Geothermal Power - News - Science. Lithium Producer Chases Tesla’s Bold Battery Plan By ERICA GIES The California company Simbol Materials is building a plant that will use a novel extraction process, in the hopes that it can provide the lithium needed for the batteries in Tesla’s cars. March 17, 2014, Monday Geothermal Designs Arise as a Stormproof Resource By ALISON GREGOR Digging geothermal wells can be expensive and difficult, and the systems have been slow to catch on in New York City, but the benefits may eventually outweigh the costs. November 7, 2012, Wednesday Underway in Barcelona: the Global Clean Energy Forum By CHRISTOPHER F. As the Global Clean Energy Forum gets underway in Barcelona, the International Herald Tribune has published a series of articles on the subject.
October 02, 2012, Tuesday Geothermal Power Tests Tradition in Japan By YURIKO NAGANO Japan has opened national parks up to geothermal power development, causing tension among conflicting local business interests, environmentalists and energy companies. "Electromagnetic Wormhole" Could Make Objects Invisible. October 23, 2007 An "electromagnetic wormhole" could make objects traveling through it invisible, scientists say. A group of mathematicians, including Allan Greenleaf of the University of Rochester, recently thought up a way to build such a device. It would not be what is commonly known as a wormhole—a theoretical bend in space and time that could serve as a shortcut for traveling over vast distances. Instead, once something entered one end of the newly theorized tunnel, the object would be electromagnetically invisible to outside observation until it emerged from the other side, Greenleaf said.
"It would create a complete a disconnection between the outside world and stuff inside the cloaking region," Greenleaf said. "It's good for hiding things. " This tunnel would get its stealthiness through a coating of metamaterials, an experimental class of artificial substances with uniquely engineered properties, such as the ability to bend light in novel ways.
Invisibility "Tunnel" Photography of Curiosity Landing Site on Mars First HD Panorama of Gale Crater. 2012 March 12 - The Scale of the Universe Interactive. Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. 2012 March 12 The Scale of the Universe - Interactive Flash Animation Credit & Copyright: Cary & Michael Huang Explanation: What does the universe look like on small scales?
On large scales? Tomorrow's picture: dust before galaxies Authors & editors: Robert Nemiroff (MTU) & Jerry Bonnell (UMCP)NASA Official: Phillip Newman Specific rights apply.NASA Web Privacy Policy and Important NoticesA service of:ASD at NASA / GSFC& Michigan Tech. Two New Cloaking Devices Close In on True Invisibility. May 6, 2009 Cloaking devices, like the Star Trek technology that can make whole Romulan warships disappear, came a step closer to reality last week. Two independent teams have developed silicon-based materials that can hide microscopic objects. The materials are the first to work in near-infrared light, wavelengths very close to visible light. On a flat surface, an object covered with a piece of cloth would normally be detectable based on its telltale bump. A team led by Xiang Zhang at the University of California, Berkeley, achieved this effect by drilling scores of tiny nano-holes into the cloaking material.
(See pictures of materials that use nanotechnology.) These holes change the material's optical properties, allowing light to bend around the hidden object, as described in the April 29 issue of Nature Materials. The other team, led by Michal Lipson at Cornell University, achieved the same effect by covering their material's surface with tiny pillars also designed to bend light. Stephen Hawking to demonstrate iBrain technology next month - Ideas@Innovations. Posted at 11:57 AM ET, 06/25/2012 Jun 25, 2012 03:57 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost Physicist and best-selling author Stephen Hawking appears in Seattle, June 16. (Ted S. Warren - AP) Scientists may have discovered a way to successfully “hack” the brain of one of the world’s most renowned scientists.
Stephen Hawking, the famed theoretical physicist diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease, lost the ability to speak 30 years ago. Neurovigil's iBrain headband records brainwave data while the user is sleeping. Without a new means of communication, Hawking runs the risk of being rendered mute -- a horrifying prospect for the scientific community that has benefitted greatly from his findings. But a new device called the iBrain may significantly improve Hawkings’s ability to communicate. Low is the CEO of NeuroVigil, the San Diego-based company that created the iBrain.
(The Telegraph via Reddit) Read more news and ideas on Innovations: The low-wage ‘genius’ of Apple The Internet’s monster mash. Wardenclyffe Tower. Coordinates: Wardenclyffe Tower (1901–1917) also known as the Tesla Tower, was an early wireless transmission tower designed by Nikola Tesla in Shoreham, New York and intended for commercial trans-Atlantic wireless telephony, broadcasting, and proof-of-concept demonstrations of wireless power transmission.[2][3] It was never fully operational,[4] and the tower was demolished in 1917.
The tower was named after James S. Warden, a western lawyer and banker who had purchased land for the endeavor in Shoreham, Long Island, about sixty miles from Manhattan. Here he built a resort community known as Wardenclyffe-On-Sound. He offered Tesla 200 acres (81 ha) of land close to a railway line on which to build his wireless telecommunications tower and laboratory facility. Warden planned to eventually build housing for 2000-2500 people who would work in a factory producing Tesla's patented devices.[5] History[edit] Construction[edit] Tesla Ready for Business - August 7, 1901 New-York tribune article.