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Air and water show inside a 2,400-square-foot home
Post Date: 2015-11-04 07:13:04 by BTP Holdings
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Air and water show inside a 2,400-square-foot home Usually when we hear of someone building a house that’s completely off the grid, it’s a cabin or small home tucked away on a mountain with not a whole lot of civilization around it. Enter the “Urban Frontier House.” That’s what longtime Billings, Montana, resident Randy Hafer calls the 2,400-square-foot home that he and his wife are building on the city’s north side. It’s located on the corner of North 23rd Street and Seventh Avenue North, where their 23-foot high wind turbine is situated. The house will not only be disconnected from the electrical power grid, but also from the city’s water and ...
Super-Dogs Genetically Engineered By Scientists
Post Date: 2015-11-04 06:06:42 by Tatarewicz
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C2C... Scientists confirm they have created genetically engineered super-dogs that are stronger and faster than the average mutt. Chinese scientists have confirmed that they have genetically engineered a new form of man's best friend. The new-improved beagles, named Hercules and Tiangou, have "more muscles and are expected to have stronger running ability, which is good for hunting, police (military) applications," Liangxue Lai , a biology researcher, at the Guangzhou Institutes of Biomedicine and Health, told MIT Technology Review. They engineered the super-pups by editing out a key gene, myostatin, doubling the dogs' muscle mass, the scientists said. The Chinese ...
Researchers create lithium-air battery that could be 10x more powerful than lithium-ion
Post Date: 2015-11-03 22:54:31 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... A new lithium-air battery created by researchers at the University of Cambridge points the way to the ultimate battery packs of the future, its makers say. With a very high energy density, more than 90 percent efficiency and the capability for more than 2,000 recharge cycles, the new test battery could prove an important stepping stone in the development of this essential technology. If you're getting tired of announcements about breakthroughs in battery technology, that's understandable: as they're so essential to modern life, many teams of scientists are busy working on the problem around the clock, but it's an incredibly complex area of chemistry. Any ...
2 degrees, flies planes, author, works at NASA. His age? 17
Post Date: 2015-11-02 06:55:06 by BTP Holdings
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2 degrees, flies planes, author, works at NASA. His age? 17 Associated Press By COLLIN BINKLEY, Associated Press 3 hrs ago A Delta plane taxis for takeoff past a Northwest plane at Portland International Airport in Portland, Ore. Delta jet with engine trouble lands safely in Oregon This Friday, Oct. 30, 2015, photo courtesy of Facebook.com/Slater Moore Photography and newportwhales.com, shows an entangled humpback whale off the Southern California coast, during a whale watching trip in Long Beach. Calif. Rescuers will try again Saturday, Oct. 31, to remove more than 100 feet of fishing line from an entangled humpback whale that has been moving south along the ...
Could This Engineer’s Discovery Destroy Climate Change Argument?
Post Date: 2015-11-01 18:51:23 by BTP Holdings
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Could This Engineer’s Discovery Destroy Climate Change Argument? October 13th, 2015 A mathmatical discovery by an Australian electrical engineer and former climate modeller could totally destroy the premise that man-made ‘climate change’ is real. Dr. David Evans has six degrees in applied mathematiccs and used to work for the Australian government’s Greenhouse Office. He analyzed the architecture of the basic climate model which underpins all so-called ‘climate science.’ He discovered that while the underlying physics of the model is correct, it had been applied incorrectly. Dr. Evans corrected two errors and the new corrected model finds the ...
Russian Media Take Climate Cue From Skeptical Putin
Post Date: 2015-11-01 18:47:59 by Ada
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MOSCOW — Wildfires crackled across Siberia this summer, turning skies ochre and sending up enough smoke from burning pines to blot out satellite views of the 400-mile-long Lake Baikal. To many climate scientists, the worsening fires are a consequence of Siberia getting hotter, the carbon unleashed from its burning forests and tundra only adding to man-made fossil fuel emissions. Siberia's wildfire season has lengthened in recent years and the 2015 blazes were among the biggest yet, caking the lake, the "Pearl of Siberia", in ash and scorching the surrounding permafrost. But the Russian public heard little mention of climate change, because media coverage across ...
