USA Top Oil Producer by 2016
According to the International Energy Agency (IEA) the United States will overtake Saudi Arabia and Russia as the world’s top oil producer by 2016. What’s more Canada is believed to have more natural resources than…
Engineering
3D Desktop Printing, Endless Possibilities
Imagine what you will replicate when you get your first 3D printer! A new beak for your bird? An engagement ring for your fiancée? Prosthetics for a loved one that can be enlarged as they…
Self Sufficient Sea City of the Future
Currently approximately 71% of the earth’s surface is ocean and if global warming projections are accurate, and so far they have been, more of the earth’s surface will be submerged. With the threat of rising…
Next Generation Construct Platform, Makeblock
Makeblock has just made creativity even simpler. The extrusion based construct platform allows for creative designs of machines, robots and artware, and anything else in between. Using mostly aluminium, Makeblock’s key is its simplicity, requiring…
WiTricity Charges Forward with Wireless Electricity
The world disposes of 40 billion batteries each year; many lay corroding in dumps, polluting ground water. And take one look under your desk and you might get an idea of how entangled the world…
Egypt’s $90 Billion South Valley Project
While civilization blossomed in a narrow strip of land in the valley and delta of the Nile River in early times, today, 83 million Egyptians are now densely packed into just 3 percent of the…
Wind Lens: Fluid Dynamics Concentrated Wind Energy
Yuji Ohya, a professor of renewable energy dynamics and applied mechanics, and his team at Kyushu University have impressed a Japanese consortium enough to attract an investment of $1.5 billion in an offshore wind power…
We will all be in Driverless Cars by 2020?
The driverless car was the brainchild of the Director of the Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and co-inventor of Google Street View, Sebastian Thrun. Thrun was deeply affected by the death of a childhood friend in…
How many squares do you see? (Answer)
There are a total of 49 squares in this image. See where they are below. First you start with your small squares: That gives you 16 small squares. The you find your medium squares: Each blue…
Portable Operating Theaters – Operating Bubbles
Hypobaric Chambers, also referred to as altitude chambers, are secure, bacteria-free chambers used to measure the effects of high and low altitude or low oxygen on the human body. The chambers are usually used by…
