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and emit a different electromagnetic signal when monitored with a reader. We can tailor our sensor to be extremely sensitive to the change of the dielectric property,
In this sense, photosynthesis is like a badly connected electrical grid, #Jones said. She s studying ways to use biological nanowires to transfer the extra energy from the light-harvesting cell into another cell that s genetically engineered to produce fuel or food.
The nanowires would be analogous to electrical transmission lines, distributing power from one part of the grid to another.
so long as they interface with the wires developed in this project, paving the way for hybrid biological/inorganic photosynthetic systems,
#MIT creates solar panels from leaves and grass Photosynthesizing Solar cells Andreas Mershin, a researcher at MIT, has created solar panels from agricultural waste such as cut grass and dead leaves.
Mershin says in a few years it will be possible to stir some grass clippings into a bag of cheap chemicals,
and immediately start producing electricity. If you remember high school biology classes, you will hopefully remember a process called photosynthesis,
and turn it into electricity, and the nanowires carry the electricity away. In essence, Mershin has replaced the layer of silicon in conventional photovoltaic cells with a slurry of photosynthesizing molecules.
It s like an electric nanoforest,#he says. So far so good#now time for the reality check.
At the moment, even with the efficiency-boosting nanoforest, Mershin s solar panel only has an efficiency of 0. 1%.To be of any use#to power more than a single LED light from an entire house covered in these cheap solar panels#an efficiency of 1
or 2%is required. With such a low barrier to entry though, Mershin hopes that scientists the world over can now work on boosting the efficiency.
Ultimately the goal is to create a cheap plastic bag that comes pre-filled with the necessary chemicals,
and ultimately leading to insulin resistance, the underlying causes of obesity and diabetes. Added sugar, more so than the fructose in fiber-rich fruit
and nitrogen oxides (nitrogen oxides are emitted into the atmosphere during high temperature combustion, for example by combustion of fossil fuels by motor vehicles and in coal fired power plants).
containing resistance to different varieties of herbicide. It s hoped it will overcome this resistance by dousing crops with two different herbicides,
each targeting weeds that are resistant to the other, and the corn being resistant to both.
as plants develop resistance to high doses of herbicide. I ll leave it to Philpott and his eloquent exposition of why, ultimately,
Resistance to new technology is again hurting the people who nothing to do with climate change happening,
Electric pumps send water up the stands based on a timing system that can be customized for each pod.
but little true innovation Transportation At CES, Ford motor Company unveiled its first-ever zero emissions, electric passenger vehicle, following in the footsteps of Tesla and Nissan.
I happen to be a big fan of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVS) and already own an AR Drone.
Wireless Power The transmission of electrical energy without unsightly power lines has long been the dream of Tesla fans and science fiction writers.
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers predicted that autonomous cars would account for up to 75 percent of vehicles on the road by the year 2040.
By 2050, there has been a near-complete transition from electric to binary power (where two
the cost of solar photovoltaics in sun belt countries would have dropped to just QAR0. 2-0. 39 per kilo watt hours clean electricity is already very affordable in 2050.
As we apply new molecular scale technologies to solar panels the cost per watt is coming down rapidly.
Already Deutsche bank, in a recent report, wrote#oethe cost of unsubsidized solar power is about the same as the cost of electricity from the grid in India and Italy.
By 2014 even more countries will achieve solar grid parity.##The total number of watts of electricity produced by solar energy is growing exponentially,
doubling every two years. It is now less than seven doublings from 100%.%Similar approaches will address other resource needs.
Colorado has become an entrepreneurial powerhouse. The high-tech startup culture has given Boulder a prosperous economy without the help of oil, natural gas,
Boulder is an entrepreneurial powerhouse like no other. In 2010, the city had six times more high-tech start-ups per capita than the nation s average, according to an August 2013 study by the Kauffman Foundationand twice as many per capita as runner-up San jose-Sunnyvale in California.
Everything from MRI magnets to fiber optics and LCD screens needs the element (which has the lowest boiling point of any other material On earth) to function,
his English has no accent aside from a certain absence of inflection#he bright, electric chatter of a processor in overdrive.#
Its Firebird III concept car#haped like a jet fighter, with titanium tail fins and a glass-bubble cockpit#as designed to run on a test track embedded with an electrical cable,
they spiked the track with magnets, alternating their polarity in binary patterns to send messages to the car#oeslow down, sharp curve ahead.#
#oewhy would we invest in putting wires in the road?##Smart cars were more flexible but also more complex.
