organic photovoltaics) harvesting energy from interior lighting or sunlight for various small devices and sensors that gather information from the environment.
American Community Survey data, crunched by City Observatory, reveals that the number of college-educated young adults (ages 25 to 34) living within three miles of city centers has risen 37 percent since the millennium.
said the soft-spoken inventor. emperature from the sun does not go beyond this level in terms of heating
##We need to get the entire universe here to accept how the sausage is made. But once you do that, the entire experience for inbound or outbound, it s better.##
what every other state is going to have to look at as they start reaching higher and higher levels of solar activity,
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#Google s new robot army Wildcat Google has purchased Boston Dynamics, the#lab of scientists#behind some of the most awesomely scary robots you have seen ever.
He wanted to find a project in which the sun did more than just power a device.
With enough sun, a large lens and an ample supply of sand, he figured he might be able to produce glassware.
He knew the sun would move and the focal point would shift during the process, so he ordered a single 4. 5-foot-wide lens
and solar panels at the other, can pivot from straight overhead down to a 45-degree angle to chase the sun. directed by a CAD design from a connected laptop,
the printer uses the concentrated beam of sunlight to slowly trace an object into the sandbox layer by layer.
The sun melts the sand, which cools into glass. When the electronics began overheating, Kayser cut open a soup can,
The sun melted only the sand, and, after more than four hours, he printed a glass bowl,
Kayser digs the object out of the sandbox TRACKING Kayser attached a cylindrical sun tracker to the frame perpendicular to the lens.
When the sun is directly in line with the lens, it shines straight through an opening in the top of the cylinder.
As the sun shifts, the light comes in at an angle, creating shadows within the cylinder.
they also benefit from the sun tracking, which ensures that they always get direct light.
Considering observed concentrations of#carbon dioxide in the atmosphere passed an alarming threshold earlier this year,
and the primarily provider would be your solar system and your storage device.####For now, though, it s only a minor threat to utilities that levy high demand charges,
I think you ll see up to 50 percent of solar systems will have energy storage, ##says Rive.####The economics and scale that Tesla has achieved in the automotive market now make stationary energy storage more cost effective and reliable than it has ever been in the past,##JB Straubel,
Affectiva s clients include Unilever, Mars and Coca-cola. The advertising research agency Millward Brown#says it has used Affectiva s technology to test about 3, 000 ads for clients.
such as this#solar-powered one that flew cross-country using the power of the sun. But,
and the ability to fabricate space system components on-orbit instead of building them on the ground,
Inc. TUI has won two rounds of funding for its Spiderfab 3-D robotic printer from the#NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts#(NIAC) program.
##3-D printing and robotic construction of components on-orbit would allow a smaller, less expensive launch rocket that will##improve performance per cost by orders of magnitude,
It would##enable construction of large support structures for systems such as multi-hundred-kilowatt solar arrays, large solar sails,
##explained NASA Apollo 11 lunar landing vehicle manager Hubert Davis, a member of#the Solar High Study Group#of nine former NASA and Apollo program scientists and retired
The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency has alsoworked on it. The delivered cost of power from SBSP
according to#August 2012 calculationsby NASA Apollo program engineer Philip Chapman, would be $0. 10 to $0. 11 per kilowatt-hour.
##But the maximum radio frequency intensity of the transmission##is only one-fourth that of sunlight,##according to former NASA wireless power transmission engineer Richard Dickinson.
if there was any interruption at the earth station.####Aircraft can safely traverse the beam and tests have demonstrated that even the sensitive honeybee is unaffected,
##Given the way#NASA#is funded, Spiderfab is three years to five years out, ##Hoyt said.##
##But##on-orbit fabrication with Spiderfab,##a TUI presentation#promises,##will enable NASA to accomplish ten times more science per dollar.##
It may think that the search term##pink##relates to the pop star rather than the color
while in sun-blasted Arizona the state s big utility tried to short-circuit a solar boom.
when the sun isn t shining. In Arizona, that credit is calculated at retail rates and APS argued that penalized homeowners who don t go solar as the utility will be forced to raise their rates to pay for the transmission system
and we can build every product under the sun for those people. And we re going to try and do it.##
half the planet s population may be served best with pay-as-you-go solar technology, not grid services.
