Sounds like a joke, but thanks to a research team from the Hiroshima University I know this can be a possible future. They found a way to recycle rice husks to create a silicon quantum dot (QD) LED light. Their new method is a low-cost, environmentally friendly way to turn agricultural waste into state-of-the-art light-emitting diodes. And they already suggest this method could be applied to other plants, like sugar cane, bamboo, wheat, barley, or grasses. Really amazing!
What do you think of this future? Would love to read what you think!
Sounds like a science fiction movie, but thanks to an international team of researchers, that developed nanorobots that are capable of removing heavy metals from polluted water, I can dream of a world where we can clean heavily polluted rivers with nanorobots.
Rio Doce – Photo credits: Ibama – Licensed under: CC BY-SA 2.0 – Photo edited by me
They developed thermosensitive magnetic nanorobots and when placed in cool water the material bonds with heavy metals. By using a magnet field they can move the nanorobots to another side of the water, where they can heat the water to separate the heavy metals from the material. Really amazing!
They are still in the researching stage, but hopefully they can found out how to use it in real life. And maybe one day we can clean heavily polluted rivers with the nanorobots!
What do you think of this future? Would love to read what you think!
Thanks to the companies Aquaduin, Farys and De Watergroep I dream of a future where we drink water from the sea! They launched a pilot project in Nieuwpoort to purify both fresh, brackish and salt water to drinking water.
Photo credits: Dimitris Vetsikas
The pilot plant in Nieuwpoort has to run for at least 3 months and mimics the membrane part of the water production process on a smaller scale. If the innovative technology presents positive test results, a new water production center will be built by 2025 that can supply drinking water for more than 30,000 families. That would be amazing!
If they succeed in developing a climate-robust water supply, I can really dream of a future where everybody on the whole world have access to good quality drink water!
What do you think of this future? Would love to read what you think!
Thanks to the University of Oxford I can imagine a world where we find and treat cancer in a very early stage, and hopefully treated more successfully. That would be miraculous!
They described a new minimally invasive and inexpensive blood test that can identify cancer in patients with non-specific symptoms. The new type of blood test can be used to detect a range of cancers and whether these cancers have spread (metastasized) in the body.
Unlike many blood-based tests for cancer, which detect genetic material from tumors, this test uses a technique called NMR metabolomics, which uses high magnetic fields and radio waves to profile levels of natural chemicals (metabolites) in the blood.
Healthy individuals, people with localized cancer, and people with metastatic cancer each have different profiles of blood metabolites, which can be detected and then analyzed by the researchers’ algorithms to distinguish between these states. And that is really amazing!
What do you think about this research? Would love to read what you think!
Want to read more? This is the future signal source: https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-01-05-new-test-can-identify-if-patient-has-cancer-and-if-it-has-spread.
What do you think of this future? Would love to read what you think!
Thanks to Stefano Boeri, who designed a new vertical forest building in the city Huanggang in China, I can imagine what future cities will look like. They fully completed this beautiful building and people already started living in it!
“The design allows an excellent view of the tree-lined façades, enhancing the sensorial experience of the greenery and integrating the plant landscape with the architectural dimension – says the architect Stefano Boeri – Thus, the inhabitants of the residential towers have the opportunity to experience the urban space from a different perspective while fully enjoying the comfort of being surrounded by nature.”
Photo credits: RAW VISION studio
Hopefully we will see this wonderful buildings in every city around the world, and that we all profit from the advantages of the city forests!
What do you think about living in a vertical forest? Or to see them in your own city?
Sounds like a dream, but thanks to researchers from the University of Utrecht I can imagine this future! They work together with the University Medical Center Utrecht on catalytic materials, that can react with either indoor or outdoor light to photocatalytically degrade the pollutants, and they already successful destroyed Covid with it.
Photographer: 0ro1 – Licensed under: CC BY-SA 2.0
Cleaning air with catalytic materials is not new, in Japan they already use it to clean air. Big difference is that it happens outside with UV light. The researchers in Utrecht developed a material that works with indoor light, like LED.
To raise the chances of success they build the new paint from scratch. They want to avoid pitfalls of adding something new to existing paints, which often didn’t work for other ideas of creating new applications for paint.
Now the researchers will collaborate with Akzo Nobel, a company that creates paints and performance coatings worldwide, to develop the painting, and hopefully they can bring this product on the market in five to ten years.
Covid free homes by using wall paint, that would be amazing!
Sounds impossible, but thanks to Ap Verheggen, who invented the SunGlacier, I know it’s possible. The SunGlacier creates water by blowing outside air into a cold waterfall. The moisture in the air condenses and so the total volume of the waterfall increases during its fall. The water that is extracted can then be drawn off, which can used for drinking, or agriculture.
Photo credits: SunGlacier
The SunGlacier only needs solar power as energy source and can operate from 10 degrees Celsius to well above 50 degrees, which makes it an efficient machine and very usefull in many (dry) places on earth. Really incredible!
Want to read more? This is the future signal source: SunGlacier.
What do you think of this future? Would love to read what you think!
Thanks to engineers of the Rice University I know in the future it is possible to protect the steel of bridges. They developed a compound that can protect anything above or below the water made of steel that requires protection from the elements, like bridges.
Besides protecting steel against salty water, the compound of sulfur and selenium is self-healing. They found out that if you give the alloy a poke, it recovers. And if it needs to recover quickly, they can assist it with heat. Really amazing!
This makes me wonder if we can develop more self-healing materials and compounds, so they can contribute to build a sustainable future!
It sounds like something that happen in a Star Trek movie, but thanks to The Team at X, Alphabet’s research and development company, I know it is possible. They successfully set up a laser-based system for beaming the internet across the Congo River at speeds up to 20 Gbps.
Photographer: MONUSCO/Myriam Asmani – Licensed under: CC BY-SA 2.0
Using laser beams to send internet over a longer distance is very difficult, because a tiny movement of the laser equipment will result in change in direction and consequently in unreliable internet. X solved this by creating a sensory feedback system that constantly monitors the placement of the beam and then makes corrections to mirrors mounted on the receiving equipment to keep the beam fixed on the receiver.
Laser beamed internet can be a fantastic solutions to bring fiber-like internet to underserved communities around the world, where it is difficult to install internet because of geographic locations or costs. That is really an amazing future!
Thanks to Panasonic I can dream of a world that every factory uses a RE100 solution to power their business activities!
They planned to build an “RE100 solution” that supplies 100% of the electricity consumed in business activities from renewable sources by using an in-house power generation system combining pure hydrogen fuel cell generators and photovoltaic generators.
The power generated with this system supplies the entire power used in manufacturing departments of the fuel cell factory located within the Kusatsu site. In parallel, Panasonic will develop and verify technologies related to the optimal power supply and demand management based on integrated control of the power generators and the storage battery system.
By combining the pure hydrogen fuel cell generators, photovoltaic generators, and storage batteries, they want to solve the problem that current installations requires a large installation area and is susceptible to weather conditions, resulting in unstable power generation.
In addition this will enable the construction of an in-house power generation system in a limited space, such as on the roof of a factory, to supply efficient and stable electricity for business activities. Really amazing!
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