DARPA projects to either improve GPS or remove vulnerability to loss of satellites

DARPA has its budget for 2014. Basic Photon Science FY 2012 21.5 million FY 2013 25.2 million FY 2014 18.9 million FY 2014 Plans: – Demonstrate a 10 Gigahertz (GHz) oscillator using optical frequency division with a micro-frequency comb. – Demonstrate free space time transfer over 10 km with timing error 1000 times better than …

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Update on the DARPA project that was looking at cold fusion

A DARPA project Fundamentals of Nanoscale and Emergent Effects and Engineered Devices was described in 2012 in a way which clearly indicated that they were investigating aspects of cold fusion for energy production. DARPA has its budget for 2014 and there is still funding for it and the description indicates that the cold fusion aspect …

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Better armor, better robots and other DARPA projects for 2014

DARPA has its budget for 2014. DARPA has several projects related cyber warfare defense and offense. (Big data and social network analysis, various cyber security research projects) DARPA has a lot of projects related to medical care for wounded soldiers (better prosthetics) DARPA has projects to rapidly detect, diagnose and counter biological attacks. DARPA has …

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Air Pollution Causes about 200,000 premature deaths each year in the USA

A MIT group tracked ground-level emissions from sources such as industrial smokestacks, vehicle tailpipes, marine and rail operations, and commercial and residential heating throughout the United States, and found that such air pollution causes about 200,000 early deaths each year. Emissions from road transportation are the most significant contributor, causing 53,000 premature deaths, followed closely …

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Water in the solar system

The main places in the solar system with a lot of water: Europa – two to three times as much water as Earth is on Jupiter’s moon Earth – 1,260,000 trillion tons Ceres (one-tenth of the total water in Earth’s oceans). It could have more fresh water than the Earth Enceladus (Saturn Moon). About 25-30 …

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Hydroxyl from deep inside the moon has been detected

NASA’s Moon Mineralogy Mapper instrument aboard India’s Chandrayaan-1 probe has made the first detection of “magmatic water” from lunar orbit and confirms analyses performed recently on moon rocks brought to Earth by Apollo astronauts four decades ago The moon may hide a billion tons of water ice in shadowed craters near its southern pole and …

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Huawei, Samsung, Nokia are planning to begin deploying 5G mobile wireless at up to 50 gigabits per second by 2020

Mobile broadband technologies have always been introduced before widespread rollout of the network itself, and 5G will be no exception, Zhou observed. Technologies behind LTE for example, came out in 2002 but the LTE networks did not get rolled out until 2008 or 2009, Zhou pointed out. Hardware infrastructure deployment for 5G would start in …

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ARPA-E still trying to commercialize Wave Disk Engine and four other technologies

Five ARPA-E project teams were selected to participate in the upcoming National Science Foundation (NSF) Innovation Corps, or I-Corps, program. This 18 month program started at the beginning of 2013 and will run to mid-2014. 1. Michigan State University (OPEN 2009): Led by Principal Investigator Dr. Norbert Mueller, the team’s wave disk engine under development …

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US hits another post-1989 Crude oil production record of 7.6 million barrels per day

US crude oil production hit another post-1989 crude oil production record of 7.6 million barrels per day. This is about 20% higher than crude oil production last year. There should be about 100,000 barrels per day more from North Dakota in the next couple of months as there were delays in many new wells in …

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Nanostars produced from 100 kilometer per second impacts of carbon buckyballs using a tabletop device

Dr. Bae gave an oral presentation and a poster presentation with Los Alamos National Lab on “Creating Nanostars with Buckyballs (C60)” at APS-SCCM Conference on July 8th and 9th. Nanostars have been created and studied at Y. K. Bae Corp. by impacting buckyballs (C60) at hypervelocities (velocity over 100 km/s) in an innovative tabletop apparatus …

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