Bruce Klein crafted a poll to gain a better perspective on the time-frame for when we may see greater-than-human level AI. There are several interesting answers to the question. The question was interpreted in many ways. I interpreted the question to be when will there be artificial general intelligence which has capabilities that signicantly exceed …
$16 billion in taxes on oil to be used for billions in tax breaks and incentives for renewables This would be a good thing if it passes into law. A long pdf with the text of the bill Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers …
My military and ethical implications of nanofactory level nanotechnology essay has been posted at lifeboat.com with pictures added Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, …
Star Stryder hosts the 15th carnival of space Spacedev, who built the engines for SpaceshipOne, believes they can make a moonbase for $3 billion instead of the Nasa figure of $100 billion Benson’s plan links technology already being developed. Bigelow Spacehab modules would be prepositioned between Earth and Moon. A crew would shuttle from Earth …
The cheapest chemical rocket currently flying is the Russian Dnepr rocket ($1000/lb, $2200/kg) Most other commercial rockets are two to four times as expensive. Without cheap access to space it is impossible to achieve anything useful in space. digg_url= ‘http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/08/cheaper-space-launch-500kg-or-less-ram.html’; digg_skin =’compact’;reddit_url=’http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/08/cheaper-space-launch-500kg-or-less-ram.html’reddit_url=’advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/08/cheaper-space-launch-500kg-or-less-ram.html’ I will review some alternative launch proposals, which might be easier to fund …
Physorg talks about smaller nano-boric acid particles that can be added to motor oil within 2 years for a 4-5% fuel consumption reduction in all cars. If the new nano-particle motor oil was mandatory or added at low cost to all motor oil than at the next oil change after its introduction there would be …
Wikipedia on (EROEI) energy returned based on energy invested. In physics, energy economics and ecological energetics, EROEI (Energy Returned on Energy Invested), ERoEI, or EROI (Energy Return On Investment), is the ratio of the amount of usable energy acquired from a particular energy resource to the amount of energy expended to obtain that energy resource. …
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission has received its first application since the 1970s to build a new nuclear power plant, a spokesman for the NRC said on Wednesday, August 1, 2007. The proposed plant in Maryland won’t come online until at least mid-2014 and is among a new wave of about 19 reactors that will …
Carnival of space week 14 is at Universe Today I contributed my updated article on the liberty gaseous core nuclear thermal rocket which has contains all radiation from the atmosphere but delivers 40 times more cargo than the Space shuttle. There is article about extracting oxygen from lunar soil Colony worlds talks about landing humans …
Engineers from Duke University have applied CAD-CAM to atomic force microscope The sample structures made are about 100 nanometer in feature size using silicon oxide digg_url= ‘http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/08/automated-3-dimensional-nanoscale.html’; digg_skin =’compact’;reddit_url=’http://advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/08/automated-3-dimensional-nanoscale.html’reddit_url=’advancednano.blogspot.com/2007/08/automated-3-dimensional-nanoscale.html’ UPDATE:More structures that they have fabricated. Height about 4 nanometers. Features are precise down to +- 30 nanometers nanometer range. The circle has a measured diameter …
From nanowerk, the successful rapid prototyping of an atomic force microscope hear (AFM), something which normally costs hundreds of thousands of dollars Go to this site for a tutorial on how to build a plastic-AFM head The heads perform as well as traditional heads but are not as durable. The computational chemistry simulation software and …