 In this week's Abundance Insider: 3D printing metamaterials, Quanergy's solid-state LIDAR sensor, and Microsoft's speech recognition breakthrough. Cheers, P.S. Send any tips to our team by clicking here, and send your friends and family to this link to subscribe to Abundance Insider. 3D Printed Squishy Door Handle Made of Metamaterials What it is: Researchers at Germany's Hasso Plattner Institute have refined 3D-printed metamaterial, which is a system of microstructures printed inside an object. Made from silicone cell grids, the objects created have properties not found in nature, such as controlled directional movement. Typically, 3D printed materials are solid and stiff, but metamaterial can add movement, with microstructures that expand and contract -- like the squishy door handle shown here. Why it's important: We can currently 3D print in over 200 materials and mixed materials, and this particular breakthrough adds yet another capability to the mix. Soon, researchers will be able to make entire machines in a single print process, eliminating the need for assembly and giving even everyday objects like pliers and doorknobs unexpected functionality. Join the Discussion Spotted by Skye Lininger / Written by Jason Goodwin Researchers Pinpoint Chemical They Say 'Has the Potential to Postpone Aging' What it is: A new study from the University of Copenhagen's Center for Healthy Aging and the American National Institute of Health identified coenzyme NAD+ as the chemical that could potentially postpone physical aging in humans and even help prevent conditions like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease. The chemical was examined on mice and roundworms bred with Ataxia telangiectasia (A-T), an illness that hinders DNA repairs. Although the chemical's effects on humans have yet to be tested, researchers believe it could have major implications on human longevity. Why it's important: Peter's efforts to help extend the healthy human lifespan through Human Longevity Inc. (HLI) are closely aligned with the proactive, preventative, and personalized changes we'll see in healthcare in the near future. If this chemical's effects can successfully delay the process of aging in humans, too, NAD+ could be a powerful tool in our growing longevity toolkit. Join the Discussion
Spotted by Dan Sullivan / Written by Sydney Fulkerson Aurora Demonstrates ALIAS Robotic System on Cessna Aircraft What it is: Earlier this month, Aurora Flight Sciences showed off the automated flight technology in its ALIAS robotic system, using it to fly a Cessna Caravan. This marks the third different aircraft this year on which Aurora has successfully tested its technology. "Developed under contract through the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), ALIAS utilizes a robotic system that functions as a second pilot in a two-crew aircraft," as Unmanned Systems Technology reports, "enabling reduced crew operations while ensuring that aircraft performance and mission success are maintained or improved." Why it's important: Just as we're seeing brand new autonomous systems under development, we're also seeing retrofit systems that, like ALIAS, quickly transform existing vehicles and planes into autonomous cars. This enables organizations to modernize their fleet, optimize operations and ultimately surf on the wave of transportation automation. Join the Discussion Spotted by Rick Beasley / Written by Marissa Brassfield Microsoft's New Speech Recognition System Achieves Human Parity in Audible Words What it is: New technology from Microsoft recently achieved a historic milestone by reaching human parity in speech recognition. The new system performed at a word error rate of only 5.9% -- 6.3% lower than the previous month -- due to Microsoft's neural network technology, which makes the same inferences humans make when correcting for misheard words. Microsoft will continue to improve the system's accuracy in more real-world settings, like work environments, where background noise makes it difficult to recognize conversational speech. "Even five years ago, I wouldn't have thought we could have achieved this. I just wouldn't have thought it would be possible," said Harry Shum, the executive vice president who heads the Microsoft Artificial Intelligence and Research group. Why it's important: AI is enabling truly effective human-technology teamwork. When computers can understand natural language as well as humans, as Microsoft has just demonstrated, users can interact with their AIs just as they would a trusted friend, and ultimately unshackle their own creativity. Join the Discussion Spotted by Cody Rapp, Dan Swift / Written by Sydney Fulkerson Self-Driving Car Sensors Just Got Smaller, Cheaper, and Better All at Once What it is: Quanergy is dematerializing and demonetizing self-driving car sensors with its just-announced S3 solid-state LIDAR. The S3 can scan objects in higher resolution and with greater range (200m vs 120m) than existing LIDAR sensors. Its LIDAR chip contains a million tiny antenna, capable of generating a million point cloud data points per second. Compared to the $7,999 barnacle-sized LIDAR seen on other self-driving prototypes from Uber and Alphabet, Quanergy has brought the cost of one sensor down to $250, and to a footprint similar to a point-and-shoot camera. Why it's important: We're witnessing an explosion of sensors, and this first-ever solid state LIDAR is cheaper and better than anything currently on the market. Quanergy's S3 is already slated for a 2017 Mercedes prototype and numerous commercial vehicles in 2018. But what happens when Quanergy releases a $100 sensor the size of two matchbooks, small enough for consumer drones? How does VR content explode when I can scan my home or street for $100? Join the Discussion Spotted by Peter Diamandis / Written by Jason Goodwin Scientists Accidentally Discover