Watch live streaming video from niac2014 at livestream.com NASA NIAC project has determined a conceptual solution to asteroid impacts. Use an interceptor which separates into two parts. First part 10 meter ahead makes a crater. The nuclear bomb part follows but is 20 times more effective by blowing up in the crater. The fragmentation would …
Watch live streaming video from niac2014 at livestream.com Watch live streaming video from niac2014 at livestream.com Direct fusion is going to produce neutrons and will publish yield, but they will not get to breakeven in the NIAC project. 90% of the energy will be put out as kinetic energy. Also, molecular actuators using photoactivation ==> …
Dwave CTO Geordie Rose had talked about a recent paper about whether or not Dwave was using quantum effects for its superconducting processor. Geordie has discussed in the comments the advantages of their superconducting system and that more benchmarking is under way. The original motivation for building superconducting processors had nothing to do with quantum …
Global research and development (R and D) spending is forecast to grow by 3.8 percent—or $60.0 billion—to $1.6 trillion in 2014, according to the closely watched annual forecast by Battelle and R and D Magazine. After a flat year of R and D spending in 2013, the U.S. is projected to show modest growth while …
Working closely with Special Operations Forces medics, Revmedx developed a novel hemostatic dressing (XSTAT™ dressing) capable of stopping high-flow arterial bleeding from non-compressible wounds. The core technology behind the XSTAT dressing is mini-sponges that expand upon contact with blood — resulting in a nearly immediate hemostatic effect without manual compression. They are incorporating this self-expanding …
2014 will be the first year that global defence budgets will grow overall since 2009, according to the IHS Jane’s Annual Defence Budgets Review from IHS Inc the leading global source of information and analytics. Total global defence spending in 2014 will be USD1.547 trillion up from USD 1.538 trillion in 2013 – 0.6% increase …
CVS Caremark will cease its sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products in all of its CVS/pharmacy by Oct. 1, 2014. CVS will take an annual hit of $2 billion in revenue due to its decision, a sizable sum that amounts to just 1.6 percent of the company’s $125 billion average yearly haul. However, they …
The AirBeam is a proprietary technology originally developed for aerodynamic structures then applied to military shelters and a wide range of other structures relevant to aerospace applications. Potential Inflatable AirBeam Aerospace Applications * Aerodynamic – Hypersonic and Supersonic inflatable decelerators – Inflatable Wings – Subsonic Stabilizers * Space – Orbital habitat truss-work and connecting structures …
Elon Musk talks on CBS this morning about his Mars colonization rocket “We’ve got to restore American ability to transport astronauts with domestic vehicles, and that’s what we hope to do in about two years. “The next step beyond that is to maybe send people beyond low Earth orbit to a loop around the Moon, …
Here are two competing explanations for experiments performed on D-Wave processors. Explanation #1. D-Wave processors are inherently quantum mechanical, and described by open quantum systems models where the energy scale of the noise is much less than the energy scale of the central quantum system. Explanation #2. D-Wave processors are inherently classical, and can be …
1. World Nuclear News – The first fuel is being loaded into Russia’s newest fast breeder reactor, Beloyarsk 4, in preparation for startup of the unit within months. Beloyarsk is one of Russia’s oldest nuclear power plant sites. Two prototypes of the RBMK light water graphite-moderated reactors operated at the site from the 1960s until …