Group items tagged interesting - Advanced Concepts Team

Electric solar wind sail spacecraft propulsion - 6 views

www.electric-sailing.fi

propulsion energy

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Isabelle DB on 15 Oct 10

Do you know this one ? (no time to go through the bookmarks...)

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duncan barker on 15 Oct 10

Not sure whether the group has seen this idea before, but it seems interesting. I like it

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LeopoldS on 18 Oct 10

yes, we did have a look at it, I think back in 2007 but its maybe time to re-assess it ... will put it on the miscellaneous list for Dejan, the new propulsion and plasma RF to come in January ...

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Luís F. Simões on 09 Dec 10

They just got 1.7 million euros from the EU "to build the laboratory prototypes of the key components of the electric sail": http://en.ilmatieteenlaitos.fi/press-release/121643

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LeopoldS on 11 Dec 10

very interesting info indeed!!

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Yale Environment 360: The Greenhouse GasThat Nobody Knew - 2 views

e360.yale.edu/...print.msp

PHY science climate-change

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LeopoldS on 18 Oct 10

interesting perspective ... hopefully included by now in the list but I did not check ....

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Comparison of Two GaN Transistor Technologies in Broadband Power Amplifiers ... - 1 views

www.mwjournal.com/...article.asp

technology NRG wireless WPT

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LeopoldS on 10 Oct 10

interesting paper for wireless energy transmission ... Duncan have a look ...

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duncan barker on 11 Oct 10

Yeah, its nice to see some research into semiconductors which aren't silicon. This paper would be useful for us if we wanted to do a study of the efficiency of the DC to microwave conversion systems for SPS.

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NASA Goddard to Auction off Patents for Automated Software Code Generation - 0 views

www.spaceref.com/...viewpr.html

nasa patents software fault-tolerance design swarm

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The technology was originally developed to handle coding of control code for spacecraft swarms, but it is broadly applicable to any commercial application where rule-based systems development is used.
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Luís F. Simões on 04 Nov 10

This is related to the "Verified Software" item in NewScientist's list of ideas that will change science. At the link below you'll find the text of the patents being auctioned: http://icapoceantomo.com/item-for-sale/exclusive-license-related-improved-methodology-formally-developing-control-systems :) Patent #7,627,538 ("Swarm autonomic agents with self-destruct capability") makes for quite an interesting read: "This invention relates generally to artificial intelligence and, more particularly, to architecture for collective interactions between autonomous entities." "In some embodiments, an evolvable synthetic neural system is operably coupled to one or more evolvable synthetic neural systems in a hierarchy." "In yet another aspect, an autonomous nanotechnology swarm may comprise a plurality of workers composed of self-similar autonomic components that are arranged to perform individual tasks in furtherance of a desired objective." "In still yet another aspect, a process to construct an environment to satisfy increasingly demanding external requirements may include instantiating an embryonic evolvable neural interface and evolving the embryonic evolvable neural interface towards complex complete connectivity." "In some embodiments, NBF 500 also includes genetic algorithms (GA) 504 at each interface between autonomic components. The GAs 504 may modify the intra-ENI 202 to satisfy requirements of the SALs 502 during learning, task execution or impairment of other subsystems."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">This is related to the "Verified Software" item in NewScientist's list of ideas that will change science. At the link below you'll find the text of the patents being auctioned: <a href="http://icapoceantomo.com/item-for-sale/exclusive-license-related-improved-methodology-formally-developing-control-systems" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://icapoceantomo.com/item-for-sale/exclusive-license-related-improved-methodology-formally-developing-control-systems</a> :) Patent #7,627,538 ("Swarm autonomic agents with self-destruct capability") makes for quite an interesting read: "This invention relates generally to artificial intelligence and, more particularly, to architecture for collective interactions between autonomous entities." "In some embodiments, an evolvable synthetic neural system is operably coupled to one or more evolvable synthetic neural systems in a hierarchy." "In yet another aspect, an autonomous nanotechnology swarm may comprise a plurality of workers composed of self-similar autonomic components that are arranged to perform individual tasks in furtherance of a desired objective." "In still yet another aspect, a process to construct an environment to satisfy increasingly demanding external requirements may include instantiating an embryonic evolvable neural interface and evolving the embryonic evolvable neural interface towards complex complete connectivity." "In some embodiments, NBF 500 also includes genetic algorithms (GA) 504 at each interface between autonomic components. The GAs 504 may modify the intra-ENI 202 to satisfy requirements of the SALs 502 during learning, task execution or impairment of other subsystems."</div>

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Evidence for a Collective Intelligence Factor in the Performance of Human Groups - 2 views

www.sciencemag.org/...686

intelligence team talking women

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Isabelle DB on 05 Nov 10

What do you think of this one ?

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Luzi Bergamin on 05 Nov 10

Great! Women perhaps are not more intelligent as individuals, but now at least they have more collective intelligence... Interesting research topic, though, but I doubt that any of these results can be generalized to real live situations.

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Isabelle DB on 05 Nov 10

Maybe by passing the message to ensure some men understand it would be their interest to have (more) women in their teams ? No problem at the ACT, this maybe why it works so well ? :-))

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Luzi Bergamin on 05 Nov 10

Well, that's perhaps the reason, why meetings were always so f... boring while I was at ACT :D

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sreejanag on 08 Nov 10

Lots more resources on collective intelligence: http://cci.mit.edu/

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X Particle Explains Dark Matter and Antimatter at the Same Time | Wired Science | Wired... - 1 views

www.wired.com/...x-particle

particle dark matter phy

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santecarloni on 09 Dec 10

Interesting... however to me it looks like they have only shifted the problem... instead of looking for WIMPS now we look for X and Y and Phi...

