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Jan 22, 2019
Announcing Hyperledger Grid, a new project to help build and deliver supply chain solutions!
Posted by Caycee Dee Neely in categories: bitcoin, computing, cryptocurrencies
While I’m not a big supporter of cryptocurrency, I am a supporter of utilizing blockchain technology in other areas. For example. logistics. The Linux Foundation announced the creation of the Hyperledger Grid project just for that purpose. However, as they state, this isn’t a software project, but a platform project.
Supply chain is commonly cited as one of the most promising distributed ledger use-cases. Initiatives focused on building supply chain solutions will benefit from shared, reusable tools. Hyperledger Grid seeks to assemble these shared capabilities in order to accelerate the development of ledger-based solutions for all types of cross-industry supply chain scenarios.
Grid intends to:
The intercom in Death’s office buzzes. With a slightly frustrated sigh, Death lifts his skeletal head from the newspapers he was reading, takes a puff of his cigar, stretches out a little, and presses a button on the intercom.
— I swear, all this work is going to kill me one day. I said I didn’t want to be interrupted, Miss Coffins; what is it?
— I’m sorry, Mr. Death, but Mr. Aging insists that he needs to see you right now. He says it’s urgent.
Jan 22, 2019
Facebook’s Plans for Space Lasers Revealed
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in category: satellites
The technology giant appears to be quietly building laser satellites for global communications.
Jan 22, 2019
Why your new heart could be made in space one day
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: materials, space
Microgravity is ideal for making a range of materials, but will space manufacture ever be cost effective?
Jan 22, 2019
We Can Now Grow Perfect Human Blood Vessels in a Lab
Posted by Simon Waslander in category: biotech/medical
Jan 22, 2019
The Hidden Ecosystem Floating on the Ocean’s Surface
Posted by Genevieve Klien in category: materials
Jan 22, 2019
Scientists demonstrate effective strategies for safeguarding CRISPR gene-drive experiments
Posted by Genevieve Klien in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
Researchers have demonstrated for the first time how two molecular strategies can safeguard CRISPR gene-drive experiments in the lab, according to a study published today in eLife.
Jan 22, 2019
Scientists turn carbon emissions into usable energy
Posted by Simon Waslander in categories: climatology, engineering, sustainability
MAJOR BREAKTHROUGH: A recent study affiliated with UNIST has developed a system that produces electricity and hydrogen (H2) while eliminating carbon dioxide (CO2), the main contributor of global warming. This breakthrough has been led by Professor Guntae Kim in the School of Energy and Chemical Engineering at UNIST in collaboration with Professor Jaephil Cho in the Department of Energy Engineering and Professor Meilin Liu in the School of Materials Science and Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology.
In this work, the research team presented a hybrid Na-CO2 system that can continuously produce electrical energy and hydrogen through efficient CO2 conversion with stable operation for over 1,000 hours from spontaneous CO2 dissolution in aqueous solution.
“Carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration (CCUS) technologies have recently received a great deal of attention for providing a pathway in dealing with global climate change,” says Professor Kim. “The key to that technology is the easy conversion of chemically stable CO2 molecules to other materials.” He adds, “Our new system has solved this problem with CO2 dissolution mechanism.”
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Jan 22, 2019
NASA will attempt to knock an asteroid out of orbit for the first time in 2022
Posted by Michael Lance in categories: asteroid/comet impacts, existential risks
- If an asteroid were to head towards Earth in the foreseeable future, we would be quite defenceless.
- To change that, NASA has approved a mission to throw a “small” asteroid off course in October 2022.
- The aim of the project is to establish whether we can protect our planet from a future asteroid impact.
If an asteroid were to head towards Earth, we would be quite defenceless as we have not successfully developed a method that could reduce the impact of — or entirely avert — a devastating collision.
However, that may be about to change. NASA has approved a project called the Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART), the aim of which is to throw a “small” asteroid off course in October 2022.