. Armbands placed underneath their suits will buzz if the plane isn't flying level.
but other options such as using grey water rather than potable water in cooling towers can also deliver savings,
however, that they cannot currently test drinking water because an additional regulatory requirement to detect"culturable organisms"(organisms that can grow
getting clean water may soon be as simple as opening a book and ripping a page out.
when filtering water containing high amounts of bacteria from recently-dumped raw sewage. While some of the silver and copper particles do leach into the clean water,
Dankovich says that the levels are well below Environmental protection agency and World health organization limits. Theresa is now planning on further field studies,
such as water purification, food packaging and children toys s
#Boron-doped graphene to enable ultrasensitive gas sensors As an atom-thick, two-dimensional material with high conductivity,
#This Book Could Save Lives By Purifying Drinking water Over 500,000 children die every year from unclean drinking water that over 1, 400 children a day according to Wateraid UK.
And though access to clean drinking water is essential, 650 million people are currently living without it.
The book purifies drinking water and has the potential to revolutionize access to clean water. The concept is quite simple.
People tear out a page from the book, slide it into a filter box and pour water through it.
which is comparable to tap water in the U s, . even in highly contaminated water sources where raw sewage has been dumped.
Sisters collecting untreated water from a dam. Wateraid/Nyani Quarmyne. started off with proof of concept experiments in the lab where it the Drinkable Book showed a lot of promise.
Then I went on field studies, where people are drinking dirty water on a regular basis and getting sick from it, Dr Theresa Dankovich,
Dankovich trialed the Drinkable Book in South africa, Ghana and Bangladesh and quickly realized the importance of finding a design that is culturally relevant to the communities who are need in of clean drinking water. ne of the assumptions
The Drinkable Book not only purifies drinking water, but also contains instructions in each page to educate people about safe water habits.
So, finding water filters in general could be quite hard, even if it fairly cheap, because we need suppliers willing to distribute it,
solar-powered mobile phone network for use in disasters like floods and earthquakes when regular communications are disrupted often.
One of the first actions that disaster-response teams will take is to provide safe drinking water by setting up a sanitation system,
"Even more than food, you need clean water, "Milzman said. UNICEF is helping to pay for water tanks in areas where people are said congregating,
Tidey. Top 10 Deadliest Natural disasters in History The organization is also providing people with oral rehydration salts
Other prominent showers include the Leonids (in November) and the Quadrantids (in January) u
#'Exercise Hormone'Irisin Really Does Exist The"exercise hormone"irisin has generated controversy among scientists some say it's produced
"There was one site where there was literally raw sewage being dumped into the stream, which had very high levels of bacteria,
"With more than 660 million people without access to clean drinking water, using the pages of the Drinkable Book as a simple filter could have instant impact.
Presence of high concentration of fluoride in water reservoirs, specially in drinking water, results in serious hygiene concerns.
or drinking water, reducing the cost of raw materials and increasing the rate of separation of sorbents from the sorbed pollutants in the liquid phase e
which may have applications in water purification and elsewhere. For some years, Huaqiang Zeng of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology has led a team aiming to produce tubular molecules that could pipe water across membranes.
and derivative molecules, may become ext-generation nanofiltration membranes for water purification applications, including seawater desalination and wastewater reclamation.
He says that osmotic agents often have to be at concentrations exceeding 100 millimolar to drive water movement in forward osmosis nanofiltration. f a proton gradient is used as the driving force instead,
Meni Wanunu, an assistant professor of physics at Northeastern University, says the group work with graphene membranes may significantly improve on commercial membranes used for water purification,
preventing fracking chemicals from contaminating drinking water supplies. Although fracking has unlocked new fuel sources and slashed energy prices, there is a risk that toxic compounds in the fracking fluid can get into shallow aquifers via fractures in the bedrock.
#MIT Invention Turns Salt water Into Drinking water Using Solar power From plants to people, every living thing on this planet needs water.
and municipalities with less money and clout are having to turn to even more inventive methods to get clean water without breaking the bank.
#Nose-Like Biosensor Sniffs Out Stinky Drinking water Electronic noses can detect bugs, disease or even explosives.
Now scientists have applied similar technology to detecting contaminated drinking water, according to a study published recently in the journal Biosensors and Bioelectronics.
