Forecast: Electric Two-Wheelers Poised for Strong Global Growth; 9% CAGR Worldwide
Green Car Congress.com -13 February 2010
"A new report from Pike Research anticipates that the global market for electric two-wheeled vehicles—e-bikes, e-scooters, and e-motorcycles—will grow at a compound annual rate of 9% through 2016.
China is currently the largest marketplace for electric two-wheel vehicles, commanding 98% of the global market in 2009......"
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2010/02/pike2w-20100213.html
Apollo Astronaut Hits Cancellation
Of Moon Program As Unconstitutional
Executive Intelligence Reveiw -(EIRNS) Feb. 12, 2010
"Harrison Schmitt, a Former Apollo astronaut as well as a former U.S. Senator, characterized the Obama Administration's proposed cancellation of the lunar exploration program, as a violation of the Constitution. Lyndon LaRouche had earlier stated that this proposal was an impeachable offense.
Schmitt said, in a statement released after the budget was made public, that "Expenditures of taxpayer provided funds on space-related activities find constitutional justification in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, that gives Congress broad power to 'promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts.'" In addition, he stated, "the article 1 power and obligation to 'provide for the Common Defense,' relates directly to the geopolitical importance of space exploration at this frontier of human endeavor." He added:
The repeated hypocrisy of this President continues to astound. His campaign promises endorsed what he now proposes to cancel. His July celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing now turns out to be just a photo op with the Apollo 11 crew. With one wave of a budget wand, the Congress, the NASA family, and the American people were asked to throw their sacrifices and achievements in space on the ash heap of history.
"How the mighty have fallen," he observed.
Schmitt explained that without the lunar program, any other focus for our national space policy will not be able to be implemented:
Some propose that we concentrate on Mars. Without the experience of returning to the Moon, however, we will not have the engineering, operational, or physiological insight for many decades, to either fly to Mars or land there.
http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/2010/100212cancel_moon_unconst.html
Veoh Quits - looking to Bankruptcy -
by PETER KAFKA - CNET.com - Feb. 11, 2010
Veoh tried but couldn't do it. Trying to emulate Youtube's success, Veoh had to 'cash it in'.
After burning through millions of dollars from investors, Veoh could not get any more cash - so the lay-off's began.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10452152-93.html
Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen -
By Gregg Keizer | Infoworld.com /computerworld - Feb. 11, 2010
This is just as it says.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/windows-patch-cripples-xp-blue-screen-users-claim-954?source=rss_infoworld_news
Head of Russian Railway Wants to Build Railway Link Between
U.S & Russia -
Larouchepub.com
There is the 'chunnel', the underground/underwater tunnel between England and France - and there are other types under discussion. This one has been discussed for years, ever since the Czar of Russia had envisioned in the early 20th Century!
Now for an update.
http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/2009/091220yakunin_projects.html
No light bulb? Wallpaper that emits light! -
By BEN WEBSTER - Times Online - Dec. 30, 2009
"Light-emitting wallpaper may begin to replace light bulbs from 2012, according to a government body that supports low-carbon technology.
A chemical coating on the walls will illuminate all parts of the room with an even glow, which mimics sunlight and avoids the shadows and glare of conventional bulbs......"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6970927.ece
No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds
ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) —
"Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere....."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm?sms_ss=email
3-D TV! WOW! - What' next?
By BARB DYBWAD - Mashable.com -Dec. 29, 2009
http://mashable.com/2009/12/29/first-us-3dtv-channel/
Mercedes Brings Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars to Market
By TONY BORROZ - Wired - Dec. 11, 2009
"....When it hits the road next year, the hydrogen-hungry B-Class will be the first series-produced fuel cell EV on the road. Yes, with only 200 planned it is a small-scale production run. But it is worth noting the cars will be coming to both Europe and America within a few months....."
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/12/mercedes-b-class-fuel-cell/#more-16887
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Book Reveals That Private Lunar Mission Succeeded Despite
NASA Roadblocks -
NASA has deep pockets via the United States Government. But NASA isn't always as efficient as it
could/should be. So, private enterprise takes on a project and does what?........proves a success!
This book reveals an inspiring story of an individual with a dream. Also visit the website for more
information.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16541
NASA GISS Study Finds That Methane Has an Elevated Warming Effect Due to Interactions With Aerosols
Green Car Congress - Oct. 30, 2009
"...When vehicles, factories, landfills, and livestock emit methane and carbon monoxide into the atmosphere, they are doing more than just increasing their atmospheric concentrations. The release of these gases also have indirect effects on a variety of other atmospheric constituents, including reducing the production of particles called aerosols that can influence both the climate and the air quality. These two gases, as well as others, are part of a complicated cascade of chemical reactions that features competition with aerosols for highly reactive molecules that cleanse the air of pollutants.
Aerosols can have either a warming or cooling effect, depending on their composition, but the two aerosol types that Shindell modeled—sulfates and nitrates—scatter incoming light and affect clouds in ways that cool Earth. They are also related to the formation of acid rain and can cause respiratory distress and other health problems for those who breathe them....."
(ED. NOTE: This is an interesting and important topic. If you ever look up into the sky, on numerous days, you will notice the enormous 'vapor trails' that airplanes are releasing into the atmosphere, some call these 'chemtrails', basically because it is believed by many, that the 'vapor trails' contain chemicals that are unhealthy, and also have other ingredients that you should not find in such trails'. We will be providing a 'FILE CABINET' Report on this topic in the future)
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/10/shindell-20091030.html
Wirelessly recharge your electronics!
How simple it would be to never have to run extension cords in your house - with this technology
you wouldn't have to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8165928.stm
NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test
Press release Oct. 29, 2009
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly modified Launch Complex 39B until splash down of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles down range.
