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I just came back from an IEEE conference on
Science and Technology in Boston – This is a rapid fire quick
slideshow you need to see on the real deal quantitatively for the
coming
climate change based on paleoclimatology. It
is a continuous stream of 18 PDF images that you can click
through quickly. I’m tailoring it for a possible 20-minute TED
talk soon and Dr. Jim Hansen deserves all of the credit for
it. Hope you appreciate the effort that went into summarizing the
highlights of my 32-page
journal article into it.
By the
way, it is amazing to learn about child prodigies and especially
when it is an electrical engineer graduating from college at 9
years old! . Reminds me of the story of David Adair and how the
military grabbed him up almost immediately here in the USA to
work on advanced rocket and jet engines. Over in Belgium, I’m
sure things are different.
Story #1
is exciting to see with some of our huge military budget being
allocated to solving the amazing amount of free solar power
available in space (it is 10 times the 1 kW per square meter of
earth!). Northrup Grumman won the contract for a
demonstration of Space Solar Power. However, my guess is that we
are just playing catch up to the Chinese, since Forbes magazine
reported six months ago about the China
Space Solar Power development project . Also, CNBC said at that
time, “China plans a solar power play in space that
NASA abandoned decades ago”. However, the clincher is from Foreign
Policy magazine who said in June that China is
winning the space solar power race and that, “China plans on
putting a commercial-scale solar power station in orbit by 2050,
an accomplishment that would give it bragging rights as the first
nation to harness the sun’s energy
in space and beam power down to Earth” . A related
article links the latest mystery about the Air Force space plane
that stayed in orbit for two years and landed itself (or under
remote control perhaps) for the second time.
Story #3
is a true breakthrough in window coatings that, in this case, can
actually switch from shielding incoming sunshine to transmitting
it. The Joule magazine article it is based on says
that the coating is for a “Switchable Optical Transmittance” that
is unheard-of in previous window coatings. Thus, the coating of
porous polymers serves a dual purpose for “Optical and Thermal
Regulation”. By switching from transparent to a white
translucence, it can keep buildings cool in the summer and warmer
in the winter.
Story #4
is another Joule magazine article https://www.cell.com/joule/pdf/S2542-4351(19)30412-X.pdf which
has been given a lot of press this November, like “Energy from
Thin Air” and “Light from Darkness”. However, us engineers know a
lot about thermoelectric generators (TEGs), which are inherently
inefficient and usually require a very hot source to be
worthwhile. In this case, the slight temperature difference
between a cool metal and a warmer ambient temperature surface is
enough to generate milliwatts to light a single LED. Maybe good
for a trickle charge into a battery perhaps.
Story #5
is our way of announcing a Press Release for aeronautical
engineer, David Froning, and his fantastic new book, Faster
Than Light: Warp Drive and Quantum Vacuum Power .
It was two years in the making, from a collection of
autobiographical chapters and a host of journal articles and
slideshows. The book was negotiated for a set of color plates in
the middle, so showcase David’s amazing simulations based on
supersonic studies that parallel the superluminal warping of the
quantum vacuum permeability and permittivity. The book is very
readable and every term is explained with footnotes where needed,
since I edited the book meticulously. Just proud to bring about a
quantum leap in space travel for future generations, since two
experimental approaches to the warp effect has been laboratory
tested and at White Sands missile base by Froning, which gave me
the motivation to complete the huge editing task of a 450-page
book. The video we include here will give one a real sense of the
actual speed of light as well.
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1) Air Force Building Solar Power in Space
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The U.S. Air Force is trying to find out if we
could one day collect solar power in space and beam it down to
Earth, military newspaper Stars and Stripes reports.
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The Space Solar Power Incremental Demonstration and
Research project is a over $100 million partnership between the
Air Force and defense contractor Northrop Grumman. The idea is to
cut down on the need to deliver armed convoys full of fuel to
power remote military outposts — and maybe provide power for
civilians in remote areas.
“To ensure [Department of
Defense] mission success, we must have the energy we need at the
right place at the right time,” Eric Felt, director of the Air
Force Research Laboratory in Albuquerque’s Space Vehicles
Directorate, told Stars and Stripes. “Energy is a strategic
enabler and potential vulnerability for our nation and our
Department of Defense.
Related Article
USAF X378 SPACE PLANE
MYSTERIOUS MISSION
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2) Why It's Time to Take Bioelectronic Medicine
Seriously
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TIME
Magazine, November 2019
The remarkable convergence of
advances in bioengineering and neurology has resulted in a
fast-developing way to treat chronic diseases, known as bioelectronic
medicine. These advances allow scientists to identify specific
nerves and implant devices that can be activated when needed to
stimulate or dial down their activity; that in turn controls
cells in organs targeted by those nerves that regulate the body’s
many immune and metabolic responses. While some bioelectronic, or
electroceutical, therapies already exist to treat conditions such
as headaches, certain cases of depression, as well as chronic and
sinus pain, the new wave of electricity-based strategies could
expand to help people with some of the most widespread chronic
diseases in the world, including high blood pressure, arthritis,
diabetes, some forms of blindness and even dementia.
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3) Porous Polymer Coatings Could Regulate Heat and
Light in Buildings
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New
coating materials that could help cool buildings in the summer,
and then change their optical and thermal properties in the winter
to keep the same buildings warm, have been created by researchers
in the US. The polymer-based materials could also allow daylight
to illuminate building interiors.
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4) New Invention Runs on Cool Night Air
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When Hurricane Dorian smothered
the Grand Bahamas and Abaco Islands for 41 hours this month, it
knocked out power and plunged nearly 70,000 people into darkness.
Two years ago, Hurricane Maria smashed Puerto Rico’s electrical
grid, leaving 3 million people without working lights, many of
which stayed off for months. Yet for 1.6 billion people worldwide,
those bleak conditions are not the result of a natural disaster,
but instead, part of everyday life without stable electricity. Even
in the U.S., where energy access is universal, rural communities
that lack the electrical infrastructure for less expensive power
can struggle to keep the lights on.
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5) Animation: Visualizing the Speed Of Light Fast But
Slow Plus New Book: Faster Than Light
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So while
light obviously travels at a ludicrous speed, it really depends on
your vantage point.
On Earth,
light is instantaneous – but anywhere else in the universe, it’s
pretty inadequate for getting anywhere far (especially in contrast
to the average human lifespan).
IRI's
President, edited the new book entitled FASTER THAN LIGHT
TRAVEL by H. David Froning, a 30-year veteran
engineer who worked on several designs for future space travel
propulsion, gives us this exceptional compilation of his
discoveries, struggles and experiences in the realm of faster than
light space travel. Central to the concept of faster than light
travel is that the vacuum of space itself (the spacetime metric) can
be utilized in propulsion systems. “Engineering the vacuum,” as this
is called, involves discovering how space can be altered to provide
energy/thrust for future spacecraft. Packed with diagrams, some of
which show how, as a starship accelerates away from Earth, it
disappears and reappears in only seconds. But during these seconds
of disappearance, the ship, in effect, leaps high above space-time
and over stupendous distances to reach speeds that are billions of
times greater than light-speed. Lots of great material on quantum
vacuum power, anti-gravity propulsion effects, the velocity of light
in spacetime altered regions, effective mass in spacetime-altered
regions, warp drives, and tons more!.
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