Instagram Joins Trend of Social Media Surveillance
Post Date: 2015-11-01 17:48:33 by BTP Holdings
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Instagram Joins Trend of Social Media Surveillance TOPICS: Joe Wright Surveillance. October 31, 2015 By Joe Wright A whole host of reasons are being given to justify the increased surveillance and data mining of social media: terrorism, suicide prevention, precrime detection of violence and other illegal acts … and now teenage alcohol abuse. Pattern recognition is at the heart of data mining for both public organizations and private companies. The Feds tried to get Congress to sign on to required reporting of “suspicious activity” in social media with the Intelligence Authorization Act of 2016, but that provision was ultimately rejected. However, the voluntary two-way ...
Teaching old robots new tricks: Machines swap knowledge about how to complete a task despite being hundreds of miles apart
Post Date: 2015-10-31 11:34:14 by Horse
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Roboticists trained a research robots to perform a range of simple tasks These included picking up mugs from a table and placing them on bowls The instructions were stored in a central database known as RoboBrain A robot called Baxter 325 miles (523km) used this information to work out how to perform the same task in a different setting Humans, monkeys and even birds are able to share knowledge and skills, and now robots can too. A machine called Baxter has taken instructions of how to complete a simple task from a robot 325 miles (523km) away and used them to carry out the same job. This is significant because Baxter and the training robot were designed differently and Baxter had to ...
Stellarator:world's largest nuclear-fusion machine
Post Date: 2015-10-31 05:51:11 by Tatarewicz
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(Science Magazine on YouTube) For more than 60 years, scientists have dreamed of a clean, inexhaustible energy source in the form of nuclear fusion. And they're still dreaming. But thanks to the efforts of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics, experts hope that might soon change. Last year, after 1.1 million construction hours, the institute completed the world's largest nuclear-fusion machine of its kind, called a stellarator. The machine, which has a diameter of 52 feet, is called the W7-X. And after more than a year of tests, engineers are finally ready to fire up the $1.1 billion machine for the first time. It could happen before the end of this month, Science ...
This new jet concept could take you from London to New York in 30 minutes
Post Date: 2015-10-31 01:07:59 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert.... A Canadian engineer has come up with a new concept for a four-winged scramjet that could carry 75 passengers at speeds of up to Mach 10 - which is 10 times the speed of sound and five times faster than Concorde. That means the proposed Skreemr jet could cross the Atlantic in just half an hour. Unfortunately, the design is purely conceptual and the designers admit that it's unlikely to ever be realised, due to the current limitations of scramjet technology. But it's still a pretty cool glimpse into what we could one day achieve with air travel. As most science lovers will know, scramjet systems work by combusting liquid using oxygen taken from the atmosphere ...
NASA releases images of enormous 8,000-year-old patterns
Post Date: 2015-10-30 18:08:00 by Ada
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New satellite images from NASA have revealed unusual, massive patterns on the Earth’s surface. The geometric shapes are located in Kazakhstan, and are estimated to be up to 8,000 years old. The massive earthwork patterns called the Steppe Geoglyphs were originally discovered by a Kazakh economist when he was browsing Google Earth in 2007. When browsing through an otherwise empty Central Asian landscape, Dimitriy Dey found intriguing markings in the soil. But the study of these mysterious constructs is ramping up, and even NASA has taken an interest. Two weeks ago, the space agency released clear satellite photographs of the figures from about 430 miles in the sky. “I’ve ...
Project Loon is set to circle the planet with Internet balloons in 2016
Post Date: 2015-10-30 08:26:39 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Google’s Project Loon is a massively ambitious plan to provide Internet connectivity to areas of the planet that don’t already enjoy good access to the web. How? Via a huge fleet of helium balloons that hang in the stratosphere 20 kilometres above the surface, assembling to form a high-tech communication network that beams the web to the surface. And the undertaking is only getting more ambitious, with the company announcing this week that it plans to circle the planet with a ring of Project Loon balloons that will provide a perpetual data service for those living underneath its path. It sounds like science fiction, but this isn’t some faraway ethereal ...