"This is a huge step forward for NASA's exploration goals," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Ares I-X provides NASA with an enormous amount of data that will be used to improve the design and safety of the next generation of American spaceflight vehicles -- vehicles that could again take humans beyond low Earth orbit."
(ED. NOTE: I thought NASA was going to get out of manned space flight?)
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=29522
Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals
Nanowerk News - Oct 31, 2009
"Just a few decades ago, scientists believed that all ordered matter consists of self–repeating building blocks—atoms, ions or molecules. In this view, the ordinary solids of everyday life are arranged in crystals of repeating, three–dimensional patterns.
Scientists challenged this once–believed universal law of nature when they discovered an “impossible” material whose existence could not be explained by periodic arrangement of atoms. These materials, later named quasicrystals, follow different, mathematically strict yet non–repeating patterns.
.....Now the University of Chicago’s Dmitri Talapin and his colleagues have created quasicrystals out of self–assembling nanoparticles for the first time. Self–assembly techniques harness nature’s own tendencies to develop novel materials. The techniques also promise to reveal new details of quasicrystals’ atomic structure in a way that elude even the most powerful microscopy techniques......"
http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13299.php
Return-to-moon plan gets boost on Capitol Hill
By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press
The head of a special expert panel conceded to Congress that the moon program could work if given enough money. That would mean another $3 billion a year for the program proposed by President George W. Bush.
The plan has been under question because of that panel's dim look at NASA's future and concerns about support from the Obama administration. The panel issued its preliminary summary last week, concluding that there is not enough money to explore space in the current budget, including the moon plan.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2009-09-15-return-to-moon_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
Panel recommends NASA to 'outsource' to 'private-sector' some its activities
A BBC story tells of a panel report wherein it is stated that NASA would be better served to let the private-sector commercial enterprises to send men and equipment into space which in turn would allow NASA to spend time and money on other projects thereby making it more efficient.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8321353.stm
China Plans to Build Advanced Nuclear-Power Plant
By JING YANG - Wall St. Journal - Oct 30, 2009
"SHANGHAI -- China will start building its first large nuclear-power reactor with home-developed "fourth generation" technology in 2012-13, a senior engineer involved in developing the system said.
.....One problem China will face, even if it develops and employs more-advanced reactors, is the lack of enough uranium at home to supply them. That means that China will become increasingly reliant on imports to fuel its economy, which in turn means it is likely to intensify its buying of foreign assets -- a scenario already playing out with its other energy sources: oil, gas and coal.
China, which gets less than 2% of its power-generating capacity from its 11 nuclear reactors, plans to build dozens more reactors by 2020, bringing the sector's share to 5% of its generating capacity, or about 70,000 megawatts......"
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB125683823531916471-lMyQjAxMDI5NTA2MTgwMzE4Wj.html
Texas County Sheriff's dept. nixes plan to buy drones
...."The county's Sheriff Department canceled the plan after learning that the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration had designated most of the county as controlled air space. The drones, which would have flown
at a maximum of 400 feet, might interfere with traffic over Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport,
county officials were told.".......
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-drones_16met.ART.State.Edition2.50b59b9.html
TASER Unveils Advanced Multi-Shot Stun Gun
TASER International has unveiled its new X3 electronic control device capable of firing three
cartridges without reloading. The X3 is the first new handheld TASER ECD since the introduction
of the TASER X26 in 2003.
http://www.policemag.com/Channel/Weapons/News/2009/07/28/TASER-Unveils-Advanced-Multi-
Shot-Stun-Gun.aspx
Is the Carbon Motors E7 the patrol car of the future? Only time and market forces will tell.
The Carbon Motors E7 prototype patrol vehicle looks something like a cross between an exotic
sports car and a prop vehicle from a science fiction film. Its body styling is dynamic, muscular,
almost startling, and it has the ability to visibly excite police audiences.
http://www.policemag.com/Channel/Vehicles/Articles/2009/02/Coming-Attraction.aspx
Immersive Dome Replaces Flat Movie Screen: Don’t Just Watch, Join The Action!
A new dome projection developed in Europe offers a compelling replacement for the flat movie screen.
The 'Immersive Dome' puts viewers at the heart of the action, and lets them actively participate.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090814101949.htm
OriginOil™, Inc. is developing a breakthrough technology that
will transform algae, the most promising source of renewable
oil, into a true competitor to petroleum
A publicly traded company listed on NASDAQ, Origin Oil is offering a 'new' technology that is cleaner
and plentiful.
Also highlighting the aspect of lessening our dependence on foreign oil, Origin Oil makes it pitch to
everyone on their website.
http://www.originoil.com/
Radio Waves 'See' through Walls
University of Utah - Oct. 12, 2009
"University of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and rescue hostages, fire victims and elderly people who fall in their homes. It also might help retail marketing and border control.
"By showing the locations of people within a building during hostage situations, fires or other emergencies, radio tomography can help law enforcement and emergency responders to know where they should focus their attention," Joey Wilson and Neal Patwari wrote in one of two new studies of the method......"
http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=100509-1
Self-assembled DNA Scaffolding Used To Build Tiny Circuit
Boards
The advance, described in the current issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, could allow the semiconductor industry to pack more power and speed into tiny computer chips, while making them
more energy efficient and less expensive to manufacture than is possible today.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090818130626.htm
Electrical And Computer Engineers Design Wheelchair
Controlled By A Magnet On The User's Tongue—
Electrical and computer engineers designed a system based on magnets that enables disabled persons to use the tongue to control the movement of a wheelchair.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1112-tonguedrive_wheelchair.htm
L-1 Identity Solutions Awarded Contract in India
STAMFORD, Conn., Aug 25, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: ID), a leading provider of identity solutions and services, today announced that its iris recognition technology is being successfully used as part of the world's largest iris-based identity management project in India. L-1's state-of-the art SIRIS biometric matching engine is facilitating the de-duplication of records dispersed across multiple disparate databases and systems containing the iris codes of 56 million citizens. The program was awarded to L-1 through a regional partner on behalf of the State government of Andhra Pradesh.
http://ir.l1id.com/releaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=404942\
A plant that makes Diesel?