#Carbon-negative energy now a reality In 2007, officials from Berkeley, California shut off the electricity to an artists space known as the Shipyard.
000 machines and you get fully clean energy at less than 10 cents a kilowatt hour, a fraction of
while many energy sources in the developing world can cost 50 or 60 cents per kilowatt hour,
Similarly, startups are generating electricity with the machines in Liberia, and Italian farmers are buying them because that country offers lucrative incentives to produce renewable power.
For now, All Power Labs is making only 10 kw and 20 kw versions though the US Department of energy and the University of Minnesota recently gave the company a grant to build a 100 kw version.
And while the system can t convert every form of biomass, Price said that one of the company s biggest aims is to make it possible to use any organic material.
A small Photo Voltaic solar panel provides power for the micro controller, sensors, various valves, etc.
the Ecoloblue 30, only requires 300 Watts to operate efficiently, and is designed to work with PV solar panels and batteries,
to continually generate water even in emergency situations. It will generate between 1-3 Gallons Water/day depending on the humidity conditions and sun conditions.
and weather conditions soon. 3. Wireless Electricity The notion of wireless electric power has been around far longer than one might think:
Nikola Tesla might have perfected the technology a century ago if he had not been poor, unlucky, and kind of crazy.
Companies like Witricity are at work developing electric#oehubs#that can power your entire house. Their prototype is called#oeprodigy
and two objects resonating with such a frequency can easily transfer electricity between them, even at some distance and even if the objects are metal.
Maglev trains levitate above the track, suspended by an electromagnetic field. And while the Japanese model is impressive,
namely, wind resistance. To be fair, eliminating this factor doesn t so much up the ante as it blows up the entire house containing the card table.
Musk s Spacex and Tesla Motors, which he launched after cashing out of first billion-dollar idea,
#and he and the dozen Spacex and Tesla Motors engineers amped up the effort. They modeled,
which would represent more investment than Tesla and Spacex combined, he added.##oeobviously I have to focus on core Tesla business and Spacex business,
and that s more than enough,#Musk told reporters on an Aug 7 Tesla Motors conference call.##oei did commit to publishing a design
and provide quite a detailed design, but I don t have any plan to execute because I must remain focused on Spacex and Tesla.#
#He did hedge in a conference call after the Hyperloop report s release, saying, #oei think it might help if
A high-drag shape, according to his numbers, showed less resistance than something more streamlined. He found the mistake:
no rolling resistance-that could hit 14,000 mph taking passengers from New york to Los angeles in 21 minutes.
As with ET3, Hyperloop s minimizing air resistance and recapture of acceleration energy makes it hugely efficient.
a 57-megawatt solar array atop the Hyperloop route would produce more than twice the average power needed to run the system, Musk estimates.
While providing all but resistance-free travel, vacuums kill. As pressure drops, so does the boiling point,
This perfectly illustrates the growing paranoia associated with UAVS (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) often referred to as drones.
) The Octane from Volt Aerial Robotics (voltaerialrobotics. com) The Octane multirotor drone weighs 4 lbs
and 30 minutes flight range. 5.)AIMQ by DMZ Aerial (dmzaerial. com) DMZ Aerial s Aerial Intelligence Modified Quadcopter,
Inc. and Boulder Labs Inc. have collaborated on developing an autonomous aerial drone with multispectral cameras to capture high-resolution images of row crop.
8.)Pure water doesn t conduct electricity well. The reason we can get shocked when standing in electrified water is
and other things that will conduct electricity. Source: USGS). 9.)Frogs or toads won t give you warts,
#Sahara Forest Project multi-technology synergy to grow food in the desert Revegetation and creation of green jobs through profitable production of food, freshwater, biofuels and electricity.
Oil exploration drone used in Norway Aerial drone technology is advancing exponentially and much of
what it is today#rovided farmers gain access to things like capital, electricity, and irrigation.
by encouraging liberal use of glyphosate, were spurring the evolution of herbicide resistance in many weeds.
