Solid State Batteries Can Now be 3D Printed

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

Parker Davis- Someday when you need a new battery, you might just print it out for yourself. Sakuru Corporationhas has developed a new solid state battery hat can be 3D printed. The battery is 50 percent small and 30 percent lighter than its lithium-ion counterparts but provides just as much power, maybe even more.

3D printers produce solid-state battery technology for EVs and other uses – pv magazine USA

From pv-magazine-usa.com
2021-08-23 15:16:06

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California-based Sakuú Corp. has started work on a 2.5 MWh per year pilot facility to produce its 3D-printed solid-state battery tech.

August 23, 2021 Ryan Kennedy

Work is under way on a pilot production line to demonstrate a 3D-printed solid-state battery technology.

Sakuú Corp. said the battery will be up to 50% smaller and 30% lighter than lithium-ion batteries, and would be less expensive to produce at scale. Currently, the battery has a capacity of 3 Amp hours.

Sakuú’s first-generation batteries use an MIT-developed binder jet printing process, which allows thin layers of ceramic and metal to be deposited in one build. The 3D printing process is relatively slow, but enables the batteries to be smaller and lighter, something that the company said could make them optimal for electric vehicles.

Sakuú is also testing high-voltage cathodes, which it said could achieve up to a 25% boost in energy density in its KeraCel solid-state battery.

The company said the 3D printing platform…

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China’s Use of Corporate Social Media to Control Dissent Mirrors American DNC Tactics

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

PGC – China is using American corpowoketarianz tactics to assure that any thoughts, ideas, beliefs that are not aligned with the party,the CCP (the Father of the American DNC), is destroyed using corporate monopolies to do its anti-liberty bidding. A Canadian-Chinese pop star was detained by the CCP for being non-CCP in his views, and some Chinese citizens dared defend him. For their trouble, they found themselves removed from Weibo, one of China’s major social media platforms. It goes without saying these offenders of the orthodoxy will also see social credit damage as a result of this action, something I’m sure the DNC wishes they could do to Americans that deviate from their perverse orthodoxty.

China’s Weibo shuts accounts defending Kris Wu allegations

From abcnews.go.com
2021-08-23 13:31:00

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BEIJING — China’s microblogging platform Sina Weibo on Monday closed 145 accounts, some of which had defended pop star Kris Wu over his rape allegations, for publishing what it called “information harmful for maintaining social order.”

Wu, a Chinese-Canadian pop star, was detained on July 31 for “deceiving young women multiple times into having sexual relations” with him, according to Beijing police. His arrest came after several women said they were plied with alcohol and then either pressured to have sex with him or sexually assaulted.

Some of the Weibo accounts which were shut down had previously defended such allegations against Wu, according to state-run media outlet Global Times.

It was not immediately clear how many of the…

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Bitcoin Miners to Be Denied Hydropower in China

Freedomist Editor August 24, 2021

Chinese province to cut off Bitcoin miners from hydropower stations

From cointelegraph.com
2021-08-23 11:44:23
Cointelegraph By Arijit Sarkar
Excerpt:

Regulators from Yingjiang County in Yunnan, China have issued strict warnings to hydroelectric plants against supplying power to enterprises involved in Bitcoin (BTC) mining.

A recent report claimed that the Office of the People’s Government of Yingjiang County issued notice to hydropower plants to strengthen oversight on Bitcoin mining operations. According to the announcement, the power plants have been given until Tuesday, Aug. 24, to delist mining companies from their grid’s “illegal” supply.

After the given deadline, the county reportedly plans to “forcibly dismantle” the power supply to Bitcoin mining establishments within its jurisdiction.

Additionally, the notice requires hydropower stations to report to China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) after decommissioning the mining operators from the grid. Using this information, NDRC will help Yingjiang County to step up law enforcement efforts to ensure all illegal supplies of hydropower to…

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Making Plants Better Chemical Factories

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

PGC – The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has released findings that claim scientists there have developed a method to efficiently convert plant matter to numerous useful chemical bioproducts. The scientists engineered yeast to interact with plant matter in such a way that it was able to produce a number of useful cehmicals from the plant that had heretofor not been possible. The team used xylos and acetate to interact with a part of the plant called Lignocellulose.

