Artificial Leaf Moves Two Steps Closer To Reality

Two independent research teams report today in Science that they’ve taken key strides toward harnessing the energy in sunlight to synthesize chemical fuels. If the new work can be improved, scientists could utilize Earth’s most abundant source of renewable energy to power everything from industrial plants to cars and trucks without generating additional greenhouse gases.

Artificial Leaf Moves Two Steps Closer to Reality

Backlink: http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/09/artificial-leaf-solar-fuel/

How Green Is Your Artificial Christmas Tree? You Might Be Surprised

Thinking they are helping the environment, Americans continue to buy millions of fake Christmas trees. But a new study makes a surprisingly strong case in favor of natural trees.

How Green Is Your Artificial Christmas Tree? You Might Be Surprised

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Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time [News]

Dr. Ben Goertzel's talk at Google, discussing his own work on the Novamente Cognition Engine, an AGI project based on combining a number of knowledge representations and reasoning and learning techniques into an integrative architecture motivated by complex systems theory, and initially oriented at the control of virtual agents in 3D simulation worlds such as Second Life.

Artificial General Intelligence: Now Is the Time [News]

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