Efficient Process to Turn CO2 Into Ethanol What it is: In an attempt to find a series of chemical reactions that could turn CO2 into useful fuel, scientists at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee unexpectedly turned CO2 into ethanol. This accidental discovery was found using a copper-carbon combination arranged into nanospikes on a silicon surface, which resulted in precise reactions with minimal contaminants. The integration of common materials with nanotechnology could potentially power vehicles and power generators, and may soon be able to remove large amounts of CO2 from the atmosphere. Why it's important: As Peter mentioned in his blog on disrupting solar, we're rapidly heading toward a future with abundant energy. Our history is full of examples of major discoveries and breakthroughs that happened by accident -- and this particular happy accident could revolutionize energy storage from a cost and efficiency perspective. Join the Discussion Spotted by Daniel Trakell, Kane Kennon, Jamie McLellan / Written by Sydney Fulkerson All Tesla Cars Being Produced Now Have Full Self-Driving Hardware What it is: Tesla Motors recently announced that all of its vehicles from here on out will be equipped with full self-driving hardware. The fully autonomous Tesla cars will be equipped using eight surround cameras with 360-degree visibility, 12 ultrasonic sensors, a forward-facing radar, and an onboard computer with 40 times the power of the vehicle's previous model. Until the new hardware's features are fully activated, Tesla will continue collecting and analyzing its millions of miles of real-world driving data. Why it's important: If Tesla Autopilot 2.0 proves to be successful, soon enough a human driver will no longer be required behind the wheel, cutting down road fatalities and helping with road congestion. Full autonomy will revolutionize personal transportation, and force us to consider questions about private car insurance, driving licenses and how we spend our work commutes. Join the Discussion Spotted by Gaëtan Soltesz, Jody Williamson / Written by Sydney Fulkerson Iris.AI is a Researcher's New Best Friend What it is: Iris is an AI science assistant designed to help you identify relevant research for your thesis work or R&D project. Using a neural network to map key concepts from more than 30 million open access papers, Iris helps users visualize a topic and navigate to the most relevant research. Its first week post-launch saw over 10,000 users join. (Fun fact: Iris is a Singularity University GSP 2015 company.) Why it's important: Anyone who has spend time digging through research papers knows that formulating the right keywords from scratch is tough, and often the largest obstacle in getting to the most relevant research. Starting with a URL, Iris doubles researchers' productivity by generating a visual overview, which enables mental mapping in seconds. It won't be long until AI assistants like Iris will be considered essential tools, not just for improving productivity but for staying current on news and connecting the dots across subjects. What could Iris do for your physician, or an entrepreneur trying build on previous research? Join the Discussion Spotted by Maria Ritola / Written by Jason Goodwin Projection Mapping on a Moving Surface with a High-Speed Projector What it is: Ishikawa Watanabe Labratory researchers have demonstrated a new dynamic projection mapping technology that can map and remap video on deforming, malleable surfaces -- think T-shirts, or a crumpled piece of paper -- with just 3ms of latency. The DynaFlash 1,000 FPS projector and Deformable Dot Cluster Marker technology are the key technologies that enable near-real-time mapping. Why it's important: As Boing Boing reports, "[Current] forms of projection mapping all depend on precise, advance measurement of the projection surface, which is used to pre-deform the video to correctly map overtop of the surface." When we can remap video in real time on a variety of surfaces, both rigid and soft, we enable truly personalized, immersive experiences. Imagine a projector on a luxury brand storefront that projects its logo onto passersby. 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Friday, October 28, 2016
Thursday, October 27, 2016
Fwd: [shrimp] Re: RAS
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From: Dallas Weaver deweaver@me.com [shrimp] <shrimp@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Thursday, October 27, 2016
Subject: Re: [shrimp] Re: RAS
To: Shrimplist <shrimp@yahoogroups.com>
Nelson,
You need to look deeper into the physics, chemistry and ecologies of "dead zones" before you accept simple minded political analysis.
With phosphorous being one of the key nutrients in the Gulf hypoxic zone formation, there are two primary sources for this nutrient available. One being the agricultural and cities addition of nutrients that is very PC and fits environmental activist thinking. The researchers and activist in the Gulf can point to the source upstream in other states. However, the other much larger source is the recycling of P from the sediments by bottom trawlers.
However, when you look at the sinks and recycling of P in the oceans, you note that much of that annual hypoxic zone area is really an area of natural P deposit being formed in the sediments. Near the surface, with super high productivity you produce a rain of organic material down to the bottom below the thermocline in the spring and that this P containing organic material enters the sediment, bacterially mineralizes releasing soluble P and NH3 in the sediments (as it uses up the DO as a byproduct). This phosphate reacts with Ca while fluoride diffuses down from the seawater into the sediment precipitating out CaFP compounds. This is how many phosphate rock deposits (that we now mine) were formed from these net precipitation areas.