Honda just unveiled its new hydrogen-powered car
Post Date: 2015-10-29 04:56:14 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Just when everyone’s getting all excited about electric cars usurping their fossil fuel-guzzling counterparts, Honda has announced that its hydrogen-powered cars will go on sale in Japan as early as March 2016, with launches in Europe and the US to follow. The five-seated sedan, called the FCV Clarity, can travel 700 km (434 miles) on a single charge. It’s been priced at 7.66 million yen, or US$62,807, which puts it just in the affordability range for the average consumer, the Japanese automaker saying it expects to sell far more than the 72 units it sold of its previous-generation model, the FCX Clarity. "We want this car to be the trigger for the ...
Pakistan exports Chinese HJ-8 missile to 20 nations
Post Date: 2015-10-29 02:02:55 by Tatarewicz
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Want... With the help of Pakistan, China North Industries Corporation, better known as Norinco, has been able to export its HJ-8 anti-tank missiles to 20 countries around the world, Duowei News, a news outlet operated by overseas Chinese, reported on Oct. 21. Pakistan produces the HJ-8 under license from China, which helped the South Asian country build an independent production line to manufacture the anti-tank missile. In the late 1980s, China convinced the Pakistan Army, which had been using the American-built BGM-71 TOW anti-tank missile, to purchase the Chinese-made HJ-8. Pakistan carried out tests pitting the HJ-8 against the TOW system to see which missile was more suited to its ...
Should you trust Mark Zuckerberg's FACEBOOK?
Post Date: 2015-10-27 14:50:28 by HAPPY2BME-4UM
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Morocco's about to launch the world's largest concentrated solar plant
Post Date: 2015-10-27 04:28:53 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Morocco is set to become one of the world's leading suppliers of solar energy, when the first phase of an ambitious concentrated solar plant kicks off next month. The Noor Solar Project, being built just outside the Saharan city of Ouarzazate, will help provide almost half the country's energy by 2020 when its four phases are scheduled to be finished, and it will also contain hydro and wind energy systems. But what's really exciting about the plant is that it will be able to provide renewable energy even after the Sun's gone down. Concentrated solar power involves using huge amounts of mirrors to reflect sunlight onto a small area, allowing the Sun's ...
Suppliers gear up for self-driving car revolution
Post Date: 2015-10-27 00:10:22 by Tatarewicz
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Want... Several high-end car brands have announced plans to invest in the development of autonomous vehicles (AVs), or self-driving cars, and begin selling thesm from 2016, Beijing's Economic Observer reports. In China, Xu Heyi, chair of Beijing Automotive Group (BAIC Group), announced recently that the company's first driverless car will debut at the Beijing Auto Show next year. In addition to the current trend towards electric vehicles, autonomous cars are also expected to play a major role in the evolution of the automobile industry, the report said, adding that a major concern is how long it will take for the public to get on board. Citing a report issued by the Boston ...
Earth is in grave danger of being hit by a catastrophic comet shower triggered by the sun, warn scientists
Post Date: 2015-10-26 09:48:48 by Ada
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The study found that we wrongly thought we were in a 'safe zone' Scientists discovered a correlation between extinction events on Earth to the path our solar system takes through crowded areas of the Milky Way The galactic disk of the Milky Way contains dense clumps of dark matter Researchers claim the dark matter can throw comets into planet's path Earth may be in great danger as the sun's path through the galaxy sends comet flying towards our planet, scientists have warned. Researchers have identified a 26 million-year cycle of meteor impacts that coincides with the timing of mass extinctions over the past 260 million years. The doomsday events are linked to the motion ...
Belgium to power 170 trains with wind energy
Post Date: 2015-10-26 02:17:11 by Tatarewicz
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BRUSSELS, Oct. 25 (Xinhua) -- Belgium has inaugurated a project to power 170 trains by wind energy, with the first seven of 25 turbines entering service on Saturday, local media reported Sunday. Sudpresse newspaper group said turbines will be built along the main rail line from Leuven to Liege, generating enough power for every high-speed and local train using the line. The number of trains to be covered by the wind energy project represents about five percent of the country's total rail traffic, Belgian railtrack operator Infrabel said. Belgian broadcaster RTL reported that once all 25 turbines are operating, they are expected to produce 35,000 megawatt hours -- enough energy to ...
