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Friday, May 19, 2023

In This Edition:
OV Anam, coal mine battery, Dolly's climate song, Android web server, generating viewpoints from reflections, & near silent drone delivery!

Coal Mine Battery

Image: JD Hunt et al

Scientists published a paper in the Energies journal that outlines how to use abandoned coal mine shafts as batteries. The Underground Energy Storage (UGES) system raises containers of sand raised to the top of the mine to store the energy, which when released to fall generate electricity. Scottish company Gravitricity have developed and tested a similar system.

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Big Think
Environment Science
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Dolly's Climate Song

Image: YoutTube, Dolly Parton

This is Dolly Parton's world, we just live in it.
Now that world is burning, so Dolly wrote a climate action song.
"Liar, Liar, The world's on fire, what you gonna do when it all burns down."

Source:
YoutTube, Dolly Parton
Environment Music
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Android Web Server

Image: Android Blog

Want to use an Android phone as a web server? Check out this blog on how to do it, which is itself hosted on a phone!

Source:
Android Blog
Tech
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Generating Viewpoints From Reflections

Image: MIT

Researchers at MIT have developed an Objects as Radiance-Field Cameras (ORCa) technique that uses reflections on shiny objects as image sensors to generate viewpoints outside the view of the original camera.
If you remember the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Identity Crisis (s04e18) where Geordie recreates an incident on the holodeck and generates a previous unseen viewpoint, we can now do this with AI.

Source:
MIT
AI & ML Innovation
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Near Silent Drone Delivery

Image: YouTube, Zipline

The autonomous drone delivery company Zipline released details of their impressive new delivery platform. A whisper quiet drone with specially designed propellers based on hummingbirds hovers overhead and lowers a shuttlecraft looking storage box that uses its own propeller fans to guide its descent to the ground, where it opens a hatch and delivers your package. Zipline already deliver medical suppliers across Rwanda as part of the 600,000 deliveries they have made so far. Check out the Irish connection at 34:30 in their latest keynote.

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YouTube, Zipline
Innovation Tech
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About Found This Week

Found This Week is a curated blog of interesting posts, articles, links and stories in the world of technology, science and life in general.
Each edition is curated by Daryl Feehely every Friday and highlights cool stuff found each week.
The first 104 editions were published on Medium before this site was created, check out the archive here.

Daryl Feehely

I’m a web consultant, contract web developer, technical project manager & photographer originally from Cork, now based in Liverpool. I offer my clients strategy, planning & technical delivery services, remotely & in person. I also offer freelance CTO services to companies in need of technical bootstrapping or reinvention. If you think I can help you in your business, check out my details on http://darylfeehely.com

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