(H/T Sander Olson) A Sanswire Stratellite is a specialized airship that is capable of carrying various payload with basic core mission of transmitting various types of wireless communications. Placing a communications platform into the stratosphere, in the form of an airship, has never been done before. Such a platform can fundamentally change how the world …
The Carnival of Space 117 is up at simostronomy. This site contributing the article finished Titanium parts from Titanium Hydride can be over 8 times cheaper than regular titanium manufacturing. Cheaper, stronger and lighter components are always better for increasing performance of rocket systems and other equipment for space. Cosmislog at Msnbc looks at the …
BlackLight Power, Inc. (BLP) today announces that scientists at Rowan University have for the first time independently formulated and tested fuels that on demand generated energy greater than that of combustion at power levels of kilowatts using BLP’s proprietary solid-fuel chemistry capable of continuous regeneration. So three Rowan University Researchers appear fully convinced and have …
China’s Loose Credit Spurs Economy Wall Street Journal : China had 7.1% GDP growth in the first half of 2009 and is projected to have 9% in the third quarter of 2009, the real reason for this success is an aggressive, behind-the-scenes bank lending binge to the tune of some 7.4 trillion yuan and counting. …
A leengthy interview of Ian Clifford of Zenn Motors who indicates that EEStor will publicly prove its breakthrough ultracapacitors soon. (H/T Talk Polywell The ZENNCity electric car which would be the first vehicle to use these batteries has a 52kwh 250 mile range EESU that would only weigh 280 pounds. EEStor is building a state …
The US annual deficit was less than $500 billion/year for every year before the first budget of the Obama administration. The current 2009 deficit is projected to be about $2 trillion. In the pictures, you can see the actual deficit spending under President George Bush and the projected deficits under President Obama. The projected deficits …
Proton-driven plasma-wakefield acceleration in a computer simulation accelerate electrond bunches to 500 GeV in 300 meters of plasma. Compare that to the proposed $7 billion International Linear Collider (ILC), which will need at least nine miles to hit the same target, and SLAC’s linear accelerator, which needed 10 times the distance to reach a tenth …
This site has been following Nanocomp Technologies which makes sheets of carbon nanotubes. Nanocomp Technologies had 3X6 foot sheets back in early 2008. Then in early 2009, they announced that they had 4X8 foot sheets. So close to double the square footage of the 16 square foot sheets at 32. In a single process, they …
I never really liked the Battlestar Galactica reboot. I understand why it is very popular and what innovative things they have done. Plus many of the actors have good acting ability and several are very attractive. The technical quality of the show and its effects are top notch. The show and the series has had …
Research by the McKinsey Global Institute and McKinsey’s Climate Change Special Initiative carbon productivity must reach $7,300 by 2050—a tenfold increase over today. A tenfold increase in carbon productivity sounds daunting, but it is a type of challenge that humankind has met before. U.S. labor productivity increased tenfold over a 125-year period from 1830 to …
The ‘Rochester Cube’ points way to more powerful chip designs. The next major advance in computer processors will likely be the move from today’s two-dimensional chips to three-dimensional circuits, and the first three-dimensional synchronization circuitry is now running at 1.4 gigahertz at the University of Rochester. Unlike past attempts at 3-D chips, the Rochester chip …