The VASIMR Plasma Rocket
This video shows what it’s like to fire the VASIMR plasma rocket, the highest power steady-state electric propulsion device in the world, located in Houston TX. Video was taken with the POV.1.5 camera which sports a wide angle lens. Two scientists sit at the command and control computer, and one scientist observes the exhaust plume. The VASIMR VX-200 rocket is located within a vacuum chamber, which simulates the vacuum of space. The cryo-compressors for several vacuum cryo-pumps can be heard in the background. When the rocket fires, valves for liquid nitrogen can be heard opening, which is accompanied by a hiss of gaseous nitrogen. The blue flashing light indicates that the VX-200 superconducting magnet is energized, and the red flashing light indicates that the electrical power for the rocket is enabled. (more…)
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Nate Lewis: Powering the Planet
by Natan S. Lewis
Nate Lewis of the California Institute of Technology describes the greatest problem of our time - energy use and production, and the prospects for addressing it. Series: Roger Revelle Centennial Symposium
Presentation Abstract
This presentation describes and evaluates the technical, political, and economic challenges involved with widespread adoption of renewable energy technologies. (more…)
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Students Develop New Surveillance Technology Solving 60-Year-Old Design Dilemma
The smallest monocopter built by Ulrich to-date, with a maximum dimension of 9.5 cm and a wing equal in size to a natural samara. (Photo by Evan Ulrich/A. James Clark School of Engineering, U-Md.)
Maple tree seeds (or samara fruit) and the spiraling pattern in which they glide to the ground have delighted children for ages and perplexed engineers for decades. Now aerospace engineering graduate students at the University of Maryland’s Clark School of Engineering have learned how to apply the seeds’ unique design to devices that can hover and perform surveillance in defense and emergency situations.
In the 1950s, researchers first tried to create an unmanned aerial vehicle that could mimic a maple seed’s spiraling fall. Ever since, their attempts have been foiled by instability, resulting in a lack of control over the tiny (less than one meter) vehicles, which were easily knocked off course by wind. As recently as June 2009, this was considered as an open challenge for engineers.
The Clark School students have solved the steering problem and provided a solution that allows the device to take off from the ground and hover, as well as perform controlled flight after its initial fall to the ground after being deployed from an aircraft. The device can also begin to hover during its initial descent, or after being launched by hand. (more…)
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On the Road to Fusion Energy, an Accelerator to Study Warm Dense Matter
Warm dense matter is rare in the laboratory but common in the Universe, in places like the hearts of giant planets like Jupiter.
Imagine yourself at the core of Jupiter, a planet 300 times the mass of Earth. At 35,000 degrees Fahrenheit, you and I might think it’s hot in here, but to a physicist it’s merely warm – warm dense matter, to be precise, stuff that hasn’t quite undergone thermonuclear fusion yet.
Warm dense matter exists not only in the interiors of gas giant planets but in other high-temperature, high-pressure regimes as well – in a just-triggered nuclear bomb, for example, or when a fuel capsule in an inertial fusion experiment starts to implode.
Given that the field of warm dense matter ranges from fundamental astrophysics to practical power production, physicists are eager to study it in the laboratory. Berkeley Lab’s Accelerator and Fusion Research Division (AFRD) is building a specialized user facility so scientists can do just that. (more…)
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Physicists Seek to Keep Next-Gen Colliders From Ripping Apart
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world's largest particle accelerator complex. Its main purpose is to explore the validity and limitations of the Standard Model, the current theoretical picture for particle physics.
Controlling huge electromagnetic forces that have the potential to destroy the next generation of particle accelerators is the subject of a new paper by a University of Manchester physicist.
So-called ‘wake fields’ occur during the process of acceleration and can cause particles to fly apart.
The particles are travelling at extremely high energies – and if they are subjected to these wake fields, they can easily destroy the accelerators.