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YouTube - Honda Presents: LIVING WITH ROBOTS - 1 views

www.youtube.com/watch

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Christos Ampatzis on 16 Feb 10

The weight support system seems to me interesting for space and astronauts...plus lets hire an asimo!

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Ma Ru on 17 Feb 10

Come on guys, Asimo sucks! Get an iCub: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dmj5TP7XIFE&feature=related

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The Future Of Energy? Bloom Energy Boxes Already Power Google, eBay, Others - 0 views

techcrunch.com/...bloom-energy-boxes

future of energy bloom oxygen

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nikolas smyrlakis on 22 Feb 10

just another fuel cell?the vid is interesting

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Technology Review: Blogs: arXiv blog: Physicist Discovers How to Teleport Energy - 4 views

www.technologyreview.com/...24759

tech phy quantum entanglement nrg

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He gives the example of a string of entangled ions oscillating back and forth in an electric field trap, a bit like Newton's balls. Measuring the state of the first ion injects energy into the system in the form of a phonon, a quantum of oscillation. Hotta says that performing the right kind of measurement on the last ion extracts this energy. Since this can be done at the speed of light (in principle), the phonon doesn't travel across the intermediate ions so there is no heating of these ions. The energy has been transmitted without traveling across the intervening space.
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Juxi Leitner on 09 Feb 10

wonder if we can use that to power a moon base .... or on-board a SBSP satellite

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LeopoldS on 09 Feb 10

will still have to read the actual article but am a bit sceptic if this interpretation really will hold ... what are our fundamental physicists saying about this?

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Juxi Leitner on 10 Feb 10

I am not the physicist but I thought it might be interesting, from a space security point-of-view

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pacome delva on 11 Feb 10

Yes it seems really interesting and opens new possibilities. However this technology review article is not very good and the guy uses terms which have a precise meaning (like teleportation), which is different from the word we know... Quantum teleportation is what we use for designing quantum computers, but we are quite far from any practical applications. This energy teleportation will allow new scheme involving energy (if it is experimentally confirmed) which is very nice. However it seems this occurs in an entangled many-body system, which the only macroscopic one I know is a bose-eintein condensate (BEC). So it would mean infuse energy in the BEC by doing a measurement on one of the atom and extract it few millimeters away by doing a measurement on another atom. very far from any long distance power transmission...

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Yes it seems really interesting and opens new possibilities. However this technology review article is not very good and the guy uses terms which have a precise meaning (like teleportation), which is different from the word we know... Quantum teleportation is what we use for designing quantum computers, but we are quite far from any practical applications. This energy teleportation will allow new scheme involving energy (if it is experimentally confirmed) which is very nice. However it seems this occurs in an entangled many-body system, which the only macroscopic one I know is a bose-eintein condensate (BEC). So it would mean infuse energy in the BEC by doing a measurement on one of the atom and extract it few millimeters away by doing a measurement on another atom. very far from any long distance power transmission...</div>

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Data.gov - 2 views

www.data.gov

inf

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jmlloren on 24 Feb 10

Interesting databases to play with data mining algorithms

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IISC - International Institute of Space Commerce - 5 views

www.iisc.im/publications.asp

reports science engineering space

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LeopoldS on 07 Jan 10

interesting collection / source of reports linked to space ...

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Quantum dots boost solar cell efficiencies - 2 views

physicsworld.com/...38046

phy solar_cells quantum_dots

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pacome delva on 15 Dec 09

Apparently there is a project going on in ESA on this topic led by TEC-EP, the contact person is Evelyne Simon. I really would like to do some research on these topics to see if we can find something interesting that would not have been considered in this study.

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Accurate light-time correction due to a gravitating mass - 1 views

fr.arxiv.org/0912.2705

phy general_relativity time_transfer

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The Orbit Determination Program (ODP) of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, which was used in the data analysis, is based on an expression for the gravitational delay which differs from the standard formula; this difference is of second order in powers of $m$ -- the sun's gravitational radius -- but in Cassini's case it was much larger than the expected order of magnitude $m^2/b$, where $b$ is the ray's closest approach distance. Since the ODP does not account for any other second-order terms, it is necessary, also in view of future more accurate experiments, to systematically evaluate higher order corrections and to determine which terms are significant.
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pacome delva on 15 Dec 09

Some other crazy guys interested in high precision measurement of time of flight...

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http://www.springerlink.com/content/9476j57g1t07vhn2/fulltext.pdf - 1 views

www.springerlink.com/...fulltext.pdf

NRG climate-change modelling SPS

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LeopoldS on 06 Dec 09

interesting approach ... though don't like the GDP link, but this is subjective of course ...

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James Cameron's New 3-D Epic Could Change Film Forever | Magazine - 0 views

www.wired.com/...ff_avatar_cameron

avatar 3d james cameron

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nikolas smyrlakis on 14 Dec 09

ACT cinema? a bit long article but interesting

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Panasonic plans home-use storage cell : Business : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yom... - 1 views

www.yomiuri.co.jp/...T091221004988.htm

NRG solar batteries

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LeopoldS on 26 Dec 09

sounds a bit optimistic to me but interesting ...

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Breakthrough of the year - physicsworld.com - 1 views

physicsworld.com/...41270

highlights 2009

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pacome delva on 04 Jan 10

Interesting compilation of breakthroughs for 2009. Wanna think about a quantum algorithm ?

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The Spiky Penis Gets the Girl - 1 views

sciencenow.sciencemag.org/...3

flies sexuality

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the genital spines give an advantage before insemination by fastening the genitalia together like Velcro fasteners.
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pacome delva on 07