So she opts for a small home solar system to cover basic needs like mobile charging.
Due to a combination of new found purchasing power, declining solar system costs, increasing kerosene costs, and advances in solar services business models,
perhaps, depleting) planet.####Meat will become a luxury food and will become very expensive, ##Professor Post said.
When in the atmosphere, electricity exists as a magnetic field. The trick is to capture it safely to recharge devices.
Because electricity moves through the air as magnetic waves that are similar to the earth s magnetic waves,
We are seeing a fast growing trend towards harvesting water from the atmosphere, something our ancestors first began working on centuries ago.
The earth atmosphere is a far more elegant water distribution system than rivers, reservoirs, and underground waterways.
Using solar wind, and other forms of passive energy, our future water networks will be operate with far more efficiency and convenience than anything imaginable today.
It will generate between 1-3 Gallons Water/day depending on the humidity conditions and sun conditions.
so what if the containers automatically added the water directly from the atmosphere once we took it home?
Now measuring and application technologies from automatic sprayers to satellites are so cheap and effective,
Last month, Greenpeace released a short video that imagines a future in which swarms of robotic bees have been deployed to save our planet after the real insects go extinct.
and satellites to provide internet connectivity to remote corners of the world where installing internet cables is especially difficult.
They re scattered throughout a constellation of 102 federal prisons, 1, 719 state prisons, 2, 259 juvenile facilities, 3, 283 local jails,
#New LED light technology sheds light on the future of food LED growing lights, delivering sunlight whatever the weather.
and a meter is a meter anywhere on the planet because of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures.
2013, Elon musk, chief executive of Tesla motors TSLA+2. 28%and Spacex, revealed details of a new super fast mode of transportation called the Hyperloop.
However, a futuristic on-demand 500m monorail test loop being built at the#Israel Aerospace industry (IAI) campus#in Lod,
and with its NASA campus headquarters and#Space Act Agreement#funding, it could actually go places.
a company that specializes in photos taken by satellites, for $500 million.##Skybox#boasts that it built
and launched the world s smallest high-resolution imaging satellite, and the company provides data analytics
and video of Earth taken from afar. In announcing the deal Tuesday, Google#said#the buyout will help bolster Google maps by keeping the service accurate with up-to-date images.
and build its own fleet of satellites. Over time, we also hope that Skybox s team
The deal comes as big tech companies have become more interested in aerial technology including satellites
Google in April purchased drone maker Titan Aerospace to help further#Project Loon, the company s initiative to bring the Internet to less-connected places around the world using high-altitude Wi-fi balloons.
Facebook which was said also to be in acquisition talks#with Titan Aerospace has focused on developing drones and satellites as a means for beaming Internet connectivity to more people.
Skybox in November#launched#Skysat-1, a satellite capable of taking 90-second videos at 30 frames per second.
The satellite was to be the first of a fleet of 24 launched to capture views of Tokyo;
#he discovered#a new kind of geometric shape called an amplituhedron one that hints at a new way of seeing the universe.
the shape does not exist in space-time it does not rely on a conception of the universe that theoretical physicists suspect might be incorrect.
When they try to knit together large-scale and small-scale forces, such as gravity and those that hold atoms together, the assumption of space-time leads to mathematical inconsistencies, a clue that something s amiss with current assumptions
about the universe. We ve known for decades that space-time is doomed, says Arkani-Hamed. We know it is not there in the next version of physics.
the Luna Wash is like a miniature dirt-destroying Death Star that uses static electricity and steam to coax your clothes clean.
On a grander scale, the material could be used in aerospace applications where a crack or break could prove difficult to repair or deadly.
Earth appetite for power continues to grow. Since the 1960s, power consumption has quadrupled around the globe,
For this reason, the Japan aerospace exploration agency (JAXA) recently announced its 25-year plan to build the world first 1-gigawatt power plant in space.
and beaming it to earth has been around ever since Dr. Peter Glaser first proposed it in 1968.
and it would have required over 100 astronauts working with thousands of crude robots to create it.
