Bravery, Buffets, Light Bills & Gasifying Wands 🔋

When the battery runs out, you can bury it in soil, where it completely decomposes within one month. The cellulose rots away while the metal in the electrodes oxidises into non-toxic minerals. 

Why do we need this? 

• Global demand for batteries is rising fast as the transition to clean energy gathers pace. And if batteries are not recycled or disposed of correctly, they could lead to huge environmental hazards and endanger human and animal life. Today, less than 5% of consumer rechargeable batteries are recycled.
• Inflation and fuel costs are rising. Gadgets running on electricity will increase gas and light bills. A paper batter that can be used for even short-term purposes can reduce those bills. 

What's more?

This isn’t even the first eco-friendly battery to be revealed this year. Back in March, a team from the University of Texas at Dallas created a high-powered, environmentally safer lithium-sulphur battery.

The metallic element in these batteries - called molybdenum – thinner than the silk of a spider web – creates greater power density, making lithium-sulphur batteries more commercially viable.

What’s more?

You can also create or apply custom filters that change the way results are ranked using the “Goggles” feature. This could potentially help uncover sources you might not find right away on Google. (Image above)

Users can give Goggles a whirl and find posts from smaller blogs while filtering out posts from the 1,000 most-viewed sites on the web.
 

An Unparalleled Growth Story

In the one year of its existence the search engine has grown faster than any search provider since Bing.

• 2.5 billion queries in the past 365 days
• A high of 14.1 million queries per day
• 5 billion queries annualized

For comparison, it took Google more than a year to reach 2.5 billion queries, and DuckDuckGo more than 4 years.

What if you could turn your house waste into electricity? 

Sierra Energy, launched in 2004, has created a magic wand that vaporises your garbage and turns into fuel without actually burning it. 

How it works: 

• You start with feeding garbage into the vessel.
• Then, inject oxygen and steam into the vessel's base, catalyzing exothermic (meaning energy-releasing) chemical reactions in the rubbish. That generates extreme heat, reducing the amount of outside power needed to keep the process going.
• As the waste keeps getting hotter, it breaks down, and turns into a char that interacts with the oxygen and steam to create fuel substitute.  

Shopify is launching a battery of tools to make shopping social and convenient for customers and merchants.  

From local shopping to NFT-exclusive perks — there are some 100 new features in all. It’s a Vegas-style buffet. 

Here are some of the newbies on the block

• B2B on Shopify: This tool is meant to make it easier to automate payment process, especially for small retailers who sell to big businesses, and potentially grow their B2B revenue.
   
• Tokengated commerce: This is a way to reward true fans and VIPs, by giving NFT holders exclusive access to products, perks, and experiences, by linking crypto wallets to Shopify online stores. 
   
• Shopify on iPhone: Shopify is using Apple’s tap to pay features to make it easy for a merchant to enable in-person payments with just an iPhone —no dongle or terminal required. 
   
• Local Shopify: Shopify inventory will now appear on Google. When customers are looking for a specific product on Shopify or Google, they will be able to see if the product (powered by a Shopify retailer) is available to pick up locally in a physical store.