Quantum View of the Underground Comes Into Focus

Quantum View of the Underground Comes Into Focus

Freedomist Editor March 2, 2022

Quantum tech breakthrough for subsurface mapping

From www.geplus.co.uk
2022-03-01 06:12:19

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In a world first, a quantum gravity sensor has been used to detect a buried structure outside of laboratory conditions, offering “a new lens into the underground”.

The quantum gravity gradiometer was used to find a tunnel buried outdoors in real-world conditions one metre below the ground surface at the Birmingham University campus.

The sensor was developed by University of Birmingham researchers from the UK National Quantum Technology Hub in Sensors and Timing as part of the Gravity Pioneer project. The research results were recently published in the journal Nature.

The sensor works by detecting variations in microgravity using the principles of quantum physics, which is based on manipulating nature at the submolecular level.

The Gravity Pioneer project is a collaboration between the University of Birmingham, environmental, engineering and sustainability solutions provider RSK, the…

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Israel Achieves Zero Emission Green Ammonia Production

Mark Clouse March 2, 2022

The Israeli company named GenCell recently released findings that show the company was able to produce green ammonia from water using a process that requires significantly lower temperatures and pressures than current methods. This method also produces no carbon emissions, making it a zero emission process.

Green Ammonia is used primarily for agriculture, but is also being developed a viable option to fossil fuel. It is also storable, and could then be converted as needed for fertilizer or power. The breakthrough is not ready for commercial production. If the methodology proves to be cost efficient, as early results suggest it would be, then green ammonia could become far more than fertilizer in the years to come.

Israeli GenCell scientific breakthrough zero emission green ammonia – The Jerusalem Post

From www.jpost.com
2022-03-01 18:51:00

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Israeli company GenCell Energy has announced they’ve achieved a major scientific breakthrough that enables the production of green ammonia directly from water at a very low temperature and pressure in comparison to the traditional ammonia production processes typically carried out around the world today.

Following their evaluation of GenCell’s scientific breakthrough, Japanese technology provider TDK Corporation announced they plan to continue investing in and developing GenCell’s innovative zero-emission green ammonia synthesis project towards its next milestone.

GenCell, based in Petah Tikva, is the leading provider of hydrogen and ammonia to power solutions.

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Patent Trolling by Foreign Powers Threatens American Industry

Paul Collier February 15, 2022

I have been telling our readers for quite some time that the fundamental battle between those who control and those who wish to be free is over intellectual property and how control of information and use of technology could determine if the human future is a new serfdom or a new level of liberty for the vast majority of people in these lands. One path is covered with lawsuits and expensive lawyers trained to turn a parsed sentence in a white paper into a loss of an idea that someone truly did create. That path chokes off technological development and contains it behind paywalls, offering you nothing but subscription services to meet all our needs and desires.

That path leads to total control, a social credit score that could determine if you can even rent a car (for no one, if they have their way, will own cars in the future).

The oppressive nature of excessive intellectual property laws can be seen in how patent trolling is still rising in America, costing industry millions and leaving patent ownership to the most powerful among us almost exclusively.

The other path, open source technology, leads to the empowering of individuals and free associations to equip themselves to meet their own sustainably flourishing needs.

New Data Shows Tech Patent Troll Cases Are Rising At USITC

From www.forbes.com
2022-02-09 13:42:26

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Section 337 of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930, meant to protect the US against unfair trade and … [+] illegal imports, is weaponized today by foreign non practicing entities or patent trolls. From Left,Rep. Willis C. Hawley, Senator Reed Smoot.

With supply chain shortages, the global race to 5G, and the need to ensure the US leads in information technology, the United States International Trade Commission (USITC) has an important role to play. Indeed, the agency has experienced a record number of requests for fact-finding reports from Congress, and lawmakers of both parties and houses have praised the agency for valuable reports on topics like the effect of Covid-19 on supply chains. However, not all activity at the USITC is desirable. Sadly, the agency has become a hotbed for patent trolling, and USITC commissioners are driving the trend by allowing a robust stream of abusive section 337…

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New DOE-Developed Catalyst is Game Changer in Hydrogen Extraction

Parker Davis February 15, 2022

The Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory has developed a new type of nitrogen-based catalyst that greatly improves our ability to extract hydrogen in storage.