ScienceDaily (Nov. 4, 2008) — A team led by a Montana State University professor has found a fungus that produces a new type of diesel fuel, which they say holds great promise. Calling the fungus' output "myco-diesel........"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103192319.htm
Credit Card-swipe Device To Test For Hundreds Of Diseases
ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2008) —
University of Utah scientists successfully created a sensitive prototype device that could test for dozens or even hundreds of diseases simultaneously by acting like a credit card-swipe machine to scan a card loaded with microscopic blood, saliva or urine samples.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030083052.htm
A Wearable 'Motorcycle'?
Jake Loniak is a college junior; he's also the inventor of one of the most innovative concept vehicles we've seen in ages. Inside: the electric exoskeleton motorcycle and an exclusive video of the beast in action
http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2008-08/wearable-motorcycle
Can Bill Gates stop hurricanes? Scientists doubt it
By AYESHA TEJPAR - CNN
- "Hurricane experts are throwing cold water on an idea backed by billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates aimed at controlling the weather.
Gates and a dozen other scientists have raised eyebrows by submitting patent applications for a technology to reduce the danger of approaching hurricanes by cooling ocean temperatures...."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/28/hurricanes.gates.gray/
"Malaysia to Battle Smog With Cyclones",
by CHEN MAY YEE -The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, November 13, 1997, page A19.
KULA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's war on smog is about to get a new twist. The government wants to create man-made cyclones to scrub away the haze that has plagued Malaysia since July. 'We will use special technology to create an artificial cyclone to clean the air', said Datuk Law Hieng Ding, minister for science, technology and the environment. The plan calls for the use of new Russian technology to create cyclones -- the giant storms also known as typhoons and hurricanes -- to cause torrential rains, washing the smoke out of the air. The Malaysian cabinet and the finance minister have approved the plan, Datuk Law said. A Malaysian company, BioCure Sdn. Bhd., will sign a memorandum of understanding soon with a government-owned Russian party to produce the cyclone.
Datuk Law declined to disclose the size of the cyclone to be generated, or the mechanism. 'The details I don't have', he said. He did say, though, that the cyclone generated would be 'quite strong'. Datuk Law also declined to disclose the price of creating the cyclone. But, he said, Malaysia doesn't have to pay if the project doesn't work.
NASA Refines Asteroid Apophis' Path Toward Earth
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab - Oct. 7, 2009
PASADENA, Calif. -- "Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036.
The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields. The new data were documented by near-Earth object scientists Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
....."Apophis has been one of those celestial bodies that has captured the public's interest since it was discovered in 2004," said Chesley. "Updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million."....."
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-151
Metal hook and loop fastener, tougher than Velcro
ByMARK RUTHERFORD -Military Tech Sept. 9, 2009
Velcro's great, but for when you need that extra hold, there's a new hook and loop fastener made from spring steel in Germany that can pinch together loads of up to 35 metric tons, according to researchers.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_3-10346953-42.html
DigitalGlobe WorldView-2 Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base
Third High-Resolution, Remote-Sensing Satellite Expected to Launch October 6
LONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution, world-imagery products and services for commercial, defense, and intelligence clients, today announced that the WorldView-2 remote-sensing satellite has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in anticipation of its launch on October 6, 2009.
As one of the next generation of WorldView-class satellites, WorldView-2 features advanced agility and accuracy, industry-leading collection capacity, and eight-band multispectral imagery. The company’s sophisticated constellation enhances DigitalGlobe’s ability to rapidly collect and maintain up-to-date imagery of the areas of greatest interest to its defense, intelligence, government, and commercial clients. Furthermore, it accelerates the speed by which its leading ImageLibrary is refreshed and expands the ways in which the ImageLibrary can be used.
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=
20090827005522&newsLang=en
Digital Contacts Will Keep an Eye on Your Vital Signs
By BRIAN X. CHEN - Wired.comSeptember 10, 2009
"Forget about 20/20. “Perfect” vision could be redefined by gadgets that give you the eyes of a cyborg.
The tech industry calls the digital enrichment of the physical world “augmented reality.” Such technology is already appearing in smartphones and toys, and enthusiasts dream of a pair of glasses we could dawn to enhance our everyday perception. But why stop there?
Scientists, eye surgeons, professors and students at the University of Washington have been developing a contact lens containing one built-in LED, powered wirelessly with radio frequency waves".
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/ar-contact-lens/
Engineering Mosquitoes to Spread Less Disease without Boosting Virulence
By CHARLES Q. CHOI - Scientific American
Scientists are creating transgenic mosquitoes with reduced ability to carry the devastating diseases that have plagued much of humanity. But will these modifications also generate more virulent infections?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=transgenic-mosquitoes
Better world: Generate a feed-in frenzy
By BEN CRYSTALL - New Scientist -Sept. 15, 2009
Giving industry and individuals financial incentives to invest in using 'alternative' means of producing electricity is helping European countries create more 'clean energy'.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327251.900-better-world-generate-a-feedin-frenzy.html
Greenland project drills down to record depths
Researchers read our climate record from a mile-long core of ice
By NAOMI LUBICK - Nature News
"The North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project kicked off in 2007 and seeks to describe the planet's past climate by analysing the gases and particulate matter trapped inside the region's ice cores. This year, the team bested records from previous expeditions to the Greenland ice sheet, drilling down through 1758 metres by the end of August — a world record for drilling in one 100-day summer season...."
