New Inventions and Technology

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Smart thinking. It's always heartening to see when they remember the environmental impact.

Sweden's new edible road salt is saving birds from deadly dehydration.

Made with beet extract and maize starch, it melts ice safely while feeding wildlife instead of poisoning them during brutal winters.

Beyond animal welfare, the eco-salt leaves fewer chemical residues in runoff water, benefiting nearby soil and streams. Sweden's snowplow reform shows that even routine maintenance can become an act of ecological stewardship. A simple change in salt chemistry is saving
countless lives, feathered and otherwise.

https://x.com/Protect_Wldlife/status...86041710084322

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Mark (Star Mariner) (here)
Smart thinking. It's always heartening to see when they remember the environmental impact.

Sweden's new edible road salt is saving birds from deadly dehydration.

Made with beet extract and maize starch, it melts ice safely while feeding wildlife instead of poisoning them during brutal winters.

Beyond animal welfare, the eco-salt leaves fewer chemical residues in runoff water, benefiting nearby soil and streams. Sweden's snowplow reform shows that even routine maintenance can become an act of ecological stewardship. A simple change in salt chemistry is saving
countless lives, feathered and otherwise.

https://x.com/Protect_Wldlife/status...86041710084322

The story sounded bogus, but search shows that ”circular salt” is a real thing that is being tried as a replacement for regular salt for winter roads in Sweden and other Nordic countries. Here is a report that mentions what it’s made from, and it ain’t beets and corn.

https://www.northswedencleantech.se/...d-maintenance/

So, Mark.SM, your X story is bogus. And the pic there is obvs AI trash. But I’m glad to have learned of this substance and this new possible use for it.

01 OCT 2024
Svevia Tests Circular Salt for Winter Road Maintenance

In a pilot project, Svevia will use circular salt for de-icing within the Örnsköldsvik maintenance area this winter. The project aims to evaluate how methods and technical equipment in winter road maintenance need to be developed to replace traditionally imported salt with more locally produced circular salt.

Salting is a proven method for de-icing. The salt used is naturally created and imported from Europe, where it is mined in salt mines or extracted from sea salt. Although coarse in structure, it is common sodium chloride (NaCl), the same type of salt used in cooking. Circular salt is a by-product that can be extracted from, among other things, fly ash and the production of fertilizers. It has the same chemical composition as natural salt but is purer and finer in structure.

Last year, a study was conducted in Sweden to identify the possibility of using circular salt in winter road maintenance. Similar studies have been conducted in Norway, among other places.

Andreas Bäckström, business developer at Svevia, sees several positive opportunities with starting to use circular salt for road maintenance.

“With circularity, a more efficient and long-term sustainable resource use is created, long and environmentally burdensome transports can be reduced, as well as the dependence on importing salt from Europe. Instead, it can be produced more locally, and Sweden could essentially become self-sufficient in a critical societal commodity,” says Andreas Bäckström.

The study showed that before circular salt can become commonplace in the road industry, more pilot projects need to be carried out to ensure that the circular salt functions the same on the road and that the technical equipment works throughout the logistics chain.

“Winter road maintenance is a traditional industry where methods and equipment have been optimized and developed over a long time. For example, a coarse salt grain can drill down through ice where a fine salt grain rather lays on top without penetrating and perforating the ice. We have also seen that our equipment needs to be developed. One example is that the fine salt weighs less and therefore has a different spread when we use salt spreaders developed for coarse salt; it also tends to clump together in certain types of weather.”

In road maintenance, salt is also used for dust binding on gravel roads. In the long term, circular salt will also be evaluated for dust binding.

The studies of circular salt are carried out in broad collaboration with representatives from machine manufacturers, contractors, road maintainers, product suppliers, and procurers.

