DTN 018: Transforming Hydrogen Fuel Cells
DTN 018: Transforming Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Plus: A wooden satellite, sending a physical Bitcoin to the moon, a paralyzed man walks again, toward Ta 100,000 qubit quantum computer, and more.
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On accelerating fuel cell adoption through policy in the EU: “For the past few years, people have been doing pilot projects. Then the EU Green Deal happened followed by the war in Ukraine, which basically saw the EU multiply its ambitions for hydrogen because of energy security and its decarbonisation goals. Then the Inflation Reduction Act just threw things to the stratosphere. So policy is there.”
On the distributed hydrogen production: “I think it's quite clear that this is going to revolve around hubs where you’ve got grid connections and where there is a type of heavy industry user, such as ports. In the States there's actually a specific policy to create hubs and that will make sense where you have the right types of industrial users or hydrogen capacity to predict the right price of energy. In Europe, I think it's gonna be more structured around ports like Rotterdam. But clusters are the natural way for this. Transporting hydrogen across big distances is a challenge and I think to accelerate adoption the cluster or hubs approach is the right way. ”
The Big Picture
Paralyzed man walks naturally, thanks to wireless ‘bridge’ between brain and spine
“Today in Nature, an international team of researchers reports giving a man who lost the ability to walk in 2011 a way to digitally bridge the communication gap between his brain and lower body. Brain waves signaling Oskam’s desire to walk travel from a device implanted in his skull to the spinal stimulator, rerouting the signal around the damaged tissue and delivering pulses of electricity to the spinal cord to facilitate the movement. Oskam can now walk more fluidly, navigate obstacles, and climb stairs. “The stimulation before was controlling me, and now I am controlling stimulation,” he says.” (Science)
This Is Not an Extraterrestrial Signal. This Is Just a Test.
“In an act that is one part interplanetary performance art and one part dress rehearsal for an event that astronomers hope will one day occur, a coded radio message from Mars will ping radio telescopes on Earth on Wednesday. But it will only be a test. Anybody can follow along on A Sign in Space, a website that will host comments, guesses and weekly workshops on what it all might mean. (New York Times)
Pushing perovskite PV limits
“The perovskite solar race is heating up, with a cue of manufacturers forming to test products at the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) PV commercialization facilities, and academics on both sides of The Pond announcing new advances in recent months.” (PV Magazine)
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Deep Tech News
Astranis’ novel approach to internet satellites is starting to pay off
Oklo announces plans for 2 nuclear plants in Ohio
(Read our interview with Oklo CEO Jacob DeWitte)
AI Will ‘Exceed Expert Skill Level in Most Domains’ in 10 Years: OpenAI
Crypto News
Chinese Labs Are Selling Fentanyl Ingredients for Millions in Crypto
Stablecoin Issuers Pour Money Into DC as Crypto Legislation Hits Agendas
Solana blockchain integrates ChatGPT plugin, launches AI accelerator
Beijing releases white paper for web3 innovation and development
US Secret Service: “blockchain is an opportunity to track money”
BitMEX To Send Physical Bitcoin To The Moon In Partnership With Astrobiotic Technology
Peer Review
Quantum scientists accurately measure power levels 1 trillion times lower than usual
Curing brain tumors: blocking functions in cells with a docked molecule
Space test shows magnolia may be best for wooden artificial satellite LignoSat
Funding x M&A
DEEP TECH
Figure, an AI robotics company building humanoid robots, raised a $70M Series A
Larkspur Biosciences, a biotech company building immunotherapies for cancer, raised $35.5M
Space robotics startup GITAI raised a $30M Series B extension
Thermal imaging startup Satellite Vu closes $15.8M ahead of first launch
Applied Intuition to buy autonomous trucking SPAC Embark for $71M
DOE earmarks nearly $42M to produce, store and deploy clean hydrogen
Stratolaunch submits $17M bid for some of Virgin Orbit’s assets
CRYPTO
Take a look at Wolf’s first cohort of Bitcoin-driven startups
Sam Altman’s Worldcoin Raises $115M in Round Led by Blockchain Capital
Jia, a blockchain-based lender of small businesses in emerging markets, raises $4.3M seed
Blockchain Privacy Firm Auradine Raises $81M from Stanford, Marathon Digital
Miscellanea
Feynman Lectures on Physics now online / DarkBERT: A Language Model for the Dark Side of the Internet / The Electrome: The Next Great Frontier For Biomedical Technology / I ordered a bubble tea by drone in Shenzhen / 14% of US adults have tried ChatGPT / How AI Is Catapulting Nvidia Toward the $1T Club / Crash of private Japanese moon lander blamed on software / Your DNA Can Now Be Pulled From Thin Air / Early Computer Art in the 50s and 60s / Researchers announce 62 new moons of Saturn / US Senator Uses ChatGPT for Opening Remarks at a Hearing on AI / Budget Drones in Ukraine Are Redefining Warfare
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