Renewables continue to boom, a new octopus nursery, MALARIA VACCINES (yay!), electrifying steel and cement, AI-discovered battery material, cell-cultivated steak, drilling into a volcano, and more!
What caught my eye was the space microwave power generation Caltech is pursuing. Engineering at its best! As Sam knows I'm all in favor of clean energy but also in rewilding..two goals that sometimes can be at cross-purposes. Getting the power generation off-planet is a great solution. It makes land available for rewilding that might otherwise be covered with solar panels. It preserves the natural unspoiled landscape and has a benrfhit of fractionally reducing the incident sunlight now factoring in heating up the planet. It's going to be a while, but at least the first steps are being made! The Iceland geothermal is another great initiative that achieves some of these same goals! All hail the engineers!
Loved that bigfoot - black bear correlation. We shouldn't be too surprised... bears have big feet :). But on a more serious note, it's good to see such a lot of positive news in this world that is so dominated by gloom and doom. Particularly interesting to see the increased development in the renewable energy space.
What caught my eye was the space microwave power generation Caltech is pursuing. Engineering at its best! As Sam knows I'm all in favor of clean energy but also in rewilding..two goals that sometimes can be at cross-purposes. Getting the power generation off-planet is a great solution. It makes land available for rewilding that might otherwise be covered with solar panels. It preserves the natural unspoiled landscape and has a benrfhit of fractionally reducing the incident sunlight now factoring in heating up the planet. It's going to be a while, but at least the first steps are being made! The Iceland geothermal is another great initiative that achieves some of these same goals! All hail the engineers!
All hail the engineers, absolutely!
I so appreciate what you’re doing.
Thank you!
This always brings me a little more hope and optimism :)
Thank you!
great post. Lab-grown meat and dairy is the technology that most promises to reinvent our resource usage in the next 20 years, outside of renewables.
I hope so!
I believe most steel manufacturing in the US already uses electric arc furnaces, so substituting renewable electricity is all that’s necessary.
Loved that bigfoot - black bear correlation. We shouldn't be too surprised... bears have big feet :). But on a more serious note, it's good to see such a lot of positive news in this world that is so dominated by gloom and doom. Particularly interesting to see the increased development in the renewable energy space.
Thank you! I'm really glad you enjoy my writing! We are in the middle of an epic global clean energy boom, and I'm super psyched to see where it goes!