MIT Technology Review interview with Michael Idelchik, vice president of advanced technologies at GE Research. Pulse detonation technology, or supersonic combustion. With this one, rather than burning fuel at constant pressure, you let the pressure rise, so basically you generate a shock wave; you’re releasing heat in a detonation. An existing turbine burns at constant …
Here is the link to the 3banana page where a comment can be added in support of the antiaging project SENS. Winning the contest via the most comments will provide and more valudable publicity. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog …
1. University of North Carolina engineers have produced a ‘How-To’ Guide for Controlling the Structure of Nanoparticles. researchers from North Carolina State University have learned how to consistently create hollow, solid and amorphous nanoparticles of nickel phosphide, which has potential uses in the development of solar cells and as catalysts for removing sulfur from fuel. …
Fox will reboot the Fantastic Four Movie Franchise. No word yet if this reboot will bring the FF into the same movie continuity shared by Iron Man, the Hulk and Nick Fury, as has been established in the “tags” following Iron Man and The Incredible Hulk. This is good as the Fantastic Four movies desperately …
From the UK Guardian, a Tunisian woman is due to give birth to 12 babies, which could be a world record. UPDATED: This has turned out to be a complete fraud. Tunisian authorities did tests and the woman is not even pregant. She just has mental problems. Octo is the prefix for eight as in …
An 83 page presentation on the Westinghouse AP1000 and the recent Korean experience with nuclear plant construction. Schedule Validation With 4D ToolsAllows the details of construction, erection and test activities as well as their interactions to be worked out well in advance of actual construction.Primavera linked to Intergraph Smart Plan was used for the AP1000. …
The Space Elevator Games for 2009 were delayed but there are competitors no site and final preparations are occuring. UPDATE: The space elevator games are delayed at least 4 weeks. See the Space Elevator blog to track events. Power beaming CompetitionAugust 5, 2009 Sept or October 2009NASA Dryden Flight Research Center,Edwards Air Force Base, Mojave, …
air Force Research Lab (AFRL) is also developing munitions systems for the UAVs [Unmanned Air Vehicles]. One is a precision missilelike bomb for urban strikes that could be mounted on multiple platforms. Designed to cut down on collateral damage, Suburb Warrior could get a flight test as early as 2014. An integrated submunition guidance system …
Most of the money ($257 billion) is spent on – satellite TV ($70 billion) – maintaining ground stations ($74 billion) – $17 billion fixed satellite services – $26 billion Department of Defence (military satellites and the spending around it) – $17 billion NASA – $10 billion national reconnaissance office (spy satellites and spending around it) …
103 page pdf, advanced propulsion study for the US Air Force made in 2004 On pages 25-27, the blast wave accelerator is described. It is something that could be made with current technology and would have launch costs of $200-2000/kg. Explosive or blast-wave accelerators are a member of the class of chemical catapult (artillery gun …
Two separate research developments with graphene advance applications with graphene for electronics. One is the engineering of tunable bandgaps and the other is formation of nanostructures that connect graphene layers. 1. Wang, who is also an assistant professor in the Department of Physics at the University of California at Berkeley, have engineered a bandgap in …