This sedimentation/mineralization mechanism is a very effective sink for P and limits the nutrient cycle for the hypoxic zones. However, we have the PC, "salt of the earth", hard working shrimp fishermen recycling this P back into he water column with their bottom trawls. Virtually 100% of he area gets resuspended every year by their activity and this negates the formation of sediments as a mechanism for eliminating excess P and also all the persistent organic pollutants (POP'S like DDT, PCB, PHA"s, etc.): sediments are the oceans waste disposal. Try and get funding from Sea Grant for research proving that the shrimp trawlers are creating massive ecological shifts by recycling P and POP's on a scale that excessed all other sources by a factor of 10 or more. Such research would shut down the shrimp trawler industry and that is significant.
The PC political power of a sector of our society is a function of its past significance, not it present position (huge time delays). Even though the wild harvest of shrimp in the US is insignificant, their political power remains. This was clearly shown in the BP blowout when dead turtles were found in large numbers and the press, activists, etc. blamed it all on BP and the lawyers extracted billions of dollars. However, if you look of the necropsies of these turtles you find majority were drowned by shrimp fishermen (their lungs contained water, mud and shrimp). We found the bodies dumped by the fishermen while looking for BP impacts.
I did a set of calculations looking that these mass transport issues, using government data on shrimp trawling in the Gulf area and showed that the flux of P into the water column from bottom trawlers stirring up the sediments was 10 times larger that the Mississippi river. These were just a little add-on to a study I did years ago looking at the indirect impacts of bottom trawling on suspended solids in the ocean. It turns out that the resuspension by bottom trawlers is the most significant source of human suspended solids pollution (SS) in the oceans and dominates most natural sources like rivers and storms and all other human sources of SS like industrial outfalls, dredge disposal, sewerage outfalls, etc. One bottom trawlers puts more SS pollution in the water column per hr than all the river runoff, sewerage disposal, industrial discharges and dredge disposal from all of So. California combined (an area of 20 million people dumping into the ocean).
There is a written part of the document (that doesn't include the P mass transport that became an issue after I finished the report), but there is a spread sheet with all my models for the mass transport and I added a small calculation to show that 10 larger source.
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10467656/Bottom%20Trawling/Bottom_Trawling%206.doc
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/10467656/Bottom Trawling/Bottom_Trawlers_4 update 2012.xlsx
I know it is convent to blame the "usual suspects" (capitalism, corporations, sewerage outfalls, runoff, and other institutions) without every looking deeply on the role of government bureaucrats behavior supporting the "wild shrimp industry" exploiting the commons. If the bureaucrats closed down the bottom trawlers, those bureaucrats would also loose their jobs and that wouldn't be acceptable. If bureaucrats expand their control over something innovative like UBER, they get to keep their jobs regulating taxi cab.
Looking at your link to climate change, i see the same sort of thin thinking with no quantification that is either wrong or misleading. Starting with an assumption of no wind or mixing changes and concluding that water temperature increase would be more than a minor impact is not putting any number on anything. We know about Q10 temperature effects (not big at 2ºC relative to nutrient changes that are often factors of 2 or more), but under eutrophic conditions algae growth rates are light limited (light penetration), not temperature or nutrient limited.
We are not seeing global temperature increases at the rates predicted because a minor change in trade winds can increase mixing in the ocean can bury that 4 Watts/M2 extra energy from greenhouse effects in a 1000 meter deep water column, while changing the average water temperature a near unmeasurable amount (put in the heat capacity of the ocean and the amount of heat it can store dwarfs all the annual CO2 extra heat inputs, which means we need better ocean models to get any handle on climate change on anything less than a multi-decade to century time scale basis — heat capacity slows responses, doesn't eliminate the issue).
As long as we keep allowing "junk" pseudoscience that says what we want to hear to pass as real understanding, humanity will loose.
Dallas
On Oct 26, 2016, at 10:36 AM, nelson gerundo nelsongerundo@yahoo.com [shrimp] <shrimp@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
If we add fertiliser runoff from agricultural land (not to mention pesticides) in addition to animal manure runoff from livestocks and poultry farms, and filthy human waste extract containing fecal bacteria and dissolved nutrients going into sewage while continuously flowing downstream.. we will eventually create a 'Dead Zone'
NOAA: Huge Ocean Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico (August 2013)
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NOAA: Huge Ocean Dead Zone in Gulf of Mexico (August 2013)
Follow ClimateState https://facebook.com/ClimateState August 1, 2013 - The Weather Channel host Matt Sampson dis...
Coastal aquatic environmental dead zone will come and go, recurring seasonally and sometimes persistently, in certain geographic locations everywhere in the world..
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ocean-dead-zones-are-getting-worse-globally-due-climate-change-180953282/ (Zarah Zielinski, 2014)
As human activities on earth continue to increase with increasing population in each passing of year.. dead zones will also continue to increase, both in location, magnitude and frequency..