In his paper ‘Wake field Suppression in High Gradient Linacs for Lepton Linear Colliders’, accelerator physicist Professor Roger Jones examines research into the suppression of these wake fields. (more…)
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Acidic Clouds Nourish World’s Oceans
Scientists at the University of Leeds have proved that acid in the atmosphere breaks down large particles of iron found in dust into small and extremely soluble iron nanoparticles, which are more readily used by plankton.
This is an important finding because lack of iron can be a limiting factor for plankton growth in the ocean - especially in the southern oceans and parts of the eastern Pacific. Addition of such iron nanoparticles would trigger increased absorption of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.
“This could be a very important discovery because there’s only a very small amount of soluble iron in the ocean and if plankton use the iron nanoparticles formed in clouds then the whole flux of bioavailable iron to the oceans needs to be revised,” says Dr Zongbo Shi, lead author of the research from the School of Earth and Environment at the University of Leeds. (more…)
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New Documentary: The Quantum Tamers
From deep inside the sewers of Vienna, site of groundbreaking quantum teleportation experiments, to cutting-edge quantum computing labs, to voyages into the minds of the world’s brightest thinkers, including renowned British scientist Stephen Hawking, The Quantum Tamers: Revealing Our Weird and Wired Future is a new television documentary that explores the coming quantum technological revolution.
“The Quantum Tamers presents the weirdness and wonder of the quantum world in a strikingly original, accessible and engaging visual style. It graphically conveys why quantum physics is so useful and why it holds the key to futuristic information technologies”, says Neil Turok, Director of Perimeter Institute. “I think you will find yourself challenged and amazed, just like the scientists themselves. Sharing in their enthusiasm for research, discovery and innovation is part of the fun.”
Behind the Scenes
Quantum Tamers Prologue
Introduction to the documentary
Is Information Physical?
Thinking about quantum information
In October 2009, The Quantum Tamers will premiere in Canada at the Quantum to Cosmos Festival, in the USA at the New York United Film Festival and in Europe at the prestigious Pariscience festival. These screenings are concurrent with international distribution activities aimed at television networks and specialty channels around the globe. In Canada, you can view the program on October 20th at 10:00 pm (EDST) in a newly created science strand on TVO. The TVO signal can be found across Canada on Bell TV channel 265 or Star Choice channel 353. You will also find TVO on Channel 2 in most areas of Ontario (check local listings). This new documentary is co-produced by Canada’s Perimeter Institute and Title Entertainment, with international distribution handled by Electric Sky (contact info below). (more…)
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Semantic Web Technology to Power eScience Revolution
Peter Fox, the principal investigator for the project and Senior Constellation Professor in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer.
Creating semantic web platforms for massive scientific collaboration.
Web scientists at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute will use the World Wide Web to compile and share scientific data on an unprecedented scale. Their goal is to hasten scientific discovery and innovation by enabling rapid and easy collaboration between scientists, educators, students, policy makers, and even “citizen scientists” around the world via the Web.
Funded by $1.1 million in American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the research seeks to break science out of the hallowed halls of the laboratory and place it in the hands of the people.
“We want to provide a toolkit for scientists and educators that allows them to gain access to data from a variety of sources and, importantly, outside of their direct area of expertise,” said Peter Fox, the principal investigator for the project and Senior Constellation Professor in the Tetherless World Constellation at Rensselaer. “Right now there are many scientists, educators, and policy makers who want to use other’s scientific data, but they don’t know how to find it, how is was collected, and even how to read it.” Fox notes that with the increased specialization of most scientific research, even people in closely-related fields currently struggle to interpret the data of their contemporaries. These scientific language barriers, he said, can hinder the pace of new discoveries. (more…)
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Expert Calls for New Cancer Research Priorities
Prof. Richard Sullivan at the recent "The Burden of Cancer - How Can it be Reduced" conference in Slovenia.
Berlin, Germany: Cancer research is too focused on new drug development, while not enough money and effort is being devoted to pursuing important advances in knowledge likely to have the biggest impact on combating the disease in the next few decades, a leading research policy expert says, adding that a major shift in research priorities will be crucial to the ability to cope with the coming wave of cancer cases.
