Deep Space Industries believes the human race is ready to begin harvesting the resources of space both for their use in space and to increase the wealth and prosperity of the people of planet Earth. Deep Space Industries is a competitor to Planetary Resources which also is working towards space asteroid mining. Deep Space Industries …
The most recent estimate for US daily crude oil production for the week ended Jan 1, 2013 was 7.041 million bpd. The more precise October, 2012 monthly results were 211,434,000 crude oil barrels produced in the US in the month of October. This value means 6.82 million barrels per day in October, 2012. The weekly …
A number of commercial high-temperature reactors are under development around the world. But this year, a consortium of petrochemical companies and reactor manufacturers agreed to back the Antares high-temperature reactor design from the French company AREVA, based in Paris. “All that’s left is about $800 million of work design and licensing effort required to get …
Here is a follow up article with more information about a trapped ion quantum simulator made by NIST with hundreds of qubits Researchers demonstrates a variable-range Ising-type spin-spin interaction on a naturally occurring 2D triangular crystal lattice of hundreds of spin-1/2 particles (Beryllium ions stored in a Penning trap), a computationally relevant scale more than …
The Economist World in 2013 is forecasting that China will have 8.6% GDP growth and 5.0% inflation in 2013. They project nominal GDP to be US$9.23 trillion. Hong Kong is forecast to have a GDP of 404 billion. Macau is projected elsewhere to have a GDP at the end of 2013 of $50 billion. China …
A team of researchers, including engineers from Los Alamos National Laboratory, has demonstrated a new concept for a reliable nuclear reactor that could be used on space flights. The research team recently demonstrated the first use of a heat pipe to cool a small nuclear reactor and power a Stirling engine at the Nevada National …
Physics World – A single hydrogen molecule has been used to “push” an object much more massive than itself. So say researchers in Germany and Spain who have used a phenomenon called stochastic resonance to extract useful energy from “noise”. Their experiments involve using an atomic force microscope tip mounted on a flexible, spring-like cantilever …
David’s Sling, also sometimes called Magic Wand, is an Israel Defense Forces military system being jointly developed by the Israeli defense contractor Rafael Advanced Defense Systems and the American defense contractor Raytheon, designed to intercept medium- to long-range rockets and cruise missiles, such as those possessed by Hezbollah, fired at ranges from 40 km to …
Bloomberg – The International Monetary Fund cut its global growth forecasts as the euro area’s debt crisis intensifies and warned of even slower expansion unless officials in the U.S. and Europe address threats to their economies. The world economy will grow 3.3 percent this year, the slowest since the 2009 recession, and 3.6 percent next …
Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) today successfully launched its Dragon spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on the first official cargo resupply mission to the International Space Station. The launch went off on schedule at 8:35 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The SpaceX CRS-1 mission marks the first of at least …
DARPA completes close-proximity flight tests of two modified RQ-4 Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicles, demonstrates technology enabling autonomous aerial refueling. Currently global military aviation relies on a key enabler – aerial refueling. Fighters, bombers, reconnaissance and transport aircraft use “flying gas stations” to go the extra mile. Increasingly, UAVs are conducting combat and ISR operations, …