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Dutch seek to harness energy from salt water mix
Post Date: 2014-11-26 21:33:17 by Tatarewicz
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AMSTERDAM (AP) — Dutch researchers are seeking to add a new, largely untapped renewable energy source to the world's energy mix with the opening of a "Blue Energy" test facility on Wednesday. Blue energy takes advantage of the difference in salt concentration between sea water and fresh water to produce electricity. Rik Siebers of REDstack BV, the company overseeing the project, said the goal is to improve the technology to the point where it will be profitable to build blue energy plants commercially in the 2020s. Siebers said blue energy will one day have its own niche. "For wind turbines you need wind, and solar panels work in the day, but water is always ...
Credit Card Thieves Fear This...
Post Date: 2014-11-26 16:55:04 by BTP Holdings
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What Your RFID Blocker Wallet Can Do: Stop Thieves From Stealing Your Credit & Identification Information Stored In A RFID Chip – Sometimes credit card companies sneak these chips inside your card to “help”. This wallet will automatically clamp down on that information so nothing can be transmitted in or out. Based Off The Space-Age Faraday Cage.This completely disperses electrical signals. It’s the electronic equivalent to burying your sensitive information in concrete. Great For Men And Women - Fits Easily In A Pocket Or Purse. This unisex design is crafted from stylish aluminum. It’s only 4.2 x 2.8 x 0.8 inches so fits easily inside your pocket or purse. ...
Australian engineers have boosted solar cell efficiency by five times more than ever before
Post Date: 2014-11-26 04:29:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... We could soon be able to convert more of the Sun’s energy into power using fewer solar panels, thanks to a new breakthrough by Swinburne University of Technology researchers in Australia. Working with researchers from Nankai University in China, the team has managed to enhance the efficiency of silicon solar cells by 3.8 percent - almost five times more than the current record. “One of the critical challenges the solar cell faces is low energy conversion efficiency due to insufficient absorption from the thin silicon layer,” said micro-photonics expert Min Gu at Swinburne University of Technology, who worked on the project. To achieve the impressive ...
Patronstart Field Marshall Fowler (shotgun cartridge start)
Post Date: 2014-11-23 21:36:03 by X-15
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Norway to grow food crops in space
Post Date: 2014-11-23 01:21:45 by Tatarewicz
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A team of scientists in Norway are set to research the possibility of growing plants and food crops in outer space, it was revealed on Friday. A new EU-funded research project is set to 'take-off' researching how food plants grow in space and how the horticulture could supply space travellers with oxygen and food. The 10-year project called TIME SCALE will be led by Ann-Iren Kittang Jost, research chief at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Research in Space (CIRiS) at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. The research team has not yet decided what plants they will try and grow, but are looking at tomatoes, lettuce and soybeans. The Trondheim ...
Meet the new mailboxes - Australian Skynet delivery drones
Post Date: 2014-11-22 23:36:20 by Tatarewicz
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Australian engineers have built some super-slick delivery drones that drop your packages into a purpose-built, automatically locking net - away from children and pets. If you’re like me and you’re sick of having packages hurled onto your balcony to be rained on for days, or dropped back at the post office because it’s all too hard, the prospect of drone delivery is pretty exciting. There are problems with it though. Where does the drone know where to dump your goods? How do you prevent them from being stolen before you bring them inside, and what if the drone comes into contact with your kid or pets as it’s making a delivery? A pair of Australian engineers say ...
Dump ‘n’ ride: Poo-powered, eco-friendly bus hits UK streets
Post Date: 2014-11-22 22:02:15 by Tatarewicz
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RT...Britain’s first poo-powered bus has done the business - making its maiden journey through the west of England. The bus service, which will run between Bristol and Bath, is completely powered by treated sewage and food waste. The eco-friendly “bio-bus” runs on biomethene gas, which is produced when human waste products are treated through a process called anaerobic digestion. The vehicle has the capacity to travel up to 300 kilometers on a single tank of gas; or the equivalent of five people’s annual waste products. The gas is being produced by energy firm GENeco at a Wessex water sewage plant. The director of GENeco, Mohammed Saddiq, said gas powered vehicles ...
