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The Future for Wind Farms May Lie In Compact And Efficient Vertical Turbines

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The now-familiar sight of conventional propeller wind turbines might be substituted in the years to come with wind farms consisting of an extra compact and efficient vertical turbine design. A new study from Oxford Brookes University has found that the vertical turbine concept is far more effective than conventional turbines in large-scale wind farms. When […]

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“Smart” Shirt Utilizes Flexible Carbon Nanotube Fibers To Keep Track of the Heart

Material & Energy, Nanotechnology, Tech /

Rice’s flexible carbon nanotube fibers woven into clothes collect precise EKG, heart rate. There is no demand to wear awkward smartwatches or chest straps to monitor your heart if your comfortable shirt can do a far better job. There’s no need to wear cumbersome timepieces or chest straps to monitor your heart when a comfy

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AI-Driven Dynamic Face Mask Adapts To Exercise and Contamination Levels

Material & Energy, Nanotechnology /

Many people have become familiar with using face masks to protect themselves and others throughout the coronavirus pandemic, yet that does not mean the masks are consistently comfortable, especially during exercise. Now, scientists reporting in ACS Nano have created a dynamic respirator that regulates its pore size in response to altering conditions, such as exercise

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Bill Gates’s Next-gen Nuclear Plant Packs in Grid-scale Energy Storage

Material & Energy, Tech /

Wind, solar, geothermal, hydro, wave power… Sustainable resources are an essential pillar of any strategy to decarbonize the planet’s power generation sectors and eradicate fossil fuel usage. However, for several factors – intermittency, location dependence, land needs, and others – they can not accomplish it independently. A scalable form of zero-emissions energy that can reliably

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China’s “Artificial Sun” has Just Broken a New World Record

Invention, Renewable Energy /

China has reached a new milestone in humanity’s experiments to control the power of the stars. In May, the Chinese Academy of Sciences’ fusion machine reached 120 million degrees Celsius and remained at that temperature for 101 seconds. The last time the EAST (Experimental Advanced Superconducting Tokamak or HT-7U) withstood a plasma vortex for so

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