Rehan Farooqi said he belonged to the family of mechanical engineers and his elders too had worked on various projects of public welfare. He maintained that he had managed to separate hydrogen gas from water to use it as fuel. “It was my dream since childhood to invent such a generator that would run on water. Finally my dream has come true,” Rehman said proudly.

He added the contraption, which was in its initial phase, could produce 12 kilowatts electricity by consuming only one litre of water and the power produced was enough for five hours use in a house.He said that the size of his invention was 4 by 4 feet and its price was affordable as he intended to help overcome the prevailing energy crisis in the country.

"I wanted to brighten the name of Pakistan and convey the message to the world that we are a talented and hardworking nation,” he said.“I have designed 12 kilowatt power generator that has been fitted with an engine of 1500 cubic centimeter,” he said, adding that he had introduced the generator to provide cheaper electricity to the general public who have been bearing the brunt of power outages.

1974 study, from Medical College of Virginia: Antineoplastic Activity Of Cannabinoids

Within minutes, victims are like 'zombies' - coherent, but with no free will.

Some victims report emptying bank accounts to robbers or helping them pillage own house.

Drug is made from borrachero tree, which is common in Colombia.

Scopolamine can be blown in the face of a passer-by on the street, and within minutes, that person is under the drug’s effect - scopolamine is odourless and tasteless.

‘You can guide them wherever you want,’ he explained. ‘It’s like they’re a child.’

Black said that one gram of Scopolamine is similar to a gram of cocaine, but later called it ‘worse than anthrax.’ In high doses, it is lethal.

The tree common around Colombia, and is called the ‘borrachero’ tree – loosely translated as the 'get-you-drunk' tree.

Scopolamine is made from the Borrachero tree, which blooms with deceptively beautiful white and yellow flowers. It is said that Colombian mothers warn their children not to fall asleep under the tree, though the leafy green canopies and large yellow and white flowers seem appealing.

Too far out to be easily spotted by telescopes, the potential unseen planet appears to be making its presence felt by disturbing the orbits of so-called Kuiper belt objects, said Rodney Gomes, an astronomer at the National Observatory of Brazil in Rio de Janeiro.

What's intriguing, Gomes said, is that, according to his new calculations, about a half dozen Kuiper belt objects—including the remote body known as Sedna—are in strange orbits compared to where they should be, based on existing solar system models. (Related: "Pluto Neighbor Gets Downsized.")

The objects' unexpected orbits have a few possible explanations, said Gomes, who presented his findings Tuesday at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Timberline Lodge, Oregon.

"But I think the easiest one is a planetary-mass solar companion"—a planet that orbits very far out from the sun but that's massive enough to be having gravitational effects on Kuiper belt objects.

For the new work, Gomes analyzed the orbits of 92 Kuiper belt objects, then compared his results to computer models of how the bodies should be distributed, with and without an additional planet.

If there's no distant world, Gomes concludes, the models don't produce the highly elongated orbits we see for six of the objects.

How big exactly the planetary body might be isn't clear, but there are a lot of possibilities, Gomes added.

Based on his calculations, Gomes thinks a Neptune-size world, about four times bigger than Earth, orbiting 140 billion miles (225 billion kilometers) away from the sun—about 1,500 times farther than Earth—would do the trick.

But so would a Mars-size object—roughly half Earth's size—in a highly elongated orbit that would occasionally bring the body sweeping to within 5 billion miles (8 billion kilometers) of the sun.

Gomes speculates that the mystery object could be a rogue planet that was kicked out of its own star system and later captured by the sun's gravity. (See "'Nomad' Planets More Common Than Thought, May Orbit Black Holes.")

VW even makes the cars here that get 78 mpg but must ship it over seas.

I have added this link that shows a test drive world record with the passat which was 75 mpg US http://www.vehix.com/blog/most-popular/fuel-efficient/vw-tdi-drives-1531-mile...

*****UPDATE**** I am still upset with myself for saying "THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION"t. I understand that it is government regulations that crosses over all party lines. It was just that i had watch bama talking about better milage cars and that was what upset me to make? this video.

A team put a wire with an electric current into some lemonade to make it seem less sugary and more salty.

They have also done the same with cubes of cheese, although in taste tests one reviewer accidentally bit the wire and got a shock. The Japanese researchers hope that electric food might be used to make salt heavy foods less unhealthy.

This would mean those with diabetes or heart disease could still be able to enjoy their favourite foods because they are not so bad for them.

The electric food was developed by Meiji University student Hiromi Nakamura who said that as more electricity generates a deeper salt taste it could have a range of dietary applications.

He also suggested that it could be used for ‘taste sharing’ as the electronic data from a particular taste is recorded on his equipment and could be recreated at a later date.

Electricity has no nutritional value and no calories but does not change the chemical make-up of the food, he added.

Reports said that Otto was the brother of the rocket's designer, Bruno Fischer. The flight had been made in total secrecy because of a fatal attempt at a launch the previous year, combined with the fact that the flight had been made under the auspices of the Reichswehr, the German War Ministry. The rocket, the Referee reported, had been constructed in the town of Barmbeck, near Hamburg, and transported to Rügen.

This all sounds pretty plausible, especially given all the matter-of-fact details combined with the fact that the Germans were in fact hotly pursuing rocket propulsion at the time. Added to this was the fact that Bruno Fischer really existed and was busily at work designing rockets. And in fact, the report caused a considerable fuss at the time it appeared.

The American Rocket Society, the Cleveland Rocket Society, the Austrian Rocket Society, the British Interplanetary Society, GIRD in the Soviet Union were all besieged for information about the amazing rocket flight.

The purpose of the rocket flight, they'd discovered, was to prove: that we are not living on the outside surface of the earth, but rather on the inside surface of a hollow sphere! This was the Hohlweltlehre, or Hollow Earth Doctrine, of Peter Bender that flourished in the anticultural Nazi movement (just as did the equally insane Welteislehre, or World Ice Theory, of Hörbiger, that had such a profound influence upon rocket car inventor Max Valier and German sci fi author Otto Willi Gail).

Franz Mengering, an engineer working for the city of Magdeburg, had hit upon the idea that the hollow earth theory could be proved, if a rocket launched vertically were to land in the antipodes. That is, traveling in a line straight up it would eventually land in the Pacific Ocean, somewhere southeast of New Zealand, which, according to the theory, was directly above Germany.

But scientists with the company's research lab at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh have been able to turn virtually any surface, including liquid water and the human body, into a multi-touch interface.

The new system is called Touché, and it is as awesome as it sounds."

Touché proposes a novel Swept Frequency Capacitive Sensing technique that can not only detect a touch event, but also recognize complex configurations of the human hands and body.

Such contextual information significantly enhances touch interaction in a broad range of applications, from conventional touchscreens to unique contexts and materials.

ZeroN is simply a platform for levitating a small spherical permanent magnet in 3D space. It does this by mounting a hall effect sensor on an electromagnet.

The hall sensor measure the strength of the magnetic field of the ball every few milliseconds and keeps the spherical magnet levitated. To move the object in 3D space, a few webcams track the ball over the platform and tell the electromagnet to move on a CNC-like x y table.

Based on Lee Crocks 2nd version of the 'Energy Cleaner'. The 2nd version was used with good results on over 10,000 people according to the inventor. Lee claimed his 'energy cleaner' assists the body to purge toxins from the cells. Each person's body is different with a constantly changing acid and alkali balance, varying daily stresses and other factors which affect healing. We are basically living filters which trap all kinds of toxins and noxious materials from the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe and which settle in our tissues to bring about a variety of illnesses, cancer and even organ failure. In my case, it has been quite beneficial for;

1) Restful, sound sleep 2) Increased red cell count 3) Elimination of seasonal allergies 4) Increased overall energy 5) No headaches 6) No stomach pains or aches 7) No muscle pains 8) Weight loss 9) Increase urination 10) Lighter color, less smelly urine

Two fortune tellers are being investigated, after the Romanian police uncovered that they have utilized some extraordinary help in their clairvoyant acts.

The pair used information collected from internet search and social networks to gain the trust of their customers, claiming that they could see their personal data through their crystal ball.

In some cases, they also used high-tech surveillance techniques such as hidden cameras and phone tapping.

Judges have worried that informing jurors of their power to nullify will lead to jury anarchy, with jurors following their own sympathies. They suggest that informing of the power to nullify will increase the number of hung juries.

Some judges have argued that informing jurors of their power to nullify places too much weight on their shoulders--that is easier on jurors to simply decide facts, not the complex issues that may be presented in decisions about the morality or appropriateness of laws.

On the other hand, jury nullification provides an important mechanism for feedback. Jurors sometimes use nullification to send messages to prosecutors about misplaced enforcement priorities or what they see as harassing or abusive prosecutions. Jury nullification prevents our criminal justice system from becoming too rigid--it provides some play in the joints for justice, if jurors use their power wisely.

Doug Stanhope has a few recommendations for cases where a 'not guilty' should be applied to nullify bogus charges or over strict laws;

1) - IRS and tax cases
2) - bank foreclosure
3) - non-violent 'crimes' including drugs
4) - drug possession and/or use
5) - prostitution and sex 'crimes' (sodomy, etc.)
6) - victimless crimes
7) - entrapment or government generated charges that did not come from a citizen plaintiff
8) - .09 dui
9) - anything that is none of your or the governments business
10) - cases which overstep the law or authority to unfairly punish - Full Article Source - Permalink

The crowd-sourcing initiative debuted in China last year and, to date, has inspired 33 million website visitors to submit 119,000 ideas.

1. Validate the customer need and opportunity. I always hate it when I see startups invest millions of dollars in technology before they validate their ideas in the market, only to find that customers seem to be looking for something slightly different. Test your idea early in a form that is easy and inexpensive to modify.

