Brad Templeton discusses how low speed self driving cars like the recent Google self driving pods could bring ten minute access to downtown areas by an additional 1 to 2 miles. When you have skyscraper density, as in downtowns and most of Manhattan, there is much greater density of retail streets, and everybody is close …
China might allow Britain to take part in the construction of a large undersea tunnel in exchange for a role in its high-speed railway and nuclear power projects, a senior state firm engineer said. Professor Wang Mengshu, deputy chief engineer with China Railway Tunnel Group and a senior scientific adviser to the government on high-speed …
Fish already represent 16.5% of all animal protein consumed globally and 6.5% of all human protein consumption. During the last three decades, capture fi sheries production increased from 69 million to 93 million tons; during the same time, world aquaculture production increased from 5 million to 63 million tons (FishStat). Globally, fish currently represents about …
The great imperialists of the 19th Century built railroads to solidify their control of vast expanses of land and incorporate their territory into modern industrial economies. And although the construction of railroads may seem archaic today, the government of China has demonstrated the relevance of high speed rail in both internal state building and external …
Researchers at Rice University have come up with a new way to boost the efficiency of the ubiquitous lithium ion (LI) battery by employing ribbons of graphene that start as carbon nanotubes. Proof-of-concept anodes — the part of the battery that stores lithium ions — built with graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and tin oxide showed an …
Researchers at the University of Wyoming Carbon Management Institute (CMI) discovered a vast new lithium resource near Rock Springs during a geological carbon dioxide storage site characterization project sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy. Preliminary analyses of fluid samples collected from a well drilled on the Rock Springs Uplift — a geological feature in …
Imagine a tiny snake robot crawling through your body, helping a surgeon identify diseases and perform operations. Scientists and doctors are using the roboticized endoscopic-like tools to perform surgery on hearts, prostate cancer, and other diseased organs. The snakebots carry tiny cameras, scissors and forceps, and even more advanced sensors are in the works. For …
Yes Vermont Yankee has the 91st Carnival of Nuclear Energy – the Vogtle Edition. This is a great week for nuclear energy: the NRC issued the first license for a new generation of nuclear power plant. Units 3 and 4 at the Vogtle site in Georgia now have a Construction and Operating License. These AP1000 …
The first lab-grown burger to cost $345,000 to produce, but could be sustainable option in near future. The first lab-grown hamburger will cost about $345,000 to produce, accordinghttp://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=17555522#editor to Mark Post, a vascular biologist at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands, who hopes to unveil such a delicacy soon Samples of in-vitro meat shown …
George Dvorsky at Sentient Developments talks about basic transhumanism. Transhumanism is something that’s applied in the here-and-now; it’s a recognition of the radical present and all that it has to offer. This is how the modern transhumanist can best unlock her biological potential. In terms of specifics, these choices include the Paleolithic diet (also called …
A long piece from Chronosphere covers a fair amount of ground, and holds up the AIDS patient advocacy of the 80s and 90s as a model of success that could be and should be emulated for longevity science advocacy. Fightaging summarizes the lengthy Chronopause article. [For example], mature, clinically available, and FDA-approved therapies to slow …