Sadly, no. I saw it at a conference. They asked me how to increase working temperature, I gave them an idea and then left the country, as it was just before Trump the first, when they'd kick me out anyway.
It was spintronic device mostly, storing spin-sorted electrons on different sides of the topology and geometry, not as impressive sounding as it actually was - a proper quantum demo of a thermodynamic principle.
Are you sure it's not https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suopursut
Check it out, but don't overdo it, it's quite toxic. I do smell it mostly now and in spring. It's so nice I want to make beer with it instead of hops, although it's indeed poisonous, in small dosage it should just make things more relaxing. I'm quite sure it was used for this purpose historically.
Birch mostly smells with sap, first it's sweet and barely anything, then it starts fermenting.
And then you might be one of us smelling mushrooms. Pretty much all people of slavic origin are in this group I think. It is a pleasant thing, but then you find yourself on your knees with freezing wet fingers and full container of mushrooms that will take all your evening to clean.
Take a couple if you wish, they're in the loop.
Nice inspiring work, although literature analysis was not done.
I've seen a DARPA funded working information-based energy storage device - pretty much Maxwell's daemon that just remembers where things are, his memory is SdT = Q of energy he can recover.
Lots of alignment problems outlined in the document are analyzed with greater depth elsewhere.
Thermodynamic analysis of self-organization is also widely developed area. And don't make me start on electrochemistry, it's so attractive for its seemingly easy to understand nature similar to what IT people deal with, which couldn't be further from the truth. It's insane incomprehensible grotesque nightmare that would make Lovecraft crap his pants. Which is why it's so cool.
How much of material here is original and how much is plagiarism and/or independent discoveries of known stuff previously found by others? It would have been way way cooler if author bothered to add more references. Networking data has power, as is correctly stated below the article in this medium.
Might be just trunk rotated after the fruit body grew. These must be perennials I think.
another suitably sized thing I wanted to build for some time is hot drinking water thermostat with zones for diffirent temperatures, like self-refilling gradient samovar column. To have fast and easy access to decent amounts of water of various temperatures in kitchen. Then you can instantly make perfect tea!
I wish I had more time for this project.
not a good idea in kitchen, gases and aerosols will harm things both ways.
does it have integrated vacuum/steam generator? Where would the exhaust go?
Nah, that's more like russian "if grandmother had balls, she'd be grandfather"
Looks like a place for fermentation vessel.
Sounds similar to my bee listening network apiologia.zymologia.fi
At least I wanted to do exactly same stuff as one of purposes for the system.
Except sure I send sound clips, predetection in place is good idea (with envelope detector), but running whole raspberry pi is pure power drain. Mine run from 400mAh battery for years, and get solar recharge from tiny panel in a day. I'll probably reduce battery size in next edition.
Also shipping model updates to whole network would be messy.
Yeah, I don't mean that it's only slavic thing, I just know not everyone feels it and that it's certainly widespread in cultures that are quite obsessed with mushrooms.
Right now is the best fruiting time for typical birch mychorrizal species; and in spring, the soil-snow interface full of very fast decomposing mycelia gets exposed and smells strongly, as well as morel-like fruiting bodies.
If this is the case, planting birch would be a good idea. It's a good idea anyway. Just keep about 20% of conifers to leafed trees ratio to balance things out.