Tag: Climate
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Kurzweil predicted swarms of intelligent nanodevices would scrub the atmosphere by 2025. The carbon-removal industry that actually showed up runs on amines, zeolites, and metal-organic frameworks — and atmospheric CO2 just hit a two-million-year high.
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USAA has more recent US patents than Palantir, Tesla, Spotify, Stripe, Cloudflare, and Airbnb combined. The filings include a laser turret for wildfire embers, a non-Newtonian hail shield, and a geothermal HVAC system.
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In 2024, the USPTO granted 21 patents for materials engineered to radiate heat through Earth’s atmosphere and into the vacuum of space. The technique requires zero electricity. The trick that made it work came from telecom.