Professor Richard Sullivan of the King’s Health Partners Integrated Cancer Centre in London told Europe’s largest cancer congress, ECCO 15 – ESMO 34 [1], in Berlin today (Tuesday 22 September) that studies aiming to improve surgery, pathology and diagnostic and staging imaging, as well as a radical rethink of the approach to prevention research, must become the focus of public- and federally-funded cancer research now. The global public sector spend on cancer research was about €14 billion a year in 2004/05, the latest year for which figures are available. Non-commercial funders in Europe spent just over €3 billion on cancer research in 2004/05. (more…)
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UNEP Executive Directors Panel at GEG Forum - June 2009
“Global Environmental Governance: Way Ahead Not Closed”
On 29 June 2009, the GEG Project convened a historic reunion of all five successive Executive Directors of the United Nations Environment Programme at the Global Environmental Governance Forum in Glion, Switzerland. The UNEP Executive Directors Panel was moderated by Gus Speth (former UNDP Administrator and Dean ?of ?Yale’s Environment School).
UNEP Executive Directors Panel at GEG Forum - June 2009 from GEG Project on Vimeo.
The video transcript is available here: UNEP Executive Directors at the GEG Forum 2009 Transcript
GEG Forum Wrap Up from GEG Project on Vimeo.
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Global Environmental Governance: Quest for Symphony
The Quest for Symphony outlines the past, present, and future of global environmental governance in a sixteen-minute documentary centered on interviews with key participants at the 25th United Nations Environment Programme’s Governing Council/Global Ministerial Environment Forum in Nairobi, Kenya in February 2009. Produced by Maria Ivanova and Joe Ageyo, The Quest for Symphony has been called “the white paper on global environmental governance in images,” and is unique as a documentary focused solely on the challenges and successes of the GEG system and the options for reform. Watch it now:
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Virtual Vision Terminator Style
According to a recent article in IEEE Spectrum magazine, an emerging generation of high-tech contact lenses will add images and meaning to ordinary vision. Tiny LEDs built into lenses will project images in front of users wearing the lenses, allowing them to see labels and text, as Arnold Schwarzenegger did in the Terminator movies, or navigational cues with arrows projected in front of them. Tiny biomedical sensors may sample the tear film on the eye to keep tabs on wearers’ health. Small solar cells will harvest power to run the electronics built into each lense. Sounds too far-fetched to be true? Babak Parviz, a professor at the University of Washington, explains how he’s building electronically enhanced contact lenses to bring this vision into reality in the following video. (more…)
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Electromagnet Flux Energy Research
Dr. James Schwartz lights up three 800-Watt bulbs with his solid state aluminum-bismuth panel system.
As always, PESWiki is a great source for finding some of the latest “free energy” devices being promoted by inventors around the world (many of whom turn out to be hoaxes, something that PES and Alan Sterling work hard to bring to light.)
Here’s the latest unverified report:
Inventor, James B. Schwartz of the Philippines, has come up with a device that allegedly puts out six kilowatts of electricity from the surroundings, using a solid state arrangement in a panel made from “left-handed material” — Aluminum and Bismuth interwoven with coils — tying into the Earth’s frequencies.
He’s apparently presently in process of testing and refining the design. (Video follows… (more…)
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Ashok Khosla: Science for the Future
Ashok Khosla, Chair of Development Alternatives in New Delhi, President of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and former advisor to the UN Development Programme chronicles his career with Roger Revelle and the impact Revelle had on establishing science for sustainability. Series: Roger Revelle Centennial Symposium [5/2009]
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Confessions of an Rx Drug Pusher by Gwen Olsen
Ex-pharmaceutical sales rep Gwen Olsen with her kitten, Sabrina.
