
It is used to keep the dust down in summer too, and is probably getting into their drinking water.
Source: TreeHugger – Radium from fracking brine is keeping Pennsylvania’s dirt roads toasty and warm
Monthly Archives: May 2018
Process takes CO₂ from the air, converts it to carbon nanotubes
Carbon capture and storage involves the separation of carbon dioxide from other gases, after which it’s pumped underground for storage. It’s likely to be needed to reach our climate goals without simply shutting down many existing fossil fuel plants, and it will be essential if we overshoot our emissions goals by mid-century. But it also adds significant costs to building and operating fossil fuel plants, which explains why the process has never gotten past the point of sporadic demonstration projects.
An alternative to storage involves turning the carbon that’s captured into a useful project—something the XPrize has made one of its challenges. Doing so requires two things: overcoming the chemical stability of CO2 and making a product that sells at a profit. We recently stumbled across a bit of creative chemistry that turns carbon dioxide from the air into a product that should be profitable: high-quality carbon nanotubes.
Something in the air
Our current methods for making carbon nanotubes typically rely on hydrocarbons. The chemistry of this source helps drive the tube-forming reactions, since it can be energetically favorable to remove the hydrogens from these molecules. Unfortunately, this doesn’t get rid of CO2, and it’s only good for emissions in the sense that some of the carbon ends up in nanotubes instead of the air.
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Source: Ars Technica – Process takes CO₂ from the air, converts it to carbon nanotubes
H1Z1 on PS4 offers Pro owners a gameplay advantage • Eurogamer.net
Fortnite’s domination of the console space shows no sign of flagging, but we will be receiving a glut of new Battle Royale games in the console space over the next few months – and the deluge begins on PlayStation 4 with the release of H1Z1, a port of one of the very first examples of the genre. It’s fascinating to stack it up against the competition: the similarities with PUBG are legion (owing to Playerunknown working on both titles) but the execution is very, very different. For…
H1Z1 on PS4 offers Pro owners a gameplay advantage • Eurogamer.net
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*UPDATED/ WORKING* HOW TO GET TWITCH PRIME SKINS FREE NO CREDIT CARD! FORTNITE BATTLE…
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Fortnite Update
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FORTNITE TOURNAMENT |PS4 LIVESTREAM
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Fortnite Update
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MY FIRST TIME USING SKULL TROOPER IN FORTNITE BATTLE ROYALE!!!
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Fortnite Update
Source: PS4 News – MY FIRST TIME USING SKULL TROOPER IN FORTNITE BATTLE ROYALE!!!
Fortnite Battle Royale | Battle Pass Season 3 | PS4
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Fortnite Update
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Bethesda's New Fallout Tease Better Not Be Fallout 5
With rumors and speculation flying around everywhere in the Fallout universe after the recent tease by Bethesda, Coin-Drop is really hoping the announcement isn’t a Fallout 5.
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Source: PS4 News – Bethesda’s New Fallout Tease Better Not Be Fallout 5
NEW FORTNITE UPDATE OUT NOW! NEW “JETPACK” GAMEPLAY! (FORTNITE BATTLE ROYALE)
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Fortnite Update
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Google brings AR tours to its Expeditions field trip app
Last year, Google announced that it was working on bringing AR to its Expeditions platform and since then, it has been testing AR expeditions with around one million students. Today, the company has made those AR tours available to everyone, adding a…
Source: Engadget – Google brings AR tours to its Expeditions field trip app
SHOCKER – Free VPNs Sell Your Data
In this edition of You Get What You Pay For, The Next Web points out that the EU’s new GDPR laws are uncovering a lot of services and what they are doing with you data. Most notable, free VPN services which are mostly used to protect user privacy, seem to be an ugly offender when it comes to selling your data. I know, you are shocked that a free VPN would have business model based on you and your data.
It was recently revealed that contrary to claims on their websites, 26 of the 117 most popular VPN services log user data despite touting contrary claims in their marketing. That revelation will seem tame compared to findings on how free VPNs operate: many openly and brazenly share/sell user data.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – SHOCKER – Free VPNs Sell Your Data
AMD Ryzen 2700 CPU on Sale at Ebay-Newegg
I just got done building all the graphs for our AMD Ryzen 2700 review, which will be up shortly. Newegg has the Ryzen 7 2700 for sale over on Ebay for $255, which is selling elsewhere for $290. The 2700X sells for $320. Not to give away our results from our Ryzen 2700 testing, but if you are going to be using high end cooling and overclocking your Ryzen, the 2700 looks to be a very good deal at $255. If you are going to be using mid to low-end or stock cooling, the 2700X is still the way to go and just rely on Precision Boost 2.
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Source: [H]ardOCP – AMD Ryzen 2700 CPU on Sale at Ebay-Newegg
Trump hits campaign trail to endorse key foe of net neutrality rules
Enlarge / NASHVILLE, TENN.: President Donald Trump introduces Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), who is running for US Senate, during a rally at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium on May 29, 2018. (credit: Getty Images | Drew Angerer )
Net neutrality foe Marsha Blackburn’s quest for a US Senate seat got a plug yesterday from President Donald Trump, who endorsed Blackburn at a campaign rally where he also criticized his various enemies, including “Crooked Hillary.”
“[Blackburn] is a great woman,” Trump told a crowd at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium. “We need Marsha in the Senate to continue the amazing progress and work that we’ve done over the last year and a half. There has never been an administration, and even some of our enemies are begrudgingly admitting this, that has done what we’ve done in the first year and a half.”
Rep. Blackburn (R-Tenn.) is one of the most outspoken opponents of strict net neutrality rules in the House of Representatives and chairs a key subcommittee that oversees telecommunications. She is seeking the Republican nomination for one of Tennessee’s Senate seats.
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Source: Ars Technica – Trump hits campaign trail to endorse key foe of net neutrality rules
Life returned to crater of Cretaceous asteroid in the blink of an eye
Enlarge / These plankton apparently didn’t mind living in a still-warm seafloor crater. (credit: John Maisano/University of Texas )
Usually, new studies of the dino-killing mass extinction at the end of the Cretaceous provide another view into just how bloody awful it was. But if you’re a glass-half-full kind of person, it’s interesting to think about how quickly life recovered—not on timescales relevant to an individual organism, necessarily, but in terms of species and ecosystems.
A research cruise recently drilled a rock core into the Chicxulub Crater where an asteroid fell 66 million years ago. Coring the deeper rock helped show test models of the impossibly jello-like behavior of the bedrock during the impact, but there are also sedimentary rocks on top that were formed some time after the collision.
Researchers who have looked elsewhere have noticed that life recovered more slowly in the Gulf of Mexico and North Atlantic than in other ocean basins, taking about 300,000 years. One hypothesis to explain this is that concentrations of toxic metals were high near the impact crater. If that’s true, recovery should be slowest at ground zero. But that’s not what a huge team led by the University of Texas at Austin’s Christopher Lowery found when they examined rocks that might record the first few years after the asteroid hit.
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Source: Ars Technica – Life returned to crater of Cretaceous asteroid in the blink of an eye
Create a 'Do Not Buy' List