2. Demonstrate to you and your team that your idea is implementable. No matter how strong your vision and theory, you won't know for sure until you see it, that it really works. Even the best ideas often fail. Even when it works, key members of your team may not understand it all until they can touch and feel it.

3. Leverage the technology to change directions as needed. In these days of rapid change, almost every startup has to adapt its solution, business model, or target customer. A pre-production prototype will allow you to be adaptive without dire consequences.

4. Convince potential investors to take you seriously. Venture capitalists and angels are all about reducing risk. Per the above points, if you have a validated a working prototype, investment risks are dramatically reduced. These days, if you don't have a proven prototype, investors probably won't even talk to you.

5. Early start on testing performance, materials and quality. Working with the prototype will help you determine the best materials, like metal versus plastic, to assure acceptable performance and durability. Don't wait for the final production model to find out that your product has a weak link in one of the common environments.

6. Basis for working with vendors to finalize costs, manufacturing, and marketing. After the market and product have been validated, the real challenge comes. You need to find vendors who can deliver in less cost and time than competitors, and build distribution and support channels. A prototype is the three-dimensional version of your vision. - Full Article Source - Permalink

A recent breakthrough for the company was working with John Ejnik, an assistant professor of chemistry at UW-Whitewater, Thornton said. Ejnik researched removing mercury from fish using the Marinade Express.

When he considered warnings posted along some state lakeshores limiting the amount of fish people should eat, Thornton saw an opportunity for a smaller, home model.

Chronic exposure to mercury results in memory loss, speech difficulties, troubles with vision, and cardiovascular problems in adults. Children and the unborn exposed to mercury can face neurological damage that impairs development, leads to low intelligence and inhibits school performance.

"Mercury is distributed throughout a fish's muscle tissue. The only way to reduce mercury intake is to reduce the amount of contaminated fish you eat."

Thornton and Ejnik believe they have found another way to reduce mercury intake.

Additional research is necessary to expand the versatility of the tumbler.

"We already know the process stops the formation of free radicals prior to cooking and removes other toxins, but we would like UW-Whitewater to do a complete research analysis of the most efficient ways to achieve this using the Marinade Express," Thornton said. "Preliminary research shows that our process removes many contaminants from food, including those that could cause cancer."

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WE HAVE TRIPLED THE MONEY SUPPLY IN THE LAST FEW YEARS! To fix this problem entitlements must pretty much go away...cut government by more than 50%...go to a flat tax...and much more...people better get prepared to live a 1930s lifestyle because its coming!

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If you made $100,000 a year you'd try to spend $1,000,000. This is why Democrats shouldn't be allowed near the checkbook. They think like 5 year olds in a candy store GIMME GIMME GIMME without any thought as to who pays for the candy. get a grip...

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In my 1997 book "Preparing For The Worst," I warned that debt would be our downfall. Debt is the ultimate form of bondage. You can argue economics all you want; but you can't spend more than you make. This can't be stopped. No politician will cut entitlements, so like a giant snowball rolling downhill it will only get bigger...until it crashes. The question is not "If," it's "When?" My advice: Build an Ark...a place of refuge...because it's going to get worse, a lot worse, before it gets better.

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Limited liability corporations, family trusts, holding companies, offshore enterprises. While these tax shelters for rich Americans are legal, they also deprive the U.S. Treasury of scores of billions each year, increasing the relative burden on less-affluent taxpayers. The exploitation of these breaks demands public attention!!

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I agree we should cut government spending and entitlements. Let's start with cutting the salaries, perks, benefits, retirement plans and entitlements of the members of congress! The group of people that treat themselves like royalty and vote themselves pay raises and increased benefits with no oversight. They are the "public servants" but they don't serve, they RULE.

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Mismanagement got us here. I have never seen anything not fixable yet. It is time to demand a reasonable budget effort then start the painful process of cutting expenditures government wages is the place to start. Legislators should set an example by reducing expenditures. The UN lives off us fire them send their leech sucking reps home. Try one year without giving foreign assistance; sorry but it has to be done. Call all troops home. Put them on the borders. Send all illegals home.

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Ron Paul is the only presidential candidate who is addressing this problem in a realistic manner.

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This is what happens when a country outsources everything overseas, gives free money to those who refuse to get a job, that riot when they don't get the nipple. The creation of useless non-productive federal agencies tied to the Code of Federal Regulations, year after year, does even more damage. We are not in Kansas anymore.

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Totally agree my friend. The answer lies in neither Party... at this stage there is no practical solution to the problem. First, the problem has to be identified... and the answer is Congress!!!! a totally corrupt Congress. This fact is undeniable.... these people are bought and paid for.... and have been for years. They and only THEY have the purse strings.?

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We have spent way more money than we bring in for years. When bama took office our economy was in shambles and they should have cut way back on spending but we did the opposite, Big Gov't. borrowing more money. Inflation is going to hit hard and the dollar bubble will pop.

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"A house divided against itself cannot stand" Our federal government divides us by economic, social and racial lines ensuring that while we fight amongst ourselves, they maintain their power. I believe it would scare the pants off of Washington insiders if we stopped paying attention to what divides all of us and turned all our eyes toward and against them.

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We seriously need to revise tax codes (remove loopholes) or go with flat tax. Then review Medicare, Medicaid and pensions for fraud - there is a LOT of it and people are receiving benefits who should never ever get a check. Smaller federal government, as identified in the Constitution, more oversight at the state level with stiff penalties for fraud. But to start, we need to kick out this administration. No change at the top? No change in your pocket.

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Vote Ron Paul if you actually want to see an end to deficit spending.

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Dems want more taxes, GOP wants less government -- the budget will NEVER BE BALANCED the way the country is going. The ONLY solution is a FAIR TAX and an iron-clad balanced budget amendment. Politicians know this but are all too cowardly to propose it. A fair tax can easily be adjusted to make receipts match expenditures. Also, every expenditure needs to have a corresponding payment plan, so Dems can't just spend money they don't have. A fair tax taxes the rich every time they buy something.

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We spend almost a trillion dollars a year in food stamps. Instead of feeding millions of ghetto rats and drug dealers Alaskan crab legs and filet mignons on OUR dime, make them for for the grub like the rest of us. There ya go, I fixed a trillion dollars of it. Of course the votes bought with food stamps will be gone. Poor Democrats. By the way, we actually PAY into social security, so it's an insult to lump it in with the bums on welfare.

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Excellent video. Well researched and expertly presented. However, disagree with the conclusion. The politicians – democan and republicrat (as there is no difference between them) created these massive irreversible debt problems by bailing out banksters, borrowing from foreign countries, waging illegal wars and throwing “free” bribe money to voters. Any citizen accepting responsibility for their actions condones their crimes against humanity. Those responsible must be held accountable.

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The deeply flawed notion that "government can't cut entitlements or there will be riots in the streets" is simply made up - a purely fictitious invention to terrorize the people into accepting insane policies that will result in the destruction of our country. To understand what is happening, why it is happening and who is driving it, read "The Creature From Jekyll Island" by Edward Griffin.

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I agree with one thing the guy says, Government Pensions cost as much as Social Security and Medicare together. Plus, the VA and Military Pensions cost another $125 Billion a year. At MilitaryCom, there is an article today from Senator Lindsay Graham (R-SC) calling for Military TRICARE funding to be cut. The Constitution promised to pay for combat veteran's healthcare during wars, not their entire familes for the rest of their lives. Cut Gov and Mil Pensions. BTW, I'm a Vietnam Vet.

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This is a crock. Doesn't say one word about expenses for supporting illegals or money given to foreign governments or getting people off unemployment and back to work so they can pay taxes. People have paid into social security and medicare all their working years so this is not a give away. Unmarried welfare mothers with 8 or 9 kids drawing SSI for each kid is a give away program. I'm still trying to figure out how NAFTA helped me and all the other unemployed people.

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Half of the country does not pay federal income tax, and about 70% of the people draw some type of government benefit. Looking at IRS data, those making over 380,000 pay 40% of all taxes collected. Those making under 33,000 a years, pay little to no tax. If you make less 25,000 a year, and have 4 kids, you pay no taxes, but receive a government check, of 1000, per kid, from the child earned income tax credit. People paying no taxes receiving tax return checks?....go figure.

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WRONG, Did you not even watch the video? IT IS THE ENTITLEMENTS that are killing us. We are putting money into a dead end for the poor CONTRIBUTE NOTHING to society while they sit home on their asses, (make babies) and (drink and) do drugs. We need to STOP TAKING money away from the private sector, which creates wealth, and stop giving it to dead beats. If the Gov. let us keep more of our money, then the non-profits could deal with the poor. Gov generosity is killing us.

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No problem. Any average person on the street could solve this. It is time for a little isolationism and no more foreign aid and that includes illegal aliens in this country now. The USA has ample resources to take care of it's own for a very long time. The globalists have the USA in their sights and will not stop until they break the USA's back. It can be stopped with plain old common sense, but there appears to be a shortage of this now days.. - Full Article Source - Permalink

Forget about global warming—man-made or natural—what drives planetary weather patterns is the climate and what drives the climate is the sun's magnetosphere and its electromagnetic interaction with a planet's own magnetic field.

When the field shifts, when it fluctuates, when it goes into flux and begins to become unstable anything can happen. And what normally happens is that all hell breaks loose. Magnetic polar shifts have occurred many times in Earth's history. It's happening again now to every planet in the solar system including Earth.

The magnetic field drives weather to a significant degree and when that field starts migrating superstorms start erupting. The superstorms have arrived A Danish study published in the scientific journal Geology, found strong correlation between climate change, weather patterns and the magnetic field.

