Daniel Khent

“This Company Wants to Sell You Sunlight at Night From Space” Lights My Way #technology #scifi

VICE

This Company Wants to Sell You Sunlight at Night From Space

Reflect Orbital will use a satellite with a mirror on it to reflect sunlight to a specific location on Earth.

Scientists bend magnetic fields around real-world objects to create ‘invisibility cloaks’ At least from magnetic field sensing bad guys. #technology #scifi

The Brighter Side of News

Scientists bend magnetic fields around real-world objects to create 'invisibility cloaks'

New research shows magnetic cloaks can be built for real-world shapes using superconductors and soft magnets.

CO2 Battery Designed To Store Renewable Energy Holds the equivalent CO2 of 15 round-trip flights between New York and London on a Boeing 777. Note, not a carbon capture play. #renewableenergy

ZME Science

This Giant Inflatable Dome Is Actually a CO2 Battery Designed To Store Renewable Energy For a Full Day. Here’s How It Works

By compressing and expanding carbon dioxide, this unusual battery solves one of renewable energy’s toughest reliability problems.

Polar bears face very high extinction risk this century. Some populations show genetic changes that may help them in warmer, less icy environments. #climatechange ​

RSE Magazine

Les ours polaires s'adaptent au changement climatique au niveau génétique – et cela pourrait les aider à éviter l'extinction

L'océan Arctique atteint des températures inégalées depuis 125 000 ans, menaçant les ours polaires d'extinction d'ici 2050.

A startup claims to have discovered a previously unknown geothermal system in western Nevada with no surface manifestations using AI Interesting, but untested #renewableenergy #geothermal

WIRED

A Startup Says It Has Found a Hidden Source of Geothermal Energy

Zanskar uses AI to identify hidden geothermal systems—and claims it has found one that could fuel a power plant, the first such discovery by indu...

Soil is more important than oil. “Why is it that we cannot have perennial grains that grow like prairie plants?” #agriculture

the Guardian

‘Soil is more important than oil’: inside the perennial grain revolution

Scientists in Kansas believe Kernza could cut emissions, restore degraded soils and reshape the future of agriculture

“detection is perhaps no longer possible because reality itself has become so weird” #literature #thomaspynchon

Literary Hub

Studies in Unmeaning: On Thomas Pynchon’s Detective Fictions

Thomas Pynchon’s late style, beginning with Inherent Vice (2009) and continuing through Bleeding Edge (2013) to Shadow Ticket (2025), represents ...

Trois voitures de Waymo se retrouvent bloquées dans une impasse I’m surprised this doesn’t happen all the time. #AI

Autoplus

Trois voitures de Waymo se retrouvent bloquées dans une impasse !

À San Francisco, des véhicules autonomes de Waymo se sont retrouvés piégés par une impasse et des manœuvres délicates.