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We are
happy to invite you to a free event online coming up on June 7,
2022 with an Artemis program engineer named Brittany Zimmerman
who will be leading “Carbon Capture in Hawaii” at 7
PM. Here is the Event link: https://www.yummet.com/join-the-team.
Secondly,
for all of those Low Energy Nuclear Reaction (LENR)
or cold fusion people, I think it would be great if one of you
wins $200,000 or even $100,000 for your innovative use of
palladium, since you are using it every day for holding deuterium
catalytically. It is the “Palladium Challenge Contest” and the
applications are due May 31, 2022 at https://ipmi.corgano.com with prizes awarded in
September. Good luck!
Our
first story offers hope for the expected worldwide droughts
due to increasing heat from climate change. What is better
than atmospheric water harvesters (AWH) is a
solar powered one. Yes, not only do we now have a worldwide map
of the suitable places to install such AWH air suckers but the
same team at X Company who produced it found the approximate
number of people Harvesting water from
the air – The X Blog who will benefit (about 1
billion) who currently don’t have access to “safely managed
drinking water”. This work is based on their Nature article Global potential for
harvesting drinking water from air using solar energy | Nature.
Story #2
is an inspiring indication that more and more clothing may be
electrified soon with thin flexible high energy
density batteries. Our patented clothes may actually get to
market with such help from the UC San Diego innovation which is
now available from their licensed company Riot Energy https://riotenergy.com/.
Story #3
is an ecological wonder with wood-based electrodes made on a
printing press and a water-based polymer electrode design
from Ligna Energy AB developed at an Organic Laboratory in Sweden
The energy density is very high at 5 kW/kg and uses cheap raw
materials that are nonflammable.
Story #4
is my favorite for the future of small communities and even
off-planet settlements: a small golf-ball size chunk of spent
nuclear fuel that powers a microreactor for years to come. Even
more encouraging is the support that the US DOE’s Idaho National
Lab will be offering by giving the innovative company
Oklo.com access to nuclear waste so it can develop its fast
nuclear microreactors. Hope that they get all of the nuclear
waste they need to burn!
Story #5
shows how renewables will continue to grow despite political
attempts to derail the incentives and long-term benefits. We are
now seeing record breaking offshore wind energy sales in
the billions of dollars in the New York Bight, which is expected
to continue for other shoreline areas.
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1) Solar Power Harvesters Could Produce Clean Water
for 1 Billion People
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Physics World, March 2022
One
billion people could access safe drinking water using devices
that use solar energy to condense water from the air. That is the
conclusion of a team of researchers in the US led by Jackson Lord
at X, The Moonshot Factory, who have developed a new tool
for assessing the global potential for water harvesting. Their
tool could soon help researchers to design completely off-grid
water sources, suitable for use in local communities in many
parts of the Global South.
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2) The Most Powerful Flexible Battery with 10 Times
the Area Energy Density
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TechBriefs.com March 2022
Professor
Ying Shirley Meng and her team at UC San Diego have developed a
working prototype of a flexible silver oxide-zinc battery with at
least ten times the areal energy density of a typical lithium-ion
battery. It can be manufactured with standard screenprinting
technology in a stable room environment.
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3) Prize-winning Technology for Large Scale Energy
Storage
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Tech Briefs.com March 2022
Safe,
cheap, and sustainable technology for energy storage has been
developed at the Laboratory of Organic Electronics, Linköping
University (LiU). It is based on two major breakthroughs: the
manufacture of wood-based electrodes in rolled form, and a new
type of water-based electrolyte. The technology has now been
patented and is to be commercialized by Norrköping-based spin-off
company Ligna Energy AB. An increasing share of renewable energy
in the energy mix and increasing consumption of electricity in
society are causing major challenges for balancing power supply
networks. In principle, electricity is consumed at the instant of
its production, so there are currently limited options for storing
large amounts of electricity. The problem is particularly acute
during cold periods when the demand for electricity is a highest
imbalance in the grid can cause serious power outages.
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4) Oklo Microreactor Runs on Nuclear Waste
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The face
of nuclear energy is changing, and one of the companies working to
redefine what nuclear energy looks like is Oklo. The 22-person
Silicon Valley start-up has a plan to build mini-nuclear reactors,
powered by the waste of conventional nuclear reactors and housed in
aesthetically pleasing A-frame structures. “Microreactors are an
exciting innovation that completely flips the technology story for
nuclear energy,” Alex Gilbert, a project manager for nuclear power
think tank the Nuclear Innovation Alliance.
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4) Record Breaking Offshore Wind Energy Sales
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After days
of bidding, six companies emerged as winners last week in a
record-breaking auction for the rights to develop offshore wind in
federal waters off New York and New Jersey.
The total
of the winning bids was $4.37 billion for
488,000 acres spread across six lease areas. The process was
overseen by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.
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