Department of Energy’s “Fairly Simple” Breakthrough Makes Accessing Stored Hydrogen More Efficient

From scitechdaily.com
2022-02-14 20:40:40
Ames Laboratory
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A nitrogen assembly catalyzes the cleavage of carbon-hydrogen (C‒H) bonds in LOHCs and facilitates the desorption of hydrogen molecules. Credit: U.S. Department of Energy, Ames Laboratory

A new catalyst from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Ames Laboratory and collaborators extracts hydrogen from hydrogen storage materials easily and efficiently. The process occurs at mild temperatures and under normal atmospheric conditions, without using metals or additives. The breakthrough offers a promising new solution that addresses a long-standing challenge to adopting hydrogen fuel for transportation and other applications.

Hydrogen fuel is one potential solution in the nationwide effort to decrease reliance on fossil fuels. According to the DOE, improving hydrogen storage is key to advancing hydrogen fuel cell technologies. At Ames Laboratory, scientists Long Qi and Wenyu Huang research the extraction of hydrogen from a class of materials called liquid organic hydrogen carriers, or…

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3D Printing is Changing Precision Potential of Tiny Metal Part Manufacturing

Parker Davis February 15, 2022

3D Printing Tiny Metal Parts

From hackaday.com
2022-02-14 19:30:00
Al Williams
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It may sound like a pop band, but μ-WAAM is actually a 3D printing technique for making small metal parts from the NOVA University Lisbon. Of course, WAAM stands for wire arc additive manufacturing, a well-known technique for 3D printing in metal. The difference? The new technique uses 250 μm wire stock instead of the 1mm or thicker wires used in conventional WAAM.

The thinner feed wire allows μ-WAAM to create fine details like thin walls that would be difficult to replicate with traditional methods. Typically, for fine structures, printers use fused metal powder. This is good for fine details, but typically slower and has higher waste than wire-based systems.

What we found most interesting is that the printer looks more or less like a conventional 3D printer with a special extruder that handles the fine metal filament. Of course, instead of heat, a 12V 100 aH battery provides an arc. Oh, there’s also an argon shield gas system to keep everything working well and…

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Inventor Claims to Have Created Self-Defining, Purposing AI

Parker Davis February 9, 2022

An inventor named Trevor E Chandler has claimed to have create an artificial intelligence that is capable of determining its own purpose, so to speak. The AI gets an initial code which, emergently, it ultimately overcomes, creating its own code to define its purpose, and thus action. This seems perfectly safe. I wonder if we can combine this AI with nanotechnology and just, you know, see what happens. Let’s create a nanotech ai that can replicate itself and develop its own purpose. That should be fun.

As usual, the claims might not meet the much more prosaic reality an inventor is hyping. We won’t be anytime soon seeing nanobots go up our noses and turn us into Biden voters, or, worse, Dallas Cowboys fans, but it does mean developing more autonomously developing tech that can positively enhance our ability to process and refine the world around us.

New Type of Artificial Intelligence can Self-Create and Self-Improve its Source Code

From www.einnews.com
2022-02-09 13:00:00

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A new type of artificial intelligence has been created with the capability to advance its own source code, persist, and use its learning across use cases, and through code generation and modification, advance its action set and objectives beyond their starting state without the need for human intervention.

Trevor E. Chandler, the inventor states, “All existing artificial intelligence is limited by human bias. We either tell the AI what actions it can perform or give it data that represents actions it can use. This stunts the potential of our systems, preventing them from achieving emergence. My new approach has overcome this, and other serious issues with machine learning today, resulting in a machine learning system generating emergent actions beyond its initial actions list or data and emergent objectives beyond its initial objectives.”.

This new type of machine learning automatically searches for, finds, and uses code from other artificially Intelligent components as its starting state, continually writing code into itself from preexisting systems, then modifying its own source code as it advances its action set beyond its starting state through use of a built-in code generating and evaluation artificial intelligence. This allows useful information from preexisting machine learning systems to be utilized, not wasted, but only as a starting point…..

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Insect Robots Might One Day Rescue You or Arrest You

Parker Davis February 9, 2022

A horde of flying insect robots might one day rescue you when you get lost in the forest, or track you down when you’re invading a police state. Either way, scientists are making these things. To be exact, researchers from Bristol’s Faculty of Engineering are building these things, and their findings are ‘promising.’

Scientists develop tiny flying ‘insect robots’ that could help save people – and the planet

From www.bristolpost.co.uk
2022-02-09 12:46:38

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Scientists have developed tiny flying insect robots that could be made in their billions and help save people – and the planet.

The pioneering bug-sized machines have an artificial muscle system that creates wing motion using no rotating parts or gears.

They could help in search and rescue operations, after terrorist attacks.- or maybe act as pollinators.

