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My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla. Resources Menu | Coffee | Library | Gallery | Lucidcafé Home | Revised: October 27, 2015 My Inventions The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla Introduction Nikola Tesla was born in Croatia (then part of Austria-Hungary) on July 9, 1856, and died January 7, 1943.

My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla

He was the electrical engineer who invented the AC (alternating current) induction motor, which made the universal transmission and distribution of electricity possible. Tesla began his studies in physics and mathematics at Graz Polytechnic, and then took philosophy at the University of Prague. MIT creates solar cell from grass clippings. A researcher at MIT, Andreas Mershin, has created solar panels from agricultural waste such as cut grass and dead leaves.

MIT creates solar cell from grass clippings

In a few years, Mershin says it’ll be possible to stir some grass clippings into a bag of cheap chemicals, paint the mixture on your roof, and immediately start producing electricity. If you remember high school biology classes, you will hopefully remember a process called photosynthesis, whereby plants turn sunlight into energy. Mershin has found a process which extracts the photosynthesizing molecules, called photosystem I, from plant matter.

Photosystem I contains chlorophyll, the protein that actually converts photons into a flow of electrons. Shrimp and vegetables and human Symbiotic relationship 蝦菜人共生. Plantagon Breaks Ground On Their First Vertical Farm. Plantagon/Promo image Three years ago I thought the Plantagon vertical farm in a dome was pretty much vaporware, that a dome made little sense, and I was, like many others, tired of all of these architectural fantasies.

Plantagon Breaks Ground On Their First Vertical Farm

Since then, some small test facilities have actually been built, and some serious academic work has been done to give the concept some substance. Now, they are actually breaking ground on one, using a very silly three handled shovel that is an interesting analogy to the vertical farm: yes, you can make one, but why would you, and does it work any better than the traditional technology? The press release says that the project will be.