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• Russian Plans for Nuclear Space Propulsion

  
  Parabolic Arc — Authority: 517
  Highlights from a Nov. 5 Presentation on Nuclear Propulsion (...) Read the rest of Russian Plans for Nuclear Space Propulsion (4 words) © Douglas for Parabolic Arc , 2009. | Permalink | No comment |Add to del.icio.us Post tags: nuclear propulsion , Russia Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh
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• I love my electric motor....

  
  Boat Bits — Authority: 424
  We just left the St Martin lagoon, coming out through the bridge with the tide running in and the motor only pulled 60 amps for a few minutes through the bridge where the tide was at its worst being channeled through the bridge. Most of the sedate motor was at just 20 amps. Nice to be back in crystal clear ...
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• Electric Solar Wind Sail Could Have Five Times Higher Thrust

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  An electric solar wind sail is a recently introduced propellantless space propulsion method whose technical development has also started. The electric sail consists of a set of long, thin, centrifugally stretched and conducting tethers which are charged positively and kept in a high positive potential of order 20 kV ...
  2 days ago

• Solicitor General Appeals HSPD-12 Case to Supreme Court

  
  The LA Progressive — Authority: 485
  The Solicitor General has opened a Pandora’s Box, permitting the Supreme Court to possibly erase all protections that citizens might have against government snooping into the most intimate details of... [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]
  4 days ago

• Toyota May Expand Prius Into A Sub-Brand

  
  MixedPower.com — Authority: 103
  A top executive with the U.S. arm of Toyota Motor Corp said on Monday the automaker may expand the Prius nameplate into a marketing sub-brand for a broad family of low-emission, high-mileage hybrid vehicles . Speaking at the Reuters Auto Summit in Detroit, Bob Carter , the group vice president and general ...
  6 days ago

• Discussion Related to Skylon Spaceplane Interview

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  This site had an interview with Richard Varvill, the Technical Director and Chief Designer at Reaction Engines Limited. Reaction Engines Limited is a UK company that is developing a fully reusable launch system called Skylon. There was a comment (link to the comment) by reader Goatguy which has a response from ...
  6 days ago

• Qian Xuesen, Father of China’s Space Program, Is Dead at 98

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 915
  Mr. Qian was a brilliant rocket scientist who led China’s space and military rocketry efforts after he was drummed out of the U.S. during the redbaiting of the McCarthy era.
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• MoD, Argyll, redundant submarines and nuclear waste disposal

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  Much of the Scottish Media has spent the last two days headlining the Ministry of Defence’s (MoD) intention to dump nuclear waste from redundant nuclear submarines in up to 5 locations in Scotland.Our own concern with the matter – apart from environmental concerns that ground our opposition to nuclear energy ...
  1 week ago

• Local Motors Premiers the Rally Fighter Off-Road Desert Racer at SEMA

  
  GotBroken.Com — Authority: 141
  The Off-Road Racer designed for car enthusiasts, by car enthusiasts is debuted at the biggest industry event of the year – at SEMA, in the “Making Green Cool Zone”It’s one of the most exciting cars to hit the road in ages. Aggressive, sleek and inspired by old War Birds, the Local Motors Rally Fighter has [...]
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• Gates Launches Innovative New Fuel Hose that Saves Gas and Protects the Environment

  
  GotBroken.Com — Authority: 141
  Gates Corporation today launched Barricade™ fuel hose, an innovative new hose that saves gas and protects the environment. The low-permeation Barricade™ hose prevents fuel vapor loss while delivering peak fuel efficiency. It’s designed for virtually any engine application that’s equipped with a conventional ...
  1 week ago

• Carnival of Space 127

  
  Next Big Future — Authority: 630
  1. Astroengine has a picture and video of the launch of Ares I-X. 2 The Universe Today had seven pictures of the Ares i-X launch 3. Collect Space reports NASAs Ares I-X to fly on historic hardware with commemorative payload 4. Centauri Dreams takes a look in two posts at the ...
  1 week ago

• The Origins of the “Global Warming” Scare

  
  MATADOR NINETY-FOUR — Authority: 424
    Powered by Max Banner Ads   Margaret Thatcher used the issue of “Global Warming” as a means to gain national and international credibilityDid you know, that the “Human caused Global Warming” hypothesis didn´t originate in the 1980s, but actually in the 1880s? Although, until the late 1970s, the ...
  1 week ago

• MAN Diesel has developed two new engine variants targeted at the Chinese coast and river market segment

  
  Power Industry News — Authority: 145
  M AN Diesel Tailors Engines For Chinese Market MAN Diesel has developed two new engine variants targeted at the Chinese coast and river market segment, representing some of the world’s busiest shipping lanes. The new S35MC-C9 and the S40MC-C9 variants are based on MAN Diesel’s existing range of ...
  1 week ago

• EMdrive Microwave Propulsion

  
  DarkGovernment — Authority: 124
  The Emdrive is an electromagnetic drive that would generate thrust from a closed system — “impossible” say some experts. Principle of Operation At first sight the idea of propulsion without propellant seems impossible. However the technology is firmly anchored in the basic laws of physics and ...
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• Astute working up to her maiden voyage to Faslane

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 144
  The first of the Royal Navy’s advanced Astute class submarines, HMS Astute herself, may be well over budget and well over time (as is the MoD’s modus operandi) but it is at last within a few months of arriving at her home port of Faslane, on the Clyde in Argyll.Under Commander AL Coles OBE (Andy [...]
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• Tier 2 to Tier 4 In One Step

  
  Power Industry News — Authority: 145
  Tier 2 to Tier 4 — In One Step ( Source: WWW.DIESELGASTURBINE.COM ) Anyone building a ferryboat to operate in the state of California, U.S.A., had better be prepared to make low emissions the leading design criteria. And for a series of ferryboats for the San Francisco, California bay area Water Emergency ...
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• Mars Jump Gates and UFO Nuclear Secrets

  
  Dad2059's Webzine of Science Fiction, Science Fact and Esoterica — Authority: 123
  Who needs the Constellation Program when we already possess the technology to go to Mars and build underground cities and bases there? According to Andrew D. Basiago, we (meaning the US) have jump-gate and time travel capability that was stolen from Nicola Tesla before he died in 1946. Interesting interview on Red ...
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• Tesla Roadster sets World EV record

  
  The Wheel Deal — Authority: 112
  Completing 501 kilometres on a single charge, a Tesla Roadster has just set the world distance record for electric production vehicles. Driven by Simon Hackett and Emilis Prelgauskas in this week’s 10th running of the Global Green Challenge down in Australia, the pair drove their electric sports car from Alice ...
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• Russian space chief proposes nuclear spaceship

  
  Lunar Pioneer — Authority: 438
  Russias space agency chief is proposing to build a new spaceship with a nuclear engine. Anatoly Perminov told a government meeting Wednesday that the preliminary design could be ready by 2012. He said it will then take nine more years and 17 billion rubles (about $600 million or 400 million euros) to build the ship. ...
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• VIDEO: controversial Emdrive to be investigated by UK govt

  
  Hyperbola — Authority: 529
  Does this video show a revolutionary new propulsion system or is the rotation simply a byproduct of convection? The British National Space Centres technology and industrial policy deputy director has told Hyperbola that 2010 could see a workshop on the Emdrive to bring together the expertise to tackle the ...
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