Robotics to Enter Russian School Curriculum in 2015
Post Date: 2014-11-22 20:35:03 by Tatarewicz
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MOSCOW, November 22 (Sputnik) — Russian Deputy Minister of Education Veniamin Kaganov told reporters on Friday that robotics courses will begin being taught in Russian schools starting September 2015, Russian news service RIA Novosti reported. Speaking at the Days of Robotechnics Olympiad in Sochi on Friday, Russian Minister of Education Dmitri Livanov told press that the courses will be introduced in grades 5 to 9, as part of the ‘Technology’ syllabus. “The construction of robots is expected to put into practice knowledge acquired about several subjects at once,” Livanov said, adding that the subject “will make school more interesting.” The Minister ...
New standards set for air purifiers in China
Post Date: 2014-11-22 01:19:22 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Nov. 22 (Xinhua) -- A new national standard for air purifiers was unveiled by authorities on Friday to bring order to the country's chaotic purifier market. The draft national standard, which is also made available for public comment on Friday, will include more specific metrics for measuring the performance of air purifiers, including their "clean air delivery rate" and endurance, China daily reported on Saturday. The country's widespread air pollution problem has given rise to a booming market in air purifiers, with total sales volume reaching 2.4 million units in 2013, the report said. However, the market is chaotic with many producers and sellers of air ...
Black hole structure in the universe
Post Date: 2014-11-21 23:22:28 by Tatarewicz
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Spooky Alignment of Quasars Across Billions of Light-years VLT reveals alignments between supermassive black hole axes and large-scale structure 19 November 2014 New observations with ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile have revealed alignments over the largest structures ever discovered in the Universe. A European research team has found that the rotation axes of the central supermassive black holes in a sample of quasars are parallel to each other over distances of billions of light-years. The team has also found that the rotation axes of these quasars tend to be aligned with the vast structures in the cosmic web in which they reside. Quasars are galaxies with very active ...
New Malware Tool Aims to Detect Government Surveillance
Post Date: 2014-11-21 08:13:08 by Ada
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EFF, Amnesty International Back Effort to Stop Surveillance Amnesty International, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and other groups are throwing their weight behind a new open-source software malware detection project called Detekt. Unlike the more all-purpose antivirus and anti-malware programs, Detekt centers around detecting and warning end users of surveillance malware of the sort known to be used by government. The revelations of NSA surveillance last year by Edward Snowden has brought new attention to the problem of government surveillance, and nations across the planet are using malware utilities to spy on civilians. The Detekt program was developed by Claudio Guarnieri, who ...
New molecular storage devices to bridge flash memory gap: study
Post Date: 2014-11-21 03:30:46 by Tatarewicz
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LONDON, Nov. 20 (Xinhua) -- New molecules could be the key to solving a looming problem with flash memory storage, researchers said in a new report published in the latest issue of Nature. Flash memory is a popular form of electronic data storage. However, there is a physical limit to the minimum size of the current design of data cells, which currently use metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) components. Because MOS is difficult to manufacture at a scale below 10 nanometres. Scientists have previously suggested that using individual molecules to replace conventional data-storage components in flash memory could help solve the problem. However, attempts to design these molecules have faced ...
Soalr will save us all, except Utility Bond Holders
Post Date: 2014-11-19 17:36:39 by BTP Holdings
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Earlier this year, I traveled to Abu Dhabi for the World Future Energy Summit. The crown prince of Abu Dhabi holds the summit every year, and many industry insiders consider it the world's foremost event dedicated to renewable energies, energy efficiency and clean technologies. While there, I asked a smart, Oxford-educated oil sheik what he thought was going to happen to the oil industry. He responded by pointing out the many solar arrays the United Arab Emirates is building in the desert. He told me the rest of the world will never allow his country to use most of the oil it’s floating on. He fears that when people begin to see climate chaos ruining their everyday lives, they ...
