I am at the Foresight Technical conference today and will be for the next two days. However, I am limited in what blogging I do based on the media policy where the presentations are confidential. However, I can find material online based on what is presented. So I will gather what is already public from …
Communicating with light may soon get a lot easier, hints recent research* from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)and the University of Maryland’s Joint Quantum Institute (JQI), where scientists have potentially found a way to overcome a longstanding barrier to cleaner signals. The findings, which demonstrate for the first time an error rate …
Nextbigfuture covered what was four quadcopters that combined for the first manned flight at the end of 2011. This has now evolved into an all electric 18 propped vertical takeoff and landing system. It is the first purely electrically powered vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft – the Volocopter. The German Ministry of Transportation has …
Researchers have made a reversible rotor that sits on a ruthenium atomic cal bearing. Nature Nanotechnology – Controlled clockwise and anticlockwise rotational switching of a molecular motor The design of artificial molecular machines often takes inspiration from macroscopic machines. However, the parallels between the two systems are often only superficial, because most molecular machines are …
A new Ford Fiesta Van offers businesses an agile and good looking vehicle with class-leading fuel-efficiency – all diesel engines achieve sub-100 g/km CO2 emissions and 3.7 l/100 km (76.4 mpg) or better. The Fiesta Van offers new 75 PS 1.5-litre Duratorq TDCi diesel for the first time; Fiesta ECOnetic Van variant features enhanced fuel-saving …
Japan’s pro-nuclear emergy LDP party has returned to power.They won 275 to 300 out of the 480 seats If you liked this article, please give it a quick review on ycombinator or StumbleUpon. Thanks Brian WangBrian Wang is a Futurist Thought Leader and a popular Science blogger with 1 million readers per month. His blog …
The EIA publishes total monthly crude oil production statistics are published by state and has statistics going back to 1920 for the USA and 1981 by state. This information has been reported up to Sept, 2012 The weekly crude oil production information for the USA and Alaska has been published up to Nov 23, 2012. …
Space.com – Elon Musk, the billionaire founder and CEO of the private spaceflight company SpaceX, wants to help establish a Mars colony of up to 80,000 people by ferrying explorers to the Red Planet for perhaps $500,000 a trip. In Musk’s vision, the ambitious Mars settlement program would start with a pioneering group of fewer …
The Carnival of Space 276 is up at Starry Critters Chandra Observatory Blog – These images of the planetary nebula Abell 30, (a.k.a. A30), show one of the clearest views ever obtained of a special phase of evolution for these objects. Riding with Robots – On a remote military base in the desert, the United …
Centauri Dreams – An inventor named Tom Ditto has been casting a serious look at diffraction gratings as large primary collectors for telescopes, work that has been getting a bit of a buzz on the Internet. The new approach could enable kilometer length telescope membranes to be launched with current rockets for radically improved space …
German researchers are sending stunt kites into the skies to harness the wind and convert the kinetic energy generated into electricity. Compared to conventional wind farm technology that relies on rotors, this technology offers a wide range of advantages. Wind speeds at ground level tend to zero, but they increase dramatically the higher you go. …