Svevia AB is the project coordinator and main project partner.
Participating parties are: Nordic Salts AB, and Luleå University of Technology
Project management: ViaPM AB
Other stakeholders participating in the project are the Swedish Transport Administration, InfraSweden, Peab, Skanska, Terranor, Epoke, Friggeråkers workshops, NIRA Dynamics AB, Cinis Fertilizer, Aebi Smith, Consalt, Industrial Maintenance, BM System

Text: Svevia
Photo: Markus Marcetic

[Mark (Star Mariner)]

Posted by Johnnycomelately (here)
The story sounded bogus,

It seems I may have jumped the gun, it does happen to us all. But I did discover, looking further, a similar kind of road salt exists, and is deployed in several places in the US, such as by the Michigan Department of Transport, which uses beet juice and salt brine on roads during winter as an environmental alternative to salt. But I couldn't find verification that Sweden is doing the same. I will endeavour to do better next time.

[Frankie Pancakes]

The planetary bio-surveillance grid

https://www.sott.net/article/502957-...veillance-grid

Let's imagine a world where a faulty worldview in a mechanistic reality has given birth to a psychotic technocratic elite that seeks to monitor every aspect of reality in AI "digital twin" systems -- but the public is increasingly showing awareness of (and resistance to!) wearable IoT devices and the surveillance state. What is a future-AI-as-god-worshipping-technocrat to do?

In Part One of this series, we explored that genetically engineered microbes have already been deployed across 2% of US farmland, with no oversight or containment.

In Part Two, we saw that the system is reclassifying microbes as "critical infrastructure," moving both to construct global governance for microbes and to shield the biotech companies who manufacture them from any liability.

Now, we expose what this infrastructure actually does, and in doing so, finally learn what the technocrats mean when they say "biodigital convergence": the construction of a planetary-scale surveillance grid comprising genetically engineered (GE) microbes that sense and report on their surroundings, be that in soil or grape or large intestine.

Ginkgo Bioworks: The Foundry of Synthetic Biology

Ginkgo Bioworks was co-founded in 2008 by a group of five individuals from the MIT synthetic biology scene. Their early funding from NSF and NIH grants helped them secure a contract from DARPA to deliver antibiotic-resistant pathogens.

But in 2014, Sam Altman blogged about the need to invest in "hard tech"1, inspiring Ginkgo's CEO Jason Kelly to apply to Y-Combinator's Silicon Valley accelerator program, usually reserved for tech startups. Ginkgo became YC's first biotech investment, opening the door to billions more in venture capital investment to develop their "Biological Foundry," a cell programming platform — a "biological operating system" that allows arbitrary microbes to be designed, deployed, and scaled across industries: agriculture, pharma, defense, cosmetics, and beyond.


We'll then have a better understanding of just how complete and absolute a technocratic totalitarianism — armed with such a microbial army — really is. Let's start by looking more deeply at a principal player in the engineered microbe space: Ginkgo Bioworks.

Highly recommend Parts 1 and 2. You are what you eat???

[ExomatrixTV]

• CATL Reveals New LFP Batteries VS NEW Naxtra Sodium Battery Energy Density (175 Wh/kg):

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=JfOTmTzlfMM

CATL’s new Shenxing Plus LFP battery reaches 205 Wh/kg, supports a 1,000-km range, and enables ultra-fast 4C charging (600 km added in 10 minutes). Their Naxtra sodium-ion battery achieves 175 Wh/kg, which is the world’s highest for sodium-ion and “comparable to LFP.”

• theelectricviking.com

[ExomatrixTV]

• Solid-State batteries. Finally arrived?:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=mW1prmrLw_4

Solid State batteries. Always just around the corner aren't they? Well, maybe not any more. There are now more than a dozen credible manufacturers who are either at prototype stage or close to full scale commercial production. So, is it time to put a deposit down on your first all-solid-state battery powered electric vehicle?

