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High Hopes claims stratospheric breakthrough in direct air CO2 capture High Hopes claims stratospheri... Israeli company High Hopes plans to slash direct air carbon capture prices by leveraging advantageous conditions at stratospheric altitudes 1/6 Battalions of carbon dioxide-grabbing stratospheric balloons operating higher than airliners are far and away the cheapest path to direct air carbon capture, according to Israel's High Hopes High Hopes Labs 2/6 A phase diagram for carbon dioxide. The key point here: it freezes at around -80 °C at low pressur...

HAPS projects have launched aircraft including solar-powered drones and balloons to beam internet signals in much the same manner as satellites do — though unlike communications satellites that typically are in geostationary orbit more than 30 thousand kilometres above the equator, these HAP platforms typical hover only 20km or so above ground, at the lower range of the ITU’s guidelines defining HAPS. Advertisement HAPS projects were initially seen as an alternative to costly geostationary satellites as well as undersea and terrestrial fibre networks, which require massive excavation and ...

Getting all 7.8 billion humans online: What will it take? Will thousands of satellites close the digital divide forever? Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos think so. Image: Bob al-greene / mashable 2021-03-07 10:30:00 UTC Moving forward requires focus. Mashable's Social Good Series is dedicated to exploring pathways to a greater good, spotlighting issues that are essential to making the world a better place. At some point in 2021, someone somewhere on Earth may become the planet's fifth billion internet user. We will get no text message when this happens; no banners will drop, no fireworks will go of...

That previous round saw it raise $2 billion, at a $46 billion valuation. With Alphabet shutting down its Project Loon, and Facebook previously abandoning its own solar-powered drone Aquila project, SpaceX's plan for low-orbit broadband is looking better and better. SpaceX launched 60 new Starlink Internet satellites into orbit this week on Monday. Monday's launch was the third in a month, with another booked for February 25, though in a rare miss, the Falcon 9's first-stage rocket failed to stick its landing on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship – instead it crashed into the Atlanti...

Hi, everybody. Do you detect something missing? Like that unease in your gut that everything has gone to hell? Wonder why that is. Oh, and for those of you who are reading this newsletter on WIRED’s website, here’s some news. First, we’re sending this out early because we have a scoop timed to tonight. And now for some bad news: Aside from an occasional episode shared out of the goodness of my heart, Plaintext will hereafter be available only for subscribers. Don’t look shocked—I’ve been warning you about this for a year! The good news is that you can subscribe...