Gwen Olsen spent fifteen years as a pharmaceutical sales rep working for such health care giants as Johnson & Johnson, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and Abbott Laboratories. She enjoyed a successful, fast-paced career until several conscious-altering experiences began awakening her to the dangers lurking in every American medicine cabinet. Her most poignant lessons, however, came as both victim and survivor of life-threatening adverse drug reactions. After leaving pharmaceutical sales in 2000, Gwen worked in the natural foods industry first as an Account Manager for Nature’s Way, and then as a Regional Sales Manager for Gaia Herbs. She is currently a writer, speaker, and natural health consultant.
The United States health care system is killing Americans at an alarming rate, even though we spend over fifteen percent of the Gross National Product (GNP) on health care. According to the Journal of the American Medical Association, our health care outcomes ranked only fifteenth among twenty-five industrialized nations worldwide. Adverse effects from prescription drugs have become the third-leading killer of Americans. Only heart disease and cancer claim more lives. We trust our doctors to inform us and our government to protect us from medical malfeasance that may put profits ahead of consumer health and safety. But the fine line walked by the FDA between the interests of the pharmaceutical manufacturers and the American public has continually been crossed. The result is the unleashing of an unprecedented number of lethal drugs on the U.S. market! (more…)
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Documentary Film: The Cove
Winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival, The Cove follows a high-tech dive team on a mission to discover the truth about the international dolphin capture trade as practiced in Taiji, Japan. Utilizing state-of-the-art techniques, including hidden microphones and cameras in fake rocks, the team uncovers how this small seaside village serves as a horrifying microcosm of massive ecological crimes happening worldwide.
The Cove exposes not only the tragedy of dolphin slaughtering in Japan, but also the dangerously high levels of mercury in dolphin meat and seafood, the cruelty in capturing dolphins for entertainment, and the depletion of our oceans fisheries by worldwide seafood consumption. We also see how the mandate of the International Whaling Commission has been manipulated by the Japanese Fisheries Agency for its benefit and its subsequent effect on the rest of the world.
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Google Lunar X PRIZE contender Odyssey Moon Announces Teaming with Industry Leaders
Lunar Lander Prototype – The Odyssey Moon “M-1” lunar lander will be adapted from the Common Spacecraft Bus developed at the NASA Ames Research Center. Pictured above is the Hover Test Vehicle used for ground testing. (Photo courtesy NASA and OMV)
Google Lunar X PRIZE contender Odyssey Moon Limited announced last week that top industry leaders Near Earth LLC, WPP Group, Aon and Milbank have joined its corporate team. Odyssey Moon intends to become the first private company to supply payload delivery services to the Moon in support of science, exploration and commerce. This is the first time such major organizations have come together to support a commercial Moon venture.
As the world celebrates the 40th anniversary of “Moon 1.0” – mankind’s first but short lived activities on the lunar surface – Odyssey Moon is forging ahead with its plans to capitalize on commercial opportunities created by renewed interests in exploring the Moon – “Moon 2.0”. (more…)
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Documentary: The Matter of Everything
The Matter Of Everything is a feature documentary that challenges us to see beyond our everyday sense of experience into the unseen universe. From the quantum to the cosmos, The Matter Of Everything journeys deep out of the foundations of nature to reveal what we are, at billionths of the human scale. At that level, physicists at Fermilab, one of the largest particle research facilities in the world, describe a universe that is more unified than ever imagined.
Trailer for The Matter Of Everything
THE MATTER OF EVERYTHING Extended Trailer from Riverchoir Feed on Vimeo.
For more information or to order the DVD see: http://www.thematterofeverything.com/
THE SCIENTISTS
SCOTT MENARY
Professor of Physics
York University
“Those interconnections (between quantum and cosmos) have gotten deeper and deeper, I’d say over the last decade. (more…)
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New Free Energy Claim - the Kapanadze Generator
A Georgia Republic inventor, Tariel Kapaladze, claims to have invented a 5 kilowatt free energy generator.
Recently (July 9), a new entry on PESWiki calls attention to yet another “free energy” generator claim as yet unverified by known independent investigators.