Here are thoughts a few on the massive implications of this JAXA announcement. Beam Me Down Scotty
neither the giant solar collectors in geosynchronous orbit nor the beaming microwaves, coming down to the island from 24,000 miles above Earth.
here is JAXA 25-year plan: BASIC RESEARCH PHASE (2014020) 2014 Demonstration on the ground 2017 1-kw satellite experiment DEVELOPMENT PHASE (2021030) 2021 100-kw satellite experiment 2024
Powering the Entire Solar system At first blush, most will imagine a space-based solar array powering our energy hungry businesses on earth,
Historically, space missions have been ower paupersconstrained in design by the limitations of power and the high cost of getting that power.
Mastering Six Critical Disciplines The JAXA power station is estimated to weigh more than 10,000 metric tons and when fully deployed, stretch several miles across.
JAXA will have to demonstrate mastery of six critical disciplines: Wireless power transmission Space transportation Construction of large structures in orbit Satellite attitude and orbit control Space-based power generation Power management Of these six challenges,
the wireless power transmission remains the most formidable. So that precisely where JAXA has focused much of its research.
Wireless power transmission has been the subject of conspiracy theories and legends ever since Nikola Tesla experiments at the end of the 19th century.
The reason for converting energy to microwaves is because it impervious to weather condition and water in the upper atmosphere.
first from DC power to microwaves aboard the satellite, then back to DC again on the ground.
Optimal Satellite Design Two Approaches JAXA researchers are working on two different approaches. The first one involves a huge square panel (measuring over 1 mile per side) that is covered with photovoltaic receptors on the top and transmission antennas on the bottom.
which will be closer to Earth, will experience more gravitational pull down toward the planet and less centrifugal force away from it,
while the bus will be tugged upward by the opposite effects. This balancing of forces will keep the satellite in a stable orbit,
requiring a less-active control system, saving millions in fuel costs. However, this approach still has problems.
the amount of sunlight that hits it varies greatly as the geosynchronous satellite and Earth spin.
JAXA has come up with another more sophisticated approach that solves the solar collection problem by employing two huge reflective mirrors.
e already have the ability to perform docking maneuvers with large objects like docking the International space station,
a space-based power station has the potential to reinvigorate NASA and give a needed dose of excitement to the thousands of space companies that support it.
Russia existing space industry gives it a significant advantage over most newcomers. In addition to Japan obvious top 3 contenders are countries like South korea, Germany,
#IBM creates a solar magnifying glass that could power the Earth IBM, the American multinational technology and consulting corporation are renowned the world over for being technology leaders
and build a smarter planet. Their latest creation is being considered as one of their best projects yet.
which is capable of concentrating the sun rays into a stream 2000x more powerful. The process of trapping sunlight also produces water that can be used to produce potable water and other modern day amenities such as air conditioning.
Scientists are predicting that the HCPVT could provide sustainable energy and fresh water to communities all around the world.
which is attached to a tracking system that determines the best angle based on the position of the sun. Such system can be applied profitably in sunny regions where sustainable energy,
With the high concentration of the sun rays and a low cost design the team believe they charge $250 per square meter which is three times lower than normal systems.
The burgeoning revolution has not been confined to the Lone star State. Apparently, when it comes to higher-education reform,
as if Facebook would acquire the long-range solar-powered drone maker Titan Aerospace and use its technology to deliver Internet to remote areas of the world.
Google not Facebook is buying Titan Aerospace, and Facebook has acquired a different U k.-based solar-powered drones startup called Ascenta.
With the FAA and other civil aviation authorities moving toward policies that allow for the commercial operation of drones in civilian airspace,
#Google buys Titan Aerospace, a solar-powered drone company Solar-powered drone This week, Google announced the acquisition of Titan Aerospace for an undisclosed sum in a move that sees the technology
Following Facebook s $20 million purchase of U k.-based aerospace company Ascenta which has been working on the development of unmanned,
solar-powered aerial drones for the past few years Google acted fast to usurp an expected bid by Facebook to also acquire Titan Aerospace.
and reach across the most remote corners of earth. Although the total purchase sum was undisclosed,
a source close to Google said that the company offered to top any offer from Facebook for Titan Aerospace.
Google s technical experts will work with Titan Aerospace to advance the material design for the drones wings,
The intention is to collect real-time, high-resolution images of the earth, and to bring greater depth
but atmospheric satellites could help bring internet access to millions of people, and help solve other problems,
Solar s influence Titan Aerospace caught Google s attention thanks to its innovative dragonfly-shaped drones that are powered by its wing-mounted solar panels
At night you are not collecting energy from the sun and it takes a lot of power to broadcast internet signals.
