Peter Diamandis X PRIZE Founder/Chairman on his next big venture (asteroid mining). Forbes – Peter Diamandis’ $10 million X Prize bounty sparked a boom in commercial space tourism. Other Xprizes – * Google’s Larry Page and Sergey Brin raised $30 million to put a robot on the moon * Bill and Melinda Gates are sponsoring …
The FBI has charged a would-be terrorist in Ashland, Massachusetts with planning multiple bomb attacks in which radio-controlled planes would have been used as bargain-basement, explosives-packed drones. It could lead to a thicket of regulations on both the vendors and flyers of RC planes in future. Ferdaus ordered and acquired a $6,500 remote-controlled aircraft, an …
The USA (Dept of Energy) is investing 7.5 million dollars for the construction of the fusion device Wendelstein 7-X at the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics (IPP) in Greifswald. In the three-year project, starting in 2011, scientists from the fusion institutes at Princeton, Oak Ridge and Los Alamos are contributing auxiliary magnetic coils, measuring …
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The Department of Energy has a new program, dubbed “America’s Next Top Energy Innovator,” that would drastically reduce the costs for startup energy companies of licensing any of the roughly 15,000 patents held by the federal government’s National Laboratories, where basic scientific research is done. The program allows startups to license up to three National …
North Dakota is now looking at the possibility of 700,000 barrels of oil a day within the next four to seven years. Federal and state estimates had pegged North Dakota’s portion of the Bakken shale and underlying Three Forks-Sanish oil formations in western North Dakota at about 5 billion barrels of oil, using current horizontal …
Global Wind Energy Council has published their global wind energy outlook for 2010. Greenpeace is one of the sponsors of the report. This report can be viewed as the maximum optimistic scenarios for wind energy. There is minimal discussion in the report about increased transmission and energy storage issues with higher percentages of wind power. …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Caltech professor Atwater proposes to reduce solar power installation costs: he suggests using farm equipment fitted with laser levels to quickly install large fields of flexible solar panels, laying them out the way plastic sheeting is laid out in some farming today. The thing that’s held …