Orbital Laser Grams
The German TerraSAR-X satellite recently exchanged laser volleys with a US Missile Defense Agency satellite. It was the first demonstration of the use of lasers for intersatellite communication. The beams covered more than 3000 miles with no errors, carrying data equivalent to about 400 DVDs per hour - a rate 100 times greater than
is currently possible using microwaves.
The technolgy could be adapted for real-time links between Mars and Earth.
Except taken from Aug. 08 Popular Mechanics
I'll bet Bush and friends would tell you this guy on YouTube is a Nut Case.
He actuallys thinks he can drive his car on water.
Check out this inventor on YouTube from in Auckland, New Zealand
He's not paranoid, he's just using his head, he won't even ride his own motorcycle around the block. Nor will he drive his own car.
He's also making electricity from human waste and he has his own webiste at-
http://www.biosmeanslife.com
Helpful hints for inventors at
So you wanna be an Inventor
Iwishyouluck.com
MyStupidRules.com
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Mad Science
Beyond Batteries:
Storing Power in a Sheet of Paper
Its about the Discovery of using carbon nanotubes to make rechargable paper batteries.
The short version at the
National Science Foundation.
The latest post on the paper batery I found on
Dec. 8,'09 at BBC.com
For more indepth information at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
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Check this out: SRI's Mobile Robotics and Transducers Programme claim
they got robots that can climb walls made of glass, brick, wood and concrete by the use of positive and negative charges. They say it's in some ways it is similar to rubbing a balloon and sticking it on
the wall except their robot has a;power supply and itsable to control the adhesion by a technology, called compliant electroadhesion.
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Engineer Harsha Prahlad said, "What we've invented is a way to induce charges on the wall using a power supply located on the robot".
"The robot carries with it positive and negative charges, and when the walls sees these charges it automatically generates the opposite charge. The robot can then clamp onto those charges."
If this is true, I happen to think that this would be one of the greatest inventions I've seen in quite awhile. However, this video and pictures could be made as a ploy to get people to invest in a company which could very well go broke over night. That is if the just had it running on a fishing string or some trick photography. (Because I'd like to see it crawl a ceiling, but they don't have images of it doing that, and that's why I'm so skeptical.
More one this at BBC or at the SRI.com website.
Garbage to fuel
Joseph Longo and his plasma gasification company stand out from the others by reducing the process down to a one step process; where as others require a few more steps. More
Have you seen the other Book Excerpts
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