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Aluminum air batteries in and demonstration electric car
Alcoa and clean technology company Phinergy today debuted a zero-emissions electric demo car powered by revolutionary aluminum-air battery at the Circuit Gilles-Villeneuve in Montreal. Alcoa and...
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Carnival of Space 357
The Carnival of Space 357 is up at the Universetoday.comThe Meridiani Journal - ‘Mega-Earth’ planet discovered orbiting distant Sun-like starRead more »
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Google to Buy Satellite-Imaging Company Skybox Imaging for $500 Million
Google agreed to buy satellite startup Skybox Imaging Inc. for $500 million in cash, its latest of several moves into space as it searches for new sources of information and ways to deliver that data...
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Iraq is falling apart but US Oil Production hits a post-1986 record
The turmoil in Mosul threatens to upend some of Iraq’s oil production. Most of Iraq’s oil is located in the south near Basra, but there are significant oil fields near Mosul, as well as in nearby...
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Getting one thousand times the resolution of the Hubble Space Telescope and...
The NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts (NIAC) Program announced its 2014 awards. NIAC has selected twelve new NIAC Phase I awards. These proposals have been selected based on the potential of their...
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NASA NIAC Solar Electric Space Sail that would be nine times faster than...
NASA NIAC has funded another solar electric space sail project called Heliopause Electrostatic Rapid Transit System (HERTS) which wants to send a probe 150 kilometers per second or 30 AU per year [9...
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NASA Project with Quantum Inertial Gravimetry and In Situ ChipSat Sensors
NASA NIAC has a new project - Exploration Architecture with Quantum Inertial Gravimetry and In Situ ChipSat Sensors.They propose to break the two-mission space exploration cycle (remote survey...
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Molecular self-assembly scales up from nanometers to millimeters
A joint effort of the Aalto University of Helsinki, the Politecnico di Milano, and VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland has now demonstrated that it is possible to align molecular self-assemblies...
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NASA NIAC - two orders of magnitude mass and power saving for Life Support...
The abundant high-energy light in space (with wavelengths as low as 190 nm, compared to 300 nm on Earth) makes the TiO2 co-catalyst an ideal approach for sustainable air processor to generate O2,...
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China's population should be 70% urbanized by 2030 and all with mobile...
China is going digital very quickly. By 2016, the country will have more than 730 million Internet users and more than 380 million online shoppers, up from 460 million and 145 million, respectively, in...
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Longer lasting quantum dot nanoparticles for spray on solar cells and other...
A new form of solid, stable light-sensitive nanoparticles, called colloidal quantum dots, could lead to cheaper and more flexible solar cells, as well as better gas sensors, infrared lasers, infrared...
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Elon Musk and Tesla Motors have made all of their electric car patents open...
Annual new vehicle production is approaching 100 million per year and the global fleet is approximately 2 billion cars, it is impossible for Tesla to build electric cars fast enough to address the...
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Getting Dedication and Commitment to solving systems like the Veterans...
There are very well documented problems at the Veterans Administration (VA) where soldiers must wait many months for treatment. The bureaucracy and politicians are almost entirely separated from the...
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Between the upper and lower regions of the Earth Mantle is a layer of wet...
A reservoir of water three times the volume of all the oceans has been discovered deep beneath the Earth's surface. The finding could help explain where Earth's seas came from.The water is hidden...
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China could complete 9 nuclear reactors in the next 7 months and then start...
China currently has 21 operational nuclear reactors.By the end of 2014, the number of reactors in the country is expected reach 30, bringing the total nuclear capacity to around 27 GWe. In 2015,...
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Elon Musk says Flying Cars are easy and he will probably make some for the...
Elon Musk says making a flying car would be easy.“Maybe we’ll make a flying car, just for fun,” said Elon Musk during the interview with the Independent UK. “I’ve thought about it quite a lot, we could...
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Uber alles ? Uber cheaper than owning a car in San Francisco
For San Francisco, the median Uber fare is only $22. For UberX it’s $17. That means that 50% of UberX trips cost less than $17 (and 50% more) but you can expect to pay around $17 for any given trip....
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Stem Cell 100 plus - herbal Nutraceuticals
In 2011, Hplus Magazine had detailed coverage on Genescient (life extension company) and the Stem Cell 100 productI started taking Stem Cell 100 back in 2011. It is about $60 for a one month supply....
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HP will bet the company on a combination of memristors and silicon photonics
Hewlett-Packard has kicked off an ambitious project that aims at nothing less than reinventing the basic architecture of computers. It looks like servers are its initial target, but HP is also working...
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