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🇨🇳💧Move over, bottled water - China's new solar tech just made desalination cheaper 🔸Chinese researchers have developed a photothermal material that weaves nanoparticles into a 3D evaporation structure, dramatically boosting solar desalination efficiency. 🔸The breakthrough absorbs 90.2% of solar energy while slashing energy consumption by 45.7%. 🔸In year-long outdoor... show more

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🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST DEVELOPED A SOLAR DESALINATION SYSTEM THAT PRODUCES FRESH WATER WITHOUT CHEMICALS OR BRINE WASTE. Researchers at the University of Rochester have created laser-etched solar panels that turn seawater into drinking water using only sunlight with no chemical additives and no toxic brine discharge. The panels are treated with femtosecond lasers to become super light-absorbing and superwicking. Seawater spreads into an ultra-thin layer, evaporates rapidly under sunlight, and the leftover salts are pushed to passive regions via the “coffee ring effect,” keeping the active area clean and functional. Why this matters: • Conventional desalination produces massive amounts of harmful brine and requires heavy chemical treatment • This new approach leaves behind solid salt instead of liquid waste • It was successfully tested on real seawater from the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans • The same system can potentially extract valuable minerals like lithium from the collected salts The deeper implication: Desalination has always faced a brutal trade-off: clean water at the cost of environmental damage and high energy use. This research points toward a future where solar-powered systems could produce fresh water while actually recovering critical resources instead of creating pollution. It’s still early-stage, but the combination of low energy use, no brine, and mineral recovery makes this one of the more promising sustainable desalination concepts in development. Would you rather see massive traditional desalination plants… or distributed solar systems that turn seawater into both water and critical minerals? Follow for more frontier clean tech and materials science that could reshape how we solve resource challenges.

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST DEVELOPED A SOLAR DESALINATION SYSTEM THAT PRODUCES FRESH WATER WITHOUT CHEMICALS OR BRINE WASTE. Researchers at the University of Rochester have created laser-etched solar panels that turn seawater into drinking water using only sunlight with no chemical additives and no toxic brine discharge. The panels are treated with femtosecond lasers to become super light-absorbing and superwicking. Seawater spreads into an ultra-thin layer, evaporates rapidly under sunlight, and the leftover salts are pushed to passive regions via the “coffee ring effect,” keeping the active area clean and functional. Why this matters: • Conventional desalination produces massive amounts of harmful brine and requires heavy chemical treatment • This new approach leaves behind solid salt instead of liquid waste • It was successfully tested on real seawater from the Pacific, Atlantic, and Indian Oceans • The same system can potentially extract valuable minerals like lithium from the collected salts The deeper implication: Desalination has always faced a brutal trade-off: clean water at the cost of environmental damage and high energy use. This research points toward a future where solar-powered systems could produce fresh water while actually recovering critical resources instead of creating pollution. It’s still early-stage, but the combination of low energy use, no brine, and mineral recovery makes this one of the more promising sustainable desalination concepts in development. Would you rather see massive traditional desalination plants… or distributed solar systems that turn seawater into both water and critical minerals? Follow for more frontier clean tech and materials science that could reshape how we solve resource challenges.