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090915/full/news.2009.920.html
Medical monitoring of your body via wireless networks?
The FCC is considering a request to allocate spectrum bandwidth for medical body area networks that wirelessly monitor one's health
By LARRY GREENEMEIER -scientific American - Sept. 18, 2009
"......Medical technology makers are now hoping to scale..... down to the personal level by connecting wireless sensors placed on (or even under) a patient's skin to create "medical body area networks" (MBANs) that provide doctors with real-time info about their patients.
An MBAN would help hospitals and healthcare clinics better keep tabs on important health-related information, including a patient's temperature, pulse, blood glucose level, blood pressure and respiratory function. Each sensor would communicate information about the patient's body via short-range wireless signals to a small receiver (either handheld or hooked onto a bed or wheelchair) that would use longer-range wireless signals to share that information with the healthcare facility's centralized computer systems—all without the jumble of wires needed to do this today...."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=medical-body-area-networks-mban&SID=mail&sc=emailfriend
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
By NICHOLAS THOMPSON - Wired Magazine - Sept. 21, 2009
"....."The Perimeter system is very, very nice," he says. "We remove unique responsibility from high politicians and the military." He looks around again.......Yarynich is talking about Russia's doomsday machine. That's right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called "the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination." Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.
Chart source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council
The point of the system, he explains, was to guarantee an automatic Soviet response to an American nuclear strike. Even if the US crippled the USSR with a surprise attack, the Soviets could still hit back. It wouldn't matter if the US blew up the Kremlin, took out the defense ministry, severed the communications network, and killed everyone with stars on their shoulders. Ground-based sensors would detect that a devastating blow had been struck and a counterattack would be launched.
The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret......"
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand/
GMO wheat acceptance hinges on public benefit
ByROD NICKEL -Reuters -June 1, 2009
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (Reuters) - Winning over wary consumers in Europe and elsewhere to genetically modified wheat hinges on scientists finding a direct benefit to the public, not just to farmers or seed companies, experts in wheat breeding and genetics said.
Europeans, considered among the staunchest opponents of food created with genetically modified organisms (GMO), are at least a decade from accepting biotech food, said Meinolf Lindhauer from Germany's Max Rubner federal research institute of nutrition and food...
"The majority of consumers in many European countries, not in all, do not accept GMO at all,"......
The only way for GMO wheat proponents to be heard above the arguments of anti-GMO groups is to demonstrate biotechnology could give consumers a "convincing advantage," he said...."
http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE5560KI20090607
Aurora Unveils Orion Persistent UAV
By GRAHAM WARWICK - Aviation Week -Sept. 16, 2009
Aurora Flight Sciences is waiting to hear whether it has been
selected for a U.S. Defense Department joint concept technology
demonstration (JCTD) of an affordable, persistent medium-altitude
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to begin in fiscal 2010.
The 8,000-pound gross-weight aircraft, designed to carry a 1,000-pound
payload for five days at 15,000-20,000 feet, cruising at around 70 knots,
would be a conventionally powered development of Aurora’s hydrogen-fueled
Orion high-altitude long-loiter UAV....."
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=aerospacedaily&id=news/ORION091609.xml
Three-wheel vehicles eligible for federal funds
By MARTIN LAMONICA - CNET - Oct. 19, 2009
Congress has approved a measure that will allow makers of three-wheel cars to receive funding for fuel-efficient auto technologies, according to published reports.
The bill, which still needs to be signed into law, could be a boost to companies developing alternative car designs, notably Aptera Motors and Elio Motors. Both companies have argued that their three-wheel cars deserve federal funding meant to promote more efficient vehicles.
(ED. Note:See a video of the Aptera on our AUDIO/VISUAL REPORTS PAGE)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10377679-54.html
Oldest known Central Texans might teach textbook writers a thing or two
By J.B. SMITH -Waco Tribune-Herald staff writer/wacotrib.com - Saturday, October 10, 2009
FLORENCE, Texas — In a big white tent pitched near Buttermilk Creek, archaeologists and volunteers are on their knees, scraping away sticky black clay a few tablespoons at a time. They wash the dirt and screen it for stone shards, spearpoints and flakes from some 13,000 years ago.
Little by little, those bits of stone are chipping away at long-held pictures of the earliest Americans, wiping away images that are still depicted in high school textbooks and museum dioramas.....".
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2009/10/10/10102009wacgault.html
Green Car Congress.com -13 February 2010
"A new report from Pike Research anticipates that the global market for electric two-wheeled vehicles—e-bikes, e-scooters, and e-motorcycles—will grow at a compound annual rate of 9% through 2016.
China is currently the largest marketplace for electric two-wheel vehicles, commanding 98% of the global market in 2009......"
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2010/02/pike2w-20100213.html
Apollo Astronaut Hits Cancellation
Of Moon Program As Unconstitutional
Executive Intelligence Reveiw -(EIRNS) Feb. 12, 2010
"Harrison Schmitt, a Former Apollo astronaut as well as a former U.S. Senator, characterized the Obama Administration's proposed cancellation of the lunar exploration program, as a violation of the Constitution. Lyndon LaRouche had earlier stated that this proposal was an impeachable offense.
Schmitt said, in a statement released after the budget was made public, that "Expenditures of taxpayer provided funds on space-related activities find constitutional justification in Article 1, Section 8, Clause 8, that gives Congress broad power to 'promote the Progress of Science and the useful Arts.'" In addition, he stated, "the article 1 power and obligation to 'provide for the Common Defense,' relates directly to the geopolitical importance of space exploration at this frontier of human endeavor." He added:
The repeated hypocrisy of this President continues to astound. His campaign promises endorsed what he now proposes to cancel. His July celebration of the 40th anniversary of the first Moon landing now turns out to be just a photo op with the Apollo 11 crew. With one wave of a budget wand, the Congress, the NASA family, and the American people were asked to throw their sacrifices and achievements in space on the ash heap of history.
