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This ag-tech startup kept digging, and found an electrifying idea to zap weeds and soil pests

GeekWire

Crisp began wondering about useful applications of that electricity to target soil nematodes that can damage valuable crops and vegetation. startup that replaces chemical pesticides with devices that zap soil pests with a jolt akin to a controlled lightning strike. . The actual application is more complicated. Done and done.

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Chevron leads $318M investment round for carbon capture company Svante as sector booms

GeekWire

The CO2 is then concentrated for storage or industrial uses. The technology is suitable for a range of applications, the company said, including the production of hydrogen, pulp and paper, lime, cement, steel, aluminum and chemicals. Record-setting year for carbon removal startups.

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How quantum computing could transform everything everywhere, but not all at once

GeekWire

Energy generation and storage, food production, climate modeling, disease treatment and genetic repair are all potential targets for quantum supremacy. “Chemists who do not use quantum computers to model chemical reactions will go bankrupt,” he says. “We have thousands of Petri dishes with chemicals in them.

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GM announces plans to make mobile power generators using hydrogen fuel cells

The Verge

The cubes can then be deployed in a variety of applications, including mobile generators and temporary EV chargers. GM said the ideal application would be at an outdoor concert venue, thanks to the hydrogen generator’s much lower noise profile as compared to gas-powered power sources.

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Top500: The Supercomputers Advancing Cyber Security, Renewable Energy, and Black Hole Research

CIO Business Intelligence

Active in 69 countries, Eni works across the value chain—from natural gas and oil to electric and renewable energy generation, traditional and bio-refining and chemicals. Global energy company Eni was recognized for its HPC5 supercomputer , a powerful and sustainable system used to research new energy sources. Rmax [TFlop/s], 51,720.76

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Why a “room-temperature superconductor” would be a huge deal

Vox

Superconductors are already employed in certain limited applications for storing energy. Batteries — from a Duracell AA all the way to a Tesla lithium-ion battery capable of holding approximately 100 kWh — store energy chemically, and can convert it to usable electricity. That necessarily involves some energy loss and inefficiency.

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Scaling down to precision

Dataconomy

In the top-down approach, larger materials are downsized through techniques like etching or lithography, while the bottom-up approach builds structures from atomic or molecular components, such as self-assembly or chemical vapor deposition. These methods include nanoimprint lithography (NIL), soft lithography, and microcontact printing.