Your Old Purchases of Windows and Microsoft Office will Buy $10 billion in Vaccines and Save 8 Million lives

Bill and Melinda Gates said on Friday they would spend $10 billion over the next decade to develop and deliver vaccines Over the past 10 years, the Microsoft co-founder’s charity has committed $4.5 billion to vaccines and has been instrumental in establishing the GAVI alliance, a public-private partnership that channels money for vaccines in poor …

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Rethinking Air Travel and Air Security and Could Air Taxis Finally Takeoff

Airlines reported lengthy delays on international flights to the U.S. over the weekend amid heightened security after Friday’s alleged terrorism incident on a trans-Atlantic flight, but domestic passengers were largely unaffected by the new measures. AMR Corp.’s American Airlines said passengers and their luggage were being subjected to an extra round of screening at many …

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The X51A Hypersonic demonstration vehicle Goes for a Spin on a B52

The X-51A WaveRider is expected to fly as fast as 4,000 mph (Mach 6). But in its first flight Dec. 9, it stayed firmly tucked under the wing of a B-52H Stratofortress. The WaveRider’s first hypersonic test flight, set for mid-February 2010. On that mission, a B-52 will release the WaveRider 50,000 feet over the …

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Purposely Adding Defects in Carbon Nanotubes increases Energy Stored in Supercapacitors by up to 200%

University of California San Diego researchers have developed a method to enhance the capacitance (up to three times) of carbon nanotube (CNT) electrode-based electrochemical capacitors by controllably incorporating extrinsic defects into the CNTs. “While batteries have large storage capacity, they take a long time to charge; while electrostatic capacitors can charge quickly but typically have …

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Energy Secretary Steven Chu visits Googleplex

There is a 41 minute video of Steven Chu talking about clean energy (including nuclear fusion) at 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 ranked #1 Science News Blog. It covers many disruptive technology and trends including Space, …

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Technology Roundup: Booming EReaders in 2010, Ionic Batteries, Batteryless Neural Sensing Chip

1. MIT Technology Review reports on the work of Arizona based Fluidic Energy who are working toward development of a metal-air battery that relies on ionic liquids, instead of an aqueous solution, as its electrolyte. The company aims to build a Metal-Air Ionic Liquid battery that has up to 11 times the energy density of …

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Winterbergs Advanced Deuterium Fusion Rocket Propulsion For Manned Deep Space Missions

Winterberg’s design to obtain a high thrust with a high specific impulse, uses propulsion by deuterium micro-bombs, and it is shown that the ignition of deuterium micro-bombs is possible by intense GeV proton beams, generated in space by using the entire spacecraft as a magnetically insulated billion volt capacitor. The design could have exhaust that …

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Duodecimom ? Tunisian Woman Expecting 12 Babies: Updated Fraud

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 …

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