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🚨🇮🇷🇹🇷Is the Iran War Accidentally Rebuilding the Ottoman Empire? The Ottomans didn't dominate the world through conquest alone. They dominated by controlling Eurasian land trade routes and large swathes of the Mediterranean. The Iran war may be positioning Turkey to rebuild that same combination. For decades, the Strait of Hormuz carried nearly 20% of global oil and LNG supply. The Iran war has created an opening for alternative routes — and Turkey sits at the intersection of several plausible ones: 🔸 Turkmen gas via Trans-Caspian into the TANAP network — through Turkey to Europe, bypassing the Gulf entirely. 🔸 The Iraq-Turkey pipeline extended to Basra — up to 1.5 million barrels daily to Mediterranean markets, outside Iranian reach. 🔸 Qatar gas via Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey — directly to European LNG terminals, entirely overland. For 400 years, the Ottoman Empire sat at the crossroads of East and West not because it conquered everything, but because everything valuable traveled through it. If these three routes are built, a significant share of energy moving from the Gulf to Europe would pass through Turkish territory. The Ottomans understood this formula: control the routes, control the trade. And they backed it with a navy that, at its height, dominated the Mediterranean. Turkey is now rebuilding that same combination. 41 warships are under simultaneous construction, and 120 ships with 15,000 personnel recently completed the Blue Homeland-2026 exercises across three seas. This growing fleet allows Turkey to project power across the Eastern Mediterranean — a region already crowded with competing energy interests. Why does that matter? The Eastern Mediterranean is becoming a gas hub in its own right. 🔸Major discoveries (Leviathan, Tamar, Aphrodite, Zohr) have turned Israel, Egypt, and Cyprus into potential suppliers for Europe. 🔸Those countries are developing offshore LNG terminals and subsea pipelines. 🔸98% of Israeli foreign trade depends on Mediterranean navigation — including its ability to export gas. Turkey now actively contests this sea. By positioning itself as both an energy corridor and a naval power in the Eastern Mediterranean, Ankara could in the long run influence who ships what, where, and under what terms.

🚨🇮🇷🇹🇷Is the Iran War Accidentally Rebuilding the Ottoman Empire? The Ottomans didn't dominate the world through conquest alone. They dominated by controlling Eurasian land trade routes and large swathes of the Mediterranean. The Iran war may be positioning Turkey to rebuild that same combination. For decades, the Strait of Hormuz carried nearly 20% of global oil and LNG supply. The Iran war has created an opening for alternative routes — and Turkey sits at the intersection of several plausible ones: 🔸 Turkmen gas via Trans-Caspian into the TANAP network — through Turkey to Europe, bypassing the Gulf entirely. 🔸 The Iraq-Turkey pipeline extended to Basra — up to 1.5 million barrels daily to Mediterranean markets, outside Iranian reach. 🔸 Qatar gas via Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey — directly to European LNG terminals, entirely overland. For 400 years, the Ottoman Empire sat at the crossroads of East and West not because it conquered everything, but because everything valuable traveled through it. If these three routes are built, a significant share of energy moving from the Gulf to Europe would pass through Turkish territory. The Ottomans understood this formula: control the routes, control the trade. And they backed it with a navy that, at its height, dominated the Mediterranean. Turkey is now rebuilding that same combination. 41 warships are under simultaneous construction, and 120 ships with 15,000 personnel recently completed the Blue Homeland-2026 exercises across three seas. This growing fleet allows Turkey to project power across the Eastern Mediterranean — a region already crowded with competing energy interests. Why does that matter? The Eastern Mediterranean is becoming a gas hub in its own right. 🔸Major discoveries (Leviathan, Tamar, Aphrodite, Zohr) have turned Israel, Egypt, and Cyprus into potential suppliers for Europe. 🔸Those countries are developing offshore LNG terminals and subsea pipelines. 🔸98% of Israeli foreign trade depends on Mediterranean navigation — including its ability to export gas. Turkey now actively contests this sea. By positioning itself as both an energy corridor and a naval power in the Eastern Mediterranean, Ankara could in the long run influence who ships what, where, and under what terms.

NewRulesGeopolitics

61,559 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

Satya Nadella: Microsoft’s latest Wisconsin AI data center keeps yearly water consumption no higher than that of 1 local restaurant. "The cooling loop is filled once and the data centre can operate effectively with zero water consumption. Daily water usage across a year is roughly equivalent to what a single restaurant would use" The mechanism is mainly about replacing evaporative cooling with closed-loop direct-to-chip liquid cooling, so water moves like coolant inside a sealed machine rather than being boiled off into the air. Hot GB200-class AI racks produce too much heat for normal air cooling, so cold liquid is pushed through pipes into the servers and across metal cold plates touching the hottest chips. The liquid enters the rack cool, absorbs heat from the chips through cold plates, then exits the rack at a higher temperature and carries that heat through pipes to a huge cooling system outside the compute floor. Microsoft says Fairwater sends that hot water to cooling “fins” beside the datacenter, where 172 20-foot fans blow air across the fins and dump the heat into the outside air. The important detail is that the air cools the water through metal surfaces, so the water does not need to evaporate the way many older datacenters use cooling towers. The cooled liquid then returns to the servers, repeats the loop, and keeps absorbing heat from the chips. In older data centers, heat is often removed partly through cooling towers. Hot water meets moving air, some water evaporates, and that phase change carries heat away. Effective, but it consumes fresh water continuously. But Firwater is a closed loop because the same coolant keeps circulating through sealed pipes: it absorbs heat from the chips, releases that heat through radiator-like fins, then flows back to the chips again. For Wisconsin Fairwater, Microsoft says more than 90% of the facility uses closed-loop liquid cooling, while the remaining portion uses outside air and switches to water only on the hottest days. ---- From "Microsoft" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

