Broad group of China’s factory mass produced skyscrapers are a major disruptive technology. This will be a disruption of real estate with a profitable technology and sustainable business model Broad Group has plans to get 30% of the global construction market. It could take until about 2025 instead of 2020. The Global construction industry will …
Monash University researchers have established, for the first time, an effective way of forming graphene, which normally exists in very thin layers, into useful three-dimensional (3D) forms by mirroring the structure of cork. Graphene is formed when graphite is broken down into layers one atom thick. In this form, it is very strong, chemically stable …
Popular Mechanics – China is on track to field nuclear weapons on submarines in two years, according to U.S. government reports. The U.S. government is reporting that China, after decades of trying, is on the verge of fielding a true underwater leg of its nuclear deterrent, with new long-range missiles tipped with nuclear weapons on …
Breakout Nations is Ruchir Sharma’s book on the Bric countries – Brazil, Russia, India, China – and the rest of the developing world. In his day job, Sharma is head of emerging market equities and global macro at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. He warns that today’s “mania” for emerging markets is driven largely by the …
Nature – Complex shapes self-assembled from single-stranded DNA tiles Programmed self-assembly of strands of nucleic acid has proved highly effective for creating a wide range of structures with desired shapes. A particularly successful implementation is DNA origami, in which a long scaffold strand is folded by hundreds of short auxiliary strands into a complex shape. …
Todd Huffman, Brain Imaging and neuroscience researcher Used to work on Alcor and a competitor Alcor is the leading cryonics organization 3scan.com There is a site discussing uploading in detail carboncopies.org Death and Cryo Alive / Personalized Life Extension/ Death / Decent Cryopreservation/ Poor Cryopreservation/ Right now in 2012 Cryonics workflow * Standby when you …
Japan Space agency had the successful solar sail IKAROS. IKAROS (Interplanetary Kite-craft Accelerated by Radiation Of the Sun) was launched on May 21, 2010 together with the Venus Climate Orbiter, AKATSUKI And IKAROS becomes the world’s first solar powered sail craft employing both photon propulsion and thin film solar power generation during its interplanetary cruise. …
1. Fusion Energy for Space Missions in the 21st Century (496 pages, 25 megabytes. Note – George Miley was a big contributor to this 1991 document. (H/T Crowlspace). Future space missions were hypothesized and analyzed and the energy source for their accomplishment investigated. The missions included manned Mars, scientific outposts to and robotic sample return …
The Carnival of Space 240 is up at Linksthroughspace. Discovery news by Ian O’neill writes about the Cassini mission that has sniffed oxygen in Dione’s exosphere, how does this affect the search for life beyond Earth. Why is the discovery of oxygen in Dione’s exosphere important? If Dione’s got it, then perhaps its sibling moons …
About one third of the way through the Republican Primary (731 delegates awarded out of 2286), Mitt Romney has 55% (404 out of 731) Romney also has various unpledged delegates and there are super-delegates. However, basically if Santorum, Gingrich and Ron Paul can combine to contain Romney to less than 47% of the delegates in …
Toyota Motor Corp unveiled the “FT-Bh” a lightweight, next generation small gasoline-electric hybrid concept car, here today at the 82nd Geneva International Motor Show By pursuing weight reduction, a more-efficient powertrain and reduced air resistance, the FT-Bh boasts a fuel efficiency of 2.1 liters per 100 kilometers under the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC), with …