"The earth's climate has been significantly affected by the planet's magnetic field, according to a Danish study published Monday that could challenge the notion that human emissions are responsible for global warming. "'Our results show a strong correlation between the strength of the earth's magnetic field and the amount of precipitation in the tropics,' one of the two Danish geophysicists behind the study, Mads Faurschou Knudsen of the geology department at Aarhus University in western Denmark, told the Videnskab journal.

The hydrogel technology is the invention of Waseda University Visiting Professor Yuichi Mori, who has years of experience in developing polymeric membranes for use in medical technologies such as blood purification and oxygen enrichment.

His hydrogel membrane–based plant cultivation technology has a unique membrane technology [PDF]. The simple system is much more portable than traditional hydroponics.

Mori has launched a company, Mebiol, to commercialize the technology, which solves many of the farming problems found in deserts, the age-old agricultural problems due to the unpredictability of water supplies. The plants grow on a thin hydrophilic film made of hydrogel, which allows the passage of water and nutrients such as various ions, amino acids and sugars but not bacteria, fungi and viruses. This protects plants from diseases; use of pesticide is minimized.

The membrane looks like a plastic sheet allows for no-soil and low-soil farming, with the water and fertilizer separate from the plants roots. The roots remain dry while drawing water and nutrients from below the membrane, and oxygen from the air. Lettuce and other leaf vegetables can be grown with no soil.

Hydrogels are networks of hydrophilic (which means “water-loving”) polymer chains, sometimes found as a colloidal gel in which water is the dispersion medium. The hydrogel membrane in the Imec technology is only microns thick. Other formulations of hydrogels have uses in medical treatment for blood purification and oxygen enrichment, and in water treatment for desalination and purification.

In agriculture use, along with eliminating the soil contamination that affects productivity and the quality of crops, one of the interesting side effects is that the plants synthesize a lot of sugar. The “water stress” the Imec membrane creates induces crops like tomatoes to synthesize large amounts of sugar, lycopene and other beneficial elements, leading to greater sweetness and higher nutritional value.

After testing the technology successfully in Dubai, one of the world’s most inhospitable environments for agriculture, the Sahara could be next.

And once he makes the desert bloom, Dr Mori believes that even less likely conditions could be roped in for producing crops for a rapidly growing world population.

What are Hiccupops? Kievman got the idea after trying to tame a stubborn bout of hiccups two years ago by using any home remedy she came upon: Drinking saltwater, sipping water out of an upside-down cup, eating spoonfuls of sugar, slurping pickle juice.

After testing about 100 folk remedies, Kievman picked three of her favorites — sugar, apple cider vinegar, and lollipops — and combined them. I'm still "tweaking the taste," she tells The New York Times, but the combination of ingredients "triggers a set of nerves in your throat and mouth that are responsible for the hiccup reflex arc...

It basically over-stimulates those nerves and cancels out the message to hiccup."

Kievman has to find a manufacturer for her lollipops, then she has the team of business grad student consultants until August. And "what about product testing?" says Rich Maloof at MSN Living.

"Imagine the boardrooms of angel investors, where suited millionaires sit patiently around a conference table for hours, a box of lollipops on the table, just waiting for someone to get a case of the hiccups."

'Every inch of our person has become fair game for government thugs posing as "security" as we travel around the country. Senator Rand Paul has a plan to do away with the TSA for good, but he needs our help,' reads the petition, which also asks signers to 'chip in a contribution to help C4L mobilize liberty activists across America to turn the heat up on Congress and end the TSA's abuse of our rights.'

'The American people shouldn't be subjected to harassment, groping, and other public humiliation simply to board an airplane. As you may have heard, I have some personal experience with this, and I've vowed to lead the charge to fight back,'

Multiple people claiming residence at a single address but who don't live there, including nephews and nieces who LIVE IN MEXICO but bring in up to $30,000 in free refunds.

Multi-billion dollar fraud scheme uses ITIN number created for illegal immigrants to pay taxes. ITIN numbers use a loophole called 'additional child credit'. This is used to include children who live in Mexico.

The IRS has known about this loophole for years and done nothing to fix this problem. Now costs more than $4 BILLION per year as more and more sign up to participate in this fraud.

The company sees the plane being attractive for its low cost of operation and its environmental friendliness. Aviation gasoline is typically leaded fuel, which has been gone from motor vehicle fuel since the 1980s.

On a 200-mile trip in a comparable four-passenger gas-engine private plane, you'd burn $80 worth of avgas, while the electricity to carry the GT4 200 miles would cost only $20 — nice savings, but perhaps a little inconsequential when the plane itself is expected to cost around $500,000. Testing begins this spring on the Volta Volare GT4."

There’s also a 23-gallon gas tank. The gas engine kicks in when battery power falls to 25%.

Volta Volare says low maintenance costs will be a big attraction. The gas engine on a private plane needs an annual inspection that could cost several thousand dollars. In comparison, the GT4 could get by with a simple diagnostic checkup by laptop: Just plug in a USB cable to the electric motor.

(Give or take the costs of checking the gasoline engine the GT4 has as well as the electric motor.)

There hasn’t been much discussion of the plane’s actual list price, but its carbon fiber fuselage can’t be cheap. Its specifications, including a 160-knot cruising speed (184 mph), place it a level higher than the basic Cessna 182 four-passenger private plane that cruises at around 150 mph. Some of the electricity-not-gasoline savings are nice but still dwarfed by the purchase price that is likely to be over $500,000.

A new survey from J.D. Power and Associates says that 20 percent of vehicle owners tested either "definitely would" or "probably would" spend $3,000 to add fully-autonomous self-driving technology to their next vehicle.

The cables are suspended to run parallel to the street that they’re lighting, and must be electrically sourced to the streetfront facade every 100 meters (328 feet) – according to Philips, the figure for most other suspended systems is closer to about every 20 meters (66 feet). Additionally, FreeStreet is said to be up to 40 percent more energy efficient than traditional sodium street lighting. That said, no figures area available concerning how its light output compares.

Cervantes took a look at this fact and decided it was one of the last barriers to break through to allow the technology to move forward through crowd-sourced innovation. He decided that he could design a low-cost 3D printer for the masses and help to get a device in as many people’s hands as possible, and with that came the birth of the Solidoodle. Striking out on his own, using his personal bank account, Cervantes formed his new company and gathered a team of six like-minded engineers to begin prototyping his vision.

By using an Arduino and open-source software for the 3D modeling the Solidoodle team was able to construct a printing device that makes 6x6x6-inch models out of melted plastic filament. While that’s not an very large work space, it’s certainly enough to let you express your imagination.

The printing is done by one extrusion head working from the map provided by the software, creating each model layer-by-layer, as it typical with today’s 3D printers. For building materials the company currently recommends using ABS filament, but is working on adapting the device to make use of polylactic acid based or PLA filament. The upside to using PLA is that it’s made from corn, which of course is available in abundance in America. It’s conceivable that as the 3D printing industry grows, you could be replenishing your filament supply with locally grown corn.

The Solidoodle looks to be a solidly made piece of equipment. This is reinforced by Cervantes’ claim that a 200-pound person could stand on top of the device — while it’s printing — and not cause any damage.

To answer the big question — how could the Solidoodle base model only cost $499?

“We didn’t cut corners if that’s what you’re asking,” Cervantes said when I asked him, “We simply started with a clean sheet of paper when it came to designing an affordable 3D printer, and built it from the ground up. We stripped away anything that we didn’t think was necessary to create a machine that does one thing: make 3D prints.”

Back in the Vietnam war however, an entirely different picture emerged, one that has been carefully covered up and hidden from public view.

In the early nineties, Sally [name changed to protect privacy] was married to a licensed psychologist who worked at a VA Medical hospital. He worked with combat veterans with PTSD, post traumatic stress disorder. Most of them had served in Vietnam.

Sally said, "I remember clearly an evening when my husband came back to our apartment on Doctor's Circle carrying a thick official looking folder in his hands. Inside were hundreds of pages of certain studies commissioned by the government. He was in shock from the contents. What he read in those documents completely changed his life. From that moment on my conservative middle of the road husband grew his hair and beard and never cut them again. What is more, the VA Medical center let him do it, and other very conservative men in the staff followed his example.

As I read the documents, I learned why. It seems that during the Vietnam War special forces in the war department had sent undercover experts to comb American Indian Reservations looking for talented scouts, for tough young men trained to move stealthily through rough terrain. They were especially looking for men with outstanding, almost supernatural, tracking abilities. Before being approached, these carefully selected men were extensively documented as experts in tracking and survival.

When questioned about their failure to perform as expected, the older recruits replied consistently that when they received their required military haircuts, they could no longer 'sense' the enemy, they could no longer access a 'sixth sense', their 'intuition' no longer was reliable, they couldn't 'read' subtle signs as well or access subtle extrasensory information.

So the testing institute recruited more Indian trackers, let them keep their long hair, and tested them in multiple areas. Then they would pair two men together who had received the same scores on all the tests. They would let one man in the pair keep his hair long, and gave the other man a military haircut. Then the two men retook the tests.

Time after time the man with long hair kept making high scores. Time after time, the man with the short hair failed the tests in which he had previously scored high scores.

Hair is an extension of the nervous system, it can be correctly seen as exteriorized nerves, a type of highly evolved 'feelers' or 'antennae' that transmit vast amounts of important information to the brain stem, the limbic system, and the neocortex.

Not only does hair in people, including facial hair in men, provide an information highway reaching the brain, hair also emits energy, the electromagnetic energy emitted by the brain into the outer environment. This has been seen in Kirlian photography when a person is photographed with long hair and then rephotographed after the hair is cut.

When hair is cut, receiving and sending transmissions to and from the environment are greatly hampered. This results in numbing-out.