Satya Nadella: Microsoft’s latest Wisconsin AI data center keeps yearly water consumption no higher than that of 1 local restaurant. "The cooling loop is filled once and the data centre can operate effectively with zero water consumption. Daily water usage across a year is roughly equivalent to what a single restaurant would use" The mechanism is mainly about replacing evaporative cooling with closed-loop direct-to-chip liquid cooling, so water moves like coolant inside a sealed machine rather than being boiled off into the air. Hot GB200-class AI racks produce too much heat for normal air cooling, so cold liquid is pushed through pipes into the servers and across metal cold plates touching the hottest chips. The liquid enters the rack cool, absorbs heat from the chips through cold plates, then exits the rack at a higher temperature and carries that heat through pipes to a huge cooling system outside the compute floor. Microsoft says Fairwater sends that hot water to cooling “fins” beside the datacenter, where 172 20-foot fans blow air across the fins and dump the heat into the outside air. The important detail is that the air cools the water through metal surfaces, so the water does not need to evaporate the way many older datacenters use cooling towers. The cooled liquid then returns to the servers, repeats the loop, and keeps absorbing heat from the chips. In older data centers, heat is often removed partly through cooling towers. Hot water meets moving air, some water evaporates, and that phase change carries heat away. Effective, but it consumes fresh water continuously. But Firwater is a closed loop because the same coolant keeps circulating through sealed pipes: it absorbs heat from the chips, releases that heat through radiator-like fins, then flows back to the chips again. For Wisconsin Fairwater, Microsoft says more than 90% of the facility uses closed-loop liquid cooling, while the remaining portion uses outside air and switches to water only on the hottest days. ---- From "Microsoft" YouTube channel, (link in comment)

Rohan Paul

26,957 просмотров • 1 месяц назад

🇨🇳 China doubles AI computing power in two months — with zero US chips China's largest scientific AI cluster just doubled its domestically-made accelerator chips from 30,000 to 60,000 units in two months, marking a significant step forward in the country's effort to establish a self-sufficient AI infrastructure. The Zhengzhou core node is now the country's most powerful scientific AI infrastructure. The goal was to create a unified AI platform using federal scientific data to: 🔸train models & AI agents that test hypotheses While US lawmakers ban China from advanced chipmaking tools, Beijing leaps forward: years of drug discovery now take just days. 🔸automate research & speed up discoveries in drug development, materials science, and energy Earlier, US lawmakers introduced a bill aimed to limit China's access to advanced chipmaking tools. Now, China's drug discovery calculations that once took years take just days.

🇨🇳 China doubles AI computing power in two months — with zero US chips China's largest scientific AI cluster just doubled its domestically-made accelerator chips from 30,000 to 60,000 units in two months, marking a significant step forward in the country's effort to establish a self-sufficient AI infrastructure. The Zhengzhou core node is now the country's most powerful scientific AI infrastructure. The goal was to create a unified AI platform using federal scientific data to: 🔸train models & AI agents that test hypotheses While US lawmakers ban China from advanced chipmaking tools, Beijing leaps forward: years of drug discovery now take just days. 🔸automate research & speed up discoveries in drug development, materials science, and energy Earlier, US lawmakers introduced a bill aimed to limit China's access to advanced chipmaking tools. Now, China's drug discovery calculations that once took years take just days.

