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Solar Fueled FREAKIN Vaporjets

This is a completely new way to fly without runways or propellers or fossil fuels. You can help make it happen! Go to www.indiegogo.com via https://igg.me/at/vaporjet. You are welcome to visit https://www.facebook.com/vacupulsion/.
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Great idea, to entrain air by flowing vapor over curved surfaces... we might one day be flying in one of these, although a lot of engineering work still has to go into making them.

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Breakthrough Fluidic Propulsion System Could Power the Drones & Aircraft of Tomorrow

The props on today’s aircraft are inefficient, noisy & dangerous — but an innovative new bladeless propulsion system offers an alternative for 21st century aviation. We’re joined by Dr. Denis Dancanet, the CEO of Jetoptera, an aerospace startup developing lightweight commuter VTOL aircraft using a revolutionary technology called the Fluidic Propulsion System.

 

If you look at the history of aviation, the big changes always start with a propulsion system. That’s really what enables everything, so we started Jetoptera with the idea that we’d create a new propulsion system that would be ideal for VTOL and enable powerful drones and eventually flying cars . We decided on the name because optera means wing in Greek, so Jetoptera literally means “jet wing”. 

 

The performance is in between a helicopter & aircraft. We’re not claiming it’s the best at everything — it’s actually more of a novel design with new abilities. For instance, it’s faster than a helicopter, with a top speed of less than 200 miles an hour — in our design you can fold the thrusters into the the back of the wing, which keeps them out of the slipstream, and enables speeds up to 400 plus miles an hour... 

Read the whole interview here

https://medium.com/predict/breakthrough-fluidic-propulsion-system-could-power-the-drones-aircraft-of-tomorrow-a6fe60da8f89 

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Here's an interesting new development in airplane propulsion. It works with pressurised air producing air flow in specially designed "jets" that can power drones and small aircraft more efficiently than propellers. 

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Major Breakthrough: Graphene Batteries FINALLY Hit the Market

Previous Samsung graphene video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Go2g_BNpG_Y Gary Explains video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIMegpibt1M --- Abou
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Graphene (ultra flat carbon) was invented some years ago. Here is the first actual application in the market...

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Company Collects 80% of City's Recyclable Plastics and Turns It All into Lumber

Company Collects 80% of City's Recyclable Plastics and Turns It All into Lumber | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

Roughly 80% of the plastic recyclables collected throughout Halifax, Nova Scotia are now being processed by Goodwood Plastic Products Ltd so they can be turned into building blocks. 

 

The plastic lumber can be drilled, nailed, glued, and handled the same way as wooden lumber—but without any of the same deterioration.

 

Thus far, CBC says that the lumber has been used to make everything from picnic tables and park benches to agricultural posting and guardrail structures—and Goodwood vice president Mike Chassie says he hopes their business model will inspire other regions to launch similar ventures.

 

“We can take this business—the knowledge and our skills—and we can export it and take it to other places,” he told the news outlet. “Post-consumer plastic is not going away, so we need to continue to find ways to give it a new life so it becomes a resource, instead of a waste.”

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We have the plastic waste ... might as well make something useful out of it.

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Primer Fields Part 4 Ion Thruster David LaPoint 

David LaPoint built and shows in this video an operating ion thruster, an electromagnetic plasma space drive... 

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David LaPoint built and shows in this video an operating ion thruster, an electromagnetic plasma space drive... 

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Viktor Schauberger's Repulsine

Viktor Schauberger's Repulsine | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

Much has been written about Viktor Schauberger's Repulsine, an invention that was shelved, and that no one, since that time, has been able to reproduce. 

 

Vortices are really powerful and in the right conditions can be self-sustaining. In the case of the Repulsine, the prototype actually got lost, flying destructively right through the roof out of the laboratory, after breaking its moorings… 

This could be a simple and rather powerful lift generating apparatus if properly evaluated and built to exacting specifications. 

 

There are various diagrams of the repulsine available in a net search, however none of those diagrams seem to show the air flow correctly. In my view, a powerful air vortex forms above the machine, which draws the machine into it.

