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FuturologyBot t1_j18qnu9 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:
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>Now, a group of astronomers led by Alejandro Suárez Mascareño of the University of La Laguna, Spain, reports the finding of two new extrasolar planets as a result of RV measurements of the M-dwarf GJ 1002. The observations that led to the discovery were conducted with the Echelle SPectrograph for Rocky Exoplanets and Stable Spectroscopic Observations (ESPRESSO) and the Calar Alto high-Resolution search for M-dwarfs with Exoearths with Near-infrared and optical Échelle Spectrographs (CARMENES).
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>The newfound exoplanets received designations GJ 1002 b and GJ 1002 c. They both orbit GJ 1002 within its habitable zone and given that the star is only 15.78 light years away, the planets are among the closest to Earth that could potentially host habitable environments.
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Reply to The Metaverse: More Hype Than Substance? by dogonix
The following submission statement was provided by /u/dogonix:
NB: This is a repost . The initial post was removed as it was missing a "submission statement".
The concept of the metaverse has gained significant attention in recent years, with many speculating about its potential to revolutionize, in the future, the way we interact and engage with the world and with each other. However, there are still questions about whether it is more hype than substance, and whether it will truly live up to its promises.
One argument in favor of the metaverse is it can offer immersive and augmented experiences stimulating our senses in a way classical settings may not be able to achieve. This makes it a good fit for certain activities such as attending live events with a sense of presence and interacting with remote friends and co-workers in a way that feels like in-person meetings.
But the key questions are:
Does it make sense for people to be in an immersive 3D world for all regular day-to-day activities?
For example, having to enter a virtual branch of a bank to make a wire transfer would not make sense. The same is true for tasks such as stock trading, booking flights, summoning a ride-sharing service, … to only cite a few.
If we consider the argument that the metaverse is not only about VR but also about a blended version of virtual and physical worlds through augmented reality (AR), will it then be more likely to get a wide adoption in the future?
There is room for augmented experiences where not completely disconnecting from reality may be more effective than fully immersing ourselves in a virtual world. For example, learning the piano could be done by using a real instrument and having visual guidance overlayed on the keyboard, showing which key should be hit next
Still, some questions remain for AR:
Do we see a future where this will be our preferred primary way of interacting with the world for all day-to-day activities?
Will our delicate brains be able to handle a permanent visual stimulation directly projected onto our eyes?
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The following submission statement was provided by /u/strangeattractors:
Greenland's glaciers are melting 100 times faster than previously calculated, according to a new model that takes into account the unique interaction between ice and water at the island’s fjords.
The new mathematical representation of glacial melt factors in the latest observations of how ice gets eaten away from the stark vertical faces at the ends of glaciers in GGreenland. Previously, scientists used models developed in Antarctica, where glacial tongues float on top of seawater — a very different arrangement.
"For years, people took the melt rate model for Antarctic floating glaciers and applied it to Greenland's vertical glacier fronts," lead author Kirstin Schulz, a research associate in the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at University of Texas at Austin, said in a statement. "But there is more and more evidence that the traditional approach produces too low melt rates at Greenland's vertical glacier fronts."
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FuturologyBot t1_j106v6d wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Shelfrock77:
The next breakthrough to take the AI world by storm might be 3D model generators. This week, OpenAI open sourced Point-E, a machine learning system that creates a 3D object given a text prompt. According to a paper published alongside the code base, Point-E can produce 3D models in one to two minutes on a single Nvidia V100 GPU.
Point-E doesn’t create 3D objects in the traditional sense. Rather, it generates point clouds, or discrete sets of data points in space that represent a 3D shape — hence the cheeky abbreviation. (The “E” in Point-E is short for “efficiency,” because it’s ostensibly faster than previous 3D object generation approaches.) Point clouds are easier to synthesize from a computational standpoint, but they don’t capture an object’s fine-grained shape or texture — a key limitation of Point-E currently.
To get around this limitation, the Point-E team trained an additional AI system to convert Point-E’s point clouds to meshes. (Meshes — the collections of vertices, edges and faces that define an object — are commonly used in 3D modeling and design.) But they note in the paper that the model can sometimes miss certain parts of objects, resulting in blocky or distorted shapes.
Image Credits: OpenAI
Outside of the mesh-generating model, which stands alone, Point-E consists of two models: a text-to-image model and an image-to-3D model. The text-to-image model, similar to generative art systems like OpenAI’s own DALL-E 2 and Stable Diffusion, was trained on labeled images to understand the associations between words and visual concepts. The image-to-3D model, on the other hand, was fed a set of images paired with 3D objects so that it learned to effectively translate between the two.