[ExomatrixTV]

• Americium: The Element That Will Transform Space Travel:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=g0AwtpgD-pE

Space explorations cannot rely on solar power alone. Especially when it comes to the far reaches of our solar system, the Sun's rays become so diminished that solar panels are highly impractical. The answer? Nuclear! Nasa, in particular, has been using Plutonium to power rovers, and space probes for over 50 years, via cleaver little units called RTGs. However, The US has essentially run out of its plutonium stockpiles, causing difficulties for future missions. Enter Americium. Americium, is now being developed as an alternative to plutonium. It's availability, especially in Europe, maybe able to take the place of, or at least support plutonium use in future missions. We speak to Chris Whiting, Technology Managers at Nasa's Glenn Research Center and Visit Space Park in Leicester, where we speak to Dr Ramy Mesalam, who heads up Perpetual Atomics, at the University of Leicester.

[ExomatrixTV]

• China Just Invented a Battery That Ends Gas Cars Forever:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=BaGcbWsLG5E

• 00:00 - Intro to China Tech
• 00:39 - China's New EV Battery
• 02:01 - China Built Largest Bridge in the World
• 04:33 - Outskill Sponsorship
• 05:59 - China's Built World's Best AI
• 06:49 - Why China's AI Will Win
• 08:23 - How Huawei is Leading AI
• 09:18 - Jensen Huang Admits China Will Win
• 10:14 - How China is Winning with Nuclear Energy
• 11:55 - Why USA Must Learn from China
• 13:10 - Why China Will Lead the Future

China Just Invented the Battery That Will Kill Gas Cars ... China’s breakthrough in solid-state batteries is expected to extend an electric vehicle’s range to 1,000 kilometres on a single charge — even surpassing the 600–800 km range of a conventional petrol car on one full tank. If realised, electric vehicles would no longer be a supplement to fuel-powered cars, but their replacement.

• thechinaacademy.org/china-just-invented-the-battery-that-will-kill-gas-cars

[Bill Ryan]

Copying this fun post by Bluegreen in his thread:


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Jetson ONE



Let the Jetson Air Games begin

For the first time ever, Jetson executed a 4-ship formation flight, followed by a high-speed pylon race, culminating in a solo aerial display by Jetson Co-Founder and CTO Tomasz Patan.

Published 13th October 2025 (3:10)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ysE8FMhAPH0

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by Bill Ryan (here)
Copying this fun post by Bluegreen in his thread:


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Jetson ONE



Let the Jetson Air Games begin

For the first time ever, Jetson executed a 4-ship formation flight, followed by a high-speed pylon race, culminating in a solo aerial display by Jetson Co-Founder and CTO Tomasz Patan.

Published 13th October 2025 (3:10)

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=ysE8FMhAPH0

Here’s a way sketchier one. Jet turbine engine, no empenage, and what looks like weight-shift control, at least partially.

If I read the dubs right, the plane was fashioned to represent something in a Japanese animé production lol.

Pilot is braver than most of us, imo.

There are more strange things in this world, than standard expectations predict.

Sekiyado testflight 2025/11/08_2

kazuhiko hachiya

16.3K subscribers

Nov 9, 2025

関宿滑空場でのM-02Jテストフライトの記録です。
２０２５年１１月８日の２本目のフライトです。

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=DXUuExL8Cac

[ExomatrixTV]

• This Is NOT A WHEELCHAIR And It Will Change Someone's Life!:

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=jEBHKH8NZjQ

[Johnnycomelately]

An electric vertical takeoff & landing airplane, currently certified under FAA Part 103 as an Ultralight and available for purchase.

Presenter Scott Manley is a reliable source; no bogus A.I. content here.

The vid includes views and discussions of the development and production of the plane, and mention and a few clips about their training program which Scott covered in a previous vid (which I have not seen). The company makes most of the components and all of the control system architecture (for digital electronics) in-house. They even make the motors, which they say have about the highest energy density (power per weight ratio) of all electric motors.

Plane has a ballistic parachute, said to allow a safe landing from just 200 feet above ground. Good idea, but what if a system failure makes the plane start tumbling? If fired when inverted, maybe the plane would fall onto the parachute. Even some amount of tilt might make it not work right, or require lots more initial height to work. Modern fighter jet ejection seats are very complex, and can scoot the pilot upwards even if fired with the jet inverted. This thing, pretty basic, needs less Swiss-cheese holes to line up for a fatal failure, imo.