Sputnik

20,445 просмотров • 3 месяцев назад

📢 EstateX: The Next Phase Begins This week, we're pulling back the curtain on what we've been building - and announcing the first wave of ecosystem activations. What's Coming This Week: ✅ Multiple Project updates ✅ Concrete dates for key launches ✅ Behind-the-scenes reveals Now that the launch is complete, it’s time for the REAL work and business building to begin. A series of exciting developments are scheduled for release in the near future, including but not limited to: 📊 The Ecosystem Overview: 👇 (All of which will have positive flow use cases and utilities for $ESX) 🔸 20-35% of Company Revenue Buybacks - this amount of revenue generated is used to buy the $ESX token off the market 🔸 Investment Platform Transaction Fees - all transaction fees on the EstateX investment platform are paid in $ESX or used to buy $ESX off the market 🔸 ESX Blockchain Gas Fees – Every transaction fuels the network, increasing $ESX usage and demand. 🔸 RWAPad / Unicorn Club Staking – Creating $ESX lockup and growth pressure. 🔸 Whitelabel Solutions – Platform adoption by other companies drives $ESX circulation and utility. 🔸 PropXChange – Trades in tokenized real estate generate fees that flow back to $ESX. 🔸 EstateX Pay – Card transactions generate revenue that supports $ESX growth. 🔸 CapitalX Lending – Loan and interest fees contribute to $ESX buybacks. 🔸 EstateX University – Access and education fees contribute to $ESX ecosystem growth. 🔸 $AIESX Utilization – Revenue drives $ESX buybacks. 🔸 Real Estate Rental Income – Passive rental flows create consistent $ESX circulation. 🔸 Expansion Into New RWAs – Future tokenized assets add more revenue streams, boosting $ESX demand. 🔸PLUS more surprises to be revealed! 💰 Financial Perspective: Consider just one of these components: real estate tokenization. A $100M AUM (Assets Under Management) portfolio in the first 6 months of operations could generate 10% in revenue from all pillars involved. That's $10M in total revenue. With up to 35% of that revenue allocated to buybacks, that's major buy pressure from a single revenue stream. Now multiply that across the entire ecosystem. But we're doing this RIGHT. That means rolling out strategically, testing thoroughly, and ensuring each piece is bulletproof before launch. 👉 Our new standard: Underpromise, overdeliver on EVERY deadline. This week, you'll see the first glimpses of what EstateX truly is. And this is just the beginning. First announcement drops very soon. The $ESX token is LIVE! Accumulate $ESX 👉 Watch the $ESX use case video now: Join our community 👇

📢 EstateX: The Next Phase Begins This week, we're pulling back the curtain on what we've been building - and announcing the first wave of ecosystem activations. What's Coming This Week: ✅ Multiple Project updates ✅ Concrete dates for key launches ✅ Behind-the-scenes reveals Now that the launch is complete, it’s time for the REAL work and business building to begin. A series of exciting developments are scheduled for release in the near future, including but not limited to: 📊 The Ecosystem Overview: 👇 (All of which will have positive flow use cases and utilities for $ESX) 🔸 20-35% of Company Revenue Buybacks - this amount of revenue generated is used to buy the $ESX token off the market 🔸 Investment Platform Transaction Fees - all transaction fees on the EstateX investment platform are paid in $ESX or used to buy $ESX off the market 🔸 ESX Blockchain Gas Fees – Every transaction fuels the network, increasing $ESX usage and demand. 🔸 RWAPad / Unicorn Club Staking – Creating $ESX lockup and growth pressure. 🔸 Whitelabel Solutions – Platform adoption by other companies drives $ESX circulation and utility. 🔸 PropXChange – Trades in tokenized real estate generate fees that flow back to $ESX. 🔸 EstateX Pay – Card transactions generate revenue that supports $ESX growth. 🔸 CapitalX Lending – Loan and interest fees contribute to $ESX buybacks. 🔸 EstateX University – Access and education fees contribute to $ESX ecosystem growth. 🔸 $AIESX Utilization – Revenue drives $ESX buybacks. 🔸 Real Estate Rental Income – Passive rental flows create consistent $ESX circulation. 🔸 Expansion Into New RWAs – Future tokenized assets add more revenue streams, boosting $ESX demand. 🔸PLUS more surprises to be revealed! 💰 Financial Perspective: Consider just one of these components: real estate tokenization. A $100M AUM (Assets Under Management) portfolio in the first 6 months of operations could generate 10% in revenue from all pillars involved. That's $10M in total revenue. With up to 35% of that revenue allocated to buybacks, that's major buy pressure from a single revenue stream. Now multiply that across the entire ecosystem. But we're doing this RIGHT. That means rolling out strategically, testing thoroughly, and ensuring each piece is bulletproof before launch. 👉 Our new standard: Underpromise, overdeliver on EVERY deadline. This week, you'll see the first glimpses of what EstateX truly is. And this is just the beginning. First announcement drops very soon. The $ESX token is LIVE! Accumulate $ESX 👉 Watch the $ESX use case video now: Join our community 👇