When given a text prompt — for example, “a 3D printable gear, a single gear 3 inches in diameter and half inch thick” — Point-E’s text-to-image model generates a synthetic rendered object that’s fed to the image-to-3D model, which then generates a point cloud.
After training the models on a dataset of “several million” 3D objects and associated metadata, Point-E could produce colored point clouds that frequently matched text prompts, the OpenAI researchers say. It’s not perfect — Point-E’s image-to-3D model sometimes fails to understand the image from the text-to-image model, resulting in a shape that doesn’t match the text prompt. Still, it’s orders of magnitude faster than the previous state-of-the-art — at least according to the OpenAI team.
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Reply to Opportunities and blind spots in the White House’s blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights by Gari_305
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:
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>In October 2022, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) published a Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights (“Blueprint”), which shared a nonbinding roadmap for the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI). The comprehensive document identified five core principles to guide and govern the effective development and implementation of AI systems with particular attention to the unintended consequences of civil and human rights abuses. While the identification and mitigation of the intended and unintended consequential risks of AI have been widely known for quite some time, how the Blueprint will facilitate the reprimand of such grievances is still undetermined. Further, questions remain on whether the nonbinding document will prompt necessary congressional action to govern this unregulated space.
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FuturologyBot t1_j0z2vtm wrote
Reply to Experimental treatment destroys cancerous bone marrow cells in 73% of patients | The off-the-shelf immunotherapy targets cancer cells in a different way than existing therapies. by chrisdh79
The following submission statement was provided by /u/chrisdh79:
From the article: Researchers from Mount Sinai have shown that a therapy using talquetamab, an off-the-shelf drug known as a bispecific antibody, can be enlisted to kill multiple myeloma cells (a type of white blood cell) that can build up in the bone marrow and form tumors in bones. The therapy destroys cancerous cells in 3 out of 4 patients, and side effects, while common, are not severe.
The drug was tested in both phase 1 and phase 2 trials — the phase 1 trial established the safety and established a recommendation of two doses, whereas the phase 2 trials tested the effectiveness on 143 patients treated on a weekly dose and 145 patients treated at a higher biweekly dose.
The overall response rate was 73%, said Ajai Chari, study author. Around a third of the patients in both groups had a complete response — there was no detection of any myeloma-specific markers after the treatment. Almost 60% had a “very good partial response”, which means that the cancer was substantially reduced but not to zero.
“This means that almost three-quarters of these patients are looking at a new lease on life,” said Chari. “Talquetamab induced a substantial response among patients with heavily pretreated, relapsed, or refractory multiple myeloma, the second-most-common blood cancer. It is the first bispecific agent targeting the protein GPRC5d in multiple myeloma patients.”
The results are particularly exciting because patients who receive standard therapy for myeloma have a very high rate of relapse — and the more they relapse, the worse the prognosis becomes. But the success of talquematab was even seen in participants who were resistant to all other approved therapies, which makes this approach particularly promising. The researchers described this strategy as “bringing your army right to the enemy.”
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FuturologyBot t1_j0xf0x7 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Aeromarine_eng:
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A study from a group of researchers at the Colorado School of Mines looked at powering remote mining sites on earth that aren’t connected to any electric grid.
They found that solar power satellites aren’t yet economical enough to warrant the investment for powering remote mining sites that aren’t connected to any electric grid.
So, the answer to whether a space-based power satellite could power remote mines is “yes,” but there’s not much of a business case for it. There’s still a long way to go before beaming power from space becomes a profitable venture. But, as the authors note at the end of the paper, the whole calculation changes dramatically if some of the parts for the satellite are manufactured in space. So, there is still a point in the future, with a much more fleshed-out space infrastructure, where the price might eventually become competitive.
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FuturologyBot t1_j0w57ig wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:
From the article
>The scientists who devised the new method, outlined in a paper in the journal Frontiers in Astronomy and Space, did so as part of a thought experiment. They aimed to think up a space habitat idea that wouldn't require massive amounts of materials being launched into space.
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>A Manhattan-sized asteroid space habitat
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>The idea they ultimately came up with was to use materials already free-flying around space in massive quantities in the form of asteroids.
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FuturologyBot t1_j0r1s66 wrote
Reply to The IEA says humanity used the greatest amount of coal in 2022 in all of human history, and that this level of consumption will continue until at least 2025. One-third of all global coal goes to generate electricity in China, and India's coal use is growing at 6% per annum. by lughnasadh
The following submission statement was provided by /u/lughnasadh:
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Some of the facts and figures in this report are truly staggering - "In the 2022-2025 period, we expect China’s renewable power generation to increase by almost 1,000 TWh, equivalent to the total power generation of Japan today." - yet as China is growing so fast, that is only going to put a small dent in its coal use.