But herbicide resistance is a problem for farmers regardless of whether they plant GM CROPS. Some 64 weed species are resistant to the herbicide atrazine, for example,
which slowed the development of resistance. They also controlled weeds through ploughing and tilling#practices that deplete topsoil and release carbon dioxide,
but do not encourage resistance. The GM CROPS allowed growers to rely almost entirely on glyphosate,
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Initially, Willow will be used as a coating for products like solar panels, but it is expected eventually to create curved products.
Eco-plastic has been used to craft these pots that stick to the wall with the help of neodymium magnets.
and develop resistance to those bacteria killers. Pew crunched another new set of data, the FDA s latest release of results from its National Antimicrobial Resistance Monitoring System,
or NARMS, which buys samples of meat products and subjects them to testing for bacterial pathogens.
#¢Resistance to tetracycline an antibiotic is up among Campylobacter on retail chicken. About 95%of chicken products were contaminated with Campylobacter,
We chose to use electric stimulation. I used myself as the test subject to develop the scale we re using on this.
They wouldn t touch the electrodes. I m just a dumb biologist so#Diagram showing how directional virtual fencing operates.
then the electrodes that are in the device will send an electrical stimulation. In terms of what those stimulations felt like to me,
and stopping your gas-powered lawnmower by grabbing the spark plug barehanded. What we did was cannibalize a Hotshot that some people buy
It s the 747s combined with the spark plug. Now, back from your eighth-grade geometry, you know that you have an acute angle
and after an audio plus electric stimulation cue from a directional virtual fencing device. The cue was delivered at 0653 h. The second spike was not due to DVF cues;
In twenty years from now#somewhere in this century, at least#after the ethical and moral issues have been worked out, instead of stimulating animals with external audio sound or electrical stimulation,
and they have had electrical stimulation there before, do they associate that rock or whatever with a limit boundary?
there have been published studies showing that for a number of days following removal of an electric fence,
#oekill-A-Watt#meters to measure home appliance electric use#Offered at the Scarborough Public library in Maine.
such as blocks, magnets, and other shapes. For parents of children on the autism scale, the library recently hosted a forum of autism experts who spoke about early identification and intervention of autism spectrum disorders.#
and hover midair when tethered to a power supply. The details were published in the journal Science.
I think about all of the vacant rooms in all of the hotels across the world that are wasting electricity by excessively cooling rooms that nobody is in.
The electrical bills for these hotels must be astounding. In addition, it annoys me as a customer to spend my first hour in a hotel room freezing my butt off.
I want and the hotel has saved money on electricity by not cooling the room to arctic levels.
Recently, more and more studies have focused on pairing solar panels and wind turbines with greenhouses to provide self-generated renewable electricity on-site.
But the single technology that will be key to making vertical farms possible is lighting. New LED light technology is the key that makes it possible to build vertically integrated farms.
and using a lower supply voltage (6-24v) that makes it safer to work with
and even pest and disease resistance. There is potential for these multifunctional techno-greenhouses built around LED grow lights to increase the quality of the food we eat
Space Based Power stations The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) recently announced its 25-year plan to build the world s first 1-gigawatt power plant in space.
when it comes to providing a steady supply of clean energy for electric vehicles. So, designer Neville Mars has conceived of an incredible EV charging station that takes the form of an evergreen glade of solar trees.
A booming tech start-up economy and a thriving arts and restaurant scene have helped this old Civil war tourist magnet do something that places across the USA have been trying to do for decades:
D c. They re 20-something magnets that don t just survive but thrive. Among those with the highest ratio, several are old-fashioned cities such as Charleston,
MILLENNIAL MAGNETS Some cities have become strong magnets for young adults. For cities over 100,000 people, ratio shows the number of people ages 20 to 29 for every 100 teens.
#New water desalination technology makes ocean water drinkable New method devised using a small electrical field that will remove the salt from seawater.
Chemists with the University of Texas and the University of Marburg have devised a method of using a small electrical field that will remove the salt from seawater.
the researchers apply a small voltage (3. 0 volts) to a plastic chip filled with seawater.
At the junction of the channel an embedded electrode neutralizes some of the chloride ions in seawater to create an ion depletion zone that increases the local electric field compared with the rest of the channel.
This change in the electric field is sufficient to redirect salts into one branch, allowing desalinated water to pass through the other branch.
#Tesla is driving the new Purpose Economy Tesla, the electric car company, is slowly reshaping how people think about driving.
Here s what Tesla is doing. The Purpose Economy is about more than just profits; it s about creating meaningful impact in service of people and the planet.
