New technological breakthroughs from DOE’s PNNL and ORNL national laboratories have made removing uranium from seawater within economic reach. And nuclear fuel made with uranium extracted from seawater makes nuclear power as renewable as solar, hydro and wind. Just the 4 billion tons of uranium presently in seawater would fuel a thousand 1,000-MW nuclear power plants for a 100,000 years. But uranium extracted from seawater is replenished continuously because U concentrations are controlled by steady-state chemical reactions between waters and rocks on the Earth, both in the ocean and on land. It’s impossible for humans to extract enough U to lower the overall seawater concentrations of U over the next 5 billion years, even if nuclear provided 100% of our energy. Of course, humans won’t last anywhere near that long!
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Microsoft pact makes Baidu the Edge browser’s default search engine in China
Microsoft has announced a new partnership with Baidu, the hugely popular Chinese search engine. In China, Baidu.com will be the default home page and search engine for the new Microsoft Edge browser. Additionally, Baidu will deliver Universal Windows Applications for search, video, cloud and maps for Windows 10. The company plans to deliver a customized experience for Baidu’s more than 600 million users, featuring local browsing and search. Microsoft will make it easy for customers to upgrade to the official Windows 10 via a Baidu “Windows 10 Express” distribution channel. Microsoft isn’t abandoning Bing in China in its support for Baidu. According to Yusuf…
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This Guy Makes Art Out of Sloppy Photoshop Disasters
People spend years mastering the tools of Photoshop. They labor arduously to create seamless images with no trace of manipulation. Lucas Blalock labors arduously as well. But in his art, the artifacts of cutting, duplicating, and transforming become the very backbone of the finished product.
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‘Destiny:’ Bungie Makes It Harder To Get Exotic Weapons With ‘Three Of Coins’
Last weekend, Guardians all over the world had a field day with a new item in Destiny called the Three Of Coins — a consumable purchased from Xur that raised the chances of getting an exotic engram from the next boss you killed. The thing is, it never specified which boss you had to kill, and so people went off to farm one particular low level Kell to reap the rewards. Don’t expect a repeat this weekend. Bungie has addressed the exploit in a hotfix by reducing the effectiveness of the Three of Coins overall. And so it goes as it always goes in Destiny: exploit goes up, exploit goes down.