If there is any silver lining its that the IEA has previously said that relatively small tweaks in government policies on financial backing and planning could accelerate renewables adoption by a further 25%.
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FuturologyBot t1_j0ncq6i wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:
From the Article
>As for the NIF victory impacting space exploration, Ebrahimi said for space applications, compact fusion concepts are still needed. "Heavy components for space applications are not favorable," she said.
Also from the Article
>"Where we go as this evolves, and this seems to be several decades away, is toward actual fusion power plants here on Earth. But as to space exploration, we then have to consider how to reduce working fusion into something that can fit the size and weight constraints of a spacecraft," said Gilster.
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>There's no doubt in Gilster's mind that fusion can be managed for space exploration purposes, but he suspects that's still more than a few decades in the future.
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>"This work is heartening, then, but it should not diminish our research into alternatives like beamed energy as we consider missions beyond the solar system," said Gilster.
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FuturologyBot t1_j0mjmt7 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/DragonfruitOdd1989:
Submission Statement:
> In the past, the type of work AARO is charged with performing now involved only reports of anomalous phenomena that were seen in the air. But that has changed. Now, AARO expects to evaluate anomalous phenomena across all domains. And that means that individuals who operate in those other domains are also free now to file UAP reports. That's something Kirkpatrick said the AARO has been working with the services on.
> "[We're] working with the military departments and the Joint Staff to normalize, integrate and expand UAP reporting beyond the aviators — to all service members — including mariners, submariners and our space Guardians," Kirkpatrick said.
They are now going after underwater and space sightings.
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FuturologyBot t1_j0llekj wrote
Reply to World’s first net-zero transatlantic flight: Fly London to New York on used cooking oil. Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines will power the airline's flagship Boeing 787s as they fly from London to New York in 2023. by Zee2A
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Zee2A:
The United Kingdom government has revealed that Virgin Atlantic will fly a historic net zero London-New York flight in 2023. Virgin Atlantic won a competition to receive government funding for the first net zero transatlantic flight. “For decades, flying from London to New York has symbolized aviation’s ability to connect people and drive international progress. It’s now going to be at the forefront of cutting carbon emissions from flying,” said British transport secretary Mark Harper. The development is a huge step forward for the airline industry's greener dreams.
Rolls-Royce Trent 1000 engines will power the airline's flagship Boeing 787s as it flies green. However, this will not be a typical commercial airline flight; rather, it will be the first passenger flight in the history of commercial aviation that uses only sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). This flight is anticipated to be powered by SAF, which is mostly made from used cooking oil and other waste oils and fats. Compared to conventional fossil jet fuel, SAF can reduce lifecycle carbon emissions by nearly 70% when entirely replacing aviation kerosene: https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/virgin-atlantic-net-zero-transatlantic-flight-saf/index.html
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FuturologyBot t1_j0l6nt9 wrote
Reply to China EV Exports Surge by darth_nadoma
The following submission statement was provided by /u/darth_nadoma:
Tesla Shanghai Gigafactory will export more than 200 thousand cars out of China in 2022. Renault and BMW are also producing electric vehicles in China for export abroad. Volkswagen will join them in 2023.
And then you’ve got the Chinese brands themselves. “SAIC saw its EV
exports jump to 78,000 vehicles in the first three quarters, mostly with
the MG brand that it acquired in 2007. Rival BYD exported 22,000
vehicles and plans to do a lot more volume in 2023 as it continues to
enter new markets. Companies including Xpeng, Nio and Great Wall also
have announced big expansion plans.
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FuturologyBot t1_j0k24kp wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Primary-Food6413:
Will AI enhance workforce or break it down? Is ChatGPT a pocket nuclear weapon? The president of Y Combinator, Sam Altman, and the CEO of the AI company he co-founded in 2015 with Elon Musk and others, OpenAI, talk about ChatGPT, an AI chat bot.
Innovations and better technology will open up many more applications over the next decade. Businesses, in particular, will benefit from these advancements. For example, new AI chatbots with advanced translation capabilities could help companies expand globally and improve international customer service.
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FuturologyBot t1_j0i3lf8 wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Chris_ChargedEV:
The CEO of FreeWire Technologies is in as good a position as anyone to understand the relationship between oil and charging—his EV Charging company is working with several major oil retailers.
In this video he explains that Energy is the only S&P 500 sector that overperformed in 2022. Chevron and Exxon alone printed $200 billion in earnings in the last 3 quarters. Where are they going to spend all that cash?
