What is CBDC? Stands for Central Bank Digital Currency. About 80 countries are considering a CBDC to better control money. It would be produced by each country’s Central Bank (CB), sometimes referred to as Federal or Reserve Bank. China is experimenting with the digital yuan because they want to stop the $US dominating world trade.…
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Hire An AV taxi in Phoenix Now The following blog relates mainly to the USA where Google (Waymo), GM and Tesla are involved in different ways. In the last 5 years, autonomous driving has gone from ‘maybe possible’ to ‘definitely possible’ to ‘inevitable’. Then to ‘now commercially available.’ While commercially available is limited to some…
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What’s Good about Nuclear Fusion? The ultimate energy source, safe, clean and virtually limitless: 1 kilogram of hydrogen fusion fuel = 10,000 tonnes of coal, a ratio of 1: 10 Million It is available 24/7, so way better than solar, wind, hydrogen, etc. However, producing it is difficult and it may be a long way off. But…
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What is AI? AI Artificial Intelligence: This subject is so important, it will be dealt with in several blogs. This one is introductory and general, but later blogs will deal with applications in more detail. Scientists have been working on AI for a long time with spasmodic, stop start progress. It is unseen to most…
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China Leads During Pandemic Driverless Taxi EVs: Under Xi Jinping, China seems to be in a hurry for almost everything. They have already licensed several companies to operate autonomous (driverless) EVs as Uber like taxis. Is this premature or is life cheap there? But the move will be interesting and educational for the rest of…
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Introduction In the US, big money is being invested in Vertical Farming (VF). For instance, Bowery Farming backed by Google’s Alphabet and Square Roots, founded by Elon Musk’s brother Kimbal. Also the innovative startup InFarm which has leafy greens growing right at the selling face, in supermarkets. VF is a fertile space for development right…
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CRISPR I am so ancient, I don’t even buy green bananas, but there is hope – read on! You may not have heard of CRISPR (pronounced ‘crisper’, an acronym for “Clusters of Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats”) but scientists can now edit genes in plants, animals and humans. With CRISPR, they can make these edits…
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