But the resulting drinking water is almost never pure H2o; even the most potable water contains a cocktail of dissolved chemicals that give it a unique flavor
or cause slight variations in its ph. Researchers have found that the human nose is very sensitive to two molecules that often slip through the treatment process:
whether these molecules are in drinking water, a process that is expensive and time-consuming. A team of South korean researchers has developed a simple sensor based on the human nose to sniff out the smelly molecules.
and lasting the effects of the mountainslow snowpack levels will be on urban and agricultural water supplies, hydroelectric power,
one California vineyard-owner has taken a DIY approach to creating a sensor-driven water conservation system.
The THAWT (Transverse Horizontal Axis Water turbine) technology by contrast, is designed for deployment in shallower, lower velocity, tidal waters.
If the number of zinc ions increases following transient severe brain damage, these ions dock in greater numbers onto a switch, the so-called metal-regulatory transcription factor 1 (MTF1.
#This new technology converts sea water into drinking water in minutes Purifying dirty water is a notoriously difficult and expensive process-even in California, financial pressures affect
and condensed back into clean water. Crucially, the membranes can be made in any lab using cheap materials that are available locally,
it's capable of removing sewage and dirt from it too. The researchers combined expertise in oceanography, chemical engineering, agricultural engineering and biosystems engineering to come up with the solution
some 750 million people across the globe don't have access to clean drinking water, a problem that's responsible for around 840,000 deaths every year-more than the entire population of San francisco o
all the water you can see pouring out in the video isn't being wasted-it's being fed straight back into the system for irrigation, drinking water, swimming pools,
the summer months on Mars see a shallow subsurface flow of briny water coming down from the planet's canyons and crater walls.
or monitoring toxins in the water supply,"says Brennan.""There are hundreds of possibilities
#Future electronics based on carbon nanotubes First of all they are tiny--on the atomic scale and perhaps near the physical limit of how small you can shrink a single electronic switch.
Every once in a while, however, a pro-growth-hormone molecule docks at a receptor on the surface, setting off a cascade of biochemical events inside the cell."
"We were able to uniformly populate our nanowire array with S. ovata using buffered brackish water with trace vitamins as the only organic component."
#Engineers purify sea and wastewater in 2. 5 minutes The System PQUA, works with a mixture of dissociating elements,
The treated water is transported to a container where ozone is added to ensure its purity, and finally is ready to drink.
"We have done over 50 tests on different types of wastewater and all have been certified and authorized by the laboratories of the Mexican Accreditation agency (EMA).
and then dock with chemical receptors in another neuron to trigger a response. Arrayin this latest research, the scientists found that when the SNARES and synaptotagmin-1 join up
soil and water conservation, and integrated disease and pest management. Financial training focused on record keeping,
Enhancing the mobility of liquid droplets on rough surfaces has applications ranging from condensation heat transfer for heat exchangers in power plants to more efficient water harvesting in arid regions where collecting fog droplets on coated meshes provides drinking water
and the costs would therefore sink. Dr. Stefan Facsko from the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) and Dr. Xin Ou from the Shanghai Institute of Microsystem and Information technology (SIMIT), Chinese Academy of Sciences, have demonstrated now a method
The researchers also compared energy levels in boutons--the docks from which neurotransmitters are shipped--with and without mitochondria.
including the 2014'Best New Product of the Year'from S-lab and the 2012 Institute of Chemical engineering Award for Water management and Supply.
or sewage can be a tedious, time-consuming process. Also, each family of bacteriophages can have a different genome organization
One page from this rinkable bookcan potentially filter up to 100 litres of drinking water and may provide a cheap, sustainable solution for communities suffering from severe sanitation problems.
with inadequate hygiene practices also leading to the growth of harmful organisms in water supplies, such as Escherichia coli.
according to Dankovich. aw sewage was just being dumped into it, she said. The filter pages were able to bring the level of E coli in treated water down to less than 10 colony-forming units (CFU) per 100ml from an initial value of approximately 200
000 CFU per 100 ml. Further field testing campaigns with the nonprofit organisation, WATERISLIFE, in northern Ghana and Bangladesh suggest that the silver-doped paper can remove up to 99.9%of the E coli bacteria present in a sample.
and the water is safe to drink. ny efforts to provide clean safe drinking water to communities for which it is lacking,
says Michelle Chang. e were able to uniformly populate our nanowire array with S. ovata using buffered brackish water with trace vitamins as the only organic component.
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