Why Elon Musk is scared of artificial intelligence — and Terminators
Post Date: 2014-11-18 16:45:20 by Ada
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Elon Musk — the futurist behind PayPal, Tesla and SpaceX — has been caught criticizing artificial intelligence again. “The risk of something seriously dangerous happening is in the five year timeframe,” Musk wrote in a comment since deleted from the Web site Edge.org, but confirmed to Re/Code by his representatives. “10 years at most.” The very future of Earth, Musk said, was at risk. “The leading AI companies have taken great steps to ensure safety,” he wrote. “The recognize the danger, but believe that they can shape and control the digital superintelligences and prevent bad ones from escaping into the Internet. That remains to be ...
Climatologist: 30-Year Cold Spell Strikes Earth
Post Date: 2014-11-17 17:26:28 by BTP Holdings
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Climatologist: 30-Year Cold Spell Strikes Earth Sunday, 16 Nov 2014 07:46 PM By Clayton B. Reid Image: Climatologist: 30-Year Cold Spell Strikes Earth With nasty cold fronts thrusting an icy and early winter across the continental U.S. — along with last winter described by USA Today as "one of the snowiest, coldest, most miserable on record" — climatologist John L. Casey thinks the weather pattern is here to stay for decades to come. In fact, Casey, a former space shuttle engineer and NASA consultant, is out with the provocative book "Dark Winter: How the Sun Is Causing a 30-Year Cold Spell," which warns that a radical shift in global climate is underway, ...
Man-made Global Warming (AGW) is Real: Men Really Created It
Post Date: 2014-11-17 08:28:33 by Ada
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Man-made global warming is real, because it was humans who created the idea and proved, independent of nature, that human activity was the cause. It is a real idea; it is not real in fact. It is in the same context as Goethe’s comment that “The unnatural, that too is natural.” Proponents of the idea believe it’s real, because they created an imaginary world called a computer model. It proved the idea was real, because they claimed the model represented the real world. Naturally, in this unreal real world, the science is settled, the debate is over. Nowhere is this more narrowly defined and vigorously promoted as real than in government and our schools. Marshall ...
Chilean engineering students design new theft-proof bikes
Post Date: 2014-11-17 05:23:17 by Tatarewicz
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BEIJING, Nov. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- Three young Chilean engineering students have designed several types of bicycles that can be locked using some of their own parts, preventing bikes from being stolen, according to media reports on Monday. The young inventors of the bike "Yerka" have made the bike's lower frame opens up into two arms that are then connected to the seat post and locked to a post, so it is impossible to steal the bike without completely wrecking it. The "bikes that can’t be stolen" also include Brooklyn-based "Seatylock," which uses its saddle seat as a lock, and Seattle-based "Denny," which is locked with its detachable ...
Perfecting the mind: ‘Smart pill’ unlocks childlike state of learning in adults
Post Date: 2014-11-15 05:52:22 by Tatarewicz
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RT... Scientists from Stanford University say they have discovered a way to unlock a part of the brain that is responsible for assisting humans in learning new skills with the ease and wonderment that is identifiable in children. The scientific community offers a wide variety of cures for alleviating any number of ailments, and now it appears set to provide the world with a smart pill. READ MORE: Cure for migraines and epilepsy? Humans control genes in mice with power of thought Stanford Professor Carla Shatz and her colleagues, Dr. David Bochner and Richard Sapp, conducted animal experiments where they interfered with a brain protein called PirB (in humans it is called ...
Planet Earth's Most Disruptive Moment
Post Date: 2014-11-13 17:48:39 by BTP Holdings
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The most disruptive technological force on the planet is happening quietly and relatively unseen by most of us. When you plug your cellphone charger into a wall socket, you are probably connecting to one of about 500 coal-fired power plants in the United States. What if all of them were shut down by 2050? What if instead of getting your power from a centralized source, you got it from a small generating plant on top of your house or business or car? What if everywhere you went, no matter when you needed electricity, it came from a small local source, instead of a giant power plant? That is exactly what is starting to happen in the U.S., China and other nations around the world, ...