I’ve long had a “to buy” list that I’ll add items to throughout the year, pruning and updating as needed. Right now it’s relatively short, including a water purifier, art for my apartment, and wireless headphones to use while running.
Source: LifeHacker – Create a ‘Do Not Buy’ List
Google Chrome now supports more password-free sign-ins
Google is acting on its promise to banish more passwords. It just released Chrome 67 for the desktop, bringing the Web Authentication standard to what’s arguably the most popular browser. As with Firefox, the technology allows password-free sign-in…
Source: Engadget – Google Chrome now supports more password-free sign-ins
Snapchat CEO Says Facebook Copied Its Features, But Not Its Values
Snapchat’s CEO, Evan Spiegel, told an industry crowd that he doesn’t obsess over Facebook’s habit of adapting his social network’s ideas. From a report: “I think it bothers my wife more than it bothers me,” Spiegel said at the Code Conference Tuesday evening. “Fundamentally, it is important to understand that Snapchat is not just a bunch of features.” […] Referencing Snapchat’s most famous feature — posts vanish after 24 hours — Spiegel quipped, “Maybe Facebook should copy Snapchat’s data retention policies.”
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Source: Slashdot – Snapchat CEO Says Facebook Copied Its Features, But Not Its Values
Google’s Project Fi gets new phones from LG and Motorola

For light data users in the US, Google’s cellular service, Project Fi, can be one of the best deals in mobile. It’s $20 per month for unlimited calls and texts, plus $1 per 100MB of data you use (that works out to $10 per GB), with a “bill protection cap” (basically an unlimited plan) of $80. Coverage from Sprint, T-Mobile, and US-Cellular is all rolled into one super-carrier, multiple data SIMs are free, and you can text and leave voicemails from a PC.
The hard part is getting a compatible phone that works with Fi’s multi-carrier setup. Previously, there was only Google’s lineup of Pixel and Nexus phones, along with the Moto X4. Today, Google is announcing three new Fi-compatible phones: The Moto G6, LG G7 ThinQ, and the LG V35 ThinQ.
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Source: Ars Technica – Google’s Project Fi gets new phones from LG and Motorola
You Will Suck At Fortnite A Lot Less If You Remap Your Key Bindings

Do you suck at Fortnite on PC? Are you baffled by other players’ ability to magic together amazing forts while you’ve accidentally locked yourself into a brick box prison? Here’s a trick: Remap your damn key bindings.
Source: LifeHacker – You Will Suck At Fortnite A Lot Less If You Remap Your Key Bindings
Intel Persistent Memory Event: Live Blog
It’s a Live Blog! More Optane in bound, looks like Apache Pass.
Source: AnandTech – Intel Persistent Memory Event: Live Blog
