The SonicStar supersonic business jet concept was unveiled at the 2011 Paris Air Show. It will cruise at mach 3.5 by leveraging superconductors to achieve 70% more efficiency. Here are three patents related to the revolutionary engine technology. Integrate a gas power turbine, superconducting electric power and propulsion generation Patent 20110138765 – MAGNETIC ADVANCED GENERATION …
Desertec is a solar and wind power plan to locate large amounts of renewable power generation in North Africa and other deserts of the world. The proposal is to repeat the political situation that exists with OPEC and oil with renewable solar and wind. Locate the power in the exact same area that has all …
Carnival of Nuclear Energy 51 is up at Nuclear Green Kirk Sorenson has been running the Energy from thorium blog for five years now First is the environmentalist community. Thorium is a reliable and energy-rich substance that can address many of their issues with existing forms of nuclear power. Yet not a single environmentalist organization …
Clearwell Systems datasheet on their e-discovery (Artificial Intelligence – Data mining product) system which automates the discovery process for lawyers. * High-performance architecture processes and analyzes documents at rates of up to 1 TB per day. * Robust File Support: Processes and analyzes over 400 different file types, including support for OCR of images containing …
The experimental realization of extended, two-dimensional sheets of silicene, the silicon counterpart of graphene, has been elusive so far. Researchers have demonstrated that such a two-dimensional, epitaxial honeycomb Si layer forms through surface segregation on a metallic zirconium diboride (ZrB2) Film grown itself epitaxially on Si(111). The honeycomb Si layer uniformly covers the ZrB2(0001) surface …
Economic Freedom and average citizenry IQ — plus slight tweaks from trading block membership and oil predicted GDP per capita for every country with a high .97 correlation (r) with actual GDP per capita. This is not scientific but uses a few factors that can be adjusted to correlate to per capita GDP both historically …
An important discovery in mice may make a big difference in people’s waistlines thanks to a team of Harvard scientists who found that reducing the function of a transmembrane protein, called Klotho, in obese mice with high blood sugar levels produced lean mice with reduced blood sugar levels. This protein also exists in humans, suggesting …
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Following the blow-out of the Macondo well (BP oil spill) in the Gulf of Mexico (April 20, 2010) Prof. Katz was appointed to Secretary of Energy Chu’s scientific advisory panel. This experience led him to conceive a novel composition of drilling mud, involving a dilatant polymer that could make the mud viscoelastic, in order to …
MIT Technology Review – a new planet formation theory the conventional model on its head. Planet formation begins at distances in excess of 50 AU from the mother star, when random variations in the density of the protoplanetary gas cloud begin to attract more gas and so grow under the force of gravity. Inside these …
1. Cloud computing will boost job creation in the European union, and add 763 billion euros ($1,019 billion) in productivity to the top economies over the next five years, according to a study from the Centre of Economics and Business Research (CEBR). “We believe cloud computing will impact to tune of 177 billion euros (a …