However, a source close to Facebook has revealed that the social media giants had been reviewing Titan Aerospace s solar-powered drones some six months ago,
the turbine helium-inflated housing is durable enough for deployment in either the blazing sun or freezing snow.
even if your previous system involved a sun dial and carrier pigeons. The things even have a cool name:
The Ultrasonic Cover for its Galaxy Core Advance smartphone helps owners sense the presence of people and objects up to two meters away.
or Western union apparently fail to meet the requirements to be discussed in virtually every central bank on the planet,
and became a good of such universal value it slowly became the de facto means of exchange (along with silver) across much of the planet,
#Discovery of water-containing gem points to vast oceans beneath the Earth The Earth transition zone is the part of the Earth that exists between the upper and lower mantle.
there is water, possibly massive oceans of it, deep beneath the Earth surface. The tiny gem was an accidental find
a mineral we have seen only previously in meteorites, and not On earth. Fortunately, as with many scientific discoveries, this accident was a happy find.
exists deep within the Earth, at least 300 miles beneath its surface, in the transition zone.
Geologists believe that volcanic activity pushed this particular rock up to Earth surface. Having a piece of the Earth transition zone available,
geologists spent several years testing it. Their final results showed that the gem contained 1. 5 percent of its weight in water.
This discovery proves the theory that the Earth transition zone not only contains water but might also contain more water than every surface ocean combined.
Because it so difficult to dig a hole deep enough to reach even the upper mantle of the Earth
what we know about Earth and its composition o
#Controversy brews over use of autonomous killer robots in war People are promised their quality of life will improve with the advances of technology,
when the wind stops blowing and the sun goes down. The end goal for Tesla is that cheap batteries could help Tesla deliver its $35, 000 third generation electric car.
and recorded across hundreds of servers at all corners of the earth. Consultant Andreas M. Antonopoulos, echoing a 2012 white paper by software developer J. R. Willett,
A rocket s skin, for example, needs to contain a column of super-pressurized fuel and at the same time weigh as little as possible.
That information is combined with multi-spectral images of fields taken by advanced camera systems from satellites and airplanes.
The system then combines the field data with a diversity of public data from the National oceanic and atmospheric administration the National aeronautics and space administration and the U s. Geological Survey and private data from companies like Earth Networks.
and generates a four-dimensional mathematical model derived from the physics of the atmosphere. With high accuracy Deep Thunder can deliver hyper-localized weather conditions up to three days in advance with calculations as fine as a single mile and as granular as every 10 minutes.
otherwise recycle CO2 back into the atmosphere through the surface waters. But when they get eaten close to the seafloor by animals that never come to the surface all of the carbon these roving fish were packing gets locked down at the bottom of the ocean Trueman explained.
However the amount of carbon that deep-sea fish trap is compared miniscule with the emissions released into the atmosphere by humans.
U k. emissions from fossil fuel burning in 2010 were 494 million tons of CO2 said Pieter Tans of the U s. National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Earth System Research Laboratory
With more people sharing our mutual responsibility to reduce carbon footprints by shifting to plant-based meals we have reason to be hopeful for our planet's future.
and disappear back into Earth s environment. But bug parts break down in only a year or two.
The plant is set to be built by Abengoa SA (ABG) a Spanish company that offers global renewable energy solutions. his project will help prove the economic operation of concentrated solar power technology in the Earth sunbelt,
designed to create an mbrellaeffect to seal dust clouds in with spray, causing the particles to fall out of the air.
Among other things, MEMS devices are able to measure acceleration, gravity, chemicals, the indicators of disease or the presence of explosives.
Powered by Landmark's Decisionspace next-generation earth modeling solution the workflow is unique to the industry in that it is capable of updating dynamically
Bruker now serves applications from QA/QC in automotive, aerospace and other industries, to geological surveys for natural resources, to art and conservation.
"I believe there's a tremendous potential to use these methods to build machines for situations where you need deployability, for example space exploration,
#World's first man-made photosynthetic'leaf'could produce oxygen for astronauts To say that an invention has the potential to change the world is often an overstatement,
As the only organisms capable of converting sunlight into food, plants are the powerhouses that produce all of the sustenance On earth.
and helps to regulate the planet's climate. Melchiorri's invention can potentially duplicate many of these benefits with a man-made material.
by allowing our astronauts to travel longer distances in space and possibly even colonize new planets."
