(Left) A mechanic wearing a tracked head-worn display performs a maintenance task on a Rolls Royce DART 510 Engine. (Right) A view through the head-worn display depicts information provided using augmented reality to assist the mechanic. MIT Technology Review reports that in the not-too-distant future, it might be possible to slip on a pair of …
Carnival of Space 126 is up at Gish Bar Times This site provided an article noting that the Space Elevator beaming competition is finally set for this coming weekend. Nov 2-6, 2009 The Planetary Society blog discusses the discovery of a cave on the moon A probable cave skylight on the Moon. This dark hole, …
Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) researchers have devloped an acoustic hyperlens which provides an eightfold boost in the magnification power of sound-based imaging technologies. Clever physical manipulation of the imaging sound waves enables the hyperlens to resolve details smaller than one sixth the length of the waves themselves, bringing into view much smaller objects and …
1. Cameco trying to drain Cigar Lake again. Hope to drain the water in 6 months and then assess mine. Cigar Lake is a big mine with about 176000 tons of uranium reserves and under full production would be expected to produce 9000 tons/year. This would be about 20% of current natural uranium production and …
An analysis showed that low cost materials are needed to scal solar power and Pyrite (FeS2) is a leading candidate. Solar photovoltaics have great promise for a low-carbon future but remain expensive relative to other technologies. Greatly increased penetration of photovoltaics into global energy markets requires an expansion in attention from designs of high-performance to …
When people think about building things with carbon nanotubes or with carbon nanotube enhanced materials they need to know that there is not much production of carbon nanotubes. There is less than 1000 tons/year of carbon nanotubes being produced and most of that is in a form that is like an unsorted powder. The material …
The environment group WWF has a report which says that $17 trillion must be spent on renewable energy between now and 2050 to avoid temperatures rising by 2 degrees celsius and irreversible climate change. Previously the World Wide Fund for Nature funded a climate scorecard with rigged numbers WWF does not consider nuclear power to …
Carnival of space 125 is up at orbiting frog. Superconducting magnets are reaching 30-35 tesla now and appear on track to reach 60-70 tesla. This will enable the superconducting magnets to test a possible superpropulsion theory where the magnets are used to shunt into hyperdrive. The basic concept is this: according to the paper’s authors …
North Dakota oil production has reached new highs and the two month lag in monthly statistics will likely show about 250,000 barrels of oil per day in October or November. The latest monthly statistics are 231,252 barrels of oil per day (bopd) for August 2009. Brigham Exploration Co. on Friday said that one of its …
Prof. Leonid Shvartsman and Prof. Boris Laikhtman of the university’s Racah Institute of Physics have invented a novel design of TeraHertz-ray (T-ray) lasers. They said the novel device will have 400 times higher “gain” (a measure of power) than that of the only coherent T-ray sources existing today, called THzQuantum cascade lasers. “The novel method …
After seven years of theoretical work and raising money, five months of design, five months of construction and assembly, and a week of testing, LPP (Lawrenceville Plasma Physics) now has a functioning dense plasma focus, Focus-Fusion-1. The first shot, using helium as the fill gas, was achieved at 5:29 PM today, Oct.15, and the first …