Advances in Science and Technology (for future survival)

There are also many positive applications of AI and medicine seems like a really powerful example of an area of its potential usefulness.

https://naviant.com/blog/artificial-intelligence-positive-impact/

@tgraf66, thank you for those two excellent articles and once again for hope for sustainable technology.  We need a boost like that to keep us focused on a sustainable future. 

@raincloud, your knowledge about climate change processes is so vast and helpful here. You are able to put into English concepts that are difficult to follow in scientific studies.  So thank you, too. 

As I read one of @tgraf66's articles about using crustacean's shells to make sustainable batteries, I too was thinking that it's too late to use shells because ocean acidification is destroying them and the oceans won't de-acidfy for a thousand years, if ever.  But the article also mentioned that chitin, the ingredient in the shells needed to make sustainable batteries, is abundant in nature and can also be found in fungi and insects, but is usually thrown away as food waste from restaurants and a byproduct of the food industry.  So couldn't they just get chitin from fungi and insects? 

@jeanne-mayell 

I certainly hope so. It would be a great solution!

@raincloud, I was sitting in meeting last week where one of the projects would be a 7th use of AI that will be game changing, especially in other parts of the world, just about the moment the huge aquifer under North America falters.  

@jackofhearts 

I would be interested in the specifics if and when it would be okay to divulge them.

@jackofhearts I'll second that request.

When I can, I will

@jackofhearts Intriguing post but I need more information to decode it.

Please explain: 

You wrote "one of the projects would be a 7th use of AI that will be game changing, especially in other parts of the world, just about the moment the huge aquifer under North America falters."

1. What meeting was this you were in? What project? 

2. what is the 7th use of AI?  I can only determine that it refers to chat bots but that doesn't help me undnerstand what you mean. 

3. So what do you mean when you write it will be a game changer, i.e., good or bad game change?  And how so? And why compare it to the emptying of the Oligala Aquifer over the American Heartland. When that aquifer empties, which scientists have indicated could happen as early as 2028, what does that have to do with the 7th use of AI? 

Thanks for your response. 

Here's another interesting development on the energy front, this time something that would work well for small devices like phones and tablets.

https://www.livescience.com/scientists-discover-enzyme-that-can-turn-air-into-energy-unlocking-potential-new-energy-source

@tgraf66 

Golly day! um, T B or not T B.......that is the question...

@raincloud @tgraf66  That's a little scary, like Wuhan all over again

@maggieci Why? The virus used is *related* to the TB virus only by family and wouldn't be used as the energy source.  The enzyme can be synthesized without using the virus itself, and it will still produce energy.

@tgraf66 I guess I was being a little facetious and should have used a "wink" emoji. These advances in science and medicine all come from ongoing, dedicated research into the wonder that makes up our universe.

Didn't someone predict a new cancer treatment?  I found this tonight. 

https://www.thebrighterside.news/post/breakthrough-treatment-destroys-advanced-stage-cancers-in-less-than-1-week

@tgraf66 Yes... Baba did .." A breakthrough in cancer treatmentis announced. (Baba)Predicted 6.1.20)"

And here's another one.  It's still at the "proof of concept" stage, meaning it may still be a long way off, but it's promising.

https://www.acs.org/pressroom/presspacs/2021/acs-presspac-november-17-2021/shape-morphing-microrobots-deliver-drugs-to-cancer-cells-video.html

Scientists have created a promising injectable cell therapy to treat osteoarthritis that both reduces inflammation and also regenerates articular cartilage.

https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-04-cell-therapy-osteoarthritis.html

New Catalyst Completely Breaks Down Durable Plastic Pollution in Minutes

@tgraf66 Technology that cleans the oceans of plastic! And the land, and landfills. Humans will restore the un-restorable.  As I read about it, I "saw" tankers installing giant tarps around massive plastic piles in the ocean, applying this catalyst, breaking down the plastic and mining the monomers that hold plastic together. A new industry that governments would fund. these mile long floating waste dumps would become treasures to be "mined" and the plastic monomers reused. The ocean cleansing begins.

Scientists invent mind-blowing method to remove microplastics from our water: ‘1,000 times smaller than those that are currently detectable'