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Prometheus Fuels is an American energy startup developing tools to filter atmospheric CO 2 using water, electricity, and nanotube membranes to produce commercially viable fuels. When powered by renewable electricity sources, e-fuels produced by such direct air capture methods do not contribute further emissions, making them carbon neutral . [ 1 ]
Robert L. McGinnis is an American scientist, [1] technology entrepreneur, and inventor who has founded a number of technology companies including Prometheus Fuels, [2] Mattershift [3] and Oasys Water.
The ability to specify an arbitrary list of labels and to query based on these in real time is why Prometheus' data model is called multi-dimensional. [16] [8] [9] Prometheus stores data locally on disk, which helps for fast data storage and fast querying. [8] There is the ability to store metrics in remote storage. [17]
Originally launched under the name Obtainium in 2014, [9] and later known as Opus 12, [10] Twelve was officially founded in 2015 by Dr. Kendra Kuhl, Dr. Etosha Cave, and Nicholas Flanders. [1] The company was part of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 's first Cyclotron Road cohort, an incubator program that aids in the creation of ...
The black goo, also known as the “black liquid” is scientifically known as chemical A0-3959X.91–15, and was created by the ancient alien race featured in Prometheus, called the Engineers ...
Donald Rusk Currey (January 24, 1934 – June 6, 2004) [1] was an American professor of geography.While known in academia for his extensive research and exploration of relics of the ancient Lake Bonneville in the eastern Great Basin, he was best known to the public for his controversial felling of Prometheus, the oldest living non-clonal organism known at the time, while a graduate student in ...
Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen (born Nicolae Georgescu, 4 February 1906 – 30 October 1994) was a Romanian mathematician, statistician and economist.He is best known today for his 1971 magnum opus The Entropy Law and the Economic Process, in which he argued that all natural resources are irreversibly degraded when put to use in economic activity.
With the dawning of the so-called Atomic Age many observers in the mid-20th century believed that the Oil Age was rapidly coming to an end. [10] The rapid change to atomic power envisioned during this period never materialized, in part due to environmental fears following high-profile accidents such as the 1979 Three Mile Island accident, the 1986 Chernobyl disaster and the 2011 Fukushima ...