IEC Bussard Fusion Project gets two more years of funding
The Navy is funding EMC2 an additional $5.3 million over next 2 years to work on the problem of pumping electrons into the Polywell. Big new pulsed power supply to support the electron guns (100+A,...
View ArticleChina’s Economy in a report Summarized for the US Congress
There is a congressional report on China’s economy. China’s Economic Rise: History, Trends, Challenges, and Implications for the U.S. (43 pages). China’s economic rise has significant implications for...
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View ArticleNeutral Particle Beam Magsails for fast interplanetary delivery of small cargos
At Centauri Dreams, James Benford looks more closely at particle beam driven magsails. He has found a problem for interstellar missions but promise for interplanetary missions and an interplanetary...
View ArticleEMC2 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...
View ArticleMoon Express tests its MTV-1X flying donut lunar lander
The criteria for winning the grand $20 million Google Lunar XPrize seems fairly straightforward: land on the moon, cross a distance of 500 meters and send back high-definition footage to Earth along...
View ArticleFiber Reinforced plastic that is 20% lighter than aluminum
Efforts to produce lighter vehicles necessarily include engine parts, such as the cylinder casing, which could shed up to 20 percent of its weight if it were made of fiber-reinforced plastic rather...
View ArticleHarvard creates three-dimensional actuated scalable...
Imagine a house that could fit in a backpack or a wall that could become a window with the flick of a switch. Harvard researchers have designed a new type of foldable material that is versatile,...
View ArticleGoogle could replace some passwords with a ‘trust score” by the end of the year
Conventional passwords might soon be a thing of the past, or at least on devices running Android. Google announced at I / O last week that it’s pushing ahead with plans to replace passwords with “trust...
View ArticleImproved Artificial Intelligence will allow pilots to control drone wingmen
F-35s, F-22s and other fighter jets will soon use improved “artificial intelligence” to control nearby drone “wingmen” able to carry weapons, test enemy air defenses or perform intelligence,...
View ArticleSupertechnology Will Define the 21st Century and Not Status Quo Trends
There are many forecasts of the world out to 2100. There is the IPCC climate change report or UN population projections. The projections assume that all current trends continue for the next 80 years....
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