Sahara Forest Project: Turning Deserts Into Forested Havens

The world has an abundance of deserts, sunlight, saltwater and CO2 and a shortage of arable land, food , clean energy, fresh water and clean air. Finding ways to use what is abundant to produce…

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Reviving the Silk Road: Connecting China’s High Speed Rail to Europe

In a recent post we took a look at how China will spend $300 billion to expand its HSR lines across China to about 17,000 miles by 2020 thereby outspending the rest of the world…

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500 HP Dodge Tomahawk 0-60 in 2.5 and tops out at 420 MPH

Sensation seeking is a bona fide personality trait thought to have a strong genetic component.  The Sensation-Seeking Scale measures a person’s readiness to take risks for the sake of experiencing stimulation.  A look at recently…

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Japanese Floating Train Magnetically Levitates to 311 MPH

Japanese engineers have undertaken a bold new initiative to introduce ‘floating’ trains, in a bid to make rail transport in Japan even more efficient. While the project remains in its infancy, requiring a colossal amount…

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Electromagnetic Harvester. Charging Batteries from Thin Air

Capacitive electromagnetic fields are created by a simple current flow in devices like photocopiers, printers, coffee makers, wireless devices , and electric substations.  Most of these activities involve the transfer of information as their primary…

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Jet Engine Blows Photographers To The Ground On Take Off

Sometimes it’s easy to underestimate the power of some aircraft. Unfortunately, this has been learned the hard way down through the years, one of the most infamous being the RIAT air show at RAF Cottesmore…

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Move Over Trucks! Here Comes Aerocraft The Heavy Lifting Blimp

The aircraft manufacturer Aeros has unveiled the first stages of a staggering new development in aviation, the ‘blimp-like’ Aeroscraft. To use its full, technical name, it is a Rigid Variable Buoyancy Air Vehicle. The first…

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Could “Test Tube Meat” End World Hunger?

Scientists and engineers are beginning to grow meat in laboratories, not artificial meat, but meat that is indistinguishable from animal meat but without the animal. In vitro means “in a test tube” or a culture…

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The Twisted One – CityLife Milano, Milan, Italy

A ‘twisted’ tower designed by Zaha Hadid Architects (ZHA) is currently under construction as part of a project which will dramatically alter the skyline of Milan, Italy. Forming part of the CityLife Milano masterplan, and…

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Robert Langer Profile. Engineering Synthetic Skin

I sat down with Dr. Robert Langer and a small group of journalists at MIT this week to discuss his lifetime work which includes 810 patents issued or pending, 24 companies that have received over…

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