Above is a chart of the debt ratios in 1996 and 2006 for OECD countries. Some people are overly focused on the deficit in the United States and believe that the US dollar would collapse and be replaced by the Euro or the Yen. As can be seen in the chart the European countries are …
NASA looks to be developing larger (12-40KW) radioisotope thermoelectric generators for the moon’s surface. Hopefully NASA finishes this work as they have a history of starting big RTG projects and not completing them. Also, it probably would be better to use the Hyperion uranium hydride reactor instead, which has been covered extensively on this site …
Matching science fiction super-tanks with real world 700 ton tank with 36,000 HP fission reactor, railguns, lasers, super armor, supercomputer, AI, missiles and more. What are Bolo Tanks ?Bolo’s are fictional artificially intelligent super-heavy tanks. They were described in science fiction books by Keith Laumer. Online books have the specifications for the different bolo models. …
Natural Gas production is going up by a lot in the United States. This was noted at Peak Oil Debunked about a month ago. The peak oil people such as Mike Ruppert and Matt Simmons were saying in 2003 and since then that natural gas production was heading for a sharp decline. Now even some …
Tobacco mosaic virus is like a 18-nanometer wide straw, which can hold gene silencing RNA The tobacco mosaic virus appears to be the key to safe and effective delivery of gene silencing RNA. Bentley’s team has successfully hollowed out the virus and filled it with siRNA, and then used it to slip the frail substance …
Hi-res digital camera can match 35 mm film at a fraction of the price. See the Red digital cinema camera company site for the Red One and other cameras. The new camera has 4,096(h) x 2,304(v) of resolution and will only cost $17,500. A Panavision Millennium XL-2 35 mm video camera costs $25,000 per month …
There was a 4000 meter tall pyramid city called X-Seed 4000 which was designed but was never meant to be built. [first picture on the left] Now there is a 1200 meter tall, 2.3 square kilometer environmentally friendly building being proposed in Dubai. – Transport throughout the complex would be connected by an integrated 360 …
Electron microscopes are great for magnification but they tend to destroy or damage what they are looking at. Similar magnification should be possible using a much lower-energy, gentler beam of helium atoms and recording how they are scattered by a sample. Up to this point only 1% of helium atoms can be reflected and focused …
Crowlspace hosts the carnival of space week 68. This site supplies an analysis of the technology that an interstellar capable civilization should have and an alternative to big antimatter rockets with mirror laser array propulsion Centauri Dreams considers the difficulties of interstellar travel. Crowlspace looks at antimatter propulsion. Check out the carnival of space week …
The Transition “Personal Air Vehicle” is expected to be released in late 2009 and has just shown its operational prototype. The estimated purchase price is $148,000. Owners will drive the car from their garage to an airport where they will then be able to fly within a range of 100 to 500 miles (800 km). …
This site has reported on new concrete that is in development by Calera and Carbon Sense Solutions which would absorb CO2 from the atmosphere instead of releasing CO2 into the air. The current green concrete technology that is being deployed is iCrete which produces 40% less greenhouse gases and is strongest concrete ever used in …