This material is what gives plants their rigidity and structure. It has long been suspected of being a source of biofuel, and now, after these experiments, the sceintists from the University of Illionois Urbana-Champaign are claiming they have an effective method to harvest from plants tremendous new biofuels, meaning someday you might have something like a farm tower in your community that is used to grow the fuel that primarily runs your cars.

Other possibilities for this breakthrough might lead to hospitals one day being able to grow plants in their own on-site farm towers that can be converted to a much wider range of inhouse medicine production than previously imagined. Coupling this technology with chemical 3D printing, going to your neighborhood medical manufacturing center icould become a potential reality in the next few decades. The center might have a couple of farm towers attached to some processing centers and 3D print stations, ready at a moment’s notice to print on demand the medical needs of the community.

Bioprocess for converting plant materials into valuable chemicals — ScienceDaily

From www.sciencedaily.com
2021-08-17 17:14:46

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A team of scientists at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign developed a bioprocess using engineered yeast that completely and efficiently converted plant matter consisting of acetate and xylose into high-value bioproducts.

Lignocellulose, the woody material that gives plant cells their structure, is the most abundant raw material on Earth and has long been viewed as a source of renewable energy. It contains primarily acetate and the sugars glucose and xylose, all of which are released during decomposition.

In a paper published in Nature Communications, the team described its work, which offers a viable method for overcoming one of the major hurdles impeding the commercialization of lignocellulosic biofuels — the toxicity of acetate to fermenting microbes such as yeast.

“This is the first approach to demonstrate the efficient and complete utilization of xylose and acetate for the production of biofuel,” said food science and human nutrition professor Yong-Su Jin. An affiliate of the Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Jin led the research with then-graduate student Liang Sun, the first author of the paper.

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Dating Our Past Using Magnets

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

Magnetic Field May Provide New Ways of Dating Ancient Archaeological Artifacts

From scienceblog.com
2021-08-17 14:30:31
UC San Diego
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Archaeologists traditionally rely on finding organic remains for radiocarbon dating to pinpoint new finds in time, but often these are not found on sites dating over 5,000 years ago. As a result, dating sites in the ancient Levant from the Holocene (the last ca. 10,000 years) can be problematic – leading archaeologists and geophysicists to expand the possibilities for assessing the age of ancient artifacts with archaeomagnetic dating.

In an article published* in the latest issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), researchers from the University of California San Diego’s Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Department of Anthropology have filled in some of the regional gaps in the record of Earth’s magnetic field. To do so, they used artifacts from the Neolithic period spanning roughly 8,200 to 5,500 years ago.

“Earth’s magnetic field has changed significantly in the past with implications for related phenomena, such as deep-Earth…

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Life Might Be Broader and More Complex Than Previously Imagined, Scientists Say

Freedomist Editor August 23, 2021

Scientists Are Proposing a Radical New Framework to Redefine Life on Earth

From www.sciencealert.com
2021-08-17 18:02:52

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….biologist Chris Kempes and complex systems researcher David Krakauer from Sante Fe Institute in New Mexico have posed the idea that our focus on evolution as a driving force of life may have “blinded us to additional general principles of life”.

To explore this, the researchers broaden the definition of “life” to the union of two energetic and informatic processes that can encode and pass on adaptive information forward through time.

Using this definition vastly increases what can be seen as life, to include concepts such as culture, forests, and the economy. A more traditional definition might consider these as products of life, rather than life itself.

“Human culture lives on the material of minds, much like multicellular organisms live on the material of single-celled organisms,” Kempes explains.

Based on their new definition, the researchers argue that life has emerged many times on Earth, and that we in fact are co-existing with many forms of current life.

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Math and Language Use Different, Separated Brain Networks

Freedomist Editor August 17, 2021

How (and Where) the Brain Analyzes Math and Language When Spoken

From scitechdaily.com
2021-08-16 17:00:44
Society for Neuroscience
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Math and language processed by separate networks even if heard together.