Pigeons' remarkable navigational feats have long been pegged to the birds' ability to sense magnetic fields, but pinning down how they do so has frustrated scientists for years. Work published in Science (abstract) shows that individual cells seem to encode information on a magnetic field's direction, intensity and polarity. The work also suggests that these signals come from a part of the inner ear called the lagena, further complicating matters for researchers in the field.

The Science paper comes just days after a report in Nature (abstract) revealed that cells in pigeons' upper beaks, previously thought to be magnetoreceptors, are actually immune cells called macrophages."

The authors found that vestibular neurons — which are linked to balance systems in the inner ear — fired differentially in response to alterations in the field’s direction, intensity and polarity, and that these cells were especially sensitive to the bandwith that covers Earth’s geo-magnetic field.

Most actuator materials, such as ceramics and conductive polymers, respond slowly, require a lot of power, or provide very little force. To make speedy, strong actuators, Chinese researchers coated graphene paper with the polymer polydiacetylene.

Graphene provides a highly conductive, flexible backing for the fragile polymer crystals, which deform in response to electrical current.

The actuators can bend 200 times per second and generate more force than most current materials.

Soldiers would gather around personal computers for movie nights, with mortars blasting in the background. 'It's reconnecting to everything you miss,' said one.

Strachman received American flags, appreciative letters, and snapshots of soldiers holding up their DVDs. He spent about $30,000 of his own money. Strachman retired from his family's window and shade business in Manhattan in the 1990s.

After his wife Harriet died in 2003, he spent sleepless nights on the Internet, and saw that soldiers were consistently asking for movie DVDs. He bought bootlegged disks for $5 in Penn Station, and then found a dealer at his local barbershop.

A research team tested the resistance of a spider web's supporting radial threads and compared that with the thinner spiral threads. They found that placing a certain amount of pressure on just one thread caused it to suddenly stiffen and distribute the stress to the rest of the web.

Of course, too much damage eventually weakened the web, but the initial damage had the opposite effect. After investigators applied even more pressure, the additional stress was not transferred to the whole web, but to tiny protein crystals acting as stress points on the targeted strand. Whether the scientists pushed on a spiral or radial thread, only that strand broke, leaving the whole web intact.

In fact, the whole web strengthened with a few broken strands! The study authors wrote, "The ultimate load capacity increased by 3-10% with the introduction of defects."

If the entire web broke apart because of stress in one area, like when catching an insect, then the spider would have to constantly recycle and recast a new web. Spiders might not survive the energy cost required by all that work.

According to a survey by the Boston Consulting Group of executives at 106 manufacturing companies with $1 billion or more in sales, 37 percent said they are planning or “actively considering” onshoring. Among companies with more than $10 billion in revenue, that percentage shot up to nearly half. Leading the movement were companies that make rubber and plastic products, industrial machinery and electronics and computer equipment.

Manufacturing executives cite several factors driving their decision, said BCG senior partner Harold Sirkin. The first is that the cheap Chinese labor that looked so appealing 10 years ago isn’t so cheap anymore.

“Chinese labor has been rising at 20 to 50 percent a year since 2001,” Sirkin said. “We’re expecting it to be somewhere around $6 an hour in 2015.”

While this is still low compared to the average $26 hourly wage BCG predicts an American manufacturing employee will earn in 2015, Sirkin added that the productivity of American workers is between 3.2 and 3.4 times higher than that of their Chinese counterparts.

Also, American factories tend to be more automated, which means robots rather than paid workers do many tasks.

It now appears that dramatic anti-aging results are associated with dietary ingestion of buckyballs, more properly known as C-60 fullerene.

A recent French study looking for chronic toxicity resulting from ingesting buckyballs dissolved in olive oil found that 10 month old rats who ingested the human equivalent of a tenth of a gram of C-60 buckyballs (which in technical grades cost less than US$10/gram) several times a week showed extended lifespans instead of toxic effects.

All C-60-treated rats survived to at least 59 months, with the oldest surviving to 66 months.

The control group lived for periods ranging from 17 months to 37 months, while an additional group fed only the extra olive oil lived for periods of 36 to 57 months.

For the curious, the olive oil dosage was equivalent to a person adding about eight tablespoons of uncooked olive oil to their daily diet without compensating for the additional calories. Similar results have been reported for mammals held in a state of semi-starvation, but that is obviously not a pleasant lifestyle.

All fullerenes are susceptible to clumping when dissolved in oil, so the preparation of the olive-oil/C-60 solution is rather lengthy. In these tests, 50 mg of C-60 buckyballs were added to 10 ml of virgin olive oil.

These were stirred for two weeks at ambient temperatures with no incident light. Following the stirring, the solutions were centrifuged at 5,000 g for an hour.

The fluid was separated from the precipitate, and was then passed through a 0.25 micron filter. The resulting liquid contained 0.8 mg/ml of C-60 buckyballs. The study was aimed at discovering if a diet of buckyballs has any toxic effects, and the good news is that no toxicity was found. The buckyballs did move throughout the body (including the brain and central nervous system), and even enter individual cells. The ingested C-60 had an elimination half-life from blood of about 10 hours, so was essentially fully eliminated from the body within two days. It is not clear from the report if the C-60 was eliminated from intracellular fluid on that time scale.

Specific studies of the effect of C-60 buckyballs on oxidative stress in the rats were performed by studying the effects of carbon tetrachloride (CCl4) injection. Carbon tetrachloride is well known to be poisonous to rats, being highly hepatotoxic (toxic to the liver). It is also associated with delirium and intoxication such as is experienced in the abuse of solvents.

Rats which had been pretreated by water, by olive oil, and by olive oil containing C-60 buckyballs all showed typical signs of intoxication within a few minutes of CCl4 injection. However, while intoxication persisted in the water and olive oil groups for 24 hours, the olive oil and C-60 group emerged from intoxication after only five hours.

In rats experiencing the pretreatment, but unexposed to carbon tetrachloride, autopsy revealed essentially normal livers. In those given a CCl4 injection, however, the livers from rats pretreated with water or olive oil showed important damage - a great deal of inflammation as well as large necrotic areas (dying or dead tissue). In contrast, the livers from rats pretreated with olive oil and C-60 buckyballs showed little damage or CCl4-induced cell death. Biochemical markers of liver damage showed far less elevation in the rats pretreated with olive oil and C-60.

It does appear there is a real physiological effect on metabolic processes, and that oxidative stress in particular is significantly reduced in rats by chronic oral ingestion of an olive oil/C-60 solution.

Place a subwoofer about 1 foot lower than the bucket. Run a plastic tube from the top bucket down in front of the subwoofer. Tape the tube to the front of the speaker.

Then aim the end of the tube to an empty bucket on the floor. Get the water flowing from the top bucket. Now just generate a 24 hz sine wave and set your camera to 24 fps and watch the magic happen.

Basically your cameras frame rate is synced up with the rate of the vibrations of the water so it appears to be frozen or still.

Fusion occurs when plasmas become hot and dense enough for the atomic nuclei contained within the hot gas to combine and release energy. But when the plasmas in experimental reactors called tokamaks reach the mysterious density limit, they can spiral apart into a flash of light.

“The big mystery is why adding more heating power to the plasma doesn’t get you to higher density,” said David A. Gates, a principal research physicist at PPPL and co-author of the proposed solution with Luis Delgado-Aparicio, a post-doctoral fellow at PPPL and a visiting scientist at MIT’s Plasma Science Fusion Center.

These islands actually inflict double damage, the scientists said. Besides cooling the plasma, the islands act as shields that block out added power. The balance tips when more power escapes from the islands than researchers can pump into the plasma through a process called ohmic heating — the same process that heats a toaster when electricity passes through it. When the islands grow large enough, the electric current that helps to heat and confine the plasma collapses, allowing the plasma to fly apart.

The scientists’ theory represents a fresh approach to the density limit, which also is known as the “Greenwald limit” after MIT physicist Martin Greenwald, who has derived an equation that describes it. Greenwald has another potential explanation of the source of the limit. He thinks it may occur when turbulence creates fluctuations that cool the edge of the plasma and squeeze too much current into too little space in the core of the plasma, causing the current to become unstable and crash.

In early 2011, the topic of plasma islands had mostly receded from Gates’ mind. But a talk by Delgado-Aparicio about the possibility of such islands erupting in the plasmas contained within the Alcator C-Mod tokamak reignited his interest. Delgado-Aparicio spoke of corkscrew-shaped phenomena called snakes that had first been been observed by PPPL scientists in the 1980s and initially reported by German physicist Arthur Weller.

Intrigued by the talk, Gates urged Delgado-Aparicio to read the papers on islands by Rebut and Suttrop. An email from Delgado-Aparicio landed in Gates’ in-box some eight months later. In it was a paper that described the behavior of snakes in a way that fit nicely with the C-Mod data. “I said, ‘Wow! He’s made a lot of progress,’” Gates remembers. “I said, ‘You should come down and talk about this.’”

Tracy Kuhns and her husband Mike Roberts, commercial fishers from Barataria, Louisiana, are finding eyeless shrimp.

“At the height of the last white shrimp season, in September, one of our friends caught 400 pounds of these,” Kuhns told Al Jazeera while showing a sample of the eyeless shrimp.

From cases for your Raspberry Pi to printing up mini-F1 cars, the possibilities are endless for 3D printers, and they’re not even that expensive any more either. Boffins from the University of Glasgow used a system that cost just £1,250 range to create both organic and inorganic chemicals, which can be combined to form things like cancer drugs.

The researchers are calling the concept “reactionware”, where the compounds are layered one on top of the other like a cake. It’s not until a liquid is applied to the top layer that the reaction takes place forming your drug of choice.

The $80 product helps to identify when you’re in your dream state with a series of flashing lights, reminding dreamers that they’re in a dream, so they can control it.

So here’s how it works: the audience needs to be able to see into the main room, but not into an adjacent hidden room. In the case of the Tupac "hologram," that’s the main stage where a real-life Snoop Dogg and Dr. Dre were sharing the limelight.

