Analytical Mechanical Associates (AMA) has been in the business of aerospace engineering for more than forty years. Jan 20, 2010 (today) at American Helicopter Society meeting Mark Moore, an aerospace engineer at NASA’s Langley Research Center and his colleagues will officially unveil the Puffin design Scientific American has details In principle, the Puffin can cruise …
The National Academies has a 136 page document that examines the better ways to forecast disruptive technological innovation This is one of the main objectives of Nextbigfuture. Nextbigfuture is trying to act as an Office of Technological Assessment and evaluate what is the best ways to use existing technologies and to forecast disruptive technological innovation …
1. Researchers from the UCLA AIDS Institute and colleagues have for the first time demonstrated that human blood stem cells can be engineered into cells that can target and kill HIV-infected cells — a process that potentially could be used against a range of chronic viral diseases they have made the equivalent of a genetic …
Day 3 also appears to be done with no change in the standings or prizes won. Lasermotive has won the level 1 prize of $900,000. No other prizes were won and no other team qualified for a prize. LaserMotive retained their lead, and inched closer to the 5 m/s benchmark – they removed some payload, …
Centauri Dreams has an article by Adam Crowl on the Deuterium starship design of Freidwardt Winterberg. This site has covered the work of Winterberg several times. A comment on one part of it: Non-fission triggers are a laudable goal of fusion propulsion research, but they pose a conundrum for slowing proliferation of thermonuclear weapons. Nuclear …
From a slide from 2007, later slides below are from a 2009 talk. From wikipedia: Retrocausality (also called retro-causation, backward causation and similar terms) is any of several hypothetical phenomena or processes that reverse causality, allowing an effect to occur before its cause. According to Paul March from a Talk Polywell comment: Dr. Cramer’s retrocausal …
So FTTP (fiber to the premises) can boost the US economy by at least $440 Billion. Full Broadband (higher percentage adoption) rollout can boost $110 billion/30 million people. More from Peer to peer applications from 100 mbps symmetrical capability can provide a further increase. There is about a 15% productivity boost from broadband. Various studies …
Alberta has several large scale pilot projects to perform many more oil refining and combustion steps underground and coal gasification underground. The advantages can be significantly lower costs and improved environmental effects. This site has covered the work of Petrobank to develop the THAI (Toe-to-Heel Air Injection)and CAPRI processes for upgrading oilsand bitumen underground for …
As of mid-October, 2008, Saskatchewan had 1,050 wells capable of producing in the Bakken. Of these, the vast majority (979) have been drilled since October 2004. Over the first eight months of 2008, the Bakken accounted for about 8.6 million bbls (an average of 35,250 bbls a day) of Saskatchewan’s oil production of 105.7 million …
Ultra-high-speed wireless connectivity – capable of transferring 15 gigabits of data per second over short distances – has taken a significant step toward reality. A recent decision by an international standards group could help bring this technology to market soon. Multi-gigabit technology could also help enable “viral communications.” Viral communications scenarios envision a future of …
J Storrs Hall has conceived of Utility Fog and a Space Pier and now his idea for nanotechnology enabled climate control. Version One: 1000 Times More Powerful than Global Warming You build a little balloon—my guess is the balloon needs to be somewhere between a millimeter and a centimeter in size. It has a very …