A prototype electric pulsed plasma jet thruster for reliable, high performance, low cost interplanetary space transportation kickstarter has successfully raised $72,000 and still has 51 minutes left to go. Our technical objectives for this thruster development project are to meet or exceed the following thruster performance goals: * Design and construct a high density gas …
NASA JPL – Solar systems with life-bearing planets may be rare if they are dependent on the presence of asteroid belts of just the right mass, according to a study by Rebecca Martin, a NASA Sagan Fellow from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and astronomer Mario Livio of the Space Telescope Science Institute in …
Computer World – Intel researchers are working on a 48-core processor for smartphones and tablets, but it could be five to 10 years before it hits the market. This seems like a long time to get to market and by then the current leaders in smartphone chips (Nvidia and Qualcomm) would seem likely to have …
The U.S. Navy finds gas-turbine engines attractive because they scale nicely to large powers, are relatively small and self-contained, and are relatively easy to maintain. The gas-turbine engines the Navy uses today are based on the Brayton thermodynamic cycle, where air is compressed and mixed with fuel, combusted at a constant pressure, and expanded to …
Google android smartphone had 75% of the smartphone market in the third quarter. 181 million smart phones shipped on the quarter 136 million android smartphones 26.9 million apple iphones 7.7 million blackberry 4.1 million symbian 3 million windows Samsung shipped about 35 million The recently released Galaxy Note 2 has already sold 3 million phones …
New Scientist – Automation is the key to precision farming. Specifically, say agricultural engineers, precision farming needs robot farmers. Soon, we might see fields with agribots that can identify individual seedlings and coax them along with tailored drops of fertiliser and measured sips of water. Other machines would distinguish weeds and dispatch them with a …
EETimes – Combined, Apple and Samsung took 106 percent of handset profits in the third quarter, down slightly from 108 percent in the second quarter, according to Walkley. The percentage is greater than 100 to offset for operating losses incurred by struggling vendors like Research in Motion, Nokia and Motorola. If you liked this article, …
Uranium production volume of the Republic of Kazakhstan for 9 months made up 15,080 tU (which is 8 % higher in comparison with the same period of the previous year). Kazatomprom accounts for 8,601 tU of the total uranium production volume in the Republic of Kazakhstan, and this is approximately 8% more in comparison with …
Cameco is one of the largest uranium producers in the world. They are highly motivated to have an accurate forecast of how many nuclear reactors there will be that will use their uranium resources. Cameco is expecting 15 fewer net new reactors by 2021. They still expect 80 net new reactors. While expected demand has …
Accultured – at long last, George Lucas has decided to get out of the moviemaking business. He’s selling out Lucasfilm, including all of its properties and moneymaking storylines, to the Mouse. This is a good thing. Maybe even a great thing. Disney is a bloodless corporate behemoth. But at least they will try to hire …
1. Financial Post – Ottawa’s new foreign ownership guidelines are coming into play just as a large number of oil sands assets are poised to change hands. In a new report, Calgary energy investment bank Peters & Co. said oil sands assets worth $17-billion are for sale today formally and informally — about the same …