Spacex, and Tesla Motors. He has built successfully a number of companies, but more importantly, he has moved markets.
For this reason alone, Tesla would have to focus on the luxury end of the market.
Tesla s cars are designed and built for the Google or Apple executive. The Apple headquarters boast more Teslas than a Tesla showroom.
Early buyers were not price-sensitive and placed a premium on service and design. Tesla identified their innovator customer segment
and focused their energies on selling and servicing them in unique ways. For example, Tesla understood the busy schedules of their customers,
and had their service technicians visit owners for maintenance appointments rather than forcing them to sit waiting in a garage.
Tesla was reporting a profit, and the Model S had become the third best-selling luxury car, behind only the Mercedes E Class and BMW 5 Series.
and Google executives driving a Tesla, they want to be the first in their city and among their peer group to drive one.
Tesla has opened now showrooms around the world in affluent communities, moving beyond California and the innovators to the next segment of the adoption curve.
Tesla is building a network of car superchargers so that owners can drive coast-to-coast without range anxiety.
Tesla is covering the cost of the power for these stations. However, that is as far as Tesla has gone.
The next segment it needs to reach is the early majoritywho can move the company from a niche car manufacturer into a global powerhouse.
When compared to the early adopters, the early majority is pragmatic, less affluent, and more risk-averse.
Tesla is not going to be able to sell their current product to the early majority with much success;
Tesla won t succeed just by selling electric cars. They need to grow the overall electric vehicle market.
They need to remove barriers for their competitors so they can join them in moving away from gas-fueled cars.
To this end, Tesla now sells their patented powertrain components to competitors. They are concerned less about the competition taking up market share than building the market
Musk and his team at Tesla have accelerated actually the development of technology for the market.
Tesla s success has created further hope for electric cars and spurred investment in research and development. Musk s initial customers were largely in Silicon valley
These more risk-averse groups will need power stations all around them and ultimately it will need to be easier than owning a gas fueled car.
But if Musk sluxury cars for the tech-elite strategy works, it will ultimately allow Musk to sell electric-powered sedans and minivans to families in Ohio.
Secondary Opportunity Maximizers Micro Grid Conversion Over the coming years, the national electric grid will be broken into a series of micro grids.
for example, confer resistance to disease or drought. That s why you have to collect everything.
Marlin and Loretta s farm operates using a small amount of off-grid electricity to run the aeroponic Tower Garden towers
partly due to politicians reluctance to interfere at the dinner table, the powerful influence of farming and food lobbies and a large gap in public awareness of
It contrasts government reluctance to act on diets with strong action to limit smoking. Although diet is a more diverse issue than smoking,
Electricity grid operators knew hours before the Northeast power failure at 4 p m. on August 14 2003 that things were going badly.
and a grid operator who was unable to require necessary flexibility from market-based electricity providers.
With three aging power plants shut down the day before the conditions were ripe for trouble. When an overloaded power line sagged from excess heat
and touched a tree limb it short-circuited that was at 2 p m . and occurred south of Cleveland.
Recent Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) orders address parochial boundaries that limit flexibility and improve electricity transfers and cooperation across boundaries.
While much of the attention and controversy about interregional cooperation in the electric utility sector is focused on long-term planning for new transmission
The power grid systems not a shortage of power plants are the problem. Take a look at the 13 major power outages that have occurred across the globe over the years
because we aren't building enough power plants. Only one of the outages July 2012 in India was due to more electricity demand than could be supplied by existing resources.
In the industrialized economies of North america andeurope people more often lose power due to a subtle and difficult challenge:
the electrical grid is prone to system failures and needs modernization. For decades the concern over power-grid reliability focused on ensuring that an adequate number of power plants were built.
And yet today most of the policy attention the financial needs and advanced planning are devoted to building enormous new power plants.
This is a holdover from past decades when growth in electricity use was high and the time it took to build a power plant was growing.
But when one looks at what has caused major blackouts insufficient power plants was only a factor in the India example where people are being added to the Age of Electricity
and services gradually reach more communities. In North america and Europe we have a different set of concerns.
Load growth is barely 1 percent per year and governments have made significant investments in new generation
When reviewed everyone feels assured that the power supply is large enough to meet demand or that the investments are coming
Unfortunately it is unexpected disturbances usually on the wires that cause almost every blackout. Storms droughts and fires knock out whole sections of the system;
While the attention of utilities and politicians has been on the largest power plants the practices for running the system were neglected in 2003.
