1. Deep flight is a small company that is making deep diving one and two person submarines. Deep Flight II (DFII), which has been designed and is awaiting funding, will be built with acrylic crew hulls for 3,000 feet or with titanium hulls with conventional viewports for 20,000 feet. Ceramic-carbon fibre hull will enable 37,500 …
An SEC filing reveals that General Fusion has sold US$9 million out of $13.75 million offering. H/T to Xconomy for the details on this fund raising. General Fusion had been award C$13.9 million from the Canadian government. General Fusion is using the MTF (Magnetized Target Fusion) approach but with a new, patent pending and cost-effective …
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL)’s introduction of a metal-organic heat carrier, or MOHC, in the biphasic fluid may help improve thermodynamic efficiency of the heat recovery process. This image represents the molecular makeup of one of several MOHCs. 1. PNNL developed a superior type of heat-extracting fluid that could dramatically improve the economics of producing …
1. Solar farming: A photobioreactor houses photosynthetic microorganisms that use the energy in sunlight to make fuel and other chemicals from carbon dioxide and water. Credit: Joule Biotechnologies Joule unveiled its revolutionary Helioculture system for producing SolarFuel™ energy products that will dramatically redefine how the world’s energy needs are met. The modular SolarConverter design is …
25 minutes of Avatar was revealed at the recent comic-con The animated “Avatar” is set on a distant, lush planet called Pandora, a super-saturated world filled with 1,000-foot trees, exotic, near fluorescent forests, fearsome predators and an indigenous people known as the Na’vi — tall, blue humanoids who are peaceful until provoked. The story revolves …
Jupiter Impact picture taken by Hubble Carnival of space 113 is up at Dynamics of Cats This site provided the interview with Ross Tierney of Direct Launch and an article on breakthroughs in curing radiation sickness. Three is coverage from Samba about the impact on Jupiter. Centauri Dreams reviews a paper on detecting potentially habitable …
Here is an interview with Ross Tierney. Mr. Tierney is a representative of the of the Direct Launcher organization, which has a proposal to get to the moon using NASA shuttle components and other existing technology. This Jupiter rocket system could also be used to go to near-earth objects and possibly even Phobos and Mars. …
Scientists at Rice University and North Carolina State University have found a method of attaching molecules to semiconducting silicon that may help manufacturers reach beyond the current limits of Moore’s Law as they make microprocessors both smaller and more powerful. The electronic properties of silicon, such as the conductivity, are largely dependent on the density …
1. It’s a cooker, a fridge and a generator in one — and it could have a huge impact on the lives of people in the world’s poorest communities. Two billion people use open fires as their primary cooking method. These fires have been found to be highly inefficient, with 93 per cent of the …
There were four nuclear powered cargo ships. The NS Savannah was one of them. NOTE: A follow up article has a video about air pollution from commercial shipping and has some other statistics on the scope of the effort needed and conventional alternatives for lessening but not eliminating the pollution. Commercial shipping releases half as …
To fabricate hot water repellent fabrics, a nanocomposite of Carbon Nanotubes (CNTs) and Teflon was prepared and applied to commercial fabrics to produce scalding protection clothes. Current water repellent material only works well up to 25 °C. The new material was fairly effective for static water up to 80 °C and reduced effectiveness for dynamic …