Israel, India test newest Barak-8 air and missile defense system
Post Date: 2014-11-11 01:32:32 by Tatarewicz
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JERUSALEM, Nov. 10 (Xinhua) -- The Barak-8 Air and Missile Defense System has successfully completed a comprehensive trial of its components, the prime contractor Israel Aerospace Industries ( IAI) announced on Monday. A live intercepting missile was fired during the trial, which was carried out in conjunction with Indian defense and military officials and was the first involving a full operational scenario, the company said in a statement. It did not disclose the location of the site where the trial took place. After being detected by radar, the weapon system calculated the optimal interception point and launched the Barak-8 missile into its operational trajectory. It then acquired ...
9,000-Year-Old Bison Mummy Found Frozen in Time
Post Date: 2014-11-09 21:28:23 by X-15
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The almost perfectly preserved bison mummy was found on the shore of a lake in northern Siberia Hidden away under frozen ground for nearly 10,000 years, an extremely well-preserved bison mummy is finally ready to give up its secrets. In 2011, members of the Yukagir tribe in northern Siberia discovered the remains of a steppe bison (Bison priscus), an extinct ancestor of the modern bisonthat still roam the plains of North America and northern Europe. The almost perfectly preserved bison was transported to the Yakutian Academy of Sciences in Siberia, where researchers made plans to perform a necropsy, an autopsy performed on animals. While other steppe bison mummies have been discovered ...
U.S.D.A. Approves Modified Potato. Next Up: French Fry Fans.
Post Date: 2014-11-09 09:40:00 by Tatarewicz
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NYT... A potato genetically engineered to reduce the amounts of a potentially harmful ingredient in French fries and potato chips has been approved for commercial planting, the Department of Agriculture announced on Friday. The potato’s DNA has been altered so that less of a chemical called acrylamide, which is suspected of causing cancer in people, is produced when the potato is fried. The new potato also resists bruising, a characteristic long sought by potato growers and processors for financial reasons. Potatoes bruised during harvesting, shipping or storage can lose value or become unusable. The biotech tubers were developed by the J. R. Simplot Company, a privately held ...
Maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle after all
Post Date: 2014-11-08 20:57:50 by Ada
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This is Associate Professor Mads Toudal Frandsen, University of Southern Denmark University of Southern Denmark Last year CERN announced the finding of a new elementary particle, the Higgs particle. But maybe it wasn't the Higgs particle, maybe it just looks like it. And maybe it is not alone. Many calculations indicate that the particle discovered last year in the CERN particle accelerator was indeed the famous Higgs particle. Physicists agree that the CERN experiments did find a new particle that had never been seen before, but according to an international research team, there is no conclusive evidence that the particle was indeed the Higgs particle. The research team has ...
Creating A Medical Nanobot - Electrons Regulating Enzymes At Molecular Level On A Chip
Post Date: 2014-11-06 23:20:58 by Tatarewicz
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Medicine's Fantastic Voyage Dear Colleagues, wouldn't it be great if we could get away from all the messy complexity of a cell, even a synthetic cell, and just make the biomolecules we need using high throughput fuidic cells? This field is developing as demonstrated by this research. Gordonov, et al. demonstrate that direct electrical control of a diffusable redox mediator at the surface of a gold electrode in the vicinity of an immobilized enzymatic pathway results in predictable protein oxidation, attenuation of activity, and biochemical signal generation. Their work is summarized by Mahler, the source of Figure 1. Mahler G, Enzyme control on a chip, Nature Nanotechnology, 20 ...
Ebola Mutation: Lack Of Virus Samples In US Hampers Efforts To Track Its Changes
Post Date: 2014-11-06 19:49:31 by Ada
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The Ebola virus, similar to many viruses, mutates, however slightly, as it spreads, and keeping up with those changes is key to heading off future outbreaks, scientists have said. Creative Commons Samples of Ebola are in short supply for U.S. scientists who require a fresh, steady stock of the virus to track its changes and to plan ahead for new drugs and vaccines. Much like the flu virus, Ebola mutates, however slightly, as it spreads, and keeping up with those changes is key to stopping new infections and heading off future outbreaks, according to Reuters. "No one really knows right now what has the virus mutated to or if it has mutated," Charles Chiu, a microbiologist and ...
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