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Interstellar Travel talk by Kelvin Long
In 2007 Kelvin Long set up to systematically address various aspects of interstellar travel. This included the faster than light warp drives of science fiction, the grand scale world ships required for...
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Exotic Propulsion Intiative at the Space Studies Institute
15 mn presentation from "A Matter Of Some Gravity" by Gary Hudson during the 2014 NASA Institute for Advanced Concepts Symposium (NIAC 2014). This is the third part of Gary Hudson's presentation,...
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Lightweight Medusa nuclear pulse propulsion
Nick Stevens has a 2 minute film on the Medusa, a spacecraft that works by throwing bombs into a sail that's ahead of it.While there are some difficulties with the design, such as hardening the...
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DESTAR phased array laser systems for defending against asteroids and for...
A laser phased array directed energy system has been designed and simulated. Lubin and Hughes calculated the requirements and possibilities for DE-STAR systems of several sizes, ranging from a desktop...
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Fifteen Spacex Raptor Engines, Five engines per core on a three core rocket...
Exoscientist Robert Clark has calculated a two stage three core Spacex rocket with the proposed Spacex methane fueled Rocket Engine would enable 536 tons of payload in a single launch. Each core has 5...
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Dwave Systems shows off quantum chip with 2048 physical qubits
Dwave Systems has released pictures of a new quantum computer system chip with 2048 physical qubits. These are C16 chips — 16*16*8 = 2,048 physical qubits.Researchers who work with DWave are just...
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Quantum Qubits with up to 99.99% accuracy and over 30 second quantum...
Two research teams created two types of quantum bits, or "qubits" – the building blocks for quantum computers – that each process quantum data with an accuracy above 99%.University of New South Wales...
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McKubre review of the their party ecat tests are in general positive
Dr. Michael McKubre is Director of the Energy Research Center of the Materials Research Laboratory at SRI International. He provides an analysis of the recent third party month long study of the energy...
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China's energy plan to reduce coal to 60% and use more Russian natural gas
China's National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) is talking about prospective national carbon market formation by 2016, with potential coverage upwards of 4 billion MTCO2. According to...
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Claimed Evidence of superconductivity near the boiling point of water
Superconductors.ORG herein reports the discovery of a new material that exhibits record superconductivity above 95 Celsius (203F, 368K). Its chemical formula is Sn5Sb5Ba2MnCu11O22+. This copper-oxide...
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Carnival of Space 375
Carnival of Space 375 is up at BrownSpacemanSuspected Black Hole Unmasked as Ultraluminous Pulsar‘Frankenstein’ Moon: Tidal Forces From Uranus May Have Contributed to Miranda’s Bizarre AppearanceRead...
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Elon Musk says Telsa will have autonomous driving commercially ready by 2019...
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Inc., discusses Tesla's "auto-pilot" feature, autonomous driving, government regulations, and legal liability with Bloomberg's Betty Liu."That will be...
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Lockheed Martin Compact Nuclear Fusion Reactor Concept will have 20 times...
The Lockheed Martin Skunk Works® team is working on a new compact fusion reactor (CFR) that can be developed and deployed in as little as ten years. Currently, there are several patents pending that...
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Z Machine MagLIF Fusion also making progress
Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, using the lab’s Z machine, a colossal electric pulse generator capable of producing currents of tens of millions of amperes, say...
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Nature Study Says that a lot of cheap natural gas will not reduce overall...
Nature - Limited impact on decadal-scale climate change from increased use of natural gasThe most important energy development of the past decade has been the wide deployment of hydraulic fracturing...
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EMC2 Park Presented on Polywell Fusion
Talk Polywell has the slides for Jaeyoung Park talk on Energy Matter Conversion Corporation (EMC2) research results Bussard developed this EMC2 fusion design before his death.• Time resolved hard x-ray...
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Blog Action Day 2014 on Inequality, Financial and Life Literacy #BAD2014
About 20% of Americans have negative net worth. Their debts are greater than their assets.A great part of this is lack of financial literacy. Other factors are lack of time management skills and making...
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US Crude oil Production is almost at 9 million barrels per day and crude oil...
US Oil crude oil production is just short of 9 million barrels per day at 8.95 million barrels per day and combined with natural gas liquids is at 12 million barrels per day.US crude oil production is...
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US Oil and Gas Fracking and Saudi Arabia oil are Financially Weakening Russia...
Thomas Friedman at the New York Times discusses how lower oil prices helps Saudi Arabia and the United States and hurts RussiaThe late Yegor Gaidar, who between 1991 and 1994 was Russia’s acting prime...
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Reusable Rocket Economics and a $500 billion program to make space travel...
David Akin of the University of Maryland has a 53 page presentation that looks at the economics of reusable rockets.The primary cost drivers are refurbishment and mission operations costs....
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