Author: Sic

via These giant fans can suck CO2 out of the atmosphere, and then use it as fuel! | Sciencedump.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0pgf3AoqAY

Jump to the 11:35 mark for info about the gyroscopes

Scientists have developed a first-of-its-kind, 3-D printed guide that helps regrow both the sensory and motor functions of complex nerves after injury. The groundbreaking research has the potential to help more than 200,000 people annually who experience nerve injuries or disease.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150918105030.htm

http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/nukes-since-1945.jpg

The top layer of the roofing product (pictured) generates electricity in the same way as solar PV modules – although it uses thin film technology for less weight and thickness – while heat is trapped and distributed between the two layers for use in water and space heating.

http://reneweconomy.com.au/2014/bluescope-unveils-world-first-solar-roof-with-heat-and-power-32417

Tri Alpha energy has created a small prototype (the size of two buses) that can make a (more) stable gas plasma tube.  Now they are making a bigger one.

This kind of reminds me of that phone game Osmos

Researchers from James Cook University in Australia have found a new way to make the wonder material from the tea tree plant

“The researchers found that they could manufacture a significant amount of almost defect-free graphene in a matter of seconds to minutes, while current methods usually take several hours,”

Importantly, the technique also works without the need for any catalysts, or non-renewable or toxic precursors. And it works at relatively low temperatures.

via Scientists have found a cheap way to make graphene from tea tree extract – ScienceAlert.

A team of researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory developing a bioinorganic hybrid approach to artificial photosynthesis have achieved another milestone. Having generated quite a buzz with their hybrid system of semiconducting nanowires and bacteria that used electrons to synthesize carbon dioxide into acetate, the team has now developed a hybrid system that produces renewable molecular hydrogen and uses it to synthesize carbon dioxide into methane, the primary constituent of natural gas.

via Another milestone in hybrid artificial photosynthesis.

One of my favourite topics.  This guy gets it right in a long winded way.