The PESWiki entry notes:
“A Georgia Republic inventor, Tariel Kapaladze, claims to have invented a 5 kilowatt free energy generator. In a demonstration video, the device appears to produce copious amounts of energy from no visible source. Though it appears to be extracting energy from the aether (, some people think it could be a matter of stealing energy from the electrical grid through inductive coupling. The necessary parameters seem to be present. (more…)
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New Geothermal Heat Extraction Process to Deliver Clean Power Generation
PNNL's introduction of a metal-organic heat carrier, or MOHC, in the biphasic fluid may help improve thermodynamic efficiency of the heat recovery process. This image represents the molecular makeup of one of several MOHCs.
A new method for capturing significantly more heat from low-temperature geothermal resources holds promise for generating virtually pollution-free electrical energy. Scientists at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory will determine if their innovative approach can safely and economically extract and convert heat from vast untapped geothermal resources.
The goal is to enable power generation from low-temperature geothermal resources at an economical cost. In addition to being a clean energy source without any greenhouse gas emissions, geothermal is also a steady and dependable source of power. (more…)
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Mylow Magnetic Motor Update
/Field Note
Update: This has now been proved to be a hoax. See “Mylow Magnetic Motor Hoax Revealed.”
Thanks to Alan Sterling’s updates and reporting on developments with the “Mylow” magnetic motor, a number of people have been working to replicate this. And while some have used the opportunity to raise even more skepticism, it turns out that building a motor that will work the way Mylow has reportedly demonstrated in his videos is a little more challenging that it first appears.
Background: An inventor from Chicago who goes by the pseudonym, “Mylow”, appears to have a knack for getting all-magnet motor designs to work that are based on the efforts of the late Howard Johnson. And he is intent on giving his design away to the planet in an open source manner.
On March 17, 2009, he posted his first video showing full rotation of the “Stonehenge model”, that Johnson worked on in the early 1980s to demonstrate to the U.S. Patent Office. (See earlier Mylow magnet motor report.) Mylow purposely kept his replication as close as possible to Johnson’s design — per the photos, not the patent. (more…)
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Video: James Burke’s Knowledge Web
/Field Note
“Learners may study either history or physics, or perhaps only Renaissance history and astrophysics. People tend to become experts in highly specialized fields, learning more and more about less and less.”
James Burke
In following down one line of investigation for the first documentary I’m researching, I was reminded of an interview I did with James Burke for one of the first issues of Visions magazine.
In case you don’t know, James Burke is probably best known as the author and host of the television series Connections on PBS and The Learning Channel.
As it explains on his Knowledge Web web site (k-web.org), “James’ work explores the idiosyncratic relationships between technology, science, and social change throughout modern history. Through a variety of media—radio, television, print, and now the World Wide Web—James has brought the world a unique perspective on how all of history is interrelated and interdependent. (more…)
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Fifth X-Conference Continues Calls for UFO Disclosure and UN Investigation
/Field Note
The Paradigm Research Group’s fifth X-Conference in Gaithersburg, MD wrapped up this week (April 17-19), followed with a press conference at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. (No relation to the X-Journals, by the way.)
This event is an integral part of The Paradigm Research Group’s advocacy work aiming to change government policy toward extraterrestrial-related phenomena, according to a press statement. “Since 1947 the United States has imposed a ‘truth embargo’ on formal acknowledgment of an extraterrestrial presence engaging the human race,” the group said in the statement. “This engagement has been confirmed by a mountain of evidence compiled by hundreds of researchers over six decades.” (more…)
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Insiders Expose Reasons for Secrecy /Disclosure Project Background
/Field Note
Originally released by the Disclosure Project November 13, 2007, this offers a perspective on UFOs, government secrecy and new energy technologies that steers clear of the typical, over-simplified “conspiracy theory” rhetoric. It is followed with a video presentation which further illuminates why a reportedly highly classified program related to UFOs continues to this day while disinformation and ridicule is used year after year to keep elected leaders and the general public uncertain, misinformed or confused.
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