Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Ralph McNutt takes a detailed but flawed look at human missions to the outer solar system. He looks at using Extremely heavy lift launch vehicles (EHLLV chemical rockets) to lift about 1000 tons to low earth orbit and then scaled up versions of the Vasimr magnetoplasma …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software The U.S. Navy is presently pursuing electromagnetic launch technology to replace the existing steam catapults on current and future aircraft carriers. The present EMALS design centers around a linear synchronous motor, supplied power from pulsed disk alternators through a cycloconverter. Average power, obtained from an independent …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software A Rocket-Based-Combined-Cycle (RBCC) propulsion system employing ducted rocket operation and MHD airbreathing to accelerate the vehicle to Mach 12 in about 4 minutes within earth’s atmosphere, and then fusion rocket propulsion to continue vehicle acceleration above the sensible atmosphere for 28 minutes until Mach 26 (orbital …
Ad Support : Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Air Force Office of Scientific Research-supported holographic, adaptive, optics research may help transform software into computer-free, electronics for unmanned aerial vehicles, high energy lasers and free-space optical communications that will enable each to run faster and more efficiently than before “The current system for UAV imagery, …
Ad Support : Business Success How to Make Money Executive Jobs Paid Surveys Arxiv – Sources of cosmic microwave radiation and dark matter identified: millimeter black holes (m.b.h.) The proposed solution is enticing because it would be so simple and elegant if true. The universe is filled with blackbody millimeter radiation (CMBR), temperature 2.7{deg} Kelvin. Big-bang …
Supporting Ads: Nano Technology Netbook Technology News Computer Software Princeton researchers have developed a new way to manufacture electronic devices made of plastic, employing a process that allows the materials to be formed into useful shapes while maintaining their ability to conduct electricity. In the plastic transistor pictured here, the plastic is molded into interdigitated electrodes …
Quantum encrypted communication is currently limited to about 100 kilometers (60 mile) range. Improving the light storage efficiency will enable better quantum repeaters. Improving quantum repeaters by over ten times will allow for quantum encrypted communication with ranges of thousand of kilometers. Improvements in materials used can increase the effiency of light storage even more …
This article is being redone as there were significant inaccuracies derived from the source material. The Advanced Vehicle Research Center is in fact *not* pursuing fusion propulsion research anywhere, for anyone. The organization that is in fact pursuing this research is the World Institute for Science and Engineering (WISE). The plan is for one of …
Arxiv 21 page pdf – work by Japan Riken and University of Michigan – Remarkable progress towards realizing quantum computation has been achieved using natural and artificial atoms. On the one hand, natural atoms (such as neutral atoms and ions) have long coherence times, and could be stored in large arrays, providing ideal “quantum memories”. …
1. Imperial College of London- Parts of a car’s bodywork could one day double up as its battery, according to the scientists behind a new €3.4 million project announced today. Researchers from Imperial College London and their European partners, including Volvo Car Corporation, are developing a prototype material which can store and discharge electrical energy …
H/T to the Talk Polywell forum for a conference that will present updates on Mach Effect propulsion and other advanced space propulsion research Conference – Space, Propulsion & Energy Sciences International Forum February 23-25, 2010 The agenda is here Abstracts are here Test for the Existence of Mach Effects With a Rotary Device James F. …