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...Electricity is a very poor store of value, since the problem of how to store electricity is one of the defining ones of our age....
...Their first encounter was no meet-cute but a romp in the back room of a pet store when Joe was just 13....
...Some good news A giant leap for womankind: trailblazing 19th-century UK astronomers Annie Maunder and Alice Everett have had two asteroids named in their memory....
...If BP can be rewarded by investors for that, as Europe’s energy dinosaurs thrash around looking for a post-asteroid future, it probably counts as progress....
...substantially heightened risk of collisions, adding to an already growing cloud of space debris, to the fact that so many Starlink satellites would make it harder to detect a “potentially catastrophic” asteroid...
...Who, for instance, can forget their assertion that bitcoin was a better store of value than gold because Elon will eventually mine an asteroid full of the shiny stuff, leading to a ruinous supply/demand...
...Nasa says more satellites would make it harder to detect a “potentially catastrophic” asteroid strike on earth....
...About five feet high, the steel structure calls to mind both a space capsule and a bulbous asteroid....
...“Our stores are beautiful and all the stuff looks great,” he tells MacKinnon. Veblen would have recognised Patagonia....
...“They offer a great way to calm the nerves,” he adds of the three examples in the “man cave” above which he stores his classic cars....
...Ocean ravines offer space and lower costs for projects to mitigate climate change New membrane provides drinking water and lithium Metal-organic frameworks allow precision filtering with less energy Asteroids...
...Sir, With reference to Clive Cookson’s report on Oumuamua, the first known interstellar visitor to our solar system (“Asteroid ruling dashes alien ship hopes”, December 19): I understand that scientists...
...MOF Technologies The Northern Ireland-based company manufactures metal-organic frameworks — highly absorbent crystal structures that store gases efficiently....
...“It sounds sci-fi, but it’s not that far off to think that Elon Musk or someone is going to come along and mine these asteroids.”...
...(FT) How we would stop an asteroid When it comes to the possibility of an asteroid crashing into earth, experts say it is not a question of if, but when....
...Luxembourg is the size of a small asteroid, but the Grand Duchy has big ambitions in outer space....
...(FT) Resistance to fast fashion is futile It is no longer about quality: young shoppers have come to regard clothes as disposable and crave the rapid stock turnover at fashionable, cheap stores, such as...
...We need a similar big commitment to generate and store clean energy, bringing down its costs....
...Notable successes Aisle411, founded by Nathan Pettyjohn, is an in-store navigation app developer, based in the Center for Emerging Technologies....
.... £49.99; Selfridges (in-store only) … Goji smart lock Sends photo updates to your phone of who’s at your door so you know who’s coming to dinner. $280; gojiaccess.com … Lapka sensors Gather precise...
...Or is it more like a pile-driver, or even an asteroid strike?)...
...Today RNA acts as an intermediate between DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), the store of genetic information, and proteins, the molecules that do most of the work in living organisms....
...“Apocalypse” has many forms beyond earthquakes: from volcanic eruptions, tsunamis and hurricanes to hits of asteroids from space....
...Certainly, the number of threats the world is aware of continues to multiply – we know much more about the possibility of asteroid strikes, or the potential for new diseases such as bird flu, and terrorists...
...This year the Potter craze reached almost farcical proportions when an asteroid (Rowling) and a dinosaur skeleton (Dracorex hogwartsia) were named in her honour....
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