However, hidden on stage is a piece of glass, where the images can be reflected from and pushed into a target area that makes it seem like a single room. But off to the side, behind the glass, there’s a hidden room that has the original object being projected.

These days, AV Concepts, the San Diego-based company behind the Tupac performance, uses a proprietary Mylar foil, known as Musion Eyeliner, rather than glass. The company said in a press release on Monday that its on-site server "delivered uncompressed media for 3 stacked 1920 x 1080 images, delivering 54,000 lumens of incredibly clear projected imagery."

Based on Lee Crocks 2nd version of the 'Energy Cleaner'. The 2nd version was used with good results on over 10,000 people according to the inventor. Lee claimed his 'energy cleaner' assists the body to purge toxins from the cells. Each person's body is different with a constantly changing acid and alkali balance, varying daily stresses and other factors which affect healing. We are basically living filters which trap all kinds of toxins and noxious materials from the food we eat, the water we drink and the air we breathe and which settle in our tissues to bring about a variety of illnesses, cancer and even organ failure. In my case, it has been quite beneficial for;

1) Restful, sound sleep 2) Increased red cell count 3) Elimination of seasonal allergies 4) Increased overall energy 5) No headaches 6) No stomach pains or aches 7) No muscle pains 8) Weight loss 9) Increase urination 10) Lighter color, less smelly urine

A ferromagnetic material having non-zero magnetoelasticity, and/or nonzero magnetostriction is driven with vibratory mechanical energy at a frequency producing at least one resonant vibratory mode, by coupling a source of vibratory energy to the ferromagnetic structure.

The ferromagnetic material threads at least one conductive wire or wire coil, and couples to at least one source of magnetic induction, and provides an electrical power output driven by the magnetic induction.

The origin of vibratory energy and the site or sites of magnetic induction are situated at distinct locations, separated by a specific distance not less than ? the fundamental acoustic wavelength.

In the second part, when a laminar light beam passes close to a freely moving single mass on a torsion pendulum, the mass will move toward the light beam.

This appears to show gravity is a push...in emails courtesy of Professor Rancourt he provided additional information.

1st email

I am a physics professor at collège Boréal, Sudbury, Ontario. With the help of the college laser, I was able to control gravitational attraction between two 200 g mass (7 ounce) using a laminar laser beam from a 1.5 watt laser.

The results were published in December 2011 in Physics Essays. It takes time for the public to realize it is now possible to block gravity using light. Many applications will come from this method. Any lab with a powerful laser can experiment in blocking gravity.

2nd email

Literature often says we cannot yet block gravity. Now we can do it and it was done many times.

Yes, many experiments with a laminar light beam from a 1.5 watt red laser is able to block part of horizontal push (that we call gravity) and a 200 g mass on a torsion pendulum moves towards the light beam. It was repeated almost 100 times...

And yes, all precautions were taken to rule out any air movement or electric field. At one point, the laser ligth was sent in a close box near the 200 g mass and it still moves toward the 'hiden' ligth because the light ray had block the horizontal push on one side.

3rd email

Yes it is possible to increase weight by sending a laminar light beam under an object. The effect is very small, unless the laser is powerful.

If light is placed above, the pushing gravity from above is reduced and the object will loses weight.

Since gravity push is so small compare to electric field, it is important to shield the system form any static electric field and any alternate current that would cause induce current in the object.

When the light ray was placed in a rectangular mirror box, so that the mobile mass could not 'see' the light, the effect was instantaneous.

The mobile mass was pushed to the mirrors where the light was.

We should verify results published and ignore when electric field is present because it is almost impossible to prove that the results are not from a disturbance from static electricity.

Other separate interesting comments

Instead of blocking gravity, the moving mass was attracted more to the fixed mass.

I realized that what light was blocking did not come from the fixed mass but from space around the masses.

Looking on Internet, I realized that Lesage had proposed to Newton that gravity might be a pushing force instead of an attractive force. This is not taught in physics courses anymore and I was not aware of his theories.

Many more results were consistent with this discovery. That confirms the theory that the cause of gravitation is not an attractive force from matter but a pushing force coming from every directions of space. For an apple falling to the ground, an object like Earth can block some of that pushing force coming from below an apple; the force above the apple is stronger and the apple is pushed toward the ground as if it was attracted by the planet Earth.

Conclusion: The fact that light can block gravitational forces can explain also why the shape of galaxies is like a donut instead of a sphere. Many other physics discrepancies will be explained in the future.

These facts also give us a better understanding of what is gravity; it is the net results of opposing forces. These forces are coming from space in all directions and act on every atom in the universe.

Gravitational force is a fictitious force and this is why we could not unite it with real physical forces like electric force or nuclear force.

Many applications of this discovery will help people. For example, if strong laser beam in a mirror box is placed over a bed ridden patient, the pushing force from above is lesser and the weight of the patient is less; he could cure faster with less bed sores.

The paper giving all the details of these results was published in Physics Essay, December 2011.

I’m not at liberty to explain this technology in detail, but bu using this power source to fuel what is otherwise an electric vehicle, these cars will have 70% fewer moving parts – no ignition, gas tank, oil filter, catalytic converter, or muffler – and in this case, a highly efficient, non-traditional battery that will outlive the life of the rest of the car.

The best part is that it emits as close to zero pollution as we may ever hope to get.

After seeing this stunning new technology I had to take a step back and assess its true potential. It provides tremendous advantages on every front. Easy to manufacture, simple to understand, while being less expensive to build and operate, it has the potential to operate virtually maintenance free for decades.

On the surface it sounds too good to be true, but rest assured, it does exist. It offers a breakthrough tantamount to nuclear fusion.

Existing industries have an employee base, investors, vendors, customers, and users that may consist of millions of people. These are people who are comfortable with where they are today and have formed a natural resistance to change.

This change-resistant population creates a formidable inertia to maintain the status quo. For this reason, even holy-grail technologies like superconductors, cures for cancer, anti-gravity, or human teleportation will go through a somewhat lengthy adoption curve.

In addition to natural resistance, we also see aggressive tactics used to bolster a company’s current position. Welcome to the world of so called free enterprise.

Much like a messy political campaign, well-established companies resort to a number of “dark side” business practices to keep an upstart at bay:

* Discredit the technology

* Discredit the company

* Pose counter-claims

* Use credible people to “say it ain’t so”

* Distract people from the truth

* Discredit the founders

* Use legal maneuvers to keep it tied up in court for decades

The startup power company I referred to above is currently looking for a CEO to help guide their efforts and steer clear of these “dark side” pitfalls. They are looking for someone who has guided a rapid, high-growth company from zero to a billion dollar industry. Only a handful of these wunderkind currently exist.

If an added criteria is that this person has to have done this in the power industry, the number of viable candidates drops to zero.

Up till now, no one has been able to dislodge the existing power structure of the power industry. It is entrenched, ingrained and the infrastructure is in place. But how long will can they hang on to this dominance in the future when companies start thinking outside of the (power) lines?

"So we were putzing around with different ideas and things we wanted to work with—and we were like, what's a common, everyday problem all around the world that everybody hates?" explains 21-year-old team member Curtis Obert. "And we landed on potholes." He and four other students decided on a non-Newtonian fluid as a solution because of its unusual physical properties. "When there's no force being applied to it, it flows like a liquid does and fills in the holes," says Obert, "but when it gets run over, it acts like a solid."

Scientists call liquids that behave like this non-Newtonian because the viscosity, or resistance, of the fluid changes in response to the forces that are applied to it. This is in contrast to Newtonian fluids, which maintain their fluid state regardless of disturbances.

There are plenty of familiar non-Newtonian fluids, says Michael Graham, a chemical engineer not involved in the project who studies non-Newtonian fluid behavior at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. Mayonnaise, ketchup, silly putty, and even blood are examples. Although these substances seem very different, Graham points out that they all contain some sort of particle—and the interaction of those particles explains their behavior.

Ketchup and mayonnaise are shear-thinning fluids. When sitting on your counter, they are thick and clumpy and don't flow because the particles have a tendency to stick together at rest, explains Graham. "Ketchup is actually mashed up tomatoes, and it's the little particles of tomato that are interacting with one another and keeping the fluid from moving," he says. "Mayonnaise is droplets of fat that stick together." But pressing on a glob of mayonnaise with a knife or shaking a bottle of ketchup creates shear stresses that disrupt the particles, so the fluids become runnier and more spreadable.

The type of material the students chose is the opposite of ketchup and mayonnaise. It's shear-thickening, meaning that when a shear stress is applied—say by the force of a car tire—it becomes stiffer and resists flowing. That's because the particles slip and slide past each other easily when moved gently, but they get stuck when strong forces are applied. "The harder you push on it, the higher the viscosity gets. If you push it really rapidly, the particles in the corn starch don't have time to rearrange and get around one another and they jam up," says Graham.

When fluid is moving quickly it is said to have a high "shear rate." At relatively low shear rates (i.e. when the fluid is disturbed gently), repulsive forces between the particles prevent them from clumping together and keep them evenly distributed throughout the fluid. However, when the shear forces that push the particles together become larger than the repulsive forces keeping them apart, the particles temporarily cluster together and form small chains called hydroclusters. Unlike individual particles, which can easily move around each other, the hydroclusters get locked in place and can't move, making the fluid temporarily behave like a solid.

The students say a little experimentation was required to get just the right formulation. "By working with different size particles, you can get different viscosities from it," says Obert. What they came up with is a powdered mixture that is stored in specially designed waterproof bags, which are made of a strong fiber like Kevlar lined with silicone. To produce a ready-made pothole patch, city workers would simply add water and seal the bag.