Coordination and better information rather than more old-fashioned power plants are demonstrated the need that could provide more reliable power-grid systems.
Four key transmission lines were taken offline in previous days. Midsummer demand in the north exceeded local supply making the imports and transfers from the west vital.
Excessive demand tripped a transmission line. Within seconds ten additional transmission lines tripped. Conditions and failure repeated again the following day.
A review found poor coordination of outages and regional support agreements. June 2012 Derecho: Windstorm damaged trees and equipment cut power to approximately 4. 2 million customers across 11 Midwest and Mid-atlantic states and the District of columbia.
A record early snowstorm brought down trees and wires. Outage restoration could only follow the removal of snow and fallen trees.
and a leaky transformer could not handle the resulting flows. A section of the city and southern suburbs totaling 250000 customers were without power from 6: 30 p m. to 7 p m
. when electricity providers arranged for alternate circuits. August 14 2003 Northeastern U s. and Ontario: A transmission system failed for many reasons all ones that people had seen in major outages years before.
Underlying lower voltage lines overloaded. Soon lightning struck a second 345-kv line. Cascading transmission line disconnections continued until the entire northern Midwest was separated from the Eastern power grid forming three isolated islands with power. 52000 people in the upper Midwest Ontario Manitoba
and Saskatchewan saw outages of up to 19 hours. July 2-3 1996 West Coast: The transmission outage began
Then a protective device on a parallel transmission line incorrectly tripped. Other relays tripped two Wyoming coal plants.
Through the afternoon five power lines in Oregon and nearby Washington short-circuited on trees. This tripped-off 13 hydro-power turbines operated by BPA at Mcnary Dam on the Columbia river.
Sprouts are unobtrusive little nutritional powerhouses so you can easily add them to your favorite healthy wrap
they suspect the seeming pathogen resistance could be due to the fact that European bats have adapted to the pathogen
Potatoes Potatoes have been blamed for increasing blood glucose levels insulin resistance excess weight and Type 2 diabetes.
or electric vehicles powered by renewable sources. You can also do simple things like turning off lights
and short-circuit a quick fuse.</</p><p>Counting distracts your mind which buys you a little time to distance your emotions from the person or situation that'
#Antarctica Glacier's Retreat'Unprecedented'Like a plug in a leaky dam little Pine Island Glacier holds back part of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet
Pine Island Glacier's small ice shelf a platform of ice floating on the ocean's surface acts as a plug holding the rest of the ice stream in place on land.
and the evolution of resistance to pests offers critical data for scientists as they breed
#Bees Get a Buzz from Flowers'Electrical Fields Everyone knows that bees buzz around flowers in their quest for nectar.
But scientists have learned now that flowers are buzzing right back with electricity. Plants generally have a negative electrical charge
and emit a weak electrical signal according to researchers at the University of Bristol in England.
And scientists have known for years that bees'flapping wings create a positive electrical charge of up to 200 volts as they flit from flower to flower according to a news release.
But can the bees detect flowers'electrical charge? While animals like sharks are known to sense electrical fields nobody had ever found that an insect could do the same Scientificamerican reports.
To test the bees'sensitivity researchers filled a room with artificial flowers: Half of the flowers were charged electrically
and carried a sugary reward while the other half had no charge and a bitter solution of quinine.
and to not waste their energy visiting flowers with no electrical charge. But when the electrical charges were switched off the bees once again visited flowers randomly suggesting that they had been reacting to the electrical charges.
The 10 Weirdest Animal Discoveries Animals are just constantly surprising us as to how good their senses are Dominic Clarke lead author of the study published in journal Science told the BBC.
In addition to their electrical charge and alluring fragrance flowers display bright colors and research has found that bees see colors three times faster than humans.
So flowers the researchers confirmed emit a different electrical signal after their nectar has been harvested. They found that petunias became slightly more positively charged after a bee visited them according to Scientificamerican.
That revised electrical charge acts as a kind of No Vacancy sign to other bees which learn to trust the signals that the flowers emit.
How do bees sense an electrical charge? Researchers aren't sure but they suspect the fuzzy hairs on bees'bodies bristle up under an electrostatic force just like human hair in front of a television screen.
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