This is a great ideia to help to solve a major concern for cyclists is cities: security for their bikes. A lot os bikes are stolen, or at least part of it.

This is a great ideia to help to solve a major concern for cyclists is cities: security for their bikes. A lot os bikes are stolen, or at least part of it.

#bike #bicycles #cycling #storage

Originally shared by Engineering Network
http://www.industrytap.com/nijmegen-tokyo-cities-building-high-tech-parks-cyclists/32928

sunfire has developed a technique for efficient liquid fuel (petrol, diesel, kerosene, methanol) production. Base products carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) are used in combination with electrical energy from regenerative sources to produce process gas which is subsequently synthesized into hydrocarbons. Existing refinery technology can be used to convert these hydrocarbons into fuels.

sunfire has developed a technique for efficient liquid fuel (petrol, diesel, kerosene, methanol) production. Base products carbon dioxide (CO2) and water (H2O) are used in combination with electrical energy from regenerative sources to produce process gas which is subsequently synthesized into hydrocarbons. Existing refinery technology can be used to convert these hydrocarbons into fuels.

Interesting technique. Can be used for energy storage for solar power plants. Alternative energy sources are popping up.

#renewables
http://www.sunfire.de/en/produkte/fuel/power-to-liquids

Interesting article on the impact of AI and Robotics in the workplace.

Interesting article on the impact of AI and Robotics in the workplace.

#robotics #AI

Originally shared by Gideon Rosenblatt

“In the 1980s, 8.2% of the US workforce were employed in new technologies introduced in that decade,” he notes. “By the 1990s, it was 4.2%. For the 2000s, our estimate is that it’s just 0.5%. That tells me that, on the one hand, the potential for automation is expanding – but also that technology doesn’t create that many new jobs now compared to the past.”

This worries Chace. “There will be people who own the AI, and therefore own everything else,” he says. “Which means homo sapiens will be split into a handful of ‘gods’, and then the rest of us.

“I think our best hope going forward is figuring out how to live in an economy of radical abundance, where machines do all the work, and we basically play.”


http://www.theguardian.com/business/2015/nov/07/artificial-intelligence-homo-sapiens-split-handful-gods

"Is hydrogen the new oil? Many scientists believe that in the future hydrogen could substitute oil and natural gas for energy production. But the production of hydrogen is itself a very energy-consuming process. Scientists from the Jülich Research Centre could well have the answer to the problem: Light-induced water splitting. The central building block is a multijunction silicon solar cell."

"Is hydrogen the new oil? Many scientists believe that in the future hydrogen could substitute oil and natural gas for energy production. But the production of hydrogen is itself a very energy-consuming process. Scientists from the Jülich Research Centre could well have the answer to the problem: Light-induced water splitting. The central building block is a multijunction silicon solar cell."

Interesting development. Comparing to solar enery, hydrogen has a strong advantage. It can be stored.

#hydrogen #renewables #solar
http://www.smart2zero.com/en/hydrogen-production-by-light-comes-closer.html?cmp_id=7&news_id=10006347&vID=1879&from_mail=1#.Vjd3iIkYa5M