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☆ Innovations in glass technology are driving progress in energy, sustainability, and consumer products. Here's what that looks like.
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-25 | by ( ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

Since Otto Schott invented specialty glass in 1884, the simple material has become a cornerstone of modern technology, and driving innovation. From semiconductors to clean energy, home tech, and electric vehicles, glass is the silent enabler of progress. Specially engineered laser glass helped researchers achieve what was once thought impossible: creating more energy from a reaction than was put into it. The light, amplified by active laser glass and focused through precisely crafted optical glass, delivered significant energy to a tiny fuel pellet, triggering a fusion reaction that produced a net energy gain. The fusion reaction generated 3.15 megajoules of energy, exceeding the 2.05 megajoules of laser energy delivered to the target.

Persons: Bill James, Otto Schott, SCHOTT Organizations: SCHOTT North, Industry, photonics, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, SCHOTT, Insider Studios Locations: SCHOTT North America

☆ Common food dye can make skin transparent in mice, study finds
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-05 | by ( Katie Hunt | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

“But when we put them together, we were able to achieve transparency of the mouse skin.”Once the dye had completely diffused into the skin, the skin became transparent. In mice, the researchers were able to observe blood vessels directly in the surface of the brain through the transparent skin of the skull. Guosong Hong/Stanford UniversityThe transparent areas take on an orangish color, Ou said, similar to that of the food dye. 5 dye, a common food coloring, was used at a low concentration in the study, and its effects were easily undone, according to the researchers. “However, a partially transparent (mouse) will already enable numerous research opportunities to answer questions relating to development, regeneration, as well as aging.”

Persons: Wells, ”, Zihao Ou, ” Ou, “, Hong, Ou, Guosong Hong, Stanford University Christopher Rowlands, Rowlands, wasn’t, Jon Gorecki, Gorecki, tartrazine Organizations: CNN, University of Texas, NSF, Stanford University in, Stanford University, US Food and Drug Administration, California, Environmental Health, Stanford, Imperial College London Locations: H.G, Dallas, Stanford University in California, California, bioengineering, Ou

☆ Skiing: A new artificial snow-making technology could offer a lifeline to struggling resorts
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-20 | by ( Laura Paddison | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +8 min

CNN —Nestled in the Pyrenees mountains, La Molina is Spain’s oldest ski resort. An industry in perilSpain has been struggling with scorching heat waves and a years-long drought, and Catalonia, the region where La Molina is located, has been particularly hard hit. But La Molina is far from the only ski resort trying to plot a future in a warmer, dryer world. “Current best estimates are that 95% of ski resorts rely on snowmaking to some extent to remain viable,” Orr told CNN. That’s exactly what the La Molina project aims to do — to see if the lab results can be replicated in the real world.

Persons: Molina, La Molina, FGC, Albert Verdaguer, Verdaguer, ”, ” Verdaguer, It’s, Ramón Pascual Berghaenel, Madeleine Orr, ” Orr, Snow, Jordy Hendrikx, “, Hendrikx, La, Hendrickx, snowmaking, Laura Rodríguez, ” Hendrikx, let’s, Vedaguer Organizations: CNN, Laboratory, Barcelona Institute of Materials Science, Northern Locations: Spain, Catalonia, Europe, Antarctica New Zealand, La Molina

☆ One country dominated clean energy growth this year, and it isn't the US, UK, or Germany. It's China, by a landslide.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-27 | by ( Associated Press | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +11 min

In the United States, California continues to have the most solar energy, followed by Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and Arizona. China was one of the few growing markets this year for wind, the Global Wind Energy Council said. Faster permitting and other improvements in key markets such as Germany and India also helped add more wind energy. The top three markets this year are still China, the United States, and Germany for wind energy produced on land, and China, the United Kingdom, and Germany for offshore. The analysts are predicting that the global industry will rebound next year and make nearly 12% more wind energy available worldwide.

Persons: Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Joshua A, Bickel, it's, Michael Taylor, IRENA, Karim Shahi, Rafiq Maqbool, Daniel Bresette, Bresette, Abigail Ross Hopper, Wood, Wood Mackenzie, Julia Nikhinson Construction, John Hensley, Seth Wenig, Hau Dinh, Evan Hartley, Paul Braun, John Eichberger, Daan Walter Organizations: Service, International Energy Agency, Business, IEA, United Arab Emirates, Climate, AP, International Renewable Energy Agency, Arizona . Workers, Energy Limited's, Energy, Environmental, Energy Study Institute, Solar Energy Industries Association, Global Energy Monitor, Wind Energy, Clean Power, Workers, Atlas Public, Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, Benchmark, University of Illinois, Panasonic, Toyota, Health, General Motors Co, LG Energy, Transportation Energy Institute, Rocky Mountain Institute Locations: Germany, Spain, Mohammed, Dubai, United, Bickel China, Europe, United States , California, Texas , Florida, North Carolina, Arizona, Karim, Khavda, Bhuj, India, Pakistan, Gujarat, China, Wood Mackenzie, Montauk Point , New York, Asia, United States, State, New London, Conn, United Kingdom, Hai Phong, Vietnam, Kansas, Ohio