The company Pivotal’s website does not mention pricing or delivery times. Probably too costly for me, but if I win enough lottery, then why not? We only die once, and I’d rather not stink up my suite and building by expiring alone at home.

L = 36:34.

Going UP!!! Flying A VTOL For Real - Pivotal's Unique Take on Accessible Aviation

Scott Manley

1.82M subscribers

Dec 2, 2025

Part 2 of my visits with Pivotal, where I spent a day actually flying the Blackfly EVTOL to demonstrate that the skills I learned in the simulator translate to the real thing. Starting with hovers and moving on to faster cruise flight, headed out over fields and beaches while recording from every angle.

This aircraft is legally a Part 103 Ultralight which means it's small enough to avoid a lot of complex certification requirements and can actually be bought and flown in the US, unlike the larger, more complex designs from other designers.
https://www.pivotal.aero/

Chapters
0:00 Intro
1:46 Parachute System
4:15 Factory Tour
7:23 R&D Labs
11:27 'Mini Me' Prototype Drone
12:42 The Training Airfield
13:35 Pre Flight
15:45 First Flights - Take Off & Hover
18:08 Low Speed Flight
20:44 Cruise Mode
24:15 Noise Levels
26:33 Cockpit Display Demo
31:25 Flight Showcase

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=oT804EAUVk4

[ExomatrixTV]

• Driving Xiaomi's Electric Car: Are we Cooked?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6H7trzMfI

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:34 The Xiaomi SU7
• 03:06 Interior Features
• 06:34 It's Modular!
• 08:03 Driving Impressions
• 13:39 Are we cooked?

[rgray222]

Not high tech, but a great idea. One day, space vehicles will be entirely powered by magnetic energy.

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by ExomatrixTV (here)

• Driving Xiaomi's Electric Car: Are we Cooked?

Source: https://youtube.com/watch?v=Mb6H7trzMfI

• 00:00 Intro
• 00:34 The Xiaomi SU7
• 03:06 Interior Features
• 06:34 It's Modular!
• 08:03 Driving Impressions
• 13:39 Are we cooked?

Interesting chan, John. Even before watching the vid, I subbed, based on 20.6M subscribers and a relaxed upload rate (several days per; unless a chan is excellent, even 1/day is too much clutter).

The car looks good imo, and seems capable based on his talk. But a couple things figuratively raise my eyebrows.

1. Made by a non car company. When I was a kid, an aunt had a Russian car (bought here in Canada; don’t remember the marque, except vaguely that the name had four letters), and I asked my dad what he thought of it. His sister. Answered ~”They don’t have much experience making/building cars”. So, what is being missed by this company? We have seen premiere brand Chinese cars totaled with no airbag activation lol. This is a complaint that has been leveled at Tesla, re unintuitive manual means to unlatch doors when the electrics are disrupted due to damage. The physical buttons shown, do give me hope that they copied/emulated Ford’s intuitive manual door latch control for the electric Mustang iirc.

2. They must be very confident in their self-driving, both the hardware and the software, to promote use of internet distractions and KARAOKE!! Hehe. And I wonder if the sound-cancelling feature can be selected to let in siren sounds from the cop car chasing them for hit and run. Oof.

Cheers, John. Good post.

[Johnnycomelately]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
Not high tech, but a great idea. One day, space vehicles will be entirely powered by magnetic energy.

Hahaha. Great thought experiment for a Saturday night!

Trireme bicycle powered spaceships, with all the pay and benefits since slavery will be abolished in da future, sky’s not the limit!

Magnetics may be the physical answer, but what about our spirit situation, where like attracts like? Maybe there are alien ships we don’t want to know anything about.

[ExomatrixTV]

Posted by rgray222 (here)
Not high tech, but a great idea. One day, space vehicles will be entirely powered by magnetic energy.

If this becomes successful, the Netherlands 🇳🇱 has the highest "bikes vs land ratio" in the world AND has the most "bike roads ratio" in the world too.

cheers,
John 🦜🦋🌳