There are now more than 400 dead zones all over planet earth..
Nelson
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Also, on the stinking juice extract contamination of natural bodies of water by sewage from humans, who produce 290 billion kg of feces every year with the addition of 1.98 billion liters of urine (Jeffrey Kluger, 2015), enteric bacteria such as Escherichia coli contained in sewer liquid do not survive long in seawater and usually are just rendered as VBNC (viable but nonculturable) especially in seawater challenged by salinity, nutrient availability, pH, temperature, light radiation etc.. besides fish love the oozing filthy particulate mixtures..
Delray Outfall Sewage Stopped
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Delray Outfall Sewage Stopped
For 45 years, 14 million-gallons-a-day of partially treated sewage was discharged one mile offshore of Delray Be...
Even in freshwater E. coli are merely rendered as VBNC..
Indianapolis - City Water Sewage Contaminating River - Pt. 2
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Indianapolis - City Water Sewage Contaminating River - Pt. 2
http://www.bigberkeywaterfilters.com In this Part 2, they tested the river for e-Coli contamination and found le...
Reduced in numbers from washing and subsequently exposed to heat from cooking.. these coliform bacterial contaminants derived from human feces and animal feces are rendered inactive and dead.. Good for safe eating.
http://femsre.oxfordjournals.org/content/femsre/25/5/513.full.pdf (Rozen and Belkin, 2001)
http://www.pjoes.com/pdf/9.3/215-222.pdf (Wcisko and Chrost, 2000)
Nelson
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Thank you very much Durwood. I believe you..
Nelson
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nelson gerundo nelsongerundo@yahoo.com <shrimpy@yahoogroups.com>
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In this digital document, 'CR' means 'Consumer Report'
Consumer Reports: Tests Find 60 Percent of Frozen Shrimp Contaminated With Bacteria | Food Safety News
Consumer Reports: Tests Find 60 Percent of Frozen Shrimp Contaminated With ...
A new Consumer Reports (CR) study released Friday found that 60 percent of 342 samples of frozen shrimp it teste...
In the Philippines, 'CR' means Comfort Room..
Philippines: When someone says, "I need to go to the comfort room," what does that mean?
Philippines: When someone says, "I need to go to the comfort room,&quo...
Answer (1 of 11): Yea, "comfort room" (you can also say "C.R.") is pretty universal across t...
In the US, it is called a 'Toilet'
Officials compare bacteria levels in Gulf to toilet water
Officials compare bacteria levels in Gulf to toilet water
"Swimming in a toilet" -- that's what one fire department likens taking a dip in the water along o...
All throughout planet earth, rivers, estuaries and finally the ocean act as the ultimate sink of sewage and runoff to dilute portions of these stinking juice while the beaches and mangroves sieves all kinds of solids including plastic, rubber, polystyrene and many unidentified nasty decomposing floating particulate solids.
The Ultimate Sink - The Daily Catch
The Ultimate Sink - The Daily Catch
In this episode of World Ocean Radio, host Peter Neill discusses the ocean as the ultimate sink. Not too long ag...
Offshore, some additional portion of these juice and waste containing fecal bacteria are even dump directly into the ocean only to be washed inshore..
http://libcloud.s3.amazonaws.com/93/ac/7/4988/Cruise_Ship_Report_Card_2014.pdf
These fecal juice containing bacteria are coming (a) INLAND from man-made sewer, garbage dump, human septic tank and animal farm runoff during floods.. and (b) OFFSHORE from all kinds of ships :)
Not just in East Asia or South Asia.. but in almost every human populated places on planet earth :)
Nelson
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Jeff,
I find it pleasant of you not resorting to blemishing reports such as this. to somewhat subjectively taint the reputation of imported frozen shrimp most particularly those coming from South Asia and East Asia on the issue of antibiotics and bacteria e.g. Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus, Vibrio and MRSA
Consumer Reports: Tests Find 60 Percent of Frozen Shrimp Contaminated With Bacteria | Food Safety News
Consumer Reports: Tests Find 60 Percent of Frozen Shrimp Contaminated With ...
A new Consumer Reports (CR) study released Friday found that 60 percent of 342 samples of frozen shrimp it teste...
And when you stated: " Our model relies not on scare tactics of the bloated reports of atrocities that are used to stigmatise all imported shrimp" .. it is just very professional of you to consider both (1) imported outdoor farmed shrimp, (2) locally wild caught shrimp, and (2) RAS grown shrimp without showing any bias while you continue with your shrimp RAS venture.. as shrimp means livelihood to all people around the world engaged in all forms of shrimp production in the shrimp industry.
