technology

DARPA developing UAVs to provide 1 gigabit per second backbone to the front lines

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UAV Mobile Hotspots program makes progress toward goal of providing 1 Gb/s communications backbone to deployed units. Missions in remote, forward operating locations often suffer from a lack of connectivity to tactical operation centers and access to valuable intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) data. The assets needed for long-range, high-bandwidth communications capabilities are often unavailable …

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Exaflop computer project for Super programmed trading of the $5 trillion foreign exchange market is now hiring

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Previously we reported taht John Fitzpatrick was forming a company that he says will provide competitively priced commodity cloud-based services on what he’s calling the world’s first Exaflop Supercomputer. He will use foreign currency trading as the main application. This is the Bitcoin mining of the Foreign Exchange market. The machine will cost $50 billion. …

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Solar power has a long way to go to be a cheap environment savior

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Paul Krugman declares that environmental salvation will be cheap. This is based upon the IPCC saying that estimated reduction in economic growth would be around 0.06 percent per year [IF all nations began following IPCC energy, transportation and efficiency recommendations immediately, All of the countries of the world begin mitigation immediately, there is a single …

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Some start to get over environmental denial.

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Scientists are admitting that it is too late to prevent carbon dioxide from getting to levels where 2 degrees of warming can be prevented according to climate models. The entire approach of asking for costly economic sacrifices Countries have delayed action for so long that the necessary emissions cuts will have to be extremely sharp. …

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Project Orion would gather Two thirds of propellant as it went so that All major moons of Saturn or Jupiter could be visited with a mass ratio less than 2.

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Centauri Dreams has a look back at the Orion Project plans to fly to Enceladus. Project Orion was the rocket that was use about 800 small nuclear bombs for propulsion. It would drop each one through a hold in a massive metal donut/pusher plate. Project Orion was intended to loft 1600 tons to low-Earth orbit, …

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Thorium Tech Solutions is a japanese company working towards small thorium molten salt reactors

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Kazuo Furukawa （inventor of the miniFuji and Fuji molten salt reactors），and Masaaki Furukawa set up　“Thorium Tech Solutions” (TTS) in 2011 to make Thorium molten salt reactors. Since smaller thorium molten-salt power plant are easier to construct, TTS will develop the 10,000kW micro-mini thorium molten-salt power plant ‘miniFUJI’ within five years (by 2016). This micro-mini power …

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India’s path from poverty from an MGI plan – the insights are applicable to other poor countries

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India has made encouraging progress by halving its official poverty rate, from 45 percent of the population in 1994 to 22 percent in 2012. McKinsey Global Institute (MGI) has created the Empowerment Line, an analytical framework that determines the level of consumption required to fulfill eight basic needs—food, energy, housing, drinking water, sanitation, health care, …

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Researchers find the best nanofluid for heat transfer and it is a mixtures of diamond nanoparticles and mineral oil

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A mixture of diamond nanoparticles and mineral oil easily outperforms other types of fluid created for heat-transfer applications, according to new research by Rice University. Rice scientists mixed very low concentrations of diamond particles (about 6 nanometers in diameter) with mineral oil to test the nanofluid’s thermal conductivity and how temperature would affect its viscosity. …

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Qatar uses Liquified Natural Gas to build ‘extraordinary’ global clout

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Success in the export of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has allowed Qatar to build an extraordinary level of global influence, improve its national security and “rise above” its neighbors on the Arabian Peninsula, according to a new paper from Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public Policy. Qatar has been linked to funding terrorism Despite attempts …

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Nigeria updating statistics from 1990 to 2010 will correct GDP statistics and increase them by 60% to reflect that Nigeria is the largest African economy

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Nigeria is to “rebase” its gross domestic product (GDP) on Sunday 6 April, which should push it above South Africa as the continent’s biggest economy. The United Nations defines rebasing as the “process of replacing present price structure [base year] to compile volume measures of GDP with a new or more recent base year”. Basically, …

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