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Scenario prompts 8 May 2024
The topics are mycelium buildings, leafs as batteries, reward for failure, deep tech VCs, pure silicon, sound suppressing silk and fusion.
The first mycelium building will sprout in Czechia as a glamping hub
The first building made of mycelium is currently growing in the Czech Republic.The project essentially demonstrates the many ways of using mycelium in sustainable construction.
Bio-inspired materials’ potential for efficient mass transfer boosted by a new twist on a century-old theory
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-bio-materials-potential-efficient-mass.html
Leafs as batteries?
What if companies rewarded employees for their failures?
https://theconversation.com/what-if-companies-rewarded-employees-for-their-failures-229357
Introduce the “best failed idea” prize
10 pitches deeptech VCs want to hear
https://sifted.eu/articles/deeptech-vc-pitches-europe
Skilled, adaptable and intelligent robots, sustainable semiconductors, space, computing power, AI, wireless power, high precision location, vision language, memory and cloud.
‘World’s purest silicon’ could lead to 1st million-qubit quantum computing chips
Scientists engineer the ‘purest ever silicon’ to build reliable qubits that can be manufactured to the size of a pinhead on a chip and power million-qubit quantum computers in the future
This sound-suppressing silk can create quiet spaces
https://news.mit.edu/2024/sound-suppressing-silk-can-create-quiet-spaces-0507
Researchers engineered a hair-thin fabric to create a lightweight, compact, and efficient mechanism to reduce noise transmission in a large room.
Tungsten-lined tokamak sets fusion record, sustains plasma for 6 mins
https://interestingengineering.com/energy/nuclear-fusion-record-tungsten
The fusion reaction plasma carried 15 percent more energy and had twice the density than before, the researchers said.
