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Strong Confirmation that Cherokee Investment Partners is Working with Rossi...
An article on a Chinese site called Icebank.cn, (apparently a refrigeration company) provides more information about Cherokee Investment Partners CEO Thomas Darden’s recent visit to China in connection...
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ARPA-E makes available 20 grants of up to $500,000 for Low Energy Nuclear...
For all of those who criticize my coverage of cold fusion. I am not the agency making $10 million available for funding. The fact that ARPA-E is doing it is technology news.The Funding Opportunity...
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Old laws make oil tankers cost five times too much so in spite of an oil boom...
US oil tankers that comply with a 93 year old law (Jones act to protect US shipping industry from foreign competition) means costs are five times higher than buying ships from Asia. $200 million per...
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China will spray bacteria over 133 square kilometer over the next 5 years to...
Cyanobacteria are now being used in China to shore up the verges of roads and railways in northern China as well as the margins of oases and farmland. A team plans to seed 133 square kilometer of...
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3M’s new silver nanowire films could lead to large, interactive, and...
3M will begin selling flexible transparent conductive films made of silver nanowires for use in touch screens. These nanomaterials could enable wider adoption of large touch screens for interactive...
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Human to Mars Advocate Robert Zubrin has a company to convert natural gas...
In 1996, Zubrin founded and is president of Pioneer Energy, a Research and Development firm Colorado. The company's focus is to develop mobile Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR) systems that can enable...
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Zubrin advocates legalizing Methanol as fuel for cars to get 40% more miles...
Robert Zubrin advocates the Open Fuel Standards bill (HR2493)It would be more economical for consumers (40% more miles per dollar)It would have low cost conversion for cars for fast deployment (flex...
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Carnival of Nuclear Energy 190
1. Atomic Insights - Why is the Green Schools Alliance censoring discussion about nuclear energyThe leaders of an organization called theGreen Schools Alliance (GSA) have decided to reject the...
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Do the best we can with high probability technological improvement but the...
The problem that I have with the Tokamak fusion project is that it is classified and justified as a technological moonshot but would NOT be transformative or even better than incremental improvement of...
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Magnitudes and Scaling for Measuring and Comparing Civilization transformation
There are not clear measures of Civilization transformation.I believe that there can be measures and units devised to measure civilization transformation.I think getting up to ten points for each...
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Carnival of Space 335
1. Universe Today - This was very likely the last trip around the Sun for the Earth-crossing asteroid 2014 AA, according to calculations by several teams of astronomers and published online earlier...
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Nvidia Unveils 192-Core Mobile Superchip to enable everything a high end...
Nvidia introduced its next-generation mobile processor, Tegra K1, at the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. The 192-core super chip, built on Kepler architecture, brings “the...
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Rejection free heart, lungs and kidneys from your own skin cells and a side...
Growing not just human organs but organs from your own skin cells inside pigs in Japan for the ultimate solution to organ replacement.Prof Nagashima creates "a-pancreatic" embryos.Inside the white pig...
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SpaceX launches Thai satellite into orbit and is the second successful...
Spacex is on run of successful commercial launches. They are proving success for launches and making real their lower prices. Their lower prices will reshape the commercial launch market.NBC News and...
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Smart Real Wheel with battery, motor electronics for $590 to make most any...
Move through busy city streets in no time and spare your energy with the help of Smart Wheel, a pedal assist that encases an ultra-thin electric motor and intelligent electronics within a robust...
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Golden Spike moon mission company will be making robotic lunar rovers and...
The Golden Spike Company—the world’s first enterprise planning to undertake human lunar expeditions for countries, corporations and individuals has a partnership with Honeybee Robotics—a premier...
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Golden Spike estimates that they could repeat Apollo manned mission to the...
Golden Spike has detailed plans for a lunar return using existing assets. The recent successful Spacex flights are improving the viability of Golden Spike and its plans to return to the moon before...
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Megapixel display for augmented reality with full field of view with glasses...
Innovega developer of full field of view HUD eyeglasses, staff will be wearing fully functional prototpes prototypes of its mega-pixel eyewear at its booth at 2014 CES. Steve Willey, Innovega CEO,...
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About 75% of the planets discovered the Kepler Space Telescope are mini-Neptunes
More than three-quarters of the planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler spacecraft have sizes ranging from that of Earth to that of Neptune, which is nearly four times as big as Earth. Such...
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World Bank delays new Purchasing Power Parity GDP statistics and...
The 2011 round of the International Comparison Program (ICP) results will include ICP 2011 benchmark PPPs (purchasing power parity) and related volume measures for 199 participating...
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