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Complete Colorado points to an article in the Daily Camera on Xcel’s efforts to install “smart grid” technology in (where else?) Boulder. I definitely don’t like the idea of the power company (or envirokook do-gooders in the local government) having the authority to turn down my air conditioning or water heater whenever they find it […] A disturbing look at the future of military automation. One bright spot they apparently overlook in this is the fact that there really isn’t anyone with the capabilities to challenge the U.S. in battlefield automation (yet). Another is the very real possibility that (as suggested by the ‘more Kosovos, fewer Iraqs’ comment) such weapons would […] A GMD interceptor has once again worked in a test firing. As alluded to in the post, one has to wonder just how much “proof” the Obama administration will require to “prove” that missile defense at all levels is “proven technology”…or whether that vague standard is just weasel-words to rationalize an eventual pullback from Bush […] Say goodbye to a submarine you probably didn’t even know existed: The specialized submarine has performed a variety of missions that included search, object recovery, geological survey, oceanographic research, and installation and maintenance of underwater equipment. Following the loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger in 1986, the NR-1 was used to search for, identify and […] The Japan Space Elevator Association is planning to build (obviously enough) a space elevator: Now the finest scientific minds of Japan are devoting themselves to cracking the greatest sci-fi vision of all: the space elevator. Man has so far conquered space by painfully and inefficiently blasting himself out of the atmosphere but the 21st century […] Let’s hope NASA can actually make something of this project – NASA Eyes Nuclear Reactor for Moon Base: Supported at a cost of about $10 million a year, the Fission Surface Power Project this week awarded two contracts for power conversion units, used to turn the heat of nuclear reactions into electricity… The converter design […] Not sure if the economics would support a full-scale version of this on Earth any time in the near future, but it’s got a lot of possibilities for lunar and Mars colonization – Farming in the Sky. The PopSci article notes that while a fully-integrated implementation is still being worked, the various technological bits and […] |
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