Indoor farms are bringing the change! đ
Based in Appalachia, Kentucky, AppHarvetâs cutting edge indoor farms have delivered their first harvest of tomatoes to grocery stores.
WowâŠeven I was amazed by these stats and timeline⊠and I am an unapologetic optimist and futurist who wants to live forever lol.
This video is a synopsis of our research report âRethinking Energy 2020â2030: 100% Solar, Wind, and Batteries is Just the Beginningâ that was published on October 27th, 2020 and is available for download free of charge from our RethinkX website https://www.rethinkx.com/energy.
Things we already know: The world is growing uncomfortably warm due to humanityâs insistence on burning fossil fuels. Elon Musk is currently the wealthiest human on the planet. Yet for being among the wealthiest people on the planet, Muskâs philanthropic track record over the years has been paltry compared to the likes of Jeff Bezos. So, yeah, it did come as a bit of a surprise on Thursday when the Tesla CEO took to Twitter to announce that he plans to donate $100 million as a prize towards a winning carbon capture system.
Am donating $100M towards a prize for best carbon capture technologyâ Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 212021
Details on Muskâs upcoming carbon capture competition have not been released but are expected to arrive ânext week.â This is not the first time that a company has sought the publicâs help with carbon capture technology, which seeks to pull this element from the atmosphere and squirrel it away to help slow the rate of human-induced climate change. In 2018, X-Prize held a similar competition and awarded five finalist teams a share of its $20 million grand prize. But with a $100 million purse on the line, Muskâs competition will not only offer five times the funding as X-Prize, itâll also constitute his single-largest philanthropic investment to date (10 times the amount of his second-largest donations so far). Of course, this is far from the first effort to collect and convert atmospheric CO2 into consumer products.
The DMC DeLorean has been out of production for almost 40 years, but now weâve learned that the iconic vehicle might be coming back as an electric car.
The DMC DeLorean was the only vehicle produced by John DeLoreanâs DeLorean Motor Company (DMC).
It became famous for being featured in the âBack to the Futureâ series of movies, but it is also a well-known vehicle in the industry for a few reasons.
Alibaba is one of the best places around to find the coolest and sometimes weirdest electric vehicles in the world. As part of a new series known as Awesomely weird Alibaba electric vehicle of the week, weâre taking a look at some of our favorites.
This weekâs feature is a small-yet-mighty electric pickup truck designed for utility and off-road usage, though it may even be street legal as an NEV in the US.
If the proportions look at bit odd on this electric pickup truck, thatâs because they are.
âThis is the first study to use pressure to control this stability, and it really opens up a lot of possibilities,â Yu Lin, researcher at the Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences (SIMES), said in a statement.
âNow that weâve found this optimal way to prepare the material, thereâs potential for scaling it up for industrial production, and for using this same approach to manipulate other perovskite phases,â Lin added.
The âblackâ phase, the one successfully stabilized by the scientists, of perovskite has intrigued scientists for years since it has been found to be extremely efficient in converting sunlight to electricity, making it the Holy Grail for solar panel technology.
Hyundai Motor Spain has launched a campaign featuring brand ambassador and sportswoman Mireia Belmonte, which tests out Hyundai NEXOâs clean hydrogen fuel-cell technology.
Advanced optoelectronics require materials with newly engineered characteristics. Examples include a class of materials named metal-halide perovskites that have tremendous significance to form perovskite solar cells with photovoltaic efficiencies. Recent advances have also applied perovskite nanocrystals in light-emitting devices. The unusually efficient light emission of cesium lead-halide perovskite may be due to a unique excitonic fine structure made of three bright triplet states that minimally interact with a proximal dark singlet state. Excitons are electronic excitations responsible for the emissive properties of nanostructured semiconductors, where the lowest-energy excitonic state is expected to be long lived and hence poorly emitting (or âdarkâ).
In a new report now published in Science Advances, Albert Liu and a team of scientists in physics and chemistry at the University of Michigan, U.S., and Campinas State University, Brazil, used multidimensional coherent spectroscopy at cryogenic (ultra-cold) temperatures to study the fine structure without isolating the cube-shaped single nanocrystals. The work revealed coherences (wave properties relative to space and time) involving the triplet states of a cesium lead-iodide (CsPbI3) nanocrystal ensemble. Based on the measurements of triplet and inter-triplet coherences, the team obtained a unique exciton fine structure level ordering composed of a dark state, energetically positioned within the bright triplet manifold.
New technique could significantly reduce emissions and provide a boost to the aviation industry.