EstateX

118,901 просмотров • 8 месяцев назад

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST BROKE A 30-YEAR SUPERCONDUCTIVITY RECORD. Researchers at the University of Houston have created a material that carries electricity with zero resistance at 151 Kelvin (−122°C) under normal atmospheric pressure. That may not sound dramatic… until you realize it’s the closest anyone has ever come to the holy grail of materials science. Why this matters: Superconductors eliminate energy loss as heat. Right now, power grids waste enormous amounts of electricity just moving it around. This breakthrough could mean: •Dramatically more efficient power grids • Better fusion reactors • Faster, cooler electronics • More powerful MRI machines • Next-generation quantum computers Most importantly: the material stays superconducting even after the pressure is removed. The deeper implication is huge: For 30 years the record stood. Now it’s fallen and we’re one major step closer to room-temperature superconductivity. The dream of power lines with literally zero energy loss may no longer be science fiction. What technology changes first if we finally achieve room-temperature superconductors? Follow for more frontier physics and future technology.

🚨 SCIENTISTS JUST BROKE A 30-YEAR SUPERCONDUCTIVITY RECORD. Researchers at the University of Houston have created a material that carries electricity with zero resistance at 151 Kelvin (−122°C) under normal atmospheric pressure. That may not sound dramatic… until you realize it’s the closest anyone has ever come to the holy grail of materials science. Why this matters: Superconductors eliminate energy loss as heat. Right now, power grids waste enormous amounts of electricity just moving it around. This breakthrough could mean: •Dramatically more efficient power grids • Better fusion reactors • Faster, cooler electronics • More powerful MRI machines • Next-generation quantum computers Most importantly: the material stays superconducting even after the pressure is removed. The deeper implication is huge: For 30 years the record stood. Now it’s fallen and we’re one major step closer to room-temperature superconductivity. The dream of power lines with literally zero energy loss may no longer be science fiction. What technology changes first if we finally achieve room-temperature superconductors? Follow for more frontier physics and future technology.

TheNewPhysics

11,515 просмотров • 2 месяцев назад

In the first video, people in Donetsk are seen greeting a water tanker. In the second video, during the rain, people try to collect at least a drop of water because the water pipeline from the Siverskyi Donets was destroyed by the Russians. When Donetsk was not occupied by Russia, the city hosted the European Football Championship, as well as concerts by Rihanna and Beyoncé. Now, there is no more running water in the city. According to the schedule, water only appears in taps once every three days, and even then it doesn’t reach every household, so water has to be delivered by tankers, with long queues forming for it. People use plastic bags as toilets, and this filth spreads everywhere. This is happening not only in Donetsk - water is supplied once every two days in a number of other cities, including Mariupol. This is how Russia 'liberated' Donbas. Why is this happening? In the past three and a half years - since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 - reservoirs in Donetsk Oblast have significantly dried up. The water supply system from the Siverskyi Donets River was destroyed. The region’s reservoirs and underground water sources are not enough to meet the needs of the population, in part due to the extensive network of coal mines. When the self-proclaimed “DPR” and “LPR” were created in 2014, Ukraine did not cut off this water channel, as it was still supplying water to Mariupol, which remained under Ukrainian control. But at the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022, the situation changed: the Russian army, during its offensive, destroyed a unique hydraulic structure that had supplied the region’s largest cities with water. The Russian authorities decided to build a new canal - the Don–Donbas canal - which was supposed to begin in the Rostov-on-Don area. It soon became clear that the new water pipeline, first of all, could not provide the region with the necessary amount of water, and second, it was built with numerous violations, with a large portion of the budget embezzled during construction. Crimea is also suffering from a water shortage, and the situation is worsening. One of the reasons why Russia is striving to seize southern Ukraine is that it sees this as a way to "solve the water issue" for the occupied territories.