Currently, potholes are repaired by packing them with asphalt, which is messy, smelly, time-consuming, and requires specialized personnel and equipment, says Obert. By contrast, the fluid filled bags can be carried around in the trunks of police cruisers or vans and dropped into potholes on the spot by employees with little training or experience. They would then be covered with black adhesive fabric so that drivers don't perceive them as a hazard. "We definitely don't want people avoiding them," says team member Mayank Saksena.

The competitions are increasing by design as part of the $45 billion America Competes Act renewed by Congress last year that gave every federal department and agency the authority to conduct prize competitions, according to the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy."

The Competes act took its impetus from some pretty successful competitive programs already in place from government entities such as NASA, DARPA and the Department of Energy as well as private competition experts at the X Prize Foundation.

The X Prize Foundation last year detailed a top eight list of key challenges that could end up being public competitions in the coming months or years. The eight X Prize concepts or challenges included:

1. Water ("Super 'Brita' Water Prize") - Develop a technology to solve the world's number one cause of death: Lack of safe drinking water.

2. Personal Health Monitoring System ("OnStar for the Body Prize") - Develop and demonstrate a system which continuously monitors an individual's personal health-related data leading to early detection of disease or illness.

3. Energy & Water from Waste - Create and demonstrate a technology that generates off-grid water and energy for a small village derived from human and organic waste.

4. Around The World Ocean Survey - Create an autonomous underwater vehicle that can circumnavigate the world's oceans, gathering data each step of the way.

5. Transforming Parentless Youth - Dramatically and positively change the outcome for significantly at risk foster children, reducing the number of incarcerations and unemployment rate by fifty-percent or more.

6. Brain-Computer Interface ("Mind over Matter") - Enable high function, minimally invasive brain to computer interfaces that can turn thought into action.

7. Wireless Power Transmission - Wireless transmission of electricity over distances greater than 200 miles while losing less than two percent of the electricity during the transmission.

8. Ultra Fast Point-To-Point Travel - Design and fly the world's fastest point-to-point passenger travel system.

The technology would increase 'drag' on orbiting space junk, leaving it to plunge downwards into Earth's atmosphere.

The pulses themselves would leave no trace - and the new method also leaves no solid material in orbit.

The proposed new system would be known as the Space Debris Elimination (SpaDE) system - and would aim to remove debris from orbit by firing focused pulses of atmospheric gases into the path of targeted debris.

In order for the large-scale colonization of space to move forward, governments such as the U.S. would provide "property rights for those who seek to develop space resources and infrastructure," the draft act states. The proposal places the onus of space exploration on private enterprise rather than taxpayer contributions and, if passed, would signal a radical change in the way we think about outer space.

The 1967 Outer Space Treaty prohibits sovereign nations from owning a celestial body -- such as a planet or asteroid -- and has been ratified by 100 countries, including the United States. But the treaty does not explicitly prohibit ownership of space resources by private enterprises. This is the loophole that Simberg's plan would seek to use, and he plans to shop it around on Capitol Hill, according to Popular Science.

Absolutely. We would be backing up the biosphere.

We wouldn't just be preserving humanity, we would be preserving much of life.

It is certainly possible for some calamity to come along — as we see in the several major extinction events in the fossil record.

Humanity has obviously developed the means of destroying itself, so I think we need planetary redundancy to protect against the unlikely possibility of natural or man-made Armageddon.

It is important that we take action now to make life multi-planetary, because this is really the first point in the 4-billion-year history of Earth that it has been possible.

That window of possibility will hopefully be open for a long time, but it may only be open for a short time. That's why I think urgent action is required on making life multi-planetary.

It's hoped the technology, called photoacoustic tomography, will help doctors diagnose cancer earlier than is now possible and to more precisely monitor the effects of cancer treatment — all without the radiation involved in X-rays and CT scans or the expense of MRIs.

By combining sounds and light, the technology can penetrate the body's tissues to visualize tumors at depths never before possible."

Photoacoustic imagery brings together the best of both worlds — light and sound. It converts light absorbed by soft tissues in the body into sound waves, which easily penetrate tissues. The tissue to be imaged is then irradiated by a nanosecond-pulsed laser at an optical wavelength.

Absorption of light by molecules beneath the surface creates a thermally induced pressure jump that launches sound waves, which are measured by ultrasound receivers at the body’s surface and reassembled to create what is, in effect, a photograph.

Photoacoustic images have a much higher contrast than X-ray images because there are many highly colored molecules in the body that naturally serve as contrast agents. These include hemoglobin, which changes color as it gains or loses oxygen, but also melanin, the pigment that makes moles dark, and DNA, which in its condensed form in the cell nucleus is darker than the cell cytoplasm.

With a little help from organic dyes or genes engineered to express colorful products, photoacoustic tomography can also image tissues, such as lymph nodes, that would otherwise blend in with their surroundings.

'Only 35% of hybrid vehicle owners chose to purchase a hybrid again when they returned to the market in 2011, according to auto information company R.L. Polk & Co. If you factor out the super-loyal Toyota Prius buyers, the repurchase rate drops to under 25%.'

The study also found Florida drivers to be a bit more loyal to the hybrid segment than elsewhere in the country. 'It's hard to know what's causing the low repurchase rate.

One reason is that about 17,000 people purchased electric cars last year, and other data shows that many of those were trading in a hybrid vehicle.

Electric vehicle gearheads grouse about proprietary code that keeps current, torque and speed within very conservative limits.

'In racing, you need the system to push all those parameters to the limits.

You only need the system to survive until just past the finish line,' says Bill Dube, the owner of the record-setting KillaCycle.

This leads me to believe the mind could possibly focus thought with such intensity that it could intensify the field strength of the diamagnetic properties of its 98% water constitution for temporary flight.

As opposed to ingestion of a powder or drink which would suffuse throughout the body liquids to provide diamagnetic lift.

That too means you could basically set the LEVEL at which you wished to 'float' in the air based on your body weight, the earths magnetic field intensity in that area and the amount of the diamagnetic superconducting material you ingest.

So perhaps a glass of the fluid would effectively reduce the 'weight' of your body down to 15-30 pounds or so....letting you bound along like a tethered balloon as in the negative gravity story.

While a gallon would be enough to fully offset your 'weight' and cause you to find a level above the surface of the earth which your body would always seek because the magnetic forces are balanced...like LaGrange points in space, where gravity fields cancel; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrangian_point

The Lagrange points mark positions where the combined gravitational pull of the two large masses provides precisely the centripetal force required to rotate with them.

And of course by taking more, it could throw you off the planet into space...

Since everything seeks equilibrium, the diamagnetic repulsion of the water in the body from both north and south fields, would cause the entire body to be repelled from the earths magnetic field lines to a height where the fields balance out.

One final thought...Keely discovered what he called the 'sympathetic attendant'...it is an extension of the nerve force of the body into surrounding mass...like a ghostly thread that lets you extend your senses, meaning bidirectionality of the signals so that you could actually feel heat or sensation, like some kind of natural bio tactile scanner...

Much like with electronics...if you can detect a signal, you can project a signal....in the hysterical state oscillators amplify and amplifiers oscillate so there must be a balance of sensibility (reaction to sensation) for accurate feedback and control; http://keelynet.com/keely/airship1.htm

Unthinking people scoff and laugh at the idea of mind over matter...and yet, the body disproves this with every breath. The mind sends out controlling signals and energy to the body, telling all the organs to work, what they should do, when they should do it, when we should breathe, run, move or rest.

All done by these SYMPATHATIC ATTENDANTS of extended nerve forces which course through our bodies....and yet...according to Keely this force can be sent outside the body to communicate and even control other bodies...

that the planets and basically anything that exists has a consciousness which carries with it the ability to scan and change its environment by virtue of projecting this sympathetic attendant so that it allows the mind to express (project) its WILL into nascent matter.

The mind naturally extrudes these multiplexed sympathetic attendants like tentacles and by concentrated will force causes the accumulation of the building blocks of life into all that we are and then allows us to control matter with our mind force.

My point here is by the WILL of the mind, we can cause the sympathetic attendants to concentrate energy to change the properties of matter....meaning, it might be possible to greatly INTENSIFY and use the natural diamagnetic effect of water to produce levitation at will.

No one since Keely has researched such things because so few understand his self-made terminology trying to describe what he was seeing and experiencing in his experiments.

Today, we have only got to the level of a possible 'Ghost in the Machine'...when that ghost could well be us.

Look at the experiments of John Hutchison with his Poltergeist like phenomena; http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/ciencia/ciencia_astralplane02.htm

Where seemingly random discharges of AC and DC produce bizarre physical effects (levitation, throwing things, changing mass properties, etc.)...like an electrical creature being born and sending out 'sympathetic attendants' of energy to scan and learn from its environment.

What if we could learn to focus our minds into some kind of altered consciousness state (ideally running in the background so we could be doing other things)...that would allow us to concentrate our will and direct it to massively increase the diamagnetic characteristic of the water within our body....like the floating Dutch frogs.

We should be able to set it to any level of intensity we wished...do you wish to just bound along the ground by simple weight loss (negative gravity) or do you jump many feet at a time (lung gom pa) or do you wish to be thrown up into the clouds to fly (the floating wonder)?

People will tell you the magnetic field strength of the earth is not sufficient to provide lift of use.

Well that depends on what you are throwing at it. Years ago, I received a paranoid call from a guy in Atlanta wanting to know if I knew of any small power suppy....it seems this fellow had built a 3 foot sphere which he powered from the wall socket...it created a magnetic field so focused and so strong that he could fly the sphere around in his backyard...

The problem was heating...the power cable would become almost red hot so he'd have to shut'r'down and let it cool off if he made it before it burned up.

I had nothing for him at the power levels he needed...a few months later he called me back and said now he wanted to build a 6 foot UNTETHERED sphere in which he could fly around but again could not find a power supply that he could take with him...that was the last I heard from him.

