Been working on adding Jess as the house bot over on the chatterbot collection site.

Here's how she's shaping up.

There are bio fuels in production now. The limiting factor of these is food production.

Found this vid on CO2 capture fuels and a way of financing CO2 storage technologies.

I know a few of us here are interested in batteries and we have talk about the technology in various threads, I've made this thread to help us explore the topic in its many forms.

Will start with this video and see where we go.

I found this fascinating. Towards the end of the video there are rotating models that seem to morph shape before your very eyes.

Check it out

This came up on Facebook, thought it would amuse you all.



He's selling them: https://fireballgallery.com/plasma-poppers

Not sure I'd feel safe

Thought I'd start this thread from a question posed by Carl2 ...

QuoteSo a rather strange question when life first began did the animals or the plants start first, was there ever an excess of oxygen and lack of enough carbon dioxide?

There are several orders of life (the top classification) and it can be ambiguous what is alive (virus' etc.)
If gets more interesting in the domains of life, which are Archaea, Bacteria and Eukaryote.
All plants and animals are eukaryote life and are much further down the evolutionary tree than archaea and bacteria.

The earliest life was about 4 billion years ago, oxygen started building up about 3.5 billion years ago, the great oxygenation event happened about 2.45 billion years ago, eukaryote life evolved about 2.1 billion years ago, multi cellular life about 1.6 billion years ago, plants about 850 million years ago, animals trace back to the Cambrian explosion about 635 million years ago.

So, atmospheric oxygen is due to life but beats plants by about 1-2 billion years and animals came after plants but are the same domain of life. After that you get to kingdoms of life.

Thought this was interesting.