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Fwd: #AskPeterD
 I give over 50 keynotes per year. My favorite part is fielding the crazy questions at the end. In fact, I love answering questions about exponentials and abundance so much that I've been encouraging my community (that's you) to tweet the questions at me using #AskPeterD. This week, I thought I'd share my video answers to four of my favorite (recent) questions. Check it out -- here are the questions:
Here are my answers:Is there a future of blockchain in government voting? How can we incentivize people to work together to help solve the world's biggest problems? How will VR change the business model of supermarkets in the future? How will AI, facial recognition, gaming and other technologies change how companies hire? Join Me and Ask Me AnythingI'd love to know which questions you'd like to have answered. Tweet me your question using #AskPeterD or by clicking here. Gain the confidence of knowing how exponential technologies will impact your business. My goal is to show you how to master the mindset of an 'exponential entrepreneur' so you can turn your bold dreams into reality, and your passion into profit. To be the first in line to learn more about Abundance 360 Digital, click here. P.S. Every week I send out a "Tech Blog" like this one. If you want to sign up, go to Diamandis.com and sign up for this and Abundance Insider. P.P.S. My dear friend Dan Sullivan and I have a podcast called Exponential Wisdom. Our conversations focus on the exponential technologies creating abundance, the human-technology collaboration, and entrepreneurship. Head here to listen and subscribe: a360.com/podcast If you wish to stop receiving our emails or change your subscription options, please Manage Your Subscription PHD Ventures , 800 Corporate Pointe, Suite 350, Culver City, CA 90230 |
Friday, October 21, 2016
Fwd: Abundance Insider: October 21 Edition
 In this week's Abundance Insider: Supercapacitor trams, bypassing blindness with VR, and a CRISPR-Cas9 breakthrough in sickle cell disease. Cheers, P.S. Send any tips to our team by clicking here, and send your friends and family to this link to subscribe to Abundance Insider. Legally Blind Man Sees Clearly for the First Time Ever, Thanks to Virtual Reality What it is: Using an HTC Vive headset, Jamie Soar was recently able to see clearly for the first time in his life. Soar has retinitis pigmentosa, a condition that has rendered him legally blind, but because of VR's sense of depth and dual-screen projection method, Soar was able to see past his visual impairment -- literally. In a follow-up interview with UploadVR, Soar said that he now tries VR as often as possible, and hopes to soon do all of his computer-based work in virtual reality, rather than with a traditional screen. Why it's important: Jamie Soar's use of VR to bypass his blindness is a great example of how the technology is useful for far more than just gaming and entertainment. As Peter has mentioned, VR's potential in the health industry alone is limitless -- with Soar's story as a promising early example. Join the Discussion Spotted by Aryadeep S. Acharya / Written by Sydney Fulkerson Genome Engineering Paves the Way for Sickle Cell Cure What it is: A team of physicians from UC Berkeley, UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital, the Oakland Research Institute (CHORI) and the University of Utah School of Medicine have taken a key step toward a cure for sickle cell disease. The team used CRISPR-Cas9 to correct the disease-causing mutation in hematopoietic stem cells, producing healthy hemoglobin, which mutated cells do not make at all. Beyond validating the potential of CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing, the team corrected a high enough proportion of stem cells to remain en vivo for at least four months, a key benchmark for ensuring lasting therapeutic benefit, and anticipate early-phase human treatments within five years. Why it's important: This development is exciting not only for its potential to cure sickle cell disease, but because the approach might also be applied to other blood diseases such as β-thalassemia, severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), chronic granulomatous disease, rare disorders like Wiskott-Aldrich syndrome and Fanconi anemia, and even HIV infection. Join the Discussion Spotted by Gregory Scherf / Written by Jason Goodwin The President in Conversation With MIT's Joi Ito and WIRED's Scott Dadich What it is: President Obama sat down with MIT Media Director Joi Ito and WIRED's Scott Dadich to discuss the future of AI and the spectrum of emotional responses to the technology. The conversation touched on how AI will affect the future of work, the government, and society's need for conversation around the integration of AI. Why it's important: Abundance Insider readers know we frequently discuss how AI can help solve some of society's most daunting challenges, but also acknowledge the disruptive change it will create in the near future. In this interview, President Obama touched on how, as a nation, the U.S. must figure out how to successfully manage transitions in the workforce. Will various world governments welcome AI with open arms, or with oppressive regulation? Join the Discussion Spotted by Cody Rapp / Written by Sydney Fulkerson Lab-Grown Stem Cells Regenerate Monkey Hearts What it is: Researchers at Shinshu University in Japan have brought us one step closer to full-blown organ regeneration. They've successfully repaired five monkeys' damaged hearts using stem cells made from the skin cells of just one monkey. It's reportedly the first time induced pluripotent stem cells (made by stimulating mature cells into a juvenile, adaptable state) have been