There is another fellow who has a similar design....years ago he was using superconducting wire for the coils in his magnetic sphere device.

When supercooled, the sphere would shoot off into space and thats that.

This inventor was approached by many tirekicker troll types wanting to see PROOF of his claim...so the inventor would scrounge up the money to build another sphere (roughly $5,000) and they'd meet on a deserted beach....the inventor would saturate the sphere in liquid nitrogen and whoosh...the sphere would shoot off into space.

Last year, Google invested more than ever in renewable power, spending $880 million to underwrite conventional clean-energy projects such as solar panels on California rooftops. But that isn't the role the company envisioned for itself in 2007, when cofounder and current CEO Larry Page declared that it would get into energy research directly, intending to "rapidly" invent cheap ways to generate "renewable electricity at globally significant scale."

Google believed its creativity and innovation would make the difference. It created an in-house plan to wean the United States off fossil fuel in 22 years. It posted jobs for engineers who could speed up design of renewable-energy projects and put a team to work improving the heliostat, a mirrored device that focuses the sun's rays to make thermal energy. Its philanthropy arm, Google.org, began investing in startups with far-out ideas.

Last November, however, Google killed the program, known as RE cheaper than C (for renewable energy cheaper than coal), along with several other endeavors that hadn't had the desired results. Other companies, Google said, were in a better position to advance specific energy technologies.

The truth was Google's eclectic bets on potentially disruptive energy innovations never got very far. Take PowerMeter, another canceled project. The software was meant to help homeowners monitor their energy use. Energy entrepreneur Kurt Brown says it had a major flaw: "Their interface was for nerds. It was something mostly a smart Googler would be intrigued by."

The cancelled plans show the hazards of believing that success in computing—where products can take days to prototype—can carry over to energy. "The IT attitude is great when combined with humility with what is possible," says Jonathan Koomey, an expert on the environmental effects of computing at Stanford University. "But if you think you are going to overhaul the whole energy industry overnight, just because you did it in software—that is false, that is hubris."

The plasma flashlight, which shouldn't be confused with a plasma torch that will damage much more than bacteria if used on the skin, could provide a convenient way for paramedics and military personnel to deal with harmful bacteria in the field.

The self-contained device is powered by a 12 V battery and doesn't require any external gas feed or handling system.

The plume of plasma it generates is between 20-23C (68-73.4F), so it won't damage the skin.

It is also fitted with resistors to stop it heating up and becoming too hot to touch.

Its creators say it can also be easily manufactured at a cost of less than US$100 per unit."

In an experiment carried out by the scientists, the plasma flashlight effectively inactivated thick biofilms of Enterococcus faecalis, a bacterium that often infects the root canals in dental treatments and is highly antibiotic- and heat-resistant.

Created by incubating the bacteria for seven days, the biofilms consisted of 17 different layers of bacteria. After treating each biofilm with the plasma flashlight for five minutes, the plasma was found to penetrate deep into the very bottom layer and inactivate the bacteria.

While plasma has previously been shown to effectively kill bacteria and viruses on the surface of the skin and water, the exact mechanism behind this is still not understood.

The study's researchers created a computing model to forecast different scenarios based on the current models of population growth and global resource consumption, different levels of agricultural productivity, birth control and environmental protection efforts.

Most of the computer scenarios found population and economic growth continuing at a steady rate until about 2030. But without 'drastic measures for environmental protection,' the scenarios predict the likelihood of a population and economic crash."

What will save us? New alt science technology that includes new energy generators/converters that do not require combustion but convert energy or thrust directly from gravity, magnetism, cosmic/earth energy, gravity control to allow an increase or decrease in 'weight and inertia' of local mass and ways to heal and rejuvenate the body for those who can see.

You'll have all your money, your toys, your big house with cars/trucks/rec vehicles, your electronics and all those things you think you can't live without but little or no food, no support network, no essential services like utilities, etc...enjoy what you help to create with your self-centered greed, hedonism and shortsighted thinking from this day forward. - JWD

We need a new way forward, one that doesn't depend upon now defunct ideas like progress or growth or advancement or other similar ideas. Instead, as Bill McKibben put it in his excellent book Eaarth: Making a Life on a Tough New Planet, we need a new vocabulary, one with words like durable that convey what we really need: to weather the storm of the reversal of growth as our bills from our overshoot come due.

Begley sought to double-check the findings before trying to build on them for drug development.

Result: 47 of the 53 could not be replicated.

He described his findings in a commentary piece published on Wednesday in the journal Nature (paywalled) . ...

The theory he (David Hudson) postulates is that in precious metals, they coexist like skins of an onion and that by successive heating, it will vaporize away the lower heat elements.

That these can be successively recovered so that from a sample of silver you could product tens of thousands of dollars in value by collecting all the elements 'embedded' within the silver.

The key was this Russian mass spectrometry method which is supposed to prove this claim by using extended burns of up to 300 seconds, where roughly every 15 seconds a different element would appear.

When I asked David about it, he compared it to the cooling system in a car engine...that water flows through the radiator and cooling coils to keep the engine from burning up...as long as you keep it within a working temperature range (or lower), the engine is not damaged...but exceed that temperature range and the water boils off and the engine burns up.

Now the Russians use these temperature ranges to reveal the varous elements as the prior ones boil off, just like peeling an onion.

Alchemist Hans Nintzel said he had been contacted by an old man who lived in El Paso who claimed he had discovered a mix of off the shelf household chemicals you could buy at any grocery store and which could be used to extract gold from literally anything...from the dust in your house, to wallpaper, to soil in your yard, anywhere because he said the earth was saturated with very fine gold powder. When treasure hunting around gold mines, this 'powder' gold is called 'flour gold' and is very confusing for the machine.

This old man made his living extracting gold but wanted to sell the process. He got lots of people expressing interest, even the mafia approached him with an offer of I believe it was 20 million. The man was in his mid 70s, no family, in ill health and wanted to enjoy life in comfort which is why he was willing to just sell it out. This was back in the late 1960s.

But he became worried when the mafia found out and tried to buy it...they pushed and threatened him, he balked and as I understood it, the old man was found dead, his rooms stripped looking for the secret. But he told Hans the secret was in his head and never written down. Unfortunately he didn't trust Hans with it, but he did show Hans how it was done by taking a pile of newspapers and extracting a tiny amount of gold using his process.

The thing that fascinated Hans was this recovery process was carried out using off-the-shelf chemicals you could buy at any grocery store...like Drano, bleach, salt, etc...

You read about alchemists and 'magicians' in the past who claimed to be able to make silver, gold and jewels at will.

It makes me wonder if rather than TRANSMUTING lead or silver into gold, if instead they used this onion technique to peel away the less valuable silver to get to the gold.

Maybe there is some chemical combination which also could use heat and pressure that would produce the peeling effect.

The circular cowling is said to straighten out the air blast of the propeller and increase its effectiveness.

The PAL-V One flies like a gyrocopter, with a minimal runway length of 165 meters, and drives around like a trike on the road.

Furthermore it offers 2 passengers a maximum speed of 180km/h both on land and in the air. The company aims with the PAL-V One at usage within the United States, China, the United Kingdom, Germany and France, because private flying is more commonplace."

A PAL-V offers the choice of flying like a plane or driving like a car. This means fast door-to-door mobility for private individuals as well as professionals and organizations. The flying range will be between 350 (220 miles) and 500 km (315 miles), depending on the type and pay load. Driving, a PAL-V will have a range of about 1200 km (750 miles). It runs on gasoline and there will also be versions that use biodiesel or bio-ethanol. It can reach speeds of up to 180 km/h (110 miles/h) both on land and in the air.

On the ground the aerodynamic, 3-wheeled vehicle combines the comfort of a car with the agility of a motorcycle thanks to its patented, cutting-edge, 'tilting' system. Driving, a PAL-V accelerates like a sports car.

Flying, a PAL-V is like a standard gyrocopter. It is quieter than helicopters due to the slower rotation of the rotor. It takes off and lands with low speed, cannot stall, and is very easy to control. This makes a PAL-V one of the safest types of aircraft. Obtaining a licence requires only 20 to 30 hours of training.

It is possible to land a PAL-V practically anywhere. For take-off, a strip of 165 meters (540 feet) is enough and it can be either paved or grass.

For this and countless other reasons, as time goes by, legacy models and hardware, fragmentation, and high prices prevail. In short, it begs for new blood, new ideas, and a fresh perspective.

The same can be said for countless industries, but it’s especially true for many of the markets within the bloated, backwards beast we know as the health industry.

Case in point: Hearing aids. Of the 27 million Americans who qualify for a hearing device, 75 percent choose not to purchase one — only one in seven Americans over 50 years old who need a hearing aid actually wear one. The problem is a sizable one, so former Stanford University classmates Sam Tanzer and Ross Porter decided to do something about it. In early 2011, they founded a startup called Embrace Hearing to apply some entrepreneurial pressure to the situation.

The co-founders tell us the top reason that 75 percent of Americans don’t purchase hearing aids is due to a familiar culprit: High cost.

If you take it from CareCredit, hearing aids range in price from $1,000 to $6,000, with the average price being $3,000. And for those who do choose to wear them, the top pain point is the high cost of replacement.

Embrace offers three lines of hearing aids, starting at $300, next at $500, and top of the line at $700. Obviously, the whole line prices way below the industry average of $3,000. Because manufacturers tend to have exclusive agreements with audiologists, Tanzer says, they collectively tend to set prices high, but the startup’s German manufacturer only recently decided to enter the market, and as a result, isn’t tied to any exclusive partnerships.

