Archive for August, 2008

Energy for 26,000 years: geothermal energy

Author: admin | Filed under: Energy & Environment, Research Friday Aug 22,2008

Everyone is excited with solar panels and almost every rich guy who builds a house takes into account a power solution to reduce the electric bill to minimum. At the same time, few know that the internal energy (magma) of the planet has a huge potential. For example, only 1% of geothermal reserves in the [...]

Armies Composed Of 30% Military Robots By 2020

Author: Mihail Andrici | Filed under: Artificial Intelligence, Research, Security & Defense Thursday Aug 21,2008

Military robots are autonomous or remote-controlled devices designed for military applications.
If we stick to this definition, we can say that military robots have been around ever since World War II and the Cold War trough the presence of the German Goliath Track Mine and the Soviet Teletank. But both these robots were simple and made [...]

Water On The Moon

Author: Mihail Andrici | Filed under: Astronomy, Space Wednesday Aug 20,2008

Studies made on some of the 381.7 kg of rocks and other materials gathered during the Apollo missions (much of which is currently stored at the Lunar Receiving Laboratory in Houston) proved there is some amount of water on the moon but there was no knowledge of how much there was and how to extract [...]

Batteries based on sweat and human blood

Author: admin | Filed under: Energy & Environment, Nanotech, Research Wednesday Aug 20,2008

U.S. researchers have created a new electric battery, capable to operate on the basis of sweating or human blood, similar to a simple piece of black paper and which may have a wide range of applications. Researchers have produced a molecular structure formed in proportion of 90% of pulp and proportion of 10% of nano-tubes [...]

Answers to questions

Author: admin | Filed under: Uncategorized Tuesday Aug 5,2008

Have you ever wanted to find short and fast answers to some of your questions? Well, now you have the possibility to achive that. How’s that? Recently, i’ve found a new site, 17things.com, a site that was set up to bring answers to everyday questions and not only.
Questions like the ones below will always have [...]

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