used to fix heart damage. Why it's important: The researchers' ultimate goal is to find an uncontroversial, scalable way to rejuvenate cells for transplantation in heart attack victims. How does aging change when we can regenerate an endless supply of stem cells on demand, from our own bodies? Join the Discussion Spotted by Gregory Scherf / Written by Marissa Brassfield Harnessing Algae for Clean Energy Power Plants What it is: Tel Aviv University researchers have used genetic engineering to increase microalgae hydrogen production by an astonishing 400% -- all based on their new discovery of how algae actually produce hydrogen. "Researchers in the past believed that algae only produce hydrogen in the course of a single microburst at dawn lasting just a few minutes," reports Phys.org. "But Dr. Yacoby and his team used highly sensitive technology to discover that algae produce hydrogen from photosynthesis all day long." Why it's important: Currently, the way we draw hydrogen out of natural gas is inefficient and toxic. What if we could grow our "gasoline" via home algae farms? "Cultivating energy from agriculture is really the next revolution," explains Dr. Yacoby. "There may be other ways to produce hydrogen, but this is the greenest and the only agricultural one." Join the Discussion Spotted by Gregory Scherf / Written by Marissa Brassfield China's First Homemade Supercapacitor Tram Unveiled What it is: CRRC Zhuzhou Locomotive Co., Ltd in Zhuzhou, China has released the nation's first independently designed supercapacitor tram. The train ditches overheard wires and ground electricity altogether; instead, it charges during 30-second stops. Xinhuanet reports the tram can travel at 70 km per hour and carry 380 passengers. Why it's important: This supercapacitor train solves a number of challenges (logistical, aesthetic, financial, structural and energy, among others) that plague current above-ground public transportation options. Its versatile, environmentally friendly design could eventually enable well-populated areas without existing infrastructure to rapidly expand into modern cities. Join the Discussion Spotted by Sherwin Chan / Written by Marissa Brassfield A Virtual Reality Full Body Illusion Improves Body Image Disturbance in Anorexia Nervosa What it is: A Berlin research team recently published their research on how a virtual reality full-body illusion (FBI) can help anorexia nervosa patients decrease their overestimation of body size. Patients were asked to estimate their body size before introducing the FBI and again after the FBI. While wearing the Oculus Rift DK2, patients experienced simple brush strokes on their abdomen, which were exactly replicated in VR on the avatar's body. The results, although not static, proved that we can change the disturbed experience of body size in anorexia nervosa patients. Why it's important: We've previously written about VR's tremendous potential for treating depression and PTSD. If VR can also be used to treat psychological issues stemming from negative body image, we may eventually be able to "reprogram" our brains to forgive and forget the "baggage" of other harmful social experiences like bullying, child abuse and possibly even sexual trauma. Join the Discussion Spotted by Richard van Tilborg / Written by Sydney Fulkerson Scientists Have Created Mice with Hyper-long Telomeres Without Altering the Genes What it is: The Telomeres and Telomerase Group at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), in collaboration with the Centre's Transgenic Mice Core Unit, has succeeded in creating mice in the laboratory with hyper-long telomeres and reduced molecular aging. This builds on previous research showing that in vitro culturing of iPS stem cells (derived from adult tissues) resulted in the elongation of iPS telomeres to twice their length. The team successfully created mice with these hyper-long telomeres, resulting in all of the benefits attributed to more youthful telomeres such as lower tumor incidence and a greater capacity to repair DNA damage. Why it's important: This success means that it's possible to generate adult tissue with with longer telomeres without genetic manipulation, giving researchers multiple paths to human longevity and reducing age-related diseases. While it remains to be seen if these mice live longer, iPS cells have tremendous promise in their own right, including being able to make them in a patient-matched manner, raising the possibility of personalized treatments or organ matching without the risk of immune rejection. More resilient stem cells could lead to more effective and powerful stem cell therapies. Join the Discussion Spotted by Brian Vangsgaard / Written by Jason Goodwin German Lawmakers Vote to Ban the Internal Combustion Engine What it is: Germany's Bundesrat recently passed a resolution to ban the internal combustion engine beginning in 2030, which would mean that in as little as 14 years, only zero-emission vehicles would be allowed on EU roads. While the bipartisan agreement still needs EU approval, as Forbes notes, "German regulations traditionally have shaped EU and UNECE regulations." The measure also calls on EU automakers to review their current taxation and dues for ways to stimulate emissions-free mobility. Why it's important: As Peter has previously written, a tsunami of change is coming for the automotive industry, and it's up to automakers to either ride atop this wave or get crushed by it. Germany has already taken action to support its goal of 100% zero-emission vehicles on EU roads by 2030. How will the EU -- and other governments around the world -- respond? 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Sunday, October 16, 2016
Fwd: [shrimp] Sustainable aquaculture and other unicorns.
| ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: 'Durwood M. Dugger' ddugger@biocepts.com [shrimp] <shrimp@yahoogroups.com> Date: Sun, Oct 16, 2016 at 11:45 AM Subject: [shrimp] Sustainable aquaculture and other unicorns. To: shrimp@yahoogroups.com Patrick and Dallas, I would point out to you that the sum total of the current global anthropogenically impacted environmental situation - is the absolute result of individual decisions directly and indirectly, whether the voter or the politicians and or bureaucrats they tolerate. It would unrealistic, to think that good will alone will change the status quo. is a 2011 book - "Techno-Fix shows why negative unintended consequences of science and technology are inherently unavoidable and unpredictable, why counter-technologies, techno-fixes, and efficiency improvements do not offer lasting solutions, and why modern technology, in the presence of continued economic growth, does not promote sustainability but instead hastens collapse." I've just completed helping put together some college graduate courses on anthropogenic impacts on the marine environment. It has produced some rude awakenings for me with regard my previous hopes that current environmental mitigation efforts might help. As it turns out population and consumption more than cancels all current mitigation efforts and then some. (see Key Findings: https://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/unfccc/sbsta40/SED/1_blanco_sed3.pdf). Being able to continue to avoid basic biological paradigms that unerringly have caused population collapses in other species that grew past their critical resource availability on a planet of declining, ever diluted, increasing costly critical resources (primarily energy) has only temporarily delayed the human species collapse, not removed the possibility or the probability. At present human civilization survival depends on finding and replacing fossil fuel energy and all other current energy sources and finding one capable of supplying global energy demands at costs far below present energy costs - even considering present reduced petroleum fuel costs. The 1% solar (http://cleantechnica.com/2015/06/12/solar-power-passes-1-global-threshold/) and the 3.7% wind (http://www.gwec.net/global-figures/wind-in-numbers/) that currently contributes to global energy production are not going to be enough to off set fossil fuel energy replacement - either in quantity or cost of energy - ever. Additionally the bio-energy sources widely touted as renewable and sustainable are only renewable as long as petroleum and NPK are around to produce them at the scales needed for commercial reality - and consequently are far from sustainable. We need and energy source that satisfies global energy demands, we need one that changes the economics of recycling critical resources both at the raw product level and the molecular level. Anything less than this will ultimately result in a food shortage/economic/chaos collapse of global civilization. The points Dallas makes are absolutely correct regarding the higher efficiency of aquaculture over land based meat production. As resource scarcity raises costs higher than present (essentially when we go through the additional petroleum reserves that fracking technology has provided), RAS at huge integrated and economically optimized scales will surpass land and open ocean based aquaculture systems in economic efficiency. This higher economic efficiency is because RAS is the only food production concept wherein all the nutrients are already contained/entrained within the system making them much more economically efficient to recycle into other side stream income products. L. (P.? which is it now) v. shrimp are an ideal first candidate species for this kind of integrated economically optimized RAS because of their omnivorous feeding habits and their ability to help constantly move particulates in recirculating systems preventing them from adhering and becoming anaerobic (and reducing comparative circulation energy costs). The RAS system has higher comparative efficiency as well because it already has the majority of the "sunk" costs (in properly designed systems) necessary to efficiently convert liquid and solid wastes into side stream incomes, with only minor increases in capital - compared to land based poultry, swine and dairy. Touching on the subject of food wastes, like much popular media data - it isn't necessarily accurate. For example unused food from restaurants and institutions (hospitals, military bases, an other concentrated food use centers) are generally counted as wastes, when in truth they are generally recovered by swine farmers. Same with spoiled vegetables at scale. Sometimes, blemished vegetables are counted as "wastes" only to have those same vegetables show up at the local farmers markets and road side sales. How much of the current "food waste data" is accurate is very difficult to determine, but it is quite obvious the real numbers are actually much lower. Additionally, the ability to reduce waste at scale below current levels within realistic economic boundaries is also exaggerated and even more difficult to change under current and aging infrastructure. The economics to change that infrastructure are also not available as more and more money is spent to pacify human overpopulation with no necessary contributions. It's a difficult and troubling problem. There are no easy solutions. One of the more surprising revelations in my recent research activities was to discover that much of the current conversation on climate change is driven not by real climate concerns, environmental concerns, not by social concerns, but rather by basic economics of the global governments needs for additional tax revenues. If you research "carbon taxes" one of the first consistency you find in their government support is that the governments primary interest in them is to solve government debt, especially social service debts. Like most past environmental taxes, basically specific problem taxes in general, only a minor amount of carbon taxes will be spent on reducing CO2 emissions and research for economically viable alternative energy solutions, and I guarantee you none will be spent on trying to reduce human overpopulation which by definition becomes the primary driver of all anthropogenic impacts. This just another indication of the lack economic reality we have in our ability of solving our many problems. There is hope of course. The simple hope is that we will actually do something about our problems rather continue to support the status quo. Best regards, __._,_.___ Posted by: "Durwood M. Dugger" <ddugger@biocepts.com>
