Today is Columbus Day (the first Monday after October 12th). Many countries in the New World and elsewhere celebrate the anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas, which happened on October 12, 1492, as an official holiday. The landing is celebrated as Columbus Day in the United States, as Día de la Raza in …
On Wednesday GE said that it has brought in $290 million so far this year from products built using this industrial internet philosophy and booked an anticipated $400 million in revenue. That may not seem like much for a company that had sales of $147.36 billion last year, but this is a two-year-old effort inside …
Governments and established financial institutions are likely to launch a campaign to quash the decentralized digital currency Bitcoin, according to a leading economist and academic. Simon Johnson, a professor of entrepreneurship at MIT’s Sloan School of Management, expects Bitcoin to face political pressure and aggressive lobbying from big banks because of its disruptive nature. The …
Current projections for North Dakota oil production is to achieve about 1.55 million barrels per day in 2015. The latest North Dakota production is at 874681 barrels per day. This is roughly in line with a Harvard forecast where oil booms in North Dakota and Texas. Maugeri, author of a 2012 report forecasting rapid growth …
Thorium molten salt(Gen‐IV)reactor technology overcomes the severe problems of conventional uranium PWR plants. Materials development in molten salt neutronic effects enable high ramp‐rate load following that complements solar PV renewable production. Enable solar and wind to be considered into a reliable energy source. Solar that gets block by clouds or wind variability messes up the …
There is a new book that reviews The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and our gamble over Earth’s future. Ehrlich’s population bomb was first dropped in the pages of New Scientist on 14 December 1967. His article, entitled “Paying the Piper”, began: “The battle to feed humanity is over… Sometime between 1970 and 1985 the …
MIt Gershenfeld created a new 3D interlock structure — which is made from tiny, identical, interlocking parts — to chainmail. The parts, based on a novel geometry that Cheung developed with Gershenfeld, form a structure that is 10 times stiffer for a given weight than existing ultralight materials. But this new structure can also be …
Last month at a NASA symposium, John Slough and his team from MSNW, presented their mission analysis for a trip to Mars, along with detailed computer modeling and initial experimental results. Slough and his team have published papers calculating the potential for 30- and 90-day expeditions to Mars using a rocket powered by fusion, which …
DARPA is looking to reduce ionizing radiation risks Darpa has three main research areas for enhancing nuclear radiation survival. 1) i“prophylactic” and “post-exposure” treatments that can neutralize ionizing radiation before it starts to cause serious cellular damage. 2) Another looks at how to survive and/or mitigate the long-term effects of radiation exposure, to include cancers …