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11 Predictions for the World in 2030 That May Sound Outrageous Today but not in the Future. - I Look Forward To. All futurism is speculation. It's time someone made some claims. I've picked developments I honestly consider plausible. Here are my 11 predictions for the world of 2030. I'm backing these claims up with previous writings. Alright, crystal ball time: 1. A tiny computer that fits in your ear, and translates what you hear into your own language? 2. Aubrey de Grey says: I think we have a 50% chance of achieving medicine capable of getting people to 200 in the decade 2030-2040. 3. The eradication of extreme poverty will happen in our lifetime. 4. Soil-based agriculture is so passé. 5. I'm sure you've dreamed it: Getting into a car, kicking your shoes off and leaning back with a good movie and a cold beer while your self-driven car takes you safely to your destination, without your having to worry about directions or pedestrians. 6.
I actually think this is a conservative estimate. 7. Probably a lot sooner, actually. 8. 9. 10. 11. Breakthrough promises $1.50 per gallon synthetic gasoline with no carbon emissions. Cella Energy CEO Stephen Voller exhibits his breakthrough technology - right shows the fuel's hydrogen microbeads under a microscope UK-based Cella Energy has developed a synthetic fuel that could lead to US$1.50 per gallon gasoline. Apart from promising a future transportation fuel with a stable price regardless of oil prices, the fuel is hydrogen based and produces no carbon emissions when burned. The technology is based on complex hydrides, and has been developed over a four year top secret program at the prestigious Rutherford Appleton Laboratory near Oxford. Early indications are that the fuel can be used in existing internal combustion engined vehicles without engine modification.
According to Stephen Voller CEO at Cella Energy, the technology was developed using advanced materials science, taking high energy materials and encapsulating them using a nanostructuring technique called coaxial electrospraying. About the Author Post a CommentRelated Articles. Save up during 2011, so you can go to space in 2012. Metal ‘Foam’ Could Mean Lighter Ships | Autopia. An innovative “foaming” aluminum that expands like a sponge and bonds to steel could cut the weight of cargo ships as much as 30 percent, reducing their fuel consumption and emissions. The aluminum-titanium hydride powder expands when heated. The material, aluminum-titanium hydride powder, expands like foam when heated and is said to be lighter than water and remarkably stiff. It was developed at Fraunhofer Institute for Machine Tools and Forming Technology in Chemnitz, Germany, The powder is pressed into bars that are sandwiched between steel sheets and heated.
The foam rises — much like bread — at about 650 Celsius (1,200 degrees Fahrenheit) and bonds to the steel without additional adhesives. The resulting plates will deform but not break, which the researchers say means cargo vessels could navigate year-round without fear of ice sheets. Using the compound could cut the weight of a typical cargo ship by 1,000 tons, the researchers say. Main photo: Kevin / Flickr. Scientists Disrupt Moral Reasoning With Magnets To The Skull. Newly Discovered Molecule Will Make Rocket Fuel Super Efficient.
Solar Power Is Cheaper Than Nuclear for the First Time. Here’s bright spot in the news of the day: energy from new solar installations has, for the first time, become cheaper than energy from new nuclear plants, according to a new Duke University study. Thanks to cost-saving technologies and economies of scale, price can no longer be an excuse to invest in nuclear power rather than solar. In North Carolina, nuclear energy costs 16 cents per kilowatt hour (the energy required to run 10 100-watt light bulbs for an hour), whereas solar is now going for 14 cents per kWh — a rate that continues to fall. In regions with more annual sunlight, the price gap is almost certainly even more pronounced. The data also analyzed only conventional photovoltaic power, not the concentrating technologies of troughs and reflectors, which also bring costs down. The study was developed in response to aggressive lobbying by the nuclear industry, which has tried to position itself as the most affordable way to reduce carbon emissions.
Via The Energy Collective. Italian town's wind farm windfall. 3 December 2010Last updated at 00:30 By Duncan Kennedy BBC News, Tocco Da Casauria Tocco Da Casauria has embraced its wind turbines Ever wanted to have your rubbish collection bill reduced? Or have the cost of your children's school meals cut? Or live in a place where you get cheap visits to the local health spa? There is one town in Italy where all this is possible, thanks to wind.
The town is Tocco Da Casauria and it is being held up as an example of what is possible with renewable energy. Surplus power Tocco is in the mountainous Abruzzo region of central Italy. Profits from the wind turbines are going towards a local school Set on a hill, it is a place where small cafes sit alongside olive oil shops in narrow, cobbled streets. But as you peer between the houses coloured pink, yellow and green, out into the distance beyond, two impressive sights stand out: the rugged mountains, recently tipped off with the first snowfalls of winter, and four wind turbines. Tax cuts “Start Quote Not in Tocco. See the world through a bionic eye. Wendy Zukerman, Asia Pacific reporter What might your surroundings look like with a bionic eye? New simulations from Australia's National ICT Centre for Excellence (NICTA) are recreating what patients can expect to see with the next two generations of their device (see video above).
The microchip, being developed by Bionic Vision Australia in collaboration with the University of New South Wales and NICTA, will help restore sight to people with retinal dystrophy - a condition where photoreceptors, the light-sensitive cells in the retina, degenerate, leading to blindness. When implanted at the back of the eye, light bypasses the damaged photoreceptors and the device directly stimulates retinal ganglion cells. Images are then projected through the optic nerve, eventually reaching the visual cortex where they are interpreted.
The system uses a head-mounted camera to detect light and sends a video-like feed to a processor that activates electrodes on the implanted chip. The £2.2billion superlab where scientists are creating a star on Earth. By Daily Mail Reporter Updated: 20:10 GMT, 17 November 2010 It may look like any average building but behind closed doors could lie the answer to safe renewable energy of the future. Here at the National Ignition Facility in Livermore California, scientists are aiming to build the world's first sustainable fusion reactor by 'creating a miniature star on Earth'. Following a series of key experiments over the last few weeks, the £2.2 billion project has inched a little closer to its goal of igniting a workable fusion reaction by 2012. Experiment: Scientists hope that their £2.2billion 'miniature star on earth' will become the world's first sustainable fusion reactor by 2012 According to the National Ignition Facility (NIF) team in Livermore, on November 2 they fired up the 192 lasers beams at the centre of the reactor and aimed them at a glass target containing tritium and deuterium gas.
For a direct comparison, the temperature at the centre of the sun is 27 million degrees Fahrenheit.
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