☆ How researchers are developing fabrics that can keep skin 9 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than cotton
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-11 | by ( Kelly Burch | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A lab in China made a fabric that can keep skin temperature 9 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than cotton. Brands including Bearbottom Clothing, LifeLabs, and Mission have products like t-shirts that can cool you down by 3 degrees Fahrenheit and hats that get 23 degrees Fahrenheit cooler when wet. Guangming TaoThe temperature of the student's skin wearing the side with the metafabric was 4.8 degrees Celsius, or about 9 degrees Fahrenheit, cooler than the side covered in cotton. AdvertisementAdvertisementThis isn't the first cooling fabric to be developed, but other fabrics have been extremely thin and fragile. Athletes, construction workers, soldiers, and others could benefit from wearing the cooling fabric, Tao said.

Persons: Summers, Robert Felder, Bearbottom, NanoStitch, Guangming Tao, Tao, Guangming Organizations: Brands, Service, Bearbottom, China, Wuhan National Laboratory, Optoelectronics, of Materials Science, Engineering Locations: China, Wall, Silicon, Wuhan

☆ LK-99 May Not Be a Room-Temperature Superconductor, but What if It Were? - The New York Times
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-12 | by ( Andrew Cote | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

The past three weeks have witnessed the dramatic rise and fall of a new candidate for the holy grail of materials science: a superconductor that works at room temperature. The public interest around LK-99 was a social phenomenon as much as a scientific one. The miraculous potential of superconductors is that they carry electricity over large distances with perfect efficiency. If we ever figure out how to manufacture them cheaply and make them work at room temperature rather than only at hundreds of degrees below zero, it would revolutionize our economy and help save the environment. Superconductors can also achieve feats like powerful magnetic fields and levitation in midair, enabling new categories of electronic devices, computers and modes of transportation.

Organizations: Twitter Locations: South Korea

☆ Self-healing metal? It's not just the stuff of science fiction
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-19 | by ( Will Dunham | ) www.reuters.com time to read: +5 min

Self-healing metal is still just science fiction, right? Metal fatigue can cause catastrophic failures in areas including aviation - jet engines, for instance - and infrastructure - bridges and other structures. It occurs at the nanoscale, and we have yet to be able to control the process," Boyce added. Scientists in the past have fashioned some self-healing materials, mostly plastics. Study co-author Michael Demkowicz, a Texas A&M University professor of materials science and engineering, predicted self-healing in metal a decade ago.

Persons: Ryan Schoell, Khalid Hattar, Dan Bufford, Chris Barr, Craig ., Read, Brad Boyce, Boyce, Michael Demkowicz, Demkowicz, Will Dunham, Rosalba O'Brien Organizations: government's Sandia National Laboratories, Sandia National Laboratories, M University, Thomson Locations: New Mexico, WASHINGTON, Texas

☆ Meet the 33-year-old Canadian chemist and the renowned MIT professor who are building the 'electric vehicle of cement making'
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-24 | by ( Catherine Clifford | In Catclifford | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +10 min

An electric vehicle replaces a combustion engine with an electric motor, and that's what Sublime Systems does in the cement-making process. So he moved to eastern Canada, where they don't have a lot of rabbis," Ellis told CNBC of her father's move. And I think we both sort of gravitate to things that are challenging," Ellis told CNBC. I think the best way we have to get around fossil fuels is to use electrons," Ellis told CNBC. There will be numerous approaches, all of which have challenges and most of which deserve to be tested," Chiang told CNBC.

Persons: Leah Ellis, Ming Chiang, Ellis, Chiang, Sublime, she's, haven't, It's, Leah Ellis Ellis, it's, Mark Mutter, Mutter, Clay Dumas, Dumas, Katie Rae, Rae, Timothy McCaffery, McCaffery, Scott Carmichael It's, I'm Organizations: Sublime Systems, Sublime, CNBC, Battery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bloomberg, Getty, Jamcem Consulting, LowerCarbon, Siam Cement, SCG, American Society for Testing Locations: Texas, South Africa, Israel, Jerusalem, Canada, Houston , Texas, Europe, Boston, Africa

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