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Viktor Schauberger, the Austrian inventor, was way ahead of his time using the principle of vortex action to achieve lift and propulsion...

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French Scientist Invents Machine that Can Turn Plastic into Diesel and Gasoline

French Scientist Invents Machine that Can Turn Plastic into Diesel and Gasoline | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

A self-taught French scientist bankrolled by a French actor has come up with a brilliant solution to the problem of plastic waste. 

 

His machine — dubbed Chrysalis — converts hard-to-recycle plastic trash into 65% diesel, 18% gasoline, 10% gas and 7% carbon. 

 

The 35-year-old inventor, Christofer Costes, says the diesel can be used for generators or boat motors, the gasoline for heating or powering lamps, the gas for heating, and the carbon for crayons. 

 

The low-tech machine simply decomposes the plastic by heating it to over 840 degrees Fahrenheit, and separates it into the four useful substances listed above. 

 

“This breaks up the plastic molecules and transforms them into lighter hydrocarbons,” Costes tells India Times. 

 

“They go up into the distillation tower, and separate into diesel, petrol and at the top of the tower, there is gas, which is stored in a reservoir.” 

 

“A kilo of plastic gives a liter of liquid. It’s separated between diesel and petrol,” Costes told Reuters.

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Looks like useful technology to clean up our plastic mess...

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International Appeal — Stop 5G

International Appeal — Stop 5G | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

By Arthur Firstenberg 

My call for people to deliver the 5G Space Appeal to the world’s governments has so far elicited 85 volunteers from 25 countries: Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Latvia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom, and United States.

The Appeal will soon have 150,000 signatures. If it is delivered in hard copy, the signatures will take up more than 4,000 pages. The list of scientists alone will take up 100 pages. It will be difficult to ignore. It will force government officials, for the first time in over 120 years, to pay attention to what radio waves are doing to our world. The goal is not simply to hand the Appeal over, but to first secure a date and time for an official meeting, at which all stakeholders will sit down together at the same table and listen to each other.

A terrible thing happened in 1996 and 1997: suddenly, one hundred million human beings began to hold microwave-radiating devices against their brains. Suddenly radio towers began to sprout like mushrooms across the landscapes of half the world, in cities, countrysides, forests, parks, nature preserves. Soon every human being became a source of radiation. Today there are more cell phones than people on this Earth. Today, 40 per cent of the people in my country have had cancer or will have cancer. More than half of all adults have abnormal blood sugar. Worldwide, half a billion people have diabetes. Young people, in their twenties and thirties, even teenagers, are having strokes and heart attacks. There is a connection. And people do not want to know. After all these years, they still do not want to know. And we are out of time. 

Sign the appeal here:

https://www.5gspaceappeal.org/sign-individual 

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

This is one technological development that should NOT go ahead. Phones and WiFi cause enough suffering as it is, and there are biocompatible alternatives...

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Earth Engine - Powering humanity using Magnetic Propulsion

Earth Engine - Powering humanity using Magnetic Propulsion | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it
Earth Engine is the world’s first and only power source propelled by Asymmetrical Magnetic Propulsion. It can generate electricity, operate liquid pumps, air compressors, and other mechanical devices 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. It is fully independent of the power grid and offers significant cost savings over other technologies. Earth Engine creates constant, reliable, and renewable energy. 

This concept, the practicality of which Howard Johnson, Tom Bearden, John Bedini and a whole host of other inventors going back to Tesla and Stubblefield have preached about and demonstrated for over a century, is starting to see the light of day, even in the mainstream media.

A comprehensive article appeared in the Wall Street Journal May 16th of this year highlighting inventor Dennis Danzik, who is in production in Scottsdale, Arizona with a self powering magnetic motor. 

 

The motor uses anisotropic magnets that are strategically placed on counter rotating flywheels to drive up to 4,000 pounds of inertia power and deliver in excess of 25 kilowatts. 


WSJ Article (behind a pay-wall)
https://www.wsj.com/articles/one-mans-unlikely-quest-to-power-the-world-with-magnets-11558029179 

 

More about the earth engine plus a video demo with the inventor explaining... find it here:

https://ie.energy/earth_engine/ 

 

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Can permanent magnets be configured to actually produce energy? This inventor says yes, and he has a unit in production...