Some of it is sloshing around in the EV infrastructure industry. Sosinov lists just a few recent announcements—plans to invest billions of dollars, and to build tens of thousands of charging stations.
They know that their industry is facing an existential threat. Investing a few of their billions in EV charging is the only logical thing to do. Sosinov also believes that quick-service restaurants will soon launch another wave of EVSE investment which will represent a whole new category of competition for Big Oil's convenient store business model.
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Reply to A world-first project that uses 'self-healing' concrete to repair sewage pipes | This technology will not only extend the lifespan of concrete structures, but also promote a circular economy. by chrisdh79
The following submission statement was provided by /u/chrisdh79:
From the article: Professor Yan Zhuge, an engineering expert at the University of South Australia, is trialing a novel solution. It involves no humans or bots but self-healing concrete.
The world-first project, if successful, could be a significant help. It could prevent 17,000 kilometers of sewer pipes in Australia from cracking in the future without any intervention by humans, helping to save $1.4 billion in annual maintenance costs, as per a release.
"We are confident this novel self-healing concrete based on advance composite technology will address issues of sewer pipe corrosion and sludge disposal in one hit," Zhuge said in a statement.
The microcapsules will release healing agents when pH value changes
Every year, hundreds of millions of dollars are required to treat sewage pipes buckling under internal pressure, temperature fluctuations, and corrosive acid. Self-healing concrete, in the form of microcapsules filled with water treatment sludge, could change everything.
"Sludge waste shows promise to mitigate microbial corrosion in concrete sewer pipes because it works as a healing agent to resist acid corrosion and heal the cracks," Zhuge said.
According to the release, researchers will develop microcapsules with a pH-sensitive shell and a healing agent core with alum sludge, a by-product of wastewater treatment plants, and calcium hydroxide powder. This combination will be resistant to microbially induced corrosion.
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Reply to Cellular agriculture and other emerging food technologies could release 80% of the worlds farm land currently used for meat and dairy production back to nature by DannyMcDanface1
The following submission statement was provided by /u/DannyMcDanface1:
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With cellular agriculture and precision fermentation on the brink of becoming mainstream it really does seem like we are at the start of a food production revolution. Being able to produce the foods we love using a fraction of the land would allow us to rewild and restore habitats that have been lost to farming. If this technology can undercut the price of conventional meat and dairy it will be a win for both the environment and farm animals.
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FuturologyBot t1_j0fuk0b wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/tonymmorley:
"An alloy made of almost equal amounts of chromium, cobalt and nickel resists fracturing even at incredibly cold temperatures, which could make it useful for building spacecraft" — Toughest material ever is an alloy of chromium, cobalt and nickel 🧊
Now, presuming you don't have mad bank to flex on a New Scientist subscription, and seeing as how I can't jump the paywall effectively, here's another alternative source.
This Alloy Is The Toughest Known Material on Earth, And It Gets Tougher in The Cold
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"An alloy of chromium, cobalt, and nickel has just given us the highest fracture toughness ever measured in a material on Earth.
It has exceptionally high strength and ductility, leading to what a team of scientists has called "outstanding damage tolerance".
Moreover – and counterintuitively – these properties increase as the material gets colder, suggesting some interesting potential for applications in extreme cryogenic environments."
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FuturologyBot t1_j0bi4lg wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/FarmhouseFan:
I wanted to post this here because there seems to have been confusion about whether or not this was actually a breakthrough and what it means short and long term for the work scientists and engineers are doing to bring us nearly unlimited clean energy. I hope this clears up a few things for some (including myself.)
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FuturologyBot t1_j0a0edn wrote
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Apart_Shock:
>A new study published in the journal PLoS ONE has reported on the first human tests of an experimental therapy using sound and light to treat Alzheimer's disease (AD). The initial findings are promising, with the unique treatment leading to some neurological and cognitive improvements, but the small trial size means more study is needed before anyone can say this type of therapy works.
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FuturologyBot t1_j07sykc wrote
Reply to Northrop Grumman’s wireless power distribution from space - The 'Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research' (SSPIDR) Project team is developing means to transmit concentrated solar energy from space to anywhere on Earth by Aerothermal
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Aerothermal:
Northrop Grumman unveils their wireless power project 'Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstrations and Research' (SSPIDR). It is being sold on its military applications for providing power to forward operating and contested areas, where warfighters need steady power to maintain mission operations. Consider the attacks on ground infrastructure in Ukraine, coupled with the force multiplier of UAVs, and the inherently short dwell time. Every problem is an opportunity to capitalize. Consider how powerful it would be to have mobile generators beaming power and keeping drones in the sky loitering potentially indefinitely. The Airbus Zephyr shown through solar power that it can be done, staying in the air for over 2 months at a time albeit with a huge wingspan and lots of solar cells.
