Monday, February 24, 2020

Scientists Turn Trash Into Valuable Graphene in a Flash

This is great news: producing a valuable product quickly and cheaply out of the trash and garbage (anything with carbon in it) we throw out every day:

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-turn-trash-into-valuable-graphene-in-a-flash/

A very different, very clean energy source: thin air

Very cool discovery:

https://bigthink.com/technology-innovation/air-gen

New Battery Tech Could Double Electric Car Driving Range

"A team of researchers at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology have announced a new carbon-silicon material that they say could more than double the driving range of electric vehicles — and enable fast charging to more than 80 percent capacity in just five minutes."

https://futurism.com/the-byte/new-battery-tech-double-electric-car-driving-range

Artificial Intelligence Used to Supercharge Battery Development for Electric Vehicles

"Using a new machine learning method, a Stanford-led research team has slashed battery testing times – a key barrier to longer-lasting, faster-charging batteries for electric vehicles – by nearly fifteenfold."

https://scitechdaily.com/artificial-intelligence-used-to-supercharge-battery-development-for-electric-vehicles/

Artificial Intelligence Finds A Powerful New Antibiotic For The First Time

https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/artificial-intelligence-finds-a-powerful-new-antibiotic-for-the-first-time/

'We have combined two marvels of modern medicine': Woman gets pig kidney and heart pump in groundbreaking procedures

Perhaps this could help FF: https://www.livescience.com/health/surgery/we-have-combined-two-marvels-of-modern-medicine-woman-gets-pig-kidney...