Ameya Paleja

Hyderabad

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Write about Genetics, Microbes, Tech & Public Policy. Bylines in @TheWireScience @SciResMatters @ThePrintScience @TheQuint @DeccanHerald @thenewsminute

Articles

China tests world’s largest 26MW wind turbine

1 week ago | interestingengineering.com | Ameya Paleja

Chinese firm Dongfang Electric Corporation (DEC) has surged with yet another milestone for its 26 MW typhoon-proof wind turbine, even as manufacturers in the West debate the safety and need for large offshore wind turbines. DEC is among many Chinese manufacturers aiming to build turbines larger than 20 MW. Wind and solar projects have greatly boosted as the world looks to switch from fossil fuels to clean energy.
Breakthrough: Quantum computers made 90% more energy efficient, smaller, and faster

1 week ago | yahoo.com | Ameya Paleja

Canadian company Nord Quantique has developed a novel method to improve quantum error correction (QEC) that will help develop smaller and energy-efficient quantum computers in the future. Dubbed Tesseract code, the approach combines multimode encoding with bosonic qubit technology, which protects the system from multiple common errors seen in quantum systems.
Canadian breakthrough cuts 90% energy use for quantum computers

1 week ago | interestingengineering.com | Ameya Paleja

Canadian company Nord Quantique has developed a novel method to improve quantum error correction (QEC) that will help develop smaller and energy-efficient quantum computers in the future. Dubbed Tesseract code, the approach combines multimode encoding with bosonic qubit technology, which protects the system from multiple common errors seen in quantum systems.
Canadian breakthrough cuts 90% energy use for quantum computers

1 week ago | share.google | Ameya Paleja

Canadian company Nord Quantique has developed a novel method to improve quantum error correction (QEC) that will help develop smaller and energy-efficient quantum computers in the future. Dubbed Tesseract code, the approach combines multimode encoding with bosonic qubit technology, which protects the system from multiple common errors seen in quantum systems.
New discovery may let quantum computers run without extreme cooling

1 week ago | interestingengineering.com | Ameya Paleja

An international collaboration of researchers at universities in the US and Paris has cracked the mechanism and conditions necessary to achieve exotic quantum states such as superconductivity or superfluorescence at higher temperatures. This can help build quantum computers of the future that do not need ultra-low temperatures to operate.
MIT’s sodium fuel cell could fly electric planes while sucking CO2

1 week ago | interestingengineering.com | Ameya Paleja

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a sodium-air fuel cell that could power future transportation, including electric aircraft. The fuel cell approach overcomes limitations of sodium-air batteries, but can also help us clean up carbon from the planet as fuel-cell-powered planes take flight, a press release said.
25-year life boost for UK hydro energy project to prevent grid crashes

1 week ago | interestingengineering.com | Ameya Paleja

In 1984, the Dinorwig hydropower plant in North Wales was built to store low-cost energy produced at night and supply it during the day. More than four decades later, the power plant plays a crucial role in keeping the lights on when the UK’s electrical grid faces power outages and can swing into action in just 75 seconds to prevent a major blackout. Hydroelectric power uses the flow of water to move turbines and generate electricity.
Lockheed uses IBM quantum processor to solve major chemistry puzzle

2 weeks ago | interestingengineering.com | Ameya Paleja

Researchers at IBM and Lockheed Martin teamed up high-performance computing with quantum computing to accurately model the electronic structure of ‘open-shell’ molecules, methylene, which has been a hurdle with classic computing over the years. This is the first demonstration of the sample-based quantum diagonalization (SQD) technique to open-shell systems, a press release said.
Scientists develop new trick to trap ammonia from air, water

2 weeks ago | interestingengineering.com | Ameya Paleja

Researchers at the University of Tokyo have successfully used ‘artificial photosynthesis’ to produce ammonia using atmospheric nitrogen, water, and sunlight, much like how cyanobacteria synthesize the gas in a symbiotic association with plants. The achievement could unlock ammonia products with low energy costs in the future, a press release said. Ammonia production is a critical input in global agriculture since it is used to make urea, a fertilizer needed for large-scale production of crops.
Grain-sized cooling tech cuts energy use by 70%, doubles efficiency

2 weeks ago | interestingengineering.com | Ameya Paleja

Researchers at APL have developed new materials called CHESS that significantly improve the efficiency of thermoelectric cooling devices. Korean electronics giant Samsung has teamed up with scientists at the Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Maryland in the US, to develop solid-state thermoelectric-based refrigeration technology that will be a viable alternative to compressor-based refrigeration being used worldwide today.