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American scientist and best-selling #scifi author David Brin predicts what our world would like in the year 2050. Read it on our #Earth2050 platform:
By 2040, the international community has concluded that using nonrenewable resources is irrational. The first kind of asteroid to be mined was of the carbonaceous variety, to get water that can keep astronauts alive, or be used to create rocket fuel. Later, explorers prospected dozens of other varieties of asteroids with suitable iron, nickel, cobalt, platinoid, and rare-earth element deposits. Odyssey is the first ever space base focused on mining these minerals.
The station was launched in 2049. Because of magnetic storms and drastic changes in temperature, the main part of the base had to be built several meters below the asteroid’s surface. Almost all work on the base was automated. Small teams of engineers and technicians needed for station management stay for 6-month shifts. Using solar mirrors, they melt and refine precious metal ores and blow them into gleaming bubbles that can safely descend through Earth’s atmosphere to float in the ocean, for collection. The iron is used for construction in space.
Are made up of many thin layers of semiconductor. An injected electron makes a small energy transition as it moves from one layer to the next, emitting light on each cascade. Because the energy steps are small, quantum cascade lasers can produce long-wavelength mid-infrared or terahertz radiation.
Jul 13, 2019
The Internet May Be Underwater in 15 Years
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: energy, internet
Rising seas imperil the delicate web of cables and power stations that control the internet.
Jul 11, 2019
Utility-Scale Energy Storage Will Enable a Renewable Grid
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: energy, sustainability
A roadblock to sustainable energy solutions is coming unstuck.
- By Andrea Thompson on July 1, 2019
Jul 10, 2019
( New ) Free Energy Using Magnets Technology for Generator At Home
Posted by Quinn Sena in category: energy
Jul 8, 2019
By 2020 Bitcoin could be using as much energy as the entire world
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: bitcoin, energy
Jul 7, 2019
Renewable Energy Is Booming. Here’s How to Keep It Going
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: energy, sustainability
Commentary: Private investors are excited about renewable sources like solar and wind, but they need to focus on energy storage going forward.
Jul 6, 2019
11 Million People Employed in Renewable Energy Worldwide in 2018
Posted by Brady Hartman in categories: economics, employment, energy, sustainability
Eleven million people had renewable energy jobs in 2018, according to the latest analysis from IRENA. New data shows that the diversification of the renewable energy supply chain is changing the sector’s geographic footprint, and more countries are tapping into the socio-economic gains of the energy transition. https://bit.ly/2XFScWF
Jul 5, 2019
Molecular energy machine as a movie star
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: energy, entertainment
Researchers at the Paul Scherrer Institute PSI have used the Swiss Light Source SLS to record a molecular energy machine in action and thus to reveal how energy production at cell membranes works. For this purpose they developed a new investigative method that could make the analysis of cellular processes significantly more effective than before. They have now published their results in the journal Science.