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Brown's gas doubles LPG generator fuel efficiency

Brown's gas doubles LPG generator fuel efficiency | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

Brown’s gas is a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen obtained from electric disassociation of water into its gaseous components. The gas is also called oxyhydrogen gas.

A particular method of electric disassociation was developed by Yull Brown, an Australian inventor who ended up working with a Chinese company which is currently producing those gas generators. 

 

It appears that using Brown’s gas directly in the air intake of a diesel or LPG powered generator, the efficiency of combustion can be greatly increased, cutting fuel consumption roughly in half.

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How about increasing the fuel efficiency of a LPG or diesel powered electricity generator? Brown's gas, a hydrogen/oxygen mixture obtained from water, can do it!

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Texzon Zenneck Wave Wireless Power Transmission - World Wide - Nupower Development

Feb-Aug 2018: This is frightfully interesting! This is/could be mankind's - womenkind - tranieskind's next BIG contribution to life on earth, next to DNA, Penicillin, the Transistor et al...... "IF IT IS INDEED KOSHER".

 

Since as of this report we can find nobody that has actually witnessed this in action in a commercial environment, thus let's keep speculating that Texzon/Viziv and their Bahrain representatives Nupower Development really have something miraculous to bring us during 2019

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Wireless transmission of electricity around the world to any point you care to "catch it" ... that brings to mind the genius of Tesla. This is just a heads-uip. It isn't active yet, but does sound very interesting.

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CETV Interview with Susan Manewich on 'Hidden Energy Technologies'

CETV Interview with Susan Manewich on 'Hidden Energy Technologies' | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

One-hour video interview of Joe Martino with Susan Manewich, about new energy technologies... view for free for one week, from 28 April 2019

 

Here is what Joe Martino, founder of CETV says:

 

"Hey, 

 

Let's talk free energy for a second... 

 

Are there really hidden and suppressed technologies that could change the way we create and use energy? 

 

Technologies that would move us beyond fossil fuels and primitive ideas like wind, solar, and geothermal? 

 

In short, yes, there are.. and we have seen them.

But what is consistently holding back these technologies? 

 

I mean, it can't entirely be the long arm of government and the cabal... can it? 

 

It's easy to say that, it's easy to believe that, but 10 years of research into this space and we can tell you... 

 

The cabal is not the main factor holding it back.

I will be discussing our direct experiences with free energy on Monday's episode of The Collective Evolution Show, but for now, I have something really cool for you to watch... 

 

Our newest exclusive news interview free screening from CETV with Susan Manewich called 'Hidden Energy Technologies'."

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Watching an interview about new energy technologies and an interesting point is made by Susan Manewich. Those exotic technologies are morally based, meaning we can develop and use them only if and when we are morally ready for them, when we are ready to use them for the advancement of not only humanity but life in the cosmos...

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Cavitation Energy System - Technical Overview

This video introduces the technology of Cavitation Energy Systems, a method of steam production much more efficient than the currently used coal, oil and atomic fission based water heating methods used in our power plants. 

This has the potential to replace much of our reliance on fossil fuels and atomic fission with a substantially cleaner method.

CES works by impacting water at super high speeds on a hard surface, where it releases heat through cavitation (sonoluminescence) and through oxygen/hydrogen explosion. 

 

The technology uses currently available parts and machinery and is basically ready to go into application. 

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Cavitation Energy is a method of steam production much more efficient than the currently used coal, oil and atomic fission based water heating used in our power plants. 

CES works by impacting water at super high speeds on a hard surface, where it releases heat through cavitation (sonoluminescence) and through oxygen/hydrogen explosion. 

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The Mysterious Death of Stanley Meyer and His Water-Powered Car

The Mysterious Death of Stanley Meyer and His Water-Powered Car | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

He turned down $1 billion from a Saudi investor and later took a meeting with two other potential investors before his untimely demise. 