Again, many people who would consider buying a hearing aid online opt for the more expensive alternative of working with an audiologist because they want the options of insurance coverage and follow-up visits. Because Embrace Hearing is early-stage, bootstrapped, and has a small staff, it can’t manage the same kind of support as a licensed professional, but it does offer one free programming during a 45-day trial period if users aren’t satisfied with the initial programming.

So that means users can potentially save thousands on the cost of the device and still get one free follow-up, which, while it isn’t perfect, removes a significant amount of friction from buying online.

the co-founders said that, so far, they’ve been encouraged by the fact that over half of the people that have emailed or called Embrace have gone on to purchase a device from the startup. “We’re comfortable that the value proposition is there, so we want to focus more on socializing that value proposition in the hearing aid community,” Tanzer said.

There’s a long hill to climb, and Embrace Hearing is just getting started, but there’s a chance that two young entrepreneurs with a good idea might just be able to provide the impetus for changing an entire industry. And sexy or not, that’s pretty cool. Hopefully after that they can move on to socializing healthcare in the U.S.

The solar reactor is capable of using sunlight to increase the heat inside its cylindrical structure above 3,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

Zinc oxide powder is then gravity fed through 15 hoppers into the ceramic interior where it converts to a zinc vapor.

At that point the vapor is reacted with water separately, which in turn produces hydrogen.

If the prototype gets through 6 weeks of testing at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology located in Zurich, we could see it scaled up to industrial size, producing emission-free hydrogen."

As well as a lack of emissions, the other good news is that the zinc oxide can apparently be reused, meaning the solar reactor is theoretically self sustaining as it only relies on materials and energy that are renewable.

The solar reactor isn’t exactly large, measuring 2 x 3 feet, but it is certainly heavy weighing 1,750 pounds. The entire system is a custom built prototype that will be undergoing a 6 week test from tomorrow at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology located in Zurich.

There was once a book I had which had ancient chinese legends. One of them tells a story about a wealthy powerful emperor who had a brilliant alchemist on his payroll.

This alchemist would come up with interesting phenomena to entertain the emperor and his court.

One day he came up with this material which when mixed with water and ingested, would cause the body to float up into the air.

It apparently had the properties of a room temperature diamagnetic superconductor which equally repelled both north and south poles.

Being superconductiving, with enough of this water saturating the body (98% water), it is possible this could actually cause the entire body to be repelled from the flux lines of the earth to give diamagnetic levitation.

The amusing part of the story said the alchemist's assistant accidentally spilled a bottle of the fluid into the watering trough for the farm animals, resulting in flying cows, pigs, goats and any other animal which drank from the trough.

Here is another story which could be just that with no basic in fact but there IS a Dexter, Kansas, which isn't far from Wichita, Kansas.

But this second story is that of the 'Floating Wonder' who lived in Kansas in the 1800s. He woke up one day to find himself stuck to the ceiling.

Something happened in his body which made him float in the air like a balloon.

I should write all that up as a learning experience for others in how NOT TO WASTE TIME like I did hoping and trusting these mostly TROLLS would actually come through with money.

Out of some 24 responses, only two seemed decent and tried to do the right thing even though their funding dreams did not come through. Now I'm pissed at myself...I should have been doing this 'tire-kicker' prove yourself approach for EVERYONE all this time instead of trusting them to be telling the truth or at least mostly the truth.

I think of all the time wasted and information passed with these trolls and nothing ever came out of it...when just say no tire-kickers and they would have melted back into the slime and leave me alone.

Years down the tubes hoping just one of these people would actually come through when the simple fact is none of them ever INTENDED to come through.

It is some kind of NEUROTIC mind game to engage you, make unlimited false promises, try to cull as much information as they can get, then disappear.

Now they say, 'Neurotics build castles in the sky, Psychotics LIVE in them.'

So I guess I'm psychotic....about alt science for sure, possibly but I truly believe in the probability that we can extract energy and thrust from other forces (gravity, magnetic, cosmic energy, earth energy, aether/zpe, etc.)..we can increase or decrease local gravity to control weight in mass and that we can heal and rejuvenate any body part.

But I don't play games with people wasting their time, so I am truly puzzled what do these bogus 'investor' people GET out of this?

Is there some sick pleasure in how many complex emails you can get someone to send you?

How many lies you can tell and see how excited your target gets, believing you to be telling the truth?

How far will your target go to even change their life and actions based on the bullshit you promise...like my friend who QUIT HIS JOB based on promises made by the Panama group.

It is thinking alien to me and how I was 'raised' and I'm hoping one day to find a decent psychology article explaining what is going on here.

I think many in the alt science field experience this and anyone who can shed light on it and send up warning flares about signs to recognize these trolls, please do share that information.

No way I would ever waste peoples time claiming I had money ready to invest in their project, then use that as some kind of leverage to ask unending questions expecting details.

I look on it as a TYPE of TROLL...an 'investor troll' whose goal is to get information and insights which they might can run with on their own, without cost other than emails.

This huge helium-filled structure is designed to generate electricity at high altitude, where winds are stronger and blow much more consistently than near ground level.

We’ve read complaints at the unsightliness of wind farms, and the noise that they make as the turbines spin.

A test run took place at only 350 feet, but this generator is meant to fly at an altitude of 2000 feet. We’d bet it’s much less obtrusive and much quieter at that distance.

There isn’t a whole lot to the lighter-than-air assembly. It’s got an aerodynamic balloon with stabilizing fins, and a propeller attached to a generator at the center.

The tether that holds it in place also carries the conductors which translate the power down to the ground.

There is mention of a fail-safe system that allows for a slow descent if it get gets away from its tether, so you shouldn’t have to worry about the sky falling on you.

Quoting: 'Liao and his team genetically engineered a lithoautotrophic microorganism known as Ralstonia eutropha H16 to produce isobutanol and 3-methyl-1-butanol in an electro-bioreactor using carbon dioxide as the sole carbon source and electricity as the sole energy input.

Photosynthesis is the process of converting light energy to chemical energy and storing it in the bonds of sugar.

There are two parts to photosynthesis — a light reaction and a dark reaction.

The light reaction converts light energy to chemical energy and must take place in the light.

The dark reaction, which converts CO2 to sugar, doesn't directly need light to occur.

"We've been able to separate the light reaction from the dark reaction and instead of using biological photosynthesis, we are using solar panels to convert the sunlight to electrical energy, then to a chemical intermediate, and using that to power carbon dioxide fixation to produce the fuel," Liao said.'"

Theoretically, the hydrogen generated by solar electricity can drive CO2 conversion in lithoautotrophic microorganisms engineered to synthesize high-energy density liquid fuels. But the low solubility, low mass-transfer rate and the safety issues surrounding hydrogen limit the efficiency and scalability of such processes. Instead Liao's team found formic acid to be a favorable substitute and efficient energy carrier.

"Instead of using hydrogen, we use formic acid as the intermediary," Liao said. "We use electricity to generate formic acid and then use the formic acid to power the CO2 fixation in bacteria in the dark to produce isobutanol and higher alcohols."

The electrochemical formate production and the biological CO2 fixation and higher alcohol synthesis now open up the possibility of electricity-driven bioconversion of CO2 to a variety of chemicals. In addition, the transformation of formate into liquid fuel will also play an important role in the biomass refinery process, according to Liao.

The mini-motor weights just a few hundred grams and runs on an ionic chemical compound, using electricity to expel ions and generate thrust.

The tiny motor isn't built to blast satellites into orbit — instead, it's to help spacecraft manouevre once they're in space, which previously required bulky, expensive engines."

EPFL scientist Muriel Richard added: ‘We calculated that in order to reach lunar orbit, a 1-kg nanosatellite with our motor would travel for about six months and consume 100 millilitres of fuel.’

It is due to be used on CleanSpace One, a satellite under development at EPFL that is intended to clean up space debris.

The satellite will 'grab' lumps of orbiting debris and throw them back into Earth's atmosphere, where they will burn up on re-entry.

While not ready for immediate use, it may be ready for use within the Solar System in the next 10-15 years. From the article: '"The principle is so simple that it will definitely have applications," said Prof Werner Becker from the Max-Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Garching.

"These pulsars are everywhere in the Universe and their flashing is so predictable that it makes such an approach really straightforward," he told BBC News.'"

It is unlikely though that navigation by pulsar beacon will find immediate use.

The telescope hardware for detecting X-rays in space has traditionally been bulky and heavy.

Engineers will need to miniaturise the technology to make a practical pulsar navigation unit.

"It becomes possible with the development of lightweight X-ray mirrors," said Prof Becker.

"These are on the way for the next generation of X-ray telescopes. Current mirrors have a 100 times more weight and would be completely unusable.

"In 15-20 years, the new mirrors will be standard and our device will be ready to be built."

The scientist believes his navigation solution will certainly find use on Solar System probes, providing autonomous navigation for interplanetary missions and perhaps for future manned ventures to Mars where high performance systems will be an absolute requirement for safety reasons.

But he also likes the idea of humanity one day pushing out across interstellar space.

A new project posted online Wednesday by a pair of Google computer scientists, called simply Wind Map, has to be clicked on to be believed.

The wind information, updated hourly from the National Weather Service’s forecast database, is portrayed as white and grey strands, almost like sand or rivulets of mercury.

It can be quite hypnotizing to watch the gusty trails blast across the American continent, skitter over the Sierras, get roughed up by the Rockies, and whoosh over the great plains on its way to Canada. (Which seems to give as good as it gets, sending most of its wind towards New York.)

1) transmutation of zinc to lower elements using a tetrahedron,
2) energy extraction from a pyramid,
3) determining mathematic ratios of nature in a simple experiment,
4) accelerating the growth of food,
5) increasing the abundance of food,
6) how crystals amplify, focus and defocus energy,
7) using crystals to assist natural healing,
8) how the universe uses spirals and vortexes to produce free energy and MORE...