Get set, Wyoming. Governor Mark Gordon says his state is intent on using nuclear power to go “carbon negative.” And two of the world’s richest men, Bill Gates and Warren Buffet, have a plan to step in with technology and funding to make it happen. One proposed project involves TerraPower, founded by Gates more than...
Tag: jun 15 2021
ABOUT FACE: WISCONSIN SENATE STOPS ZUCKERBERG STYLE ELECTION FINANCE SCHEMES
In 2020 Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spent millions “helping” local democrat controlled government entities fund efforts to loosen voting integrity standards. Mail-balloting was a specific target of funding, and Zuckerberg’s huge spending was instrumental in amassing Joe Biden’s electoral numbers, according to NPR. Last week the Wisconsin State Senate passed several bills that would make...
POOR NATIONS: TOO POOR FOR CLEAN ENERGY
Developing nations are undeveloped. And as bad as it was before the COVID War started, as we have detailed over the past 17 months, it has gotten much worse. Poor nations have sunk deeper in debt, their populations are sinking further into poverty and millions are taking to the streets to protest the lack of...
LOSSES MOUNT AS STUDENT LOAN DEFAULT RISES
The Biden administration released new estimates on how much the federal government (U.S. taxpayers) stand to lose to unpaid student loans. The Wall Street Journal reported that the jump of some $53 billion has been partially blamed on lower repayment rates and COVID War-relief efforts. President Joe Biden has indicated that he is willing to wipe...
HOLOGRAMS: THE FUTURE FACE OF INTERACTIONS
The Wall Street Journal reported last Thursday that as more tech companies turn away from the traditional office setup, there is a new shift to holograms due to Zoom fatigue. Brianne Kimmel, the founder of WorkLife Ventures, which focuses on the future of work technology, told the paper that employees are beginning to grow tired of...
FACEBOOK: EMPLOYEES CAN WORK FROM HOME FULL-TIME
Mark Zuckerberg, the founder and CEO of Facebook, announced on Wednesday that the tech giant will allow many workers who have been working from home to continue working there on a full-time basis. The Wall Street Journal reported that Zuckerberg told his 60,000 employees that it will even allow new employees the option. “We’ve learned over...
IT’S ALIVE! SYNTHETIC ORGANISM CAN REPRODUCE
Scientists have been building synthetic life forms for more than a decade. Now, for the first time, a team from the J. Craig Venter Institute, the National Institute of Standards, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has made one that can reproduce itself. Venter Institute researchers built the first synthetic organism in 2010. In 2016,...
FOOD WASTE RECYCLED INTO EDIBLE BUILDING MATERIALS
Those 1.3 billion tons of food scraps and waste headed for the garbage each year aren’t trash. They might be tomorrow’s houses and office blocks. Engineers at the University of Tokyo have vacuum-dried banana peels, cabbage leaves, orange peels, onions, pumpkins, seaweed, and other foods, then pulverized them using a technique that turns wood into...
EFFICIENCY IN ACTION
By Bradley J. Steiner, American Combato WHEN you are under violent attack the last thing that you can afford to do is try to employ some beautiful, intricate technique that you recall seeing demonstrated in class. Efficiency is the key when the balloon goes up for real! This is why we recommend and will not...
BLOCKCHAIN BATTLES
WHAT ETHEREUM UPGRADE TO PROOF OF STAKE MEANS. Ethereum is already a platform that has literally thousands of other blockchain projects building on it. As detailed before in the Trends Journal, (see 20 April 2021 “WILL BLOCKCHAIN SAVE THE DAY?” and other articles) think of it as a blockchain operating system, due to its dApp...