Photorealistic Images of Carpet Cloaks

Photorealistic images of carpet cloaks (9 page pdf) Using home-built dedicated ray-tracing software, we simulate photorealistic images of sceneries in three dimensions including dielectric carpet cloaks – i.e., continuously varying refractive-index distributions that allow for invisibility cloaking of a bump in a metallic carpet. Results for the ideal and for a simplified cloak are shown. …

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Google Flu Shot Tracker

Gioogle launches a flu shot tracker service. This project is just beginning and they have not yet received information about flu shot clinics for many locations 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 …

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Winterberg Compares Super Marx Deuterium Fusion Against Laser Fusion-fission Hybrid Concept

Winterberg compares his Super Marx generator pure deuterium micro-detonation ignition concept to the Lawrence Livermore National Ignition Facility (NIF) Laser DT fusion-fission hybrid concept (LiFE) In a Super Marx generator a large number of ordinary Marx generators charge up a much larger second stage ultra-high voltage Marx generator, from which for the ignition of a …

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Burj al Meel Mile High Tower Proceeding to Award Design Contract

Kingdom Holding Company is still planning a mile high tower as is reviewing design bids despite the recent worldwide financial crisis. It is a currently estimated USD 13,300,000,000 project (13.3 billion dollar). Burj Al-Meel is a proposed supertall skyscraper to be located in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud’s Kingdom holding company is …

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Calstar Products Makes Bricks Using 5 to 10 Times Less Energy

CalStar Products, Inc. uses advanced technology to make architectural facing bricks and durable pavers for the green building market. Both products contain 40% post-industrial recycled material, use 90% less energy to make, and generate 90% less CO2 than traditional fired clay brick and pavers Building operations consume around 39 percent of the total energy in …

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