 

Meyer’s invention promised a revolution in the automotive industry. It worked through an electric water fuel cell, which divided any kind of water — including salt water — into its fundamental elements of hydrogen and oxygen, by utilizing a process far simpler than the electrolysis method. 

 

Despite skepticism about the legitimacy of a car that runs on water, Meyer was able to patent his invention under Section 101 of the Subject Matter Eligibility Index, meaning he proved to a patent review board that his invention worked reliably. 

 

Meyer’s water-powered engine was the result of 20 years of research and dedication, and he claimed it was capable of converting tap water into enough hydrogen fuel to drive his car from one end of the country to the other. His invention was mind-boggling and promised a future of non-polluting vehicles that could be refueled with a garden hose.

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

Water as fuel ... it has been done. Water is disassociated into hydrogen and oxygen, which can be "burned" in an internal combustion engine. Stanley Meyer was particularly advanced with his invention, he had converted a Dune Buggy to run on water and was getting ready to get his hydrogen technology into production as he died an untimely death ... under mysterious circumstances.. Sooner or later, someone will replicate the feat.

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Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech

Radical hydrogen-boron reactor leapfrogs current nuclear fusion tech | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

"We are sidestepping all of the scientific challenges that have held fusion energy back for more than half a century," says the director of an Australian company that claims its hydrogen-boron fusion technology is already working a billion times better than expected.

 

The results of decades of research by Emeritus Professor Heinrich Hora, HB11's approach to fusion does away with rare, radioactive and difficult fuels like tritium altogether – as well as those incredibly high temperatures. Instead, it uses plentiful hydrogen and boron B-11, employing the precise application of some very special lasers to start the fusion reaction.

 

Here's how HB11 describes its "deceptively simple" approach: the design is "a largely empty metal sphere, where a modestly sized HB11 fuel pellet is held in the center, with apertures on different sides for the two lasers. One laser establishes the magnetic containment field for the plasma and the second laser triggers the ‘avalanche’ fusion chain reaction. The alpha particles generated by the reaction would create an electrical flow that can be channeled almost directly into an existing power grid with no need for a heat exchanger or steam turbine generator.":

Full article here: 
https://newatlas.com/energy/hb11-hydrogen-boron-fusion-clean-energy/ 

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Hydrogen Boron fusion ... an Australian development not quite ready to make a reactor yet, but a good prospect on the horizon for cheap-and-simple fusion power that can be directly converted to electricity.

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Portland now generates electricity from turbines installed in city water pipes

Portland now generates electricity from turbines installed in city water pipes | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

The city of Portland is changing the game of generating electricity with its newest environmental-friendly revolutionary water pipes!

 

In order to come up with a clean and renewable source of energy, the city of Portland partnered with Lucid Energy. Together, they teamed up to deliver clean electricity drawn from the water which is already flowing under the city streets!

 

According to Lucid Energy, its partnership with the city of Portland is almost at its final stage. After the system has surpassed the rigorous final testing, it will be fully operational.

 

It is expected that the installation of Lucid Energy pipes will generate a $2,000,000 worth of renewable energy capacity for about 20 years. Based on the average consumption of 1,100 megawatt hours of energy each year, the installed water pipes can power up to 150 homes!

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A good way to generate electricity from water that is anyway flowing to supply the city's users...

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Israeli-Made Electric Planes Set to Revolutionize Air Travel 

Israeli-Made Electric Planes Set to Revolutionize Air Travel  | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

This Israeli-made electric plane will reduce operating costs by up to 70 percent, bringing the price down to $200 per flight hour versus $1,000 for a turboprop.

 

Alice hasn’t even taken off yet, and already over 150 orders have been placed for her. 

 

Who is Alice? 

 

Alice is the name given to the all-electric nine-seat aircraft that Israel startup Eviation Aircraft created early this year. Alice has three electric motors on its tail and one on the tip of each wing. On a single charge, Alice’s 3,500 kg battery can carry her 650 miles at 10,000 feet with a cruising speed of 276 miles per hour.

 

See whole article here

https://unitedwithisrael.org/israeli-made-electric-planes-set-to-revolutionize-air-travel/ 

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That looks like good progress. Commercial air travel electrified... 

