Smoothing Out the “Duck Curve” – Influx of Electric Vehicles Accelerates Need for Grid Planning

Charging millions of EVs won't be easy:

https://scitechdaily.com/smoothing-out-the-duck-curve-influx-of-electric-vehicles-accelerates-need-for-grid-planning/

World’s largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly in France

This promising technology has taken FAR too long to arrive:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/jul/28/worlds-largest-nuclear-fusion-project-under-assembly-in-france

DeepMind’s Newest AI Programs Itself to Make All the Right Decisions

A.I. learning to learn:

https://singularityhub.com/2020/07/26/deepminds-newest-ai-programs-itself-to-make-all-the-right-decisions/

Groundbreaking blood test can detect cancer years before symptoms appear

Detection up to four years before being detectable by conventional means:

https://www.jpost.com/health-science/groundbreaking-blood-test-can-detect-cancer-years-before-symptoms-appear-636443

Advances in Simple Blood Tests for Alzheimer’s

https://scitechdaily.com/advances-in-simple-blood-tests-for-alzheimers/

New Material Can Generate Hydrogen From Fresh, Salt, or Polluted Water by Exposure to Sunlight

Another promising source for hydrogen for fuel:

https://scitechdaily.com/new-material-can-generate-hydrogen-from-fresh-salt-or-polluted-water-by-exposure-to-sunlight/

Offshore Wind Power Now So Cheap It Could Pay Money Back to Consumers – Pivotal to Reach Net-Zero Carbon Emissions

A nice problem to have:

https://scitechdaily.com/offshore-wind-power-now-so-cheap-it-could-pay-money-back-to-consumers-pivotal-to-reach-net-zero-carbon-emissions/

Scientists Discover “Love Hormone” Oxytocin Could Be Used to Treat Cognitive Disorders Like Alzheimer’s

https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-discover-love-hormone-oxytocin-could-be-used-to-treat-cognitive-disorders-like-alzheimers/

Scientists are one step closer to delaying aging

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/21/health/slow-aging-intl-scli-scn/index.html

Watch a 3D Printer Spit Out an Entire Two-Story House

https://futurism.com/the-byte/3d-printer-two-story-house

Researchers Invent High-Performance Hybrid Solar Energy Converter

"The team reports that the system demonstrated 85.1 percent efficiency, delivered steam at up to 248°C, and is projected to have a system levelized cost of 3 cents per kilowatt hour."

https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-invent-high-performance-hybrid-solar-energy-converter/

Battery Breakthrough to Give Flight to Electric Aircraft and Boost Long-Range Electric Cars

https://scitechdaily.com/battery-breakthrough-to-give-flight-to-electric-aircraft-and-boost-long-range-electric-cars/

Powering the Future: New Room-Temperature Liquid-Metal Battery

Another potential game changer:

https://scitechdaily.com/powering-the-future-new-room-temperature-liquid-metal-battery/

Turning Seawater Into Fuel With a Low-Cost Catalyst

There's all sorts of potential with this technology:

https://scitechdaily.com/turning-seawater-into-fuel-with-a-low-cost-catalyst/

Solar Flow Battery: Single Device Generates, Stores and Redelivers Renewable Electricity From the Sun

https://scitechdaily.com/solar-flow-battery-single-device-generates-stores-and-redelivers-renewable-electricity-from-the-sun/

Scientists Identify the Protein Responsible for the Brain Benefits of Exercise

And it may eventually come in pill form:

https://interestingengineering.com/scientists-identify-the-protein-responsible-for-the-brain-benefits-of-exercise

A new approach to Alzheimer’s based on physics and worms

https://bigthink.com/mind-brain/phase-transition-dementia

Shockingly Simple: How Farmland Could Absorb an Extra 2 Billion Tonnes of CO2 From the Atmosphere Each Year

Impressive idea:

https://scitechdaily.com/shockingly-simple-how-farmland-could-absorb-an-extra-2-billion-tonnes-of-co2-from-the-atmosphere-each-year/

Why general artificial intelligence will not be realized

As usual, I think this is an example of short-term thinking. Put A.I. in a robot body that can experience the world, and the tacit knowledge problem may not be a problem:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0494-4

Solar-Powered Nanotubes Could Bring Water to the World

With climate change, this will be necessary:

https://news.yahoo.com/solar-powered-nanotubes-could-bring-130000471.html?soc_src=hl-viewer&soc_trk=fb

Elon Musk Brags That Tesla Is “Very Close” to Full, Level 5 Self Driving

I hope he's right:

https://futurism.com/elon-musk-tesla-close-level-5-autonomy?mc_cid=d4122d2db5&mc_eid=3fd10445cf

Tesla’s Ambitious Plan To Ditch Cobalt

"The electric car supply chain is also heavily dependent on cobalt, a pricey metal that makes electric cars so prohibitively expensive for most consumers, with the battery’s cobalt content accounting for an astonishing 40 percent of the car’s total value. Now, however, it looks like Tesla is poised to disrupt the entire EV market and supply chain with new innovation by taking on both lithium and cobalt. “As Tesla plans next-generation electric vehicle batteries, focus is turning to lithium-iron, not the lithium-ion that has been the fundamental chemical engineering science powering EVs to date."

https://news.yahoo.com/tesla-ambitious-plan-ditch-cobalt-170000683.html

Startup Launches New 3D-Printed Steaks That Are Good For The Environment

They're finally getting into perfecting the texture problem:

https://www.boredpanda.com/3d-printing-animal-free-meat/

Pulse Pressure: A Game Changer in the Fight Against Dementia

It's about the blood brain barrier breaking down:

https://scitechdaily.com/pulse-pressure-a-game-changer-in-the-fight-against-dementia/