The Facebook page for nextbigfuture has over ten thousand likes. Thanks to the readers of Nextbigfuture.com Nextbigfuture has over 87 million page views according to blogger.com and 292 million views on Google+. Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog Nextbigfuture.com is …
Over the next two decades China hopes to build the world’s largest nuclear power industry. Plans include as many as 30 new conventional nuclear plants (in addition to the 34 reactors operating today) as well as a variety of next-generation reactors, including thorium molten-salt reactors, high-temperature gas-cooled reactors (which, like molten-salt reactors, are both highly …
Everyone knows that exercise improves health, and ongoing research continues to uncover increasingly detailed information on its benefits for metabolism, circulation, and improved functioning of organs such as the heart, brain, and liver. With this knowledge in hand, scientists may be better equipped to develop “exercise pills” that could mimic at least some of the …
The Congressional report makes it clear that the cost overruns are still a problem. There are critical technological problems that will likely not get sorted out til 2020. The first two may be delivered in March 2016 and June 2022 but they will still be working on achieving the reliability and performance that was desired. …
US Crude oil production hit another post-1973 record with 9.32 million barrels per day. US daily crude oil production history from 1920 to today. The peak was in 1970 and was just short of 10 million barrels per day. Todays production level is the highest since December of 1972. North Dakota reached 1.227 million barrels …
In three years the US military could have a prototype 300 kilowatt laser weapon. This would be ten times the power of the 30 kilowatt laser being tested on the USS Ponce. Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. of Breaking Defense reports this from a Lockheed engineer. The Army’s High Energy Laser Mobile Demonstrator(HEL MD) will improve …
15 mn presentation from “A Matter Of Some Gravity” by Gary Hudson during the 2014 NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Symposium (NIAC 2014). This is the third part of Gary Hudson’s presentation, detailing current research about Mach Effect conducted by physicist James Woodward at Cal State Fullerton, and funded by the Exotic Propulsion Initiative of …
Michael Pettis discusses the burden on the United States for having the US dollar as the World’s reserve currency. There seems to be a slow change in the way the world thinks about reserve currencies. For a long time it was widely accepted that reserve currency status granted the provider of the currency substantial economic …
Thousands of protesters have taken over the business district and are camped outside government offices in Hong Kong. * A student-led protest movement has joined forces with the larger Occupy Central * Police have used tear gas and have ordered the crowds to disperse, saying the protest is illegal * Protesters are angry at changes …
Dr. James F. Woodward explains how to build faster-than-light warp drives and even stargates, based on Mach’s principle which would allow spacetime distortions compatible with general relativity. In his research lab at California State University, Fullerton, he tries to demonstrate Mach effects in various experiments to validate the theory. Excerpt from “Ancient Aliens: Aliens and …
Rafael is looking at a number of enhancements to the Iron Dome missile defence system as a result of lessons learned over recent engagements. Since its first successful interception on 7 April 2011, the Iron Dome has engaged more than 700 rockets with an official success rate at greater than 80% (some sources put this …