In the first video, people in Donetsk are seen greeting a water tanker. In the second video, during the rain, people try to collect at least a drop of water because the water pipeline from the Siverskyi Donets was destroyed by the Russians. When Donetsk was not occupied by Russia, the city hosted the European Football Championship, as well as concerts by Rihanna and Beyoncé. Now, there is no more running water in the city. According to the schedule, water only appears in taps once every three days, and even then it doesn’t reach every household, so water has to be delivered by tankers, with long queues forming for it. People use plastic bags as toilets, and this filth spreads everywhere. This is happening not only in Donetsk - water is supplied once every two days in a number of other cities, including Mariupol. This is how Russia 'liberated' Donbas. Why is this happening? In the past three and a half years - since Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 - reservoirs in Donetsk Oblast have significantly dried up. The water supply system from the Siverskyi Donets River was destroyed. The region’s reservoirs and underground water sources are not enough to meet the needs of the population, in part due to the extensive network of coal mines. When the self-proclaimed “DPR” and “LPR” were created in 2014, Ukraine did not cut off this water channel, as it was still supplying water to Mariupol, which remained under Ukrainian control. But at the start of the Russian invasion in February 2022, the situation changed: the Russian army, during its offensive, destroyed a unique hydraulic structure that had supplied the region’s largest cities with water. The Russian authorities decided to build a new canal - the Don–Donbas canal - which was supposed to begin in the Rostov-on-Don area. It soon became clear that the new water pipeline, first of all, could not provide the region with the necessary amount of water, and second, it was built with numerous violations, with a large portion of the budget embezzled during construction. Crimea is also suffering from a water shortage, and the situation is worsening. One of the reasons why Russia is striving to seize southern Ukraine is that it sees this as a way to "solve the water issue" for the occupied territories.

Anton Gerashchenko

476,786 просмотров • 1 год назад

🚨🇮🇷 Pentagon in panic: Iran unleashes its top kamikaze drone Iran just used its cutting-edge Hadid-110 kamikaze drones in real combat for the first time, packing blistering speeds up to 510 km/h and ultra-low radar signatures that slip past Western defenses. 🔸 The Hadid-110 surges at 510 km/h while slashing its radar cross-section below 0.02 square meters through advanced airframe designs and radar-absorbing materials 🔸 These drones evade detection by F-15E fighters' APG-82(V)1 radars and E-3C sentry planes at far shorter ranges compared to older Shahed-136 models 🔸 With over 350 km of operational range carrying a 30 kg warhead, they precisely target critical infrastructure along the Persian Gulf's western shores 🔸 Opting for lighter warheads unlocks even greater strike distances, pushing threats deeper into adversary territories without added fuel Do you think these drones could help Iran increase the damage it’s inflicting on the Coalition of Epstein?

🚨🇮🇷 Pentagon in panic: Iran unleashes its top kamikaze drone Iran just used its cutting-edge Hadid-110 kamikaze drones in real combat for the first time, packing blistering speeds up to 510 km/h and ultra-low radar signatures that slip past Western defenses. 🔸 The Hadid-110 surges at 510 km/h while slashing its radar cross-section below 0.02 square meters through advanced airframe designs and radar-absorbing materials 🔸 These drones evade detection by F-15E fighters' APG-82(V)1 radars and E-3C sentry planes at far shorter ranges compared to older Shahed-136 models 🔸 With over 350 km of operational range carrying a 30 kg warhead, they precisely target critical infrastructure along the Persian Gulf's western shores 🔸 Opting for lighter warheads unlocks even greater strike distances, pushing threats deeper into adversary territories without added fuel Do you think these drones could help Iran increase the damage it’s inflicting on the Coalition of Epstein?

NewRulesGeopolitics

173,255 просмотров • 4 месяцев назад