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Nobel winner suggests zapping nuclear waste atoms with high power short duration laser pulses to drastically reduce radioactive half life

Nobel winner suggests zapping nuclear waste atoms with high power short duration laser pulses to drastically reduce radioactive half life | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

Nobel prize winner Gérard Mourou suggests that short laser pulses should be able to zap radioactive atoms to make nuclear waste safer.

 

Whatever one thinks of nuclear energy, the process results in tons of radioactive, toxic waste no one quite knows what to do with. As a result, it's tucked away as safely as possible in underground storage areas where it's meant to remain a long, long time: The worst of it, uranium 235 and plutonium 239, have a half life of 24,000 years.

 

That's the reason eyebrows were raised in Europe — where more countries depend on nuclear energy than anywhere else — when physicist Gérard Mourou mentioned in his wide-ranging Nobel acceptance speech that lasers could cut the lifespan of nuclear waste from "a million years to 30 minutes," as he put it in a followup interview with The Conversation.

 

See whole article (with video of Mourou's speech) here

https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/laser-nuclear-waste 

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Good research by a French scientist. We must find a way to make nuclear waste harmless. Storing radioactive waste for thousands of years is just idiocy ... unacceptable. 

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Scotland’s floating turbine smashes tidal renewable energy records

Scotland’s floating turbine smashes tidal renewable energy records | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

A floating tidal stream turbine off the coast of Orkney has produced more green energy in a year than Scotland’s entire wave and tidal sector produced in the 12 years before it came online. 

 

In 12 months of full-time operation, the SR2000 turbine supplied the equivalent annual power demand of about 830 households.

 

Its developer claimed the machine – the most powerful of its kind in the world – had set a benchmark for its industry due to its performance.

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Real progress in using the tidal forces of the oceans for energy production...

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Father-of-eight invents an electric car battery to take drivers 1,500 miles without charging it 

Father-of-eight invents an electric car battery to take drivers 1,500 miles without charging it  | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

British engineer and former Royal Navy officer Trevor Jackson, signed a multi-million-pound deal to start manufacturing the battery on a large scale in the UK.

 

'It can help trigger the next industrial revolution. The advantages over traditional electric vehicle batteries are enormous,' he said. 

 

Few will have heard of Jackson's extraordinary invention. The reason, he says, is that since he and his company Metalectrique Ltd came up with a prototype a decade ago, he has faced determined opposition from the automobile industry establishment. 

 

It has every reason not to give ground to a competitor that may, in time, render its own technology obsolete. Car industry sceptics claim Trevor's technology is unproven, and its benefits exaggerated. 

 

But an independent evaluation by the Government agency UK Trade and Investment said in 2017 that it was a 'very attractive battery' based on 'well established' technology, and that it produced much more energy per kilogram than standard electric vehicle types. 

 

Read the whole article here...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7592485/Father-eight-invents-electric-car-battery-drivers-1-500-miles-without-charging-it.html 

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Here we go ... technological progress on the horizon for electric cars and indeed anything that uses batteries. Nine times the energy density of today's lithium-ion batteries. Actually, it isn't a battery that has to be re-charged but a chemical fuel cell that works with aluminium and air, plus an electrolyte. Once exhausted, it gets swapped out for a new one, and the old one is re-cycled. 

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(PDF) LiFi As An Emerging Technology To Be Utilized in Indonesia | Iwan Krisnadi - Academia.edu

(PDF) LiFi As An Emerging Technology To Be Utilized in Indonesia | Iwan Krisnadi - Academia.edu | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

The needs of internet connection for supporting internet connectivity and social media access become much more important. Many places, nowadays, are connected with Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) services to answer these needs.

 

WiFi which uses radio waves has limitation on capacity spectrum and bandwidth. So that, it may cause trouble related to spectrum crunch and over bandwidth.

 

Meanwhile, recently Light Fidelity (LiFi) technology has been developed in some countries, where data is transmitted via LED's light while it is illuminating. LiFi becomes an emerging technology to answer bandwidth problem in the near future where telecommunication is expected grow highly. Since, LiFi provides the possibility of the real wireless broadband services. Furthermore, it gives no harmful effect to human body, since light spectrum has no electromagnetic interference.