This clever new refrigerator keeps food cold without electricity
Post Date: 2015-10-26 00:37:49 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... It’s easy to take that hulking great white beast of a machine in our kitchens for granted, but for the 1.3 billion people in the world who are living without electricity, a working refrigerator is not an option. So a team of students in Canada has invented a cooling device that not only works without any electricity whatsoever, it’s also cheap and portable, making it ideal for those in remote and rural areas who struggle to keep their produce fresh. "We thought it would be good to decrease the amount of food waste in the world, and we came up with this design because it's easy to build and the materials are relatively cheap," one of the students, ...
Monsanto clears USDA regulatory hurdle for new GMO corn
Post Date: 2015-10-25 06:02:27 by Tatarewicz
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Yahoo... CHICAGO (Reuters) - The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Friday signed off on a new genetically modified type of corn developed by Monsanto Co after a review concluded it posed no significant threat to agricultural crops, other plants or the environment. The USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) announced it would deregulate Monsanto's MON 87411 maize, which was developed to protect plants against corn rootworms that can damage roots and drag down grain yields and be tolerant to the herbicide glyphosate. The so-called trait would be inserted into a line of corn seeds' genetic code and could be "stacked" with other traits. Glyphosate, ...
Study finds the warmer it gets, the more world economy hurts
Post Date: 2015-10-22 04:49:55 by Tatarewicz
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WASHINGTON (AP) — With each upward degree, global warming will singe the economies of three-quarters of the world's nations and widen the north-south gap between rich and poor countries, according to a new economic and science study. Compared to what it would be without more global warming, the average global income will shrivel 23 percent at the end of the century if heat-trapping carbon dioxide pollution continues to grow at its current trajectory, according to a study published Wednesday in the scientific journal Nature. Some countries, like Russia, Mongolia and Canada, would see large economic benefits from global warming, the study projects. Most of Europe would do slightly ...
Global Warming - The Skeptics
Post Date: 2015-10-22 04:40:33 by Tatarewicz
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JR... No one believes you any more, Seth-baby, and your BIG GREEN MONEY scam. Here's peer review scientists, in their OWN words, on the lying horseschitt of faux global warming: “Since I am no longer affiliated with any organization nor receiving any funding, I can speak quite frankly….As a scientist I remain skeptical.” - Atmospheric Scientist Dr. Joanne Simpson, the first woman in the world to receive a PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA who has authored more than 190 studies and has been called “among the most preeminent scientists of the last 100 years.” “Inevitably in climate science, when data conflicts with models, a small coterie of ...
Scientists find two distant stars touching, and the results could be catastrophic
Post Date: 2015-10-22 00:08:10 by Tatarewicz
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ScienceAlert... Some 160,000 light-years away, two stars are overlapping one another in what has been described as a potentially catastrophic ‘final kiss’. An international team of astronomers detected the dramatic double star system using the European Space Observatory’s (ESO) Very Large Telescope – not to be confused with the upcoming Extremely Large Telescope. The system, called VFTS 352, is the hottest and most massive double star system that’s so far been discovered. VFTS 352 is located in the Tarantula Nebula, which is the most active area of star formation in the Local Group of galaxies – of which the Milky Way is a part. But what’s so remarkable ...
Swatch Bellamy: These are the new pay-by-the-wrist Swatch watches using NFC (Near Field Communication) technology
Post Date: 2015-10-21 13:26:46 by X-15
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Swatch has joined forces with China UnionPay and Bank of Communications to introduce contactless payment “by-the-wrist” to China. Discover the four new Swatch Bellamy by clicking on “read more” … These are the first four watches combine exciting, colorful Swatch design with built-in NFC (Near Field Communication) technology. NFC technology uses high-frequency radio waves to enable electronic devices to communicate over short distances. The new Swatch Bellamy watches have all the fun, color and great design that Swatch is famous for – along with a built-in NFC chip hidden under the dial. Like a prepaid bankcard, a Swatch Bellamy watch allows customers to pay ...
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