Elon Musk gave no detail when he announced plans in January to build a hyperloop test track, likely in Texas. Since then, another entrepreneur has secured agreements to break ground early next year on a five-mile stretch in California. This stretch, near the new town of Quay Valley along Interstate-5 midway between Los Angeles and …
A moth’s eye and lotus leaf were the inspirations for an antireflective water-repelling, or superhydrophobic, glass coating that holds significant potential for solar panels, lenses, detectors, windows, weapons systems and many other products. The discovery is based on a mechanically robust nanostructured layer of porous glass film. The coating can be customized to be superhydrophobic, …
Roger Shawyer invented the Emdrive. NASA is testing the EMdrive and the Cannae drive and getting interesting results Shawyer presented in October, 2014. EMDrive results have not been conclusively proven yet and there is no proven underlying theory and any scaling has not been determined. There are interesting results in the 50-900 micronewton ranges. There …
Nextbigfuture ran a survey asking if Star Wars 7 or Avengers 2 would have the larger global box office. Star Wars 7 is expected to have more box office by 73% of those surveyed. 47% think Avengers 2 will exceed $2 billion in global box office. Avengers 2 opened this weekend in several international markets …
Lonemind has a list of the top 25 futurists. I, Brian Wang / Nextbigfuture is listed about 7th. Although the list may not be in any particular order. 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 …
1. Coulumb Drag Devices: Electric Solar Wind Sail Propulsion and Ionospeheric Deorbiting * Plasma brake thrust is 16 times larger in pure oxygen plasma than in pure proton plasma * There is an altitude dependence. Below 700 km the thrust would continue to increase until 400-500 km (provided there is the right hardware design) Abstract …
China approved two reactors this month as it vowed to cut coal use to meet terms of a carbon-emissions agreement reached in November between President Xi Jinping and U.S. counterpart Barack Obama. About $370 billion will be spent on atomic power over the next decade, Bloomberg New Energy Finance estimates. Plans to triple nuclear capacity …
A Nasa probe is to start photographing the icy world of Pluto, to prepare itself for a historic encounter in July. The New Horizons spacecraft has travelled 5 billion km (3 billion miles) over nine years to get near the dwarf planet. And with 200 million km (120 million miles) still to go, its images …
Israel has averaged being the number 5 arms exporter over the last five years. Israel had a drop in arms exports in 2013. Usually Israel is exporting about $6-7 billion per year in military weapons. Israel is the number one exporter of drones. The USA produces far more drones but uses almost all of them …
About 20% of Americans have negative net worth. Their debts are greater than their assets. A great part of this is lack of financial literacy. Other factors are lack of time management skills and making life choices that generally result in poverty. Single mothers are more likely to be poor than married couples. The poverty …
Lockheed Martin has received a contract through the National Center for Manufacturing Sciences (NCMS) for the U.S. Navy to evaluate and test two FORTIS exoskeletons. This marks the first procurement of Lockheed Martin’s exoskeletons for industrial use. Terms of the contract were not disclosed. The FORTIS exoskeleton is an unpowered, lightweight exoskeleton that increases an …