"Plants don't grow in zero gravity, "explained Melchiorri.""NASA is researching different ways to produce oxygen for long-distance space journeys to let us live in space.
This material could allow us to explore space much further than we can now.""The man-made leaf,
which was developed as part of the Royal College of Art's Innovation Design Engineering course in collaboration with Tufts University silk lab,
Like the leaves of a plant, the material requires only exposure to sunlight and a small amount of water to produce oxygen."
Aside from producing oxygen for astronauts, the Silk Leaf could also be used as building material to produce clean air for buildings.
non-ionizing solar radiation. They convert it by luminescence and operate on the principle of collecting radiation over a large area.
small organic molecules to absorb specific nonvisible wavelengths of sunlight.""We can tune these materials to pick up just the ultraviolet and the near infrared wavelengths that then'glow'at another wavelength in the infrared,
even if the two particles exist at opposite ends of the universe as if they are one.
#'Astroskin'smart shirt monitors astronauts'health in Antarctica Remember that pivotal scene in the movie"Apollo 13"in which crewmembers rip the biomedical sensors off their bodies?
scientists with the Canadian space agency say. Astroskin, a prototype device to monitor astronaut health, is a garment that fits over a person's upper body
and is embedded with wireless sensors. From the ground, doctors can see an astronaut's vital signs,
as well as how well the spacefarers are sleeping and how they are moving. Before sending Canadian company Carré Technologies'smart shirt on a ride to orbit,
however, a lot of testing must be done to make sure it works as well as the Canadian space agency (CSA) hopes it will.
That's why a Canadian team exploring Antarctica this month is toting Astroskin with it The Human body in Space:
and will share the data with the CSA for possible use on future space missions and other applications.
but says it could be used on the International space station during future missions. The orbiting complex is expected to last until at least 2024.
Scientists with the European space agency and other institutions, for example, are working on a tight-fitting"skinsuit"that could help astronauts combat the back problems that are a common consequence of long-term spaceflight l
Jim Clark/AMNH) Remember that scene in Aliens where Sigourney weaver's Ellen Ripley dons a Power Loader exoskeleton to do battle with the evil alien queen?
#How the world's largest satellite network will deliver global Internet access With a majority of the world still without access to the Internet (roughly 60 percent as of 2014) private companies are announcing ambitious plans to close the gap.
and now Richard Branson and Virgin galactic are pursuing microsatellite clusters. Earlier this week the 64-year-old billionaire announced a partnership with satellite-system designers Oneweb to use Virgin galactic's Launcherone rocket to create a massive satellite constellation in space.
The project would deploy a fleet of 648 microsatellites capable of providing low-latency high-speed Internet access directly to small user-based terminals all around the world.
In addition to providing access via current standards (Wifi LTE 3g or 2g connections) the Oneweb network would also give much-needed global emergency and first responder access for natural disasters refugee camps and other humanitarian needs.
We're excited for the opportunity for Virgin galactic's Launcherone programme to help make it possible through low cost reliable and frequent satellite launches.
The Launcherone rocket while still in the design and testing phase hopes to eventually deliver payloads from 250 pounds to 500 pounds into space for less than $10 million per flight.
Satellite launches are expected to begin in 2017 According to Spacenews Oneweb will overcome the engineering challenge of interference from broadcast satellites already in space with a technique called progressive pitch
which slightly turns the microsatellites to avoid interference. The cluster which would be the world's largest satellite network will then talk to receivers on the ground measuring a tiny 36 centimeters by 16 centimeters
and capable of delivering 50 megabits per second Internet access. As a comparison the average global broadband speed currently is only 21.9 Mbps. Oneweb is expected to cost between $1. 5 billion to $2 billion a relative bargain compared to
Wikipedia) But there are other costs involved with anything we do the social and environmental costs the effect on people and the planet as well as the profit.
"says graduate student Chris Moon, one of the authors of the work published in Nature Nanotechnology1.
But Moon and his colleagues saw a way to go smaller by using a quantum analogy to the conventional hologram.
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