Turning Landfills into Power Plants

Turning Landfills into Power Plants

Swedish researchers have discovered a method of harnessing and storing the hydrogen released from landfill incinerator ash. Usually the ash is used to covered landfills or can also be used in the manufacture of construction…

Google Fiber Next Stop Looks to be Austin, TX

Google Fiber Next Stop Looks to be Austin, TX

It looks like Google’s super-high-speed internet service is headed for Austin. A post entitled “Google Fiber’s next stop: Austin, Texas” appeared momentarily on the official Google Fiber blog this past Saturday — before vanishing, bolstering…

Why Don’t We Have Holodecks?

Why Don’t We Have Holodecks?

In one of the classic Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes, “The Big Goodbye,” Captain Picard dons a fedora as 1940s sleuth Dixon Hill. Picard found a brief escape from life on the Enterprise by…

China begins work on 105 KMH Maglev Trains

China begins work on 105 KMH Maglev Trains

Following on from our reports of Japanese rail authorities looking into the construction of high speed magnetic levitation (Maglev) trains, construction will soon begin in neighboring China on their very own Maglev trains. All proposals and evaluations,…