Year: 2022

EXAMPLES OF NEXT NATURE."Cell phones, once second nature, are now first nature. They feel like a natural extension of your body or of your identity. Different designs of a razor can evolve following the same logic as a living organism. A child remarks that the forest smells like shampoo, rather than the shampoo smelling like a forest. The global economy is in large part controlled by autonomous computer algorithms."" " http://www.nextnature.net/ View in LinkedIn

SCIENCE AND NEXT NATURE."Nanotechnology, Genetic manipulation, Ambient intelligence, Tissue engineering, Neuroscience, Social Software, Soft Architecture. All of these young research fields radically interfere with our sense of what is ‘natural’. They are connected in the next nature research."" " http://www.nextnature.net/ View in LinkedIn

CYCLISTS EYE GENE DOPING. "And while making a permanent change to the genome may be complex - using a disabled virus to carry the genetic medicine to the cells - Philippe Moullier says there is now a shortcut, which delivers temporary results: injecting the purified gene directly into your muscle."" " http://lnkd.in/dgqhmqY View in LinkedIn

DR MICHIO KAIKU video on future events including mental control of objects, ageless bodies, flying cars, and bringing back extinct life. Culture and nature continue to co-evolve and become closer. " " http://lnkd.in/de2VKny View in LinkedIn

NEW ENERGY TECHNOLOGY. The next series of blogs will look at existing human energy sources and their sustainability and see if there are promising biological solutions on the horizon. Clearly, our fossil fuel transportation and economy is finite, and fresh alternatives will be needed. View in LinkedIn

FOSSILIZED SOLAR POWER. "When sunlight strikes a plant, some of the energy is trapped through photosynthesis and is stored in chemical bonds as the plant grows. We can recover that energy months or years later by burning wood... we use the stored energy in the much more concentrated forms that result when organic matter, after millions of years of geological and chemical activity underground, turns into fossil fuels, such as coal, oil, or natural gas. Either way, we're reclaiming the power of sunlight."" " http://lnkd.in/dhaDs9p View in LinkedIn

INEFFICIENT COAL GENERATED ENERGY. An electric light "contains only about 2% of the energy content of the coal used to produce it. Imagine that the coal needed to illuminate an incandescent light bulb contains 100 units of energy when it enters the power plant. Only two units of that energy eventually light the bulb. The remaining 98 units are lost along the way, primarily as heat." See this helpful infographic of power generation inefficiencies at each step. " " http://lnkd.in/dhaDs9p View in LinkedIn

TRANSPORT: THE BIG ENERGY USER. "Our individual automotive and public-transit choices also have a substantial impact, because transportation takes up 28% of all U.S. energy consumption (and about 70% of all petroleum use). Even the 50% of total U.S. energy consumption that goes to commercial and industrial uses affects every single citizen personally through the cost of goods and services, the quality of manufactured products, the strength of the economy, and the availability of jobs."" " http://lnkd.in/dhaDs9p View in LinkedIn

CURRENT US ENERGY SOURCES."At present, oil accounts for 40% of total energy consumption in the United States. Coal provides 23% and natural gas provides 22% of our energy. Another 8% comes from nuclear power plants. Renewable energy sources round out the roster, accounting for 7% of consumption – mostly as the result of hydropower investments made in the last century and the use of biomass (organic matter such as wood, municipal waste, and agricultural crops) for energy production."" " http://lnkd.in/dk8RczQ View in LinkedIn

EUROPE TO CUT NUCLEAR DEPENDENCY. "The Fukushima disaster led many countries to rethink their view on nuclear energy. Germany plans to abandon it altogether, but French President Francois Hollande also wants to cut nuclear output sharply - by a third in 20 years. It's a big ask in a country that now relies on nuclear for 75% of its electricity."" " http://lnkd.in/dQQwvbu View in LinkedIn