Typical micro flying robots have used motors, gears and other complex transmission systems to achieve the up-and-down flapping motion.

This new advance could pave the way for smaller, lighter and more effective micro flying robots.

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Print Your Beer at Home as You Need It

Ivo Fysic February 7, 2022

Imagine if you had all the key ingredients to create almost any combination of potential beverages your heart would desire. Imagine pressing a few buttons and creating, from the same machine (just add water), a whole range of beverages. That reality could be coming to a home near you thanks to a company called Cana that claims to be developing the technology that could do just that.

Introducing Cana: A molecular beverage printer in every home helps us take a giant step towards decentralized manufacturing

From Medium.com

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We know we can print an infinite number of beverages from a few core flavor compounds. We know we can do this across many existing beverage categories — juice, soda, hard seltzer, cocktails, wine, tea, coffee, and beer. Consumer taste testing panels score our printed beverages at the same or better taste levels as commercially available alternatives. Our hardware designs will print beverages quickly and accurately. Our pricing and the footprint of our hardware can yield significant savings and advantages for most households.

We’ve also realized that we can reimagine the beverage industry from the ground up. Our focus is not about mimicking existing beverages, but rewriting and inventing entirely new beverage categories, delivering radically different brands, and enabling creators to develop their own beverage brands digitally.

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Meta’s American Servers Could Sink Facebook in Europe

Parker Davis February 7, 2022

Facebook’s Meta is using servers located in America to do most of its data transfer around the world, and that might bring about the end of Facebook and Instagram in Europe due to a European regulation that does not allow European data to be taken and transfered to foreign countries.

Meta threatens a shutdown of Facebook and Instagram in Europe

From mashable.com
2022-02-06 19:13:17

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….Buried in Meta’s dense annual report for the Securities and Exchange Commission, filed Thursday, is a surprisingly stark sentence laying out a scenario in which The Company Formerly Known as Facebook might have to entirely stop operating Instagram and Facebook in Europe. Yep, no Instagram, no Facebook, for all Europeans.

To which we as Americans can only say: Luckyyyyyyyyyy!!!!

At issue are European data regulations that prevent Meta from ingesting Europeans’ data on American servers. Basically, Meta says the ability to process user data in between countries is crucial for its business both operationally and for ad targeting. European laws meant to protect user privacy by keeping users’ data within the EU’s jurisdiction have invalidated previous systems. So, because Meta has been unable to reach new data sharing agreements, it’s threatening to walk away from the continent with Facebook and Instagram.

“If we are unable to transfer data between and among countries and regions in which we operate, or if we are restricted from sharing data among our products and services, it could affect our ability to provide our services, the manner in which we provide our services or our ability to target ads,” the statement reads. Then, Meta clarifies that it thinks it will be able to reach new agreements in 2022, but if it does not, “we will likely be unable to offer a number of our most significant products and services, including Facebook and Instagram, in Europe.”

The London financial newspaper CityAM reached out to Meta to see if they were, uh, reading that right. Meta responded with a statement from the company’s illustrious VP of Global Affairs, Nick Clegg, who attempted to connect the plight of a billion-dollar international conglomerate Meta with struggles small businesses could face.

“We urge regulators to adopt a proportionate and pragmatic approach to minimise disruption to the many thousands of businesses who, like Facebook, have been…

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Robot Surgeon Makes Solo Debut

Parker Davis February 7, 2022

A robot has successfully completed surgery all by itself, with no human assistants. The lucky patient was not a human, however, it was a pig. The robot and the pig survived.

Robot performs first laparoscopic surgery without human help

From sciencedaily.com

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A robot has performed laparoscopic surgery on the soft tissue of a pig without the guiding hand of a human — a significant step in robotics toward fully automated surgery on humans. Designed by a team of Johns Hopkins University researchers, the Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot (STAR) is described today in Science Robotics.

“Our findings show that we can automate one of the most intricate and delicate tasks in surgery: the reconnection of two ends of an intestine. The STAR performed the procedure in four animals and it produced significantly better results than humans performing the same procedure,” said senior author Axel Krieger, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at Johns Hopkins’ Whiting School of Engineering.

The robot excelled at intestinal anastomosis, a procedure that requires a high level of repetitive motion and precision. Connecting two ends of an intestine is arguably the most challenging step in gastrointestinal surgery, requiring a surgeon to suture with high accuracy and consistency. Even the slightest hand tremor or misplaced stitch can result in a leak that could have catastrophic complications for the patient.

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