Category: Science
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Investing in Israeli Desalination Tech
Israel has five major desalination plants which contribute significantly to the country’s freshwater supply. These plants include: Of these, three are owned and operated by IDE Technologies of Israel, which is a world leader in global solutions for water treatment. IDE Technologies influences desalination projects across the whole world, as countries like the USA, China,…
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The Energy Cost of an Arctic City-Oasis
In a 1996 movie The Arrival, a scene of greenery and warmth is found within the frozen arctic. An artificial oasis allowing for temperate life. In this movie, it was presumably created by some alien technology. Although with our own engineering, we can show it’s possible to do today with the right amount of power.…
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Squeeze & Freeze: Vasper Systems Brings Performance, Longevity Benefits
Vasper Systems is bringing a new method of performance enhancement to athletes and longevity seekers. Instead of using hormone injections or Autologous blood therapy—a process of removing a patients blood, stimulating it to release hormones and stem cells, then replacing it. The Vasper System uses 3 simple, well known principles used by performance athletes: exercise,…
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Architecture of the Zinc Gang
A tale of syndicate members named “gag knuckles”, “taz-two”, “hairpin”, “ribbons”, and “treble clef” is quite intriguing. Although they sound more like nicknames of a 1920’s bootlegging gang (at least to me) they are the formal nomenclature of a biochemical classification system, known commonly as zinc fingers (ZnF). The taxonomy of zinc fingers describes the…
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Human Brain vs World’s Most Powerful Computer Specs
A.I. and computing power continues to increase. Determining the future of human work lies in identifying and quantifying the greatest differences between the two. An earnest attempt at comparing the best hardware in a supercomputer with our wetware. There are numerous caveats in each metric, but this serves as a valuable starting point. Critiques welcome.…
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What Countries Are Most At-risk in a Coronal Mass Ejection
There’s been a lot of talk about the occurrence of another Carrington Event, and how it might be much worse if it happened today. The event was caused by a “Coronal Mass Ejection” that took out communications in 1859 America. However, today, not only are we more electricity dependent than ever, in the case of…