Separate math and language networks segregate naturally when listeners pay attention to one type over the other, according to research recently published in JNeurosci.

Mathematical language borrows words from everyday speech, yet the brain processes math and language in two separate networks. While previous studies examined how these networks process written numbers and words, few looked at the processing of spoken mathematical language.

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Fetch Hackers are Binance’s Problem, Says UK Court

Freedomist Editor August 17, 2021

London court orders Binance to trace hackers behind $2.6M Fetch.ai attack

From cointelegraph.com
2021-08-13 17:27:26
Cointelegraph By Turner Wright
Excerpt:

Artificial intelligence research lab Fetch.ai has been granted a request to have major cryptocurrency exchange Binance identify individuals behind a $2.6 million hack.

According to a Friday Reuters report, the Royal Courts of Justice in London has ordered Binance to identify the hackers and seize the stolen assets. Fetch.ai reportedly claimed that hackers stole $2.6 million worth of cryptocurrency from its Binance account on June 6 and resold the tokens for a significantly reduced price.

“We need to dispel the myth that crypto assets are anonymous,” said Syedur Rahman, a partner from Fetch.ai’s legal team at Rahman Ravelli. “The reality is that with the right rules and applications, they can be tracked, traced and recovered.”

Rahman reportedly claimed Binance is already in the process of tracking down the individuals and had frozen some of the affected funds. However, the exchange may request evidence from Fetch.ai that its account was hacked before returning the tokens.

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Creating New Concepts of IP with NFTs

Freedomist Editor August 17, 2021

Are NFTs a new shift in our understanding of intellectual property? Nonfungible tokens enable artists to create digital one-offs, among other things, that allow them to sell a unique image, video, etc. that itself can become the source of multiple non-original, non-unique digital copoies. But could NFTs also be used to create temporary, unique, customized copyright licenses tor artists?

A new paradigm for intellectual property assets?

From cointelegraph.com
2021-08-14 07:12:00
Cointelegraph By Greg Gerstenzang
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Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, are digital records of the ownership of assets. The asset types most commonly associated with NFTs are digital assets, such as artwork like memes, GIFs, or gaming characters or properties. Assets represented by NFTs, however, may be digital, physical, tangible or intangible. Examples of asset types that have been transferred or that have had their ownership recorded utilizing NFTs include sports memorabilia, copyrights in music, artwork and real estate. Intellectual property assets and, specifically, the ownership and transfer of ownership of patents may also be recorded and transferred as NFTs.

Related: Nonfungible tokens from a legal perspective

The ownership of real estate may be recorded in a registry of deeds, the ownership of patents may be recorded in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), and the ownership of written works or music may be recorded in the Library of Congress through the copyright system. Because similar systems for…

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China Showing World Tech What Awaits Them by How They Treat Their Own Companies

Freedomist Editor August 17, 2021

China has begun its crackdown on its own wanna-be corpo-statees such as have emerged in the US primarily, but in other nation-states as well, mostly in Europe. These corpo-states are the new big biz giants of current year, Big Tech, especially Social Media and eCommerce Sites. But while the big tech companies outside of China celebrate the taking down of some of theri competitors, they should pay attention to how China is treating their own companies to consider maybe potentially giving up on attempting to dance with the CCP for the promise of gaining access to that massive market.

A Chinese Warning for U.S. Tech

From www.wsj.com
2021-08-15 17:08:00

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Big U.S. tech companies must be watching with glee as China cracks down on its homegrown technology companies. They are thrilled not only because they are seeing potential global competitors in e-commerce, music licensing, ride sharing, food delivery and more weakened, but because they now have a powerful card to play at home.

It started last October when Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba and its affiliate Ant Financial, complained at the Shanghai Bund Summit that regulators were too cautious: “There is no innovation in this world without risk.” He also said Chinese banks have a pawnshop mentality, requiring collateral before they lend, unlike Ant, which was about to go public, which uses algorithms to assess creditworthiness. Mr. Ma’s criticisms were correct, but he angered the powers that be. Even though shares for Ant Financial’s initial public offering were 870 times oversubscribed, the Shanghai Stock Exchange effectively canceled the IPO in early November….

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