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Fwd: presidential wisdom
 Last week President Obama published an article in Wired titled, "Now is the greatest time to be alive." What he wrote, made my day, and putting aside politics, I feel obligated to share what he wrote, as it's beautifully done. I find it refreshing and inspiring to have a leader who understands and embraces science and technology This week's blog focus is my "cut down" (a readable, bite-sized chunk) of the President's article (read the original article here.) Enjoy and Share. Now Is the Greatest Time to Be AliveWe are far better equipped to take on the challenges we face than ever before. I know that might sound at odds with what we see and hear these days in the cacophony of cable news and social media. But the next time you're bombarded with over-the-top claims about how our country is doomed or the world is coming apart at the seams, brush off the cynics and fear mongers. Because the truth is, if you had to choose any time in the course of human history to be alive, you'd choose this one. Right here in America, right now. Let's start with the big picture. By almost every measure, this country is better, and the world is better, than it was 50 years ago, 30 years ago, or even eight years ago. Leave aside the sepia tones of the 1950s, a time when women, minorities, and people with disabilities were shut out of huge parts of American life. Just since 1983, when I finished college, things like crime rates, teen pregnancy rates, and poverty rates are all down. Life expectancy is up. The share of Americans with a college education is up too. Tens of millions of Americans recently gained the security of health insurance. Blacks and Latinos have risen up the ranks to lead our businesses and communities. Women are a larger part of our workforce and are earning more money. Once-quiet factories are alive again, with assembly lines churning out the components of a clean-energy age. And just as America has gotten better, so has the world. More countries know democracy. More kids are going to school. A smaller share of humans know chronic hunger or live in extreme poverty. In nearly two-dozen countries—including our own—people now have the freedom to marry whomever they love. And last year the nations of the world joined together to forge the most comprehensive agreement to battle climate change in human history." This kind of progress hasn't happened on its own. It happened because people organized and voted for better prospects; because leaders enacted smart, forward-looking policies; because people's perspectives opened up, and with them, societies did too. But this progress also happened because we scienced the heck out of our challenges. Science is how we were able to combat acid rain and the AIDS epidemic. Technology is what allowed us to communicate across oceans and empathize with one another when a wall came down in Berlin or a TV personality came out. Without Norman Borlaug's wheat, we could not feed the world's hungry. Without Grace Hopper's code, we might still be analyzing data with pencil and paper. That's one reason why I'm so optimistic about the future: the constant churn of scientific progress. Think about the changes we've seen just during my presidency. When I came into office, I broke new ground by pecking away at a BlackBerry. Today I read my briefings on an iPad and explore national parks through a virtual-reality headset. Who knows what kind of changes are in store for our next president and the ones who follow? Because the truth is, while we've made great progress, there's no shortage of challenges ahead: Climate change. Economic inequality. Cybersecurity. Terrorism and gun violence. Cancer, Alzheimer's, and antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Just as in the past, to clear these hurdles we're going to need everyone—policy makers and community leaders, teachers and workers and grassroots activists, presidents and soon-to-be-former presidents. And to accelerate that change, we need science. We need researchers and academics and engineers; programmers, surgeons, and botanists. And most important, we need not only the folks at MIT or Stanford or the NIH but also the mom in West Virginia tinkering with a 3-D printer, the girl on the South Side of Chicago learning to code, the dreamer in San Antonio seeking investors for his new app, the dad in North Dakota learning new skills so he can help lead the green revolution. That's how we will overcome the challenges we face: by unleashing the power of all of us for all of us. Not just for those of us who are fortunate, but for everybody. That means creating not just a quicker way to deliver takeout downtown but also a system that distributes excess produce to communities where too many kids go to bed hungry. Not just inventing a service that fills your car with gas but also creating cars that don't need fossil fuels at all. Not just making our social networks more fun for sharing memes but also harnessing their power to counter terrorist ideologies and online hate speech. The point is: we need today's big thinkers thinking big. Think like you did when you were watching Star Trek or Star Wars or Inspector Gadget. Think like the kids I meet every year at the White House Science Fair. We started this event in 2010 with a simple premise: We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated but the winner of the science fair. We must continue to nurture our children's curiosity. We must keep funding scientific, technological, and medical research. And above all, we must embrace that quintessentially American compulsion to race for new frontiers and push the boundaries of what's possible. If we do, I'm hopeful that tomorrow's Americans will be able to look back at what we did—the diseases we conquered, the social problems we solved, the planet we protected for them—and when they see all that, they'll plainly see that theirs is the best time to be alive. And then they'll take a page from our book and write the next great chapter in our American story, emboldened to keep going where no one has gone before. Join MeThis is the sort of conversation we explore at my executive mastermind group called Abundance 360. The program is highly selective. If you'd like to be considered, apply here. Share this with your friends, especially if they are interested in any of the areas outlined above. P.S. Every week I send out a "Tech Blog" like this one. If you want to sign up, go to Diamandis.com and sign up for this and Abundance Insider. 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