Japan making progress with domestic stealth fighter and plans for unmanned wingmen robotics support fighters

The main flight-test program of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) X-2 fighter technology demonstrator will begin within weeks, following three months of ground testing. The Mitsubishi X-2 Shinshin is a Japanese experimental aircraft for testing advanced stealth fighter aircraft technologies. It is being developed by the Japanese Ministry of Defense Technical Research and Development Institute …

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Alcoa Unveils Next-Generation Aluminum Materials Through Breakthrough Manufacturing Technology

Alcoa today unveiled breakthrough manufacturing technology, the Alcoa MicromillTM, that will manufacture the most advanced aluminum sheet on the market. The Micromill will enable the next generation of automotive aluminum products, and equip Alcoa to capture growing demand. Cars are about 10% aluminum now and could go to 20-30% in 2025. Key Facts * Micromill …

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Harvard Study Predicts World Oil Production at 110 million barrel per day in 2020

Oil: The Next Revolution, The Unprecedented Upsurge of Oil Production Capacity and What it means for the World. (86 pages) The figure is an all oil liquids prediction (which includes crude oil, natural gas liquids, biofuels etc…). The natural endowment of the initial American shale play, Bakken/Three Forks (a tight oil formation) in North Dakota …

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Debating Singularity Education Programs

As previously noted on this site Ray Kurzweil (inventor, author of the Singularity is Near) and Peter Diamandis (Xprize founder and co-founder of the International Space University) are starting up a Singularity University. This site has noted that the term “University” has some getting their expectations messed up. By examining the program and its stated …

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