Hydropower is not new to the realm of technology. Water mills and water wheels have been used to generate power for centuries. The ancient Greeks and Romans created the first water mills around 280 BCE. Greek engineer Philo of Byzantium is the individual who is usually credited with its design.

The design team created the Energyfish, a hydroelectric generator which functions in groups or “schools” to monitor the ecosystem, plant and animal life, motion of the body of water, and self-maintenance on the Energyfish itself. Each machine is approximately 3 x 2.4 x 1.4 m (9.8 x 7.9 x 4.6 ft), weighs around 100 kg (220 lbs), and generates power by following the natural kinetic flow of the body of water where it is housed. The devices have a 10-20 year lifetime, and only require the water to flow at 1 m/s (2.2 mph) and be at a minimum depth of 1 m (2.2 ft). The average power output of one unit is 1.8 kW, and each unit can generate about 15 MWh of electricity per year. (With 15MWh of electricity, about 25 homes can be powered for one year!) Though hydropower is one of the most used renewable energy sources, Energyminer took note of some of the drawbacks of large-scale hydropower and hydroelectric generation, such as negative effects on the natural ecosystem, displacement of residents due to construction, and loss of property, and sought to minimize or eliminate all of these issues.

The devices monitor their own “health” by tracking power output and rotor speed, and perform self-cleaning by running the rotors in reverse. The Energyfish also tracks water temperature, water current velocity, and anchor location and force. To help protect the ecosystem, the Energyfish slows its rotor rotation when animal life is detected nearby. Each device can also fully submerge itself in a minor flooding event to allow large debris to pass over it, and can de-anchor itself and float ashore in major flooding events and re-anchor to its home spot when the flooding passes. These generators can be installed partially or fully submerged, eliminating the need for dams and reducing the visual impact of manmade devices in natural settings. Each device takes just a few weeks to set up, which means they can be rapidly deployed to minimize resident displacement. The Energyfish have their own IoT system, to allow monitoring, analysis, and maintenance to be in real time and through one system.

At present, the pilot units are deployed in Munich, with the design team testing and monitoring their functions.

Article about Energyfish (written by Natalie Rojko, Chief Marketing Officer of Energyminer)
Energyminer Website (English | Deutsch)

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Sounds like a dream come true, doesn’t it? Everyone can remember seeing an electronic device break at least once in their lives. Imagine if that TV remote that got stepped on could bend, and then return to normal, instead of breaking? While standard electronics feature an epoxy-resin foundation with electronic components and copper solder, this team has a flexible printed board with cold-welded parts. The board, which is composed primarily of gallium, is dipped into a gallium-based colloidal metal compound and treated with electrostatic charges. To test this research, the team created a balloon catheter which tracked heart rhythms in the subject similar to, and with accuracy resembling, an ECG.

Read the full article here.

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Their approach differs from “traditional” gene therapy for multiple reasons. First, most gene therapy restricts the ability to re-dose. Second, many gene therapies carry the risk of immunogenicity, which is the ability to trigger an immune response. (This is a good thing in the case of vaccines, however  it is a problem in bio-therapeutic drugs due to the immune system attacking the drug and not the cells or parts of the cells which have the disease.) Third, most gene therapies utilize viral vectors, which restricts size limits on therapeutic payloads.

DNA Nanobots platform utilizes programmable DNA nanostructures and is origami-based. This is exactly as it sounds: long DNA sequences can be “folded” to fit into a smaller space. Larger or more complex genetic structures can be modified in this way to interact with different cell receptors or types of cells.

The CEO of DNA Nanobots Inc., James Lynch, said “Our platform represents a paradigm shift in how we approach gene therapy, offering unprecedented flexibility and safety by eliminating the constraints of viral vectors while maintaining therapeutic efficacy across diverse medical indications.”

This grant will enable DNA Nanobots to take non-viral gene therapy to a new level!

DNA Nanobots Website: https://dnananobots.com/

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The research team first created Xenobots, made from amphibian embryonic cells, and wondered if this could help them to build the Anthrobots, the technical name for the biobots. The biobots have a lifespan of 45-60 days. The team designed a process to create these biobots, and noted the creation process can be “scaled up”, so many bots can be created at one time.

The biobots have four different movement types: circular, linear, curvilinear, and eclectic. The circular biobots tended to move in the same location with other circular biobots, while the linear and curvilinear moved through multiple locations. The eclectic biobots moved in many observational areas and did not stay with similar bots as much as the other types. They exhibited movement types of the other three groups, in a random way, but as their life cycle progressed they tended to behave like one of the other three groups more regularly.

It will be interesting to see further developments in cellular repair by biobots!

Source 1 – QPS
Source 2 – Neuroscience News
Read the original research paper here

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“[The team demonstrated] each time molecules of water were shot as tiny bullets onto oxygen-containing surfaces, such as rust, for example, the molecules of water could produce molecular oxygen by ripping off the oxygen which had been part of the rust.” (Article linked at the bottom)

Dr. Giapis says this can be used by machines to create oxygen in the exploration of Mars, and can also help fight climate change on Earth. The trio, along with Philip Shushkov, published their findings in the science journal Nature Communications in 2019.

Being able to explore and even occupy the surface of Mars, not only with robots but also with humans, would be a terrific landmark in space exploration, no?

Read the full article here.

Read the journal publication here.

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The new InfinityPlanePress will focus on the fiction of James H. Peterson III, and the adventures of the Peterson-Kelm family in Japan and nearby countries. I am looking forward to visiting Vietnam soon, which is looking more practical as the pandemic becomes more manageable.

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