Robert Nederal

New 'super foam' absorbs 10× more energy using 3D-printed skeleton New hybrid super foam with 3D-printed struts absorbs 10 times more energy than conventional padding materials.

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'It was difficult, but we brought it to life': the world's first winter tyre with 'on-demand grip' can boost traction and cut road wear by 30% This new tire can automatically deploy studs when it detects freezing conditions for improved grip and 30% less road wear

Get a grip — this world-first winter tyre can automatically deploy studs when it detects freezing road conditions | TechRadar share.google/qkyKgHv69SVW...

YouTube video by ARTE Concert Sting - Sounds Like Art - Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam - ARTE Concert

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CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes Bots hunt deformed RF contacts inside the collider's 27 km vacuum tubes The UK Atomic Energy Authority (UKAEA) and CERN have jointly developed a "mouse-sized robot" to inspect parts of the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that are out of reach to humans.…

ICYMI: CERN sends AI-trained robot mice scurrying through LHC beam pipes

Monitor Website Changes in Real Time and at Any Scale

Tools and Techniques:

1. Using a Browser Extension
‍2. Using a third-party provider
3. Running Your Own "Mr. Robot"

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#osint #socmint

Some people think #EV adoption is driven by politics and “woke culture.”

They’re wrong. It’s driven by cost curves & economics.

Battery cost: $1415/kWh → $90/kWh
Energy density: 120 → 480 Wh/kg
Range: 100 km → 500 km
Sales: 500 → 20,000,000
18 years → 6500× disruption.

That’s #Bettrification ⚡🔋

PV-powered refrigerated trailer completes long-distance Australian trial run Protran Solutions says a battery-electric refrigerated trailer charged by onboard solar panels has completed a 1,671 km Sydney-Brisbane round trip without diesel use, demonstrating depot-to-depot cold...

This is cool, a truck with refrigerated trailer, just did the Sydney to Brisbane run in under 12 parse...

and return without using a single drop of fuel or grid power to cool the trailer.. 100% powered by #solar and #battery. (the trailer refrigeration)
www.pv-magazine.com/2026/03/03/p...

Since 2008, cost of #EV battery capability — measured as $ per kilometre of range — has collapsed by ~99%.

Range rises 100 → 500 km
Energy density rises 120 → 480 Wh/kg
Costs collapse $1414 → $90

That’s the economic engine of #Bettrification.
Disruption follows cost curves.

Over 40% of global shipping by volume exists to move fossil fuels from one place to another.

A huge share of the world's maritime infrastructure has been built around a system that is going to change dramatically as renewable energy and electrification displace fossil fuels.

Pressure-free solid batteries achieve liquid-like conductivity Flexible composite electrolyte hits liquid-like conductivity without stack pressure in solid-state batteries.

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Sizing chaos The inter-generational struggle to find clothes that fit more than a tiny portion of women

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China’s latest energy data offers a signal worth paying attention to. In 2025, emissions from energy and industry fell by 0.3%, modest, but notable, even as total energy consumption rose by 3.5%.

The key driver? A continued surge in solar power capacity.

YouTube video by Munro Live Impulse Labs: Engineering a Better Induction Stove

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China's policies to advance vehicle remanufacturing Targeted subsidies, industrial zones and funding are propelling the vehicle remanufacturing sector

China adopted the circular economy
as a national priority since 2009 recognising it can generate growth decoupled from resource use. This case study covers growth in the vehicle remanufacturing sector. www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org/circular-exa...

When you see the disconnect between industry forecasts & reality, suddenly my own #Bettrification thesis doesn’t seem so outrageous. If anything, the real stretch is believing exponential cost curves quietly stop after decades of proving the opposite. 2025 saw >2.5TW cumulative solar capacity.

Physicists Finally Reveal Why Sticky Tape 'Screams' When You Peel It There are some things in life that many people just don't think to question.

Physicists Finally Reveal Why Sticky Tape 'Screams' When You Peel It : ScienceAlert share.google/OFdfI8KYAntt...

Watch As Tesla’s FSD Predicts 70 MPH Crash Before It Happens and Steers Clear A Model Y on FSD v14.2.2.5 predicted a potential 70-mph head-on highway crash, autonomously changing lanes to escape the danger zone without intervention.… Read More

Watch As Tesla’s FSD Predicts 70 MPH Crash Before It Happens and Steers Clear

The cost of solar has fallen 99.8% since 1975 and 94.4% since 2008. Solar, firmed by batteries and supported by wind, is our energy future. Everything else is just noise and rounding errors. #Bettrification #BESS

Feeling Tired? Here Are 7 Things We Get Wrong About What Gives Us Energy - Scott H Young Too tired to exercise? Drained by social interactions? Need your phone to relax? Exploring seven of the misconceptions we have around what energizes and drains us.

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Balance of Power – Assault of the Cost Curves - Cost curves are reshaping energy. With 83% of new capital flowing to renewables + storage and 92% of new builds clean, the balance of power has shifted.

Cost curves don’t debate — they dominate. 83% of new power capital now flows to renewables + storage. ~92% of new builds are clean. Based on current trajectories, by 2030 VRE firmed by storage hits 56% of global electricity. By 2035: ~83%. The Balance of Power has shifted. #Bettrification

Why You Don’t Need to Steer Clear of MSG The idea that MSG is uniquely harmful rests on a single letter and a lot of iffy science.

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One has to admire their enthusiasm 😀

German tourists trying to create floating sauna rescued from Swedish ice floe Authorities mounted rescue operation after group of five lost control of ice sheet in Stockholm archipelago

German tourists trying to create floating sauna rescued from Swedish ice floe | Sweden | The Guardian share.google/pMYi4brup7xw...

‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air Omar Yaghi’s invention uses ambient thermal energy and can generate up to 1,000 litres of clean water every day

‘Reimagining matter’: Nobel laureate invents machine that harvests water from dry air | Water | The Guardian share.google/7n7WeNlzljG8...

GOOD NEWS: The world’s largest steam-producing heat pump is now online in Finland, delivering 12 MW of superheated steam from waste heat and CO₂-free electricity.

Proof that industrial heat can be electrified at scale.

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Multimaterial 3D printer builds working motor from scratch in hours MIT engineers develop a 3D-printing system that fabricates fully functional electric motors in a single process.

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How ‘smog capital of Poland’ saved 6,000 lives by cutting soot levels Kraków’s ban on burning solid fuels plus subsidies for cleaner heating has led to clearer air and better health

10 years ago I worked with Polish colleagues to phase out coal heating.

Clean heating policies worked – Poland’s air is cleaner today.

Clear rules and support for households cut pollution and saved thousands of lives.

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Individualized mRNA vaccines evoke durable T cell immunity in adjuvant TNBC - Nature In a phase 1 trial, personalized mRNA vaccines tailored to individual tumour mutations in triple-negative breast cancer induced robust, long-lasting T cell responses and improved prognosis.

More hope from mRNA vaccines. In this instance, individualized vaccines were given to women with triple negative breast cancer following surgery and adjuvant therapy. The results are quite remarkable. Despite cancer finding a ‘T cell-evading’ work-around in some patients.
#Science 🧪

New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater A surprising breakthrough could help sodium-ion batteries rival lithium—and even turn seawater into drinking water. Scientists discovered that keeping water inside a key battery material, instead of r...

New sodium ion battery stores twice the energy and desalinates seawater | ScienceDaily share.google/SCHBp5l9OO8S...