BlockApps Energy John Chappel Described Tracing Carbon Emissions and Offsets

Nextbigfuture spoke with John Chappell, Director of Business Development – Energy at BlockApps. BlockApps is a leader in Enterprise Blockchain. They were incubated out of Consensys in 2015. ConsenSys is the leading Ethereum software company. Blockapps has an easy-to-use, powerful Blockchain as a Service (BaaS) platform on the market called STRATO. BlockApps has partnered with …

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First Nanotubes, then Graphene and now new form of carbon schwarzites

UC Berkeley chemists have proved that three carbon structures recently created by scientists in South Korea and Japan are in fact the long-sought schwarzites, which researchers predict will have unique electrical and storage properties like those now being discovered in buckminsterfullerenes (buckyballs or fullerenes for short), nanotubes and graphene. The new structures were built inside …

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Calgary company can capture CO2 at a cost of $94 per ton

Nature – Sucking carbon dioxide from air is cheaper than scientists thought Researchers at Carbon Engineering in Calgary, Canada, have been operating a pilot CO2-extraction plant in British Columbia since 2015. They are using direct air capture. Depending on a variety of design options and economic assumptions, the cost of pulling a tonne of CO2 …

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Novel All Carbon Transistor developed

A researcher with the Erik Jonsson School of Engineering and Computer Science at UT Dallas has designed a novel computing system made solely from carbon that might one day replace the silicon transistors that power today’s electronic devices. “The concept brings together an assortment of existing nanoscale technologies and combines them in a new way,” …

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Spacex has successful launch and good landing of the first stage

Spacex has a successful return to flight. The mission was a success with successful deployment of all satellites and the first stage landed on the drone ship Over the next 14 months, the company plans six additional Falcon 9 launches to deploy 60 more Iridium satellites that will completely replace the constellation. In the short-term, …

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Cost of US wars from 2001 to 2016 is about $4.79 trillion

As of August 2016, the US has already appropriated, spent, or taken on obligations to spend more than $3.6 trillion in current dollars on the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Syria and on Homeland Security (2001 through fiscal year 2016). To this total should be added the approximately $65 billion in dedicated war spending …

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Exoplanet weather shows clouds of ruby and sapphire

A super-sized planet 1000 light years from Earth has clouds that may contain the building blocks of rubies and sapphires, according to the first exoplanet meteorology report. The planets in our solar system experience a wide variety of weather, from Jupiter’s famous Great Red Spot through Mars’s dust devils to Saturn’s hexagonal north polar storm. …

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Carnival of Space 474

The Carnival of Space 474 is up at Urban Astronomer Universe Today – NASA’s EM Drive Passes Peer Review, But Don’t Get Your Hopes Up Artist’s concept of an interstellar craft equipped with an EM Drive. Credit and Copyright: Mark Rademaker Universe Today – NASA’s InSight Lander Approved for 2018 Mars Launch This artist’s concept …

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Gunshot and explosion wounds sealed with stapled on zippers, deep sponge injections or micromagnets

There are several new technologies for closing battle field wounds. Gunshot and explosive wounds tend to be very deep (several inches) and stopping the bleeding is critical to preventing soldiers from dying within a minute or so. There are three new wound closure methods beyond advanced clamps and tourniquets * Deep sponge injection * Attaching …

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Naval exercises and talk of accelerated defense buildup in the South China Sea

On Tuesday, China began a week of naval exercises in waters around the Paracel Islands, in the northern part of the sea. They came a week before a United Nations-backed tribunal in The Hague rules on a case brought by the Philippines challenging China’s position. Beijing has boycotted the hearings and is engaged in a …

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