"How the mighty have fallen," he observed.
Schmitt explained that without the lunar program, any other focus for our national space policy will not be able to be implemented:
Some propose that we concentrate on Mars. Without the experience of returning to the Moon, however, we will not have the engineering, operational, or physiological insight for many decades, to either fly to Mars or land there.
http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/2010/100212cancel_moon_unconst.html
Veoh Quits - looking to Bankruptcy -
by PETER KAFKA - CNET.com - Feb. 11, 2010
Veoh tried but couldn't do it. Trying to emulate Youtube's success, Veoh had to 'cash it in'.
After burning through millions of dollars from investors, Veoh could not get any more cash - so the lay-off's began.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10452152-93.html
Windows patch cripples XP with blue screen -
By Gregg Keizer | Infoworld.com /computerworld - Feb. 11, 2010
This is just as it says.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/security-central/windows-patch-cripples-xp-blue-screen-users-claim-954?source=rss_infoworld_news
Head of Russian Railway Wants to Build Railway Link Between
U.S & Russia -
Larouchepub.com
There is the 'chunnel', the underground/underwater tunnel between England and France - and there are other types under discussion. This one has been discussed for years, ever since the Czar of Russia had envisioned in the early 20th Century!
Now for an update.
http://www.larouchepub.com/pr/2009/091220yakunin_projects.html
No light bulb? Wallpaper that emits light! -
By BEN WEBSTER - Times Online - Dec. 30, 2009
"Light-emitting wallpaper may begin to replace light bulbs from 2012, according to a government body that supports low-carbon technology.
A chemical coating on the walls will illuminate all parts of the room with an even glow, which mimics sunlight and avoids the shadows and glare of conventional bulbs......"
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6970927.ece
No Rise of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Fraction in Past 160 Years, New Research Finds
ScienceDaily (Dec. 31, 2009) —
"Most of the carbon dioxide emitted by human activity does not remain in the atmosphere, but is instead absorbed by the oceans and terrestrial ecosystems. In fact, only about 45 percent of emitted carbon dioxide stays in the atmosphere....."
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091230184221.htm?sms_ss=email
3-D TV! WOW! - What' next?
By BARB DYBWAD - Mashable.com -Dec. 29, 2009
http://mashable.com/2009/12/29/first-us-3dtv-channel/
Mercedes Brings Hydrogen Fuel Cell Cars to Market
By TONY BORROZ - Wired - Dec. 11, 2009
"....When it hits the road next year, the hydrogen-hungry B-Class will be the first series-produced fuel cell EV on the road. Yes, with only 200 planned it is a small-scale production run. But it is worth noting the cars will be coming to both Europe and America within a few months....."
http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/12/mercedes-b-class-fuel-cell/#more-16887
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Book Reveals That Private Lunar Mission Succeeded Despite
NASA Roadblocks -
NASA has deep pockets via the United States Government. But NASA isn't always as efficient as it
could/should be. So, private enterprise takes on a project and does what?........proves a success!
This book reveals an inspiring story of an individual with a dream. Also visit the website for more
information.
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=16541
NASA GISS Study Finds That Methane Has an Elevated Warming Effect Due to Interactions With Aerosols
Green Car Congress - Oct. 30, 2009
"...When vehicles, factories, landfills, and livestock emit methane and carbon monoxide into the atmosphere, they are doing more than just increasing their atmospheric concentrations. The release of these gases also have indirect effects on a variety of other atmospheric constituents, including reducing the production of particles called aerosols that can influence both the climate and the air quality. These two gases, as well as others, are part of a complicated cascade of chemical reactions that features competition with aerosols for highly reactive molecules that cleanse the air of pollutants.
Aerosols can have either a warming or cooling effect, depending on their composition, but the two aerosol types that Shindell modeled—sulfates and nitrates—scatter incoming light and affect clouds in ways that cool Earth. They are also related to the formation of acid rain and can cause respiratory distress and other health problems for those who breathe them....."
(ED. NOTE: This is an interesting and important topic. If you ever look up into the sky, on numerous days, you will notice the enormous 'vapor trails' that airplanes are releasing into the atmosphere, some call these 'chemtrails', basically because it is believed by many, that the 'vapor trails' contain chemicals that are unhealthy, and also have other ingredients that you should not find in such trails'. We will be providing a 'FILE CABINET' Report on this topic in the future)
http://www.greencarcongress.com/2009/10/shindell-20091030.html
Wirelessly recharge your electronics!
How simple it would be to never have to run extension cords in your house - with this technology
you wouldn't have to.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8165928.stm
NASA's Ares I-X Rocket Completes Successful Flight Test
Press release Oct. 29, 2009
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA's Ares I-X test rocket lifted off at 11:30 a.m. EDT Wednesday from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for a two-minute powered flight. The test flight lasted about six minutes from its launch from the newly modified Launch Complex 39B until splash down of the rocket's booster stage nearly 150 miles down range.
"This is a huge step forward for NASA's exploration goals," said Doug Cooke, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Ares I-X provides NASA with an enormous amount of data that will be used to improve the design and safety of the next generation of American spaceflight vehicles -- vehicles that could again take humans beyond low Earth orbit."
(ED. NOTE: I thought NASA was going to get out of manned space flight?)
http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewpr.html?pid=29522
Scientists witness nature's complexity unfold in self-assembling quasicrystals
Nanowerk News - Oct 31, 2009
"Just a few decades ago, scientists believed that all ordered matter consists of self–repeating building blocks—atoms, ions or molecules. In this view, the ordinary solids of everyday life are arranged in crystals of repeating, three–dimensional patterns.