 

This paper shows literature study of the possibility of LiFi technology application for Indonesia. This technology will be one of the best solutions to balance telecommunication technologies available to get maximum access, secure transmission and much wider bandwidth for the coming 5G technology demands. 

To read or download the whole paper, click on the hedline. 

LiFi is an ideal technology to make 5G more friendly to living creatures, which tend to suffer with the microwave energy emitted by current WiFi and mobile phone technology... 

https://www.academia.edu/39571404/Bio-compatible_5G 

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LiFi is an ideal technology to make 5G more friendly to living creatures, which tend to suffer with the microwave energy emitted by current WiFi and mobile phone technology... 

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Gravitricity - versatile, long-life energy storage

Animation comparing Gravitricity's gravity energy storage with lithium ion batteries, particularly in the fast frequency response market. 

 

Gravitricity or gravitational storage of electricity is the cheapest known way of storing electricity at utility scale, and it is simple - a technological walk-in-the-park.

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Gravitricity or gravitational storage of electricity is the cheapest known way of storing electricity at utility scale, and it is simple - a technological walk-in-the-park. 

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NASA has created food out of thin air and it could be the solution to global hunger

NASA has created food out of thin air and it could be the solution to global hunger | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

The Finnish company, Solar Foods, has designed a high-protein powder made from CO2, water and electricity. 

 

Solar Foods, is planning to bring to market a new protein powder, Solein, made out of CO₂, water and electricity. It's a high-protein, flour-like ingredient that contains 50 percent protein content, 5–10 percent fat, and 20–25 percent carbs. It reportedly looks and tastes like wheat flour, and could become an ingredient in a wide variety of food products after its initial launch in 2021.

Sepp Hasslberger's insight:

This is something that could be very useful in emergency situations, in space, and of course as a means to curb our over-use of agricultural land to grow grains for cows... veggie burgers or rather Solar burgers - mmmmhh

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Giant Floating Solar Farms Could Make Fuel and Help Solve the Climate Crisis, Says Study

Giant Floating Solar Farms Could Make Fuel and Help Solve the Climate Crisis, Says Study | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

Millions of solar panels clustered together to form an island could convert carbon dioxide in seawater into methanol, which can fuel airplanes and trucks, according to new research from Norway and Switzerland and published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, PNAS, as NBC News reported. 

 

The paper suggests floating islands are similar to floating fishing farms. The researchers envision clusters that would consist of approximately 70 circular solar panels, or islands, covering an area of roughly a half of a square mile. The solar panels would produce electricity, which would split water molecules and isolate hydrogen. The hydrogen would then react with the carbon dioxide pulled from the seawater to produce usable methanol, according to NBC News

 

The study authors argue that this method will address the hurdles of making renewable energy competitive with fossil fuels on a large scale... 

 

See the whole article:
https://www.ecowatch.com/floating-solar-farms-climate-crisis-2638980599.html 

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Something like this was proposed by a German engineer in the late 1980s ... only that no one was ready to listen. The guy said the solar panels should be encased in glass with air bubbles so the elements will swim and resist sea water corrosion, and they could be linked together.

Instead of sending the electricity to land through cables, he proposed it could be used to electrolyse sea water and the hydrogen could then be transported to land by tanker ship, to be used in various combinations, gaseous or liquid, as a fuel that does not require oil drilling.

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Fire & Termite-Resistant Pallets From Coconut Husk That Stopped Felling Of 200 Million Trees A Year

Fire & Termite-Resistant Pallets From Coconut Husk That Stopped Felling Of 200 Million Trees A Year | Cool Future Technologies | Scoop.it

Dutch start-up CocoPallet produces biologically processed transportation pallets from coconut husk. Not only are these 100% organic, greener, cheaper and more compact than wood or plastic pallets, but they are also indirectly preventing the felling of around 200 million trees per year ...

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If you know how many pallets are used to transport things around the globe, you will appreciate how much of a difference this technological solution can make. Huge numbers of trees spared and an otherwise unused resource put to good use...

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