1. Spiderfab can reduce costs by ten times or more and enable vastly larger structure in space. Larger structures such multi-kilometer solar sales, antennas or mirrors can transform space capabilities. In March, 2014, NASA awarded Tethers Unlimited, Inc. (TUI) a $750,000 contract to continue development of its “Trusselator” technology. The Trusselator is a device for …
David Director Friedman is an economist, physicist, legal scholar, and libertarian theorist. He is known for his writings in market anarchist theory, which is the subject of his most popular book, The Machinery of Freedom (1973, revised 1989 and 2014). He has authored several other books and articles, including Price Theory: An Intermediate Text (1986), …
Adapted from methodology used by the U.S. Federal Reserve’s “Beige Book,” The China Beige Book™ is an 80 page quarterly report that uses both quantitative and qualitative data to track real-time conditions within the Chinese economy, both regionally as well as within each of eight key industries within each region. In addition to providing clients …
3d printed custom casts combine low-intensity, pulsed ultrasound (LIPUS) bone stimulator system: Single 20 minute daily sessions this system promises to reduce the healing process up to 38% and increase the heal rate up to 80% in non-union fractures. Osteoid Medical cast, attachable bone stimulator by Deniz Karasahin won a design award. In order to …
Gizmag has an interview with some professors who specialize in analysing possible Transhuman enhancement and in particular the ethics of it. They posit scenarios under the assumption that things are equal now in terms of intelligence and lifespan. Kevin Warwick, Professor of Cybernetics at the University of Reading, tells Gizmag that it will be important …
China pledged on Sunday that it will make sure that 60 percent of its cities meet national pollution standards by 2020, with pressure growing to make cities liveable as hundreds of millions of migrants are expected to relocate from the countryside. Smog may kill 2.1 million people a year, many of them in China, and …
Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) placed two reactors operated by Kyushu Electric Power Co on a list for priority screening at a meeting of officials reviewing restart applications. Kyushu Electric’s Sendai reactors are located about 980 kilometers (600 miles) southwest of Tokyo. Regulators will now draft an official approval document for the shutdown Sendai reactors, …
U.S. naval reactors are pressurized water reactors, which differ from commercial reactors producing electricity in that: * they have a high power density in a small volume and run either on low-enriched uranium (as do some French and Chinese submarines) or on highly enriched uranium (>20% U-235, current U.S. submarines use fuel enriched to at …
Economists have tried to put together alternative indices to estimate China’s GDP growth. One of the most thorough is produced by Capital Economics, which releases what it calls the China Activity Proxy. The data series started in 2009, so it has a track record. It’s published monthly — unlike GDP data, which is released quarterly. …
Nextbigfuture has covered contour crafting for cement jet printing of buildings for years. We have a contour crafting tag for all of articles on this topic. We have also had a lot of articles about Broad Group of China’s factory mass produced skyscrapers. Broad Group process is being used for several dozen skyscrapers while Contour …
The standard foundation for all Kanga structures is a 2×6 treated lumber floor joist panel that rest on 4×4 treated lumber skids. The skids are set on concrete patio stones that are leveled at the build site and anchored to the ground. The cost of this type of foundation is figured into the price of …