Scientists challenged this once–believed universal law of nature when they discovered an “impossible” material whose existence could not be explained by periodic arrangement of atoms. These materials, later named quasicrystals, follow different, mathematically strict yet non–repeating patterns.
.....Now the University of Chicago’s Dmitri Talapin and his colleagues have created quasicrystals out of self–assembling nanoparticles for the first time. Self–assembly techniques harness nature’s own tendencies to develop novel materials. The techniques also promise to reveal new details of quasicrystals’ atomic structure in a way that elude even the most powerful microscopy techniques......"
http://www.nanowerk.com/news/newsid=13299.php
Return-to-moon plan gets boost on Capitol Hill
By SETH BORENSTEIN - Associated Press
The head of a special expert panel conceded to Congress that the moon program could work if given enough money. That would mean another $3 billion a year for the program proposed by President George W. Bush.
The plan has been under question because of that panel's dim look at NASA's future and concerns about support from the Obama administration. The panel issued its preliminary summary last week, concluding that there is not enough money to explore space in the current budget, including the moon plan.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/space/2009-09-15-return-to-moon_N.htm?loc=interstitialskip
Panel recommends NASA to 'outsource' to 'private-sector' some its activities
A BBC story tells of a panel report wherein it is stated that NASA would be better served to let the private-sector commercial enterprises to send men and equipment into space which in turn would allow NASA to spend time and money on other projects thereby making it more efficient.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8321353.stm
China Plans to Build Advanced Nuclear-Power Plant
By JING YANG - Wall St. Journal - Oct 30, 2009
"SHANGHAI -- China will start building its first large nuclear-power reactor with home-developed "fourth generation" technology in 2012-13, a senior engineer involved in developing the system said.
.....One problem China will face, even if it develops and employs more-advanced reactors, is the lack of enough uranium at home to supply them. That means that China will become increasingly reliant on imports to fuel its economy, which in turn means it is likely to intensify its buying of foreign assets -- a scenario already playing out with its other energy sources: oil, gas and coal.
China, which gets less than 2% of its power-generating capacity from its 11 nuclear reactors, plans to build dozens more reactors by 2020, bringing the sector's share to 5% of its generating capacity, or about 70,000 megawatts......"
http://online.wsj.com/article_email/SB125683823531916471-lMyQjAxMDI5NTA2MTgwMzE4Wj.html
Texas County Sheriff's dept. nixes plan to buy drones
...."The county's Sheriff Department canceled the plan after learning that the Federal Aviation Adminis-
tration had designated most of the county as controlled air space. The drones, which would have flown
at a maximum of 400 feet, might interfere with traffic over Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport,
county officials were told.".......
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-drones_16met.ART.State.Edition2.50b59b9.html
TASER Unveils Advanced Multi-Shot Stun Gun
TASER International has unveiled its new X3 electronic control device capable of firing three
cartridges without reloading. The X3 is the first new handheld TASER ECD since the introduction
of the TASER X26 in 2003.
http://www.policemag.com/Channel/Weapons/News/2009/07/28/TASER-Unveils-Advanced-Multi-
Shot-Stun-Gun.aspx
Is the Carbon Motors E7 the patrol car of the future? Only time and market forces will tell.
The Carbon Motors E7 prototype patrol vehicle looks something like a cross between an exotic
sports car and a prop vehicle from a science fiction film. Its body styling is dynamic, muscular,
almost startling, and it has the ability to visibly excite police audiences.
http://www.policemag.com/Channel/Vehicles/Articles/2009/02/Coming-Attraction.aspx
Immersive Dome Replaces Flat Movie Screen: Don’t Just Watch, Join The Action!
A new dome projection developed in Europe offers a compelling replacement for the flat movie screen.
The 'Immersive Dome' puts viewers at the heart of the action, and lets them actively participate.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090814101949.htm
OriginOil™, Inc. is developing a breakthrough technology that
will transform algae, the most promising source of renewable
oil, into a true competitor to petroleum
A publicly traded company listed on NASDAQ, Origin Oil is offering a 'new' technology that is cleaner
and plentiful.
Also highlighting the aspect of lessening our dependence on foreign oil, Origin Oil makes it pitch to
everyone on their website.
http://www.originoil.com/
Radio Waves 'See' through Walls
University of Utah - Oct. 12, 2009
"University of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help police, firefighters and others nab intruders, and rescue hostages, fire victims and elderly people who fall in their homes. It also might help retail marketing and border control.
"By showing the locations of people within a building during hostage situations, fires or other emergencies, radio tomography can help law enforcement and emergency responders to know where they should focus their attention," Joey Wilson and Neal Patwari wrote in one of two new studies of the method......"
http://www.unews.utah.edu/p/?r=100509-1
Self-assembled DNA Scaffolding Used To Build Tiny Circuit
Boards
The advance, described in the current issue of the journal Nature Nanotechnology, could allow the semiconductor industry to pack more power and speed into tiny computer chips, while making them
more energy efficient and less expensive to manufacture than is possible today.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090818130626.htm
Electrical And Computer Engineers Design Wheelchair
Controlled By A Magnet On The User's Tongue—
Electrical and computer engineers designed a system based on magnets that enables disabled persons to use the tongue to control the movement of a wheelchair.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/2008/1112-tonguedrive_wheelchair.htm
L-1 Identity Solutions Awarded Contract in India
STAMFORD, Conn., Aug 25, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
L-1 Identity Solutions, Inc. (NYSE: ID), a leading provider of identity solutions and services, today announced that its iris recognition technology is being successfully used as part of the world's largest iris-based identity management project in India. L-1's state-of-the art SIRIS biometric matching engine is facilitating the de-duplication of records dispersed across multiple disparate databases and systems containing the iris codes of 56 million citizens. The program was awarded to L-1 through a regional partner on behalf of the State government of Andhra Pradesh.
http://ir.l1id.com/releaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=404942\
A plant that makes Diesel?