This year Airbus demonstrated solar power beaming, with the idea of delivering concentrated power from space. Couple this with modern warfare developing 'teaming' or swarms of manned and unmanned vehicles and aircraft operating together.
The missile manufacturer MBDA unveiled a similar vision for the Future Combat Air System.
Lockheed Martin have been on it too for at least a decade, where they demonstrated laser power beaming to keep drones fully charged.
DARPA too have a similar project called Electric Sky which was in the media last year.
Startups are capitalizing on this emerging market too, such as the UK-based Space Power.
Then there's space exploration applications. NASA has ran several projects to develop visible light and laser power distribution, for UAVs, and for wireless charging for moon robots.
Medium/long range wireless power distribution is no longer sci-fi, it's starting to become serious business.
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Reply to US, allies mull paths for engaging China to ward off conflict over space exploration by Gari_305
The following submission statement was provided by /u/Gari_305:
From the Article
>The relevance and importance of the accords is also growing, she said, as more and more countries plan lunar exploration activities. Especially relevant are the accords’ provisions on “deconfliction of activities” in space beyond the Earth’s orbit and setting up “safety zones” around operations.
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>Melroy explained that a NASA study last fall found that “within the next four years, the global community is likely to launch at least 22 lunar surface missions, half of which will occur in the Moon’s south polar region.”
Which leads to an important question, given the fact that the lunar missions will occur in the next four years due to the exploration of minerals namely Helium 3, is it possible for nations to avoid space conflict, or are we doomed to repeat the many conflicts that occurred during the age of exploration roughly 500 years ago, only this time in space?
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Reply to Researchers discover a way to recycle one of the most problematic plastics | University of Michigan researchers implement electrochemistry in PVC recycling breakthrough. by chrisdh79
The following submission statement was provided by /u/chrisdh79:
From the article: Plastics are incredibly useful but dangerously problematic. Our planet is drowning in unrecycled plastic, and we need better ways to recycle to help it recover.
In theory, all plastics can be recycled, but the sad reality is that the vast majority never get recycled. This is due to the cost of collecting, cleaning, and sorting the thousands of types of plastics before they begin their recycling processes. Even though global recycling rates are barely at 5%, current projections show that global plastic waste is on course to triple by 2060. Polyvinyl chloride, commonly known as PVC, is the third most-produced plastic in the world and one of the most difficult to recycle. The high versatility of PVC has led to its use in a wide variety of products, including hospital equipment, plumbing, electrical wiring, packaging, and even clothing. Unfortunately, less than a quarter of 1% of post-consumer PVC is currently recycled.
Thanks to a research team at the University of Michigan, there is now a promising new technique to recycle PVC.
The team at the University of Michigan led by Danielle Fagnani and Anne McNeil has discovered a way to use a component of the PVC that previously made recycling incredibly difficult by improving the method's efficiency. The components that make PVC so difficult to recycle are the various additives it can contain called plasticizers. Plasticizers are compounds added in the production process to make PVC more flexible and durable. Fagnani stated in a recent interview, “PVC usually contains a lot of plasticizers, which contaminate everything in the recycling stream and are usually very toxic. It also releases hydrochloric acid really rapidly with some heat.”
The most detrimental of the plasticizers are phthalates, which are highly toxic to humans and known to negatively impact our hormonal systems. When plastics are recycled by adding heat, the phthalates leach out. The method discovered by Fagnani and her team uses the toxic phthalates to decrease the energy input required and make the process more efficient overall.
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Reply to Plasma Propulsion Discovery Could Herald a 'New Era of Space Exploration' - The Debrief by __The__Anomaly__
The following submission statement was provided by /u/__The__Anomaly__:
"Researchers say they may have discovered the solution to a problem that has long hindered progress with a novel form of plasma propulsion that could one day carry humans to distant planets, and potentially launch a new era of space exploration.
The helicon double-layer thruster (HDLT) is a prototype plasma thruster propulsion system that works by injecting gas into an open-ended source tube, where radio frequency AC power produced by an antenna surrounding it electromagnetically ionizes the gas. Within this highly charged plasma, a low-frequency electromagnetic helicon wave is excited by the antenna’s electromagnetic field, further heating the plasma."
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Reply to Paper-Thin Solar Makes Any Surface Photovoltaic by gregnoone
The following submission statement was provided by /u/gregnoone:
Find this a fascinating prospect. If they can perfect the technology, it would be so easy for governments keen to boost their green credentials to slap these onto the flat roof of any public building.
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