MIT Technology Review provides details on how the robotic cars for Masdar City in the UAE will work. At both Heathrow and Masdar City, the vehicles will be battery-powered, driverless cars. The system at Heathrow–built by Advanced Transport Systems, based in Bristol, UK–uses cars powered by lead-acid batteries along a concrete track and guided by …
Cyclone Green Revolution Engine can burn any fuel and use any heat source (even focused sunlight) The Schoell cycle engine is a cross between a Rankine, Diesel and Carnot cycle engine. Rankine cycle is sometimes referred to as a practical Carnot cycle as, when an efficient turbine is used, the TS diagram will begin to …
Lawrenceville Plasma Physics, the group looking to develop dense plasma focus fusion (focus fusion), has provided details of $1.2 million in funding and the project plan. This approach to nuclear fusion has been covered before on this site Lawrenceville Plasma Physics Inc., a small research and development company based in West Orange, NJ, has announced …
the Carnival of Space week 71 is up at dot astronomy. Wormholes are discussed at twisted physics More control over wormholes could be the result many decades from now as a follow on result of DARPA work with the casimir force. Music of the Spheres discusses the Lifeboat space orbital space station proposal, Ark 1 …
Honda Insight Hybrid 2010 UPDATE: The 2010 Honda Insight has been introduced but with low EPA ratings of 40-city and 43-highway. Test drives are showing higher mileage. We recently got the opportunity to drive the new Honda Insight through the gently rolling hills just north of Phoenix, AZ, and managed to score 63.4 mile per …
North Dakota June 2008 daily production is now over 166,000 barrels of oil per day which is 10,000 barrels per day more than in May 2008 North Dakota is hitting transportation issues getting the oil out of the state. However, oil can still be moved out it just costs more to do it. North Dakota’s …
MIT has a transportation plan from now until 2035 For the near term (up to 15 years), we should increase our efforts to improve light-duty vehicle engines and transmissions, but all improvements must go toward increasing fuel efficiency rather than making cars bigger and faster. Also critical is reducing vehicle weight and size. For the …
If buildings are built better then the blast pressure has less effect at each range from the blast. 5 PSI buildings can be made or upgraded by using Hurriquake nails on existing buildings. $15 of material for each house. If the building do not collapse then there would be fewer fires because of fewer natural …
Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency President Haroldo Lima is talking about a 33 billion barrel offshore oil find (not Tupi another find) deep-water exploration area off the coast of Rio de Janeiro. This find is also called the Cariaco field According to the ANP director, the field, temporarily named “Sugar Loaf,” in reference to Rio’s landmark, …
NEC has printed carbon nanotube transistors on plastic with an electron mobility of 100 cm**2/Vs More information is here I had previously covered work at many other labs working on improving printable electronic speed using many different methods Fijitsu has used a forest of carbon nanotubes (MCNT) to grow graphene at low (510 degrees Celsius …
Enhanced oil recovery already supplies 650,000 barrels per day of oil in the USA. It could scale to 2-3 million barrels per day by 2030. CO2-EOR (Enhanced oil Recovery) is already being applied to selected, geologically favorable oil reservoirs with access to affordably priced natural and industrial sources of CO2. Based on the latest (April, …