ScienceDaily (Nov. 4, 2008) — A team led by a Montana State University professor has found a fungus that produces a new type of diesel fuel, which they say holds great promise. Calling the fungus' output "myco-diesel........"
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/11/081103192319.htm
Credit Card-swipe Device To Test For Hundreds Of Diseases
ScienceDaily (Nov. 3, 2008) —
University of Utah scientists successfully created a sensitive prototype device that could test for dozens or even hundreds of diseases simultaneously by acting like a credit card-swipe machine to scan a card loaded with microscopic blood, saliva or urine samples.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081030083052.htm
A Wearable 'Motorcycle'?
Jake Loniak is a college junior; he's also the inventor of one of the most innovative concept vehicles we've seen in ages. Inside: the electric exoskeleton motorcycle and an exclusive video of the beast in action
http://www.popsci.com/cars/article/2008-08/wearable-motorcycle
Can Bill Gates stop hurricanes? Scientists doubt it
By AYESHA TEJPAR - CNN
- "Hurricane experts are throwing cold water on an idea backed by billionaire Microsoft founder Bill Gates aimed at controlling the weather.
Gates and a dozen other scientists have raised eyebrows by submitting patent applications for a technology to reduce the danger of approaching hurricanes by cooling ocean temperatures...."
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/28/hurricanes.gates.gray/
"Malaysia to Battle Smog With Cyclones",
by CHEN MAY YEE -The Wall Street Journal, Thursday, November 13, 1997, page A19.
KULA LUMPUR -- Malaysia's war on smog is about to get a new twist. The government wants to create man-made cyclones to scrub away the haze that has plagued Malaysia since July. 'We will use special technology to create an artificial cyclone to clean the air', said Datuk Law Hieng Ding, minister for science, technology and the environment. The plan calls for the use of new Russian technology to create cyclones -- the giant storms also known as typhoons and hurricanes -- to cause torrential rains, washing the smoke out of the air. The Malaysian cabinet and the finance minister have approved the plan, Datuk Law said. A Malaysian company, BioCure Sdn. Bhd., will sign a memorandum of understanding soon with a government-owned Russian party to produce the cyclone.
Datuk Law declined to disclose the size of the cyclone to be generated, or the mechanism. 'The details I don't have', he said. He did say, though, that the cyclone generated would be 'quite strong'. Datuk Law also declined to disclose the price of creating the cyclone. But, he said, Malaysia doesn't have to pay if the project doesn't work.
NASA Refines Asteroid Apophis' Path Toward Earth
NASA Jet Propulsion Lab - Oct. 7, 2009
PASADENA, Calif. -- "Using updated information, NASA scientists have recalculated the path of a large asteroid. The refined path indicates a significantly reduced likelihood of a hazardous encounter with Earth in 2036.
The Apophis asteroid is approximately the size of two-and-a-half football fields. The new data were documented by near-Earth object scientists Steve Chesley and Paul Chodas at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
....."Apophis has been one of those celestial bodies that has captured the public's interest since it was discovered in 2004," said Chesley. "Updated computational techniques and newly available data indicate the probability of an Earth encounter on April 13, 2036, for Apophis has dropped from one-in-45,000 to about four-in-a million."....."
http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2009-151
Metal hook and loop fastener, tougher than Velcro
ByMARK RUTHERFORD -Military Tech Sept. 9, 2009
Velcro's great, but for when you need that extra hold, there's a new hook and loop fastener made from spring steel in Germany that can pinch together loads of up to 35 metric tons, according to researchers.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13639_3-10346953-42.html
DigitalGlobe WorldView-2 Satellite Arrives at Vandenberg Air Force Base
Third High-Resolution, Remote-Sensing Satellite Expected to Launch October 6
LONGMONT, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--DigitalGlobe (NYSE: DGI), a leading global provider of commercial high-resolution, world-imagery products and services for commercial, defense, and intelligence clients, today announced that the WorldView-2 remote-sensing satellite has arrived at Vandenberg Air Force Base in anticipation of its launch on October 6, 2009.
As one of the next generation of WorldView-class satellites, WorldView-2 features advanced agility and accuracy, industry-leading collection capacity, and eight-band multispectral imagery. The company’s sophisticated constellation enhances DigitalGlobe’s ability to rapidly collect and maintain up-to-date imagery of the areas of greatest interest to its defense, intelligence, government, and commercial clients. Furthermore, it accelerates the speed by which its leading ImageLibrary is refreshed and expands the ways in which the ImageLibrary can be used.
http://www.businesswire.com/portal/site/home/permalink/?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=
20090827005522&newsLang=en
Digital Contacts Will Keep an Eye on Your Vital Signs
By BRIAN X. CHEN - Wired.comSeptember 10, 2009
"Forget about 20/20. “Perfect” vision could be redefined by gadgets that give you the eyes of a cyborg.
The tech industry calls the digital enrichment of the physical world “augmented reality.” Such technology is already appearing in smartphones and toys, and enthusiasts dream of a pair of glasses we could dawn to enhance our everyday perception. But why stop there?
Scientists, eye surgeons, professors and students at the University of Washington have been developing a contact lens containing one built-in LED, powered wirelessly with radio frequency waves".
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2009/09/ar-contact-lens/
Engineering Mosquitoes to Spread Less Disease without Boosting Virulence
By CHARLES Q. CHOI - Scientific American
Scientists are creating transgenic mosquitoes with reduced ability to carry the devastating diseases that have plagued much of humanity. But will these modifications also generate more virulent infections?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=transgenic-mosquitoes
Better world: Generate a feed-in frenzy
By BEN CRYSTALL - New Scientist -Sept. 15, 2009
Giving industry and individuals financial incentives to invest in using 'alternative' means of producing electricity is helping European countries create more 'clean energy'.
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327251.900-better-world-generate-a-feedin-frenzy.html
Greenland project drills down to record depths
Researchers read our climate record from a mile-long core of ice
By NAOMI LUBICK - Nature News
"The North Greenland Eemian Ice Drilling (NEEM) project kicked off in 2007 and seeks to describe the planet's past climate by analysing the gases and particulate matter trapped inside the region's ice cores. This year, the team bested records from previous expeditions to the Greenland ice sheet, drilling down through 1758 metres by the end of August — a world record for drilling in one 100-day summer season...."
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090915/full/news.2009.920.html
Medical monitoring of your body via wireless networks?
The FCC is considering a request to allocate spectrum bandwidth for medical body area networks that wirelessly monitor one's health
By LARRY GREENEMEIER -scientific American - Sept. 18, 2009
"......Medical technology makers are now hoping to scale..... down to the personal level by connecting wireless sensors placed on (or even under) a patient's skin to create "medical body area networks" (MBANs) that provide doctors with real-time info about their patients.
An MBAN would help hospitals and healthcare clinics better keep tabs on important health-related information, including a patient's temperature, pulse, blood glucose level, blood pressure and respiratory function. Each sensor would communicate information about the patient's body via short-range wireless signals to a small receiver (either handheld or hooked onto a bed or wheelchair) that would use longer-range wireless signals to share that information with the healthcare facility's centralized computer systems—all without the jumble of wires needed to do this today...."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=medical-body-area-networks-mban&SID=mail&sc=emailfriend
Inside the Apocalyptic Soviet Doomsday Machine
By NICHOLAS THOMPSON - Wired Magazine - Sept. 21, 2009
"....."The Perimeter system is very, very nice," he says. "We remove unique responsibility from high politicians and the military." He looks around again.......Yarynich is talking about Russia's doomsday machine. That's right, an actual doomsday device—a real, functioning version of the ultimate weapon, always presumed to exist only as a fantasy of apocalypse-obsessed science fiction writers and paranoid über-hawks. The thing that historian Lewis Mumford called "the central symbol of this scientifically organized nightmare of mass extermination." Turns out Yarynich, a 30-year veteran of the Soviet Strategic Rocket Forces and Soviet General Staff, helped build one.
Chart source: Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Natural Resources Defense Council
The point of the system, he explains, was to guarantee an automatic Soviet response to an American nuclear strike. Even if the US crippled the USSR with a surprise attack, the Soviets could still hit back. It wouldn't matter if the US blew up the Kremlin, took out the defense ministry, severed the communications network, and killed everyone with stars on their shoulders. Ground-based sensors would detect that a devastating blow had been struck and a counterattack would be launched.
The technical name was Perimeter, but some called it Mertvaya Ruka, or Dead Hand. It was built 25 years ago and remained a closely guarded secret......"
http://www.wired.com/politics/security/magazine/17-10/mf_deadhand/
GMO wheat acceptance hinges on public benefit
ByROD NICKEL -Reuters -June 1, 2009
SASKATOON, Saskatchewan (Reuters) - Winning over wary consumers in Europe and elsewhere to genetically modified wheat hinges on scientists finding a direct benefit to the public, not just to farmers or seed companies, experts in wheat breeding and genetics said.
Europeans, considered among the staunchest opponents of food created with genetically modified organisms (GMO), are at least a decade from accepting biotech food, said Meinolf Lindhauer from Germany's Max Rubner federal research institute of nutrition and food...
"The majority of consumers in many European countries, not in all, do not accept GMO at all,"......
The only way for GMO wheat proponents to be heard above the arguments of anti-GMO groups is to demonstrate biotechnology could give consumers a "convincing advantage," he said...."
http://www.reuters.com/article/email/idUSTRE5560KI20090607
Aurora Unveils Orion Persistent UAV
By GRAHAM WARWICK - Aviation Week -Sept. 16, 2009
Aurora Flight Sciences is waiting to hear whether it has been
selected for a U.S. Defense Department joint concept technology
demonstration (JCTD) of an affordable, persistent medium-altitude
unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) to begin in fiscal 2010.
The 8,000-pound gross-weight aircraft, designed to carry a 1,000-pound
payload for five days at 15,000-20,000 feet, cruising at around 70 knots,
would be a conventionally powered development of Aurora’s hydrogen-fueled
Orion high-altitude long-loiter UAV....."
http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story_generic.jsp?channel=aerospacedaily&id=news/ORION091609.xml
Three-wheel vehicles eligible for federal funds
By MARTIN LAMONICA - CNET - Oct. 19, 2009
Congress has approved a measure that will allow makers of three-wheel cars to receive funding for fuel-efficient auto technologies, according to published reports.
The bill, which still needs to be signed into law, could be a boost to companies developing alternative car designs, notably Aptera Motors and Elio Motors. Both companies have argued that their three-wheel cars deserve federal funding meant to promote more efficient vehicles.
(ED. Note:See a video of the Aptera on our AUDIO/VISUAL REPORTS PAGE)
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11128_3-10377679-54.html
Oldest known Central Texans might teach textbook writers a thing or two
By J.B. SMITH -Waco Tribune-Herald staff writer/wacotrib.com - Saturday, October 10, 2009
FLORENCE, Texas — In a big white tent pitched near Buttermilk Creek, archaeologists and volunteers are on their knees, scraping away sticky black clay a few tablespoons at a time. They wash the dirt and screen it for stone shards, spearpoints and flakes from some 13,000 years ago.
Little by little, those bits of stone are chipping away at long-held pictures of the earliest Americans, wiping away images that are still depicted in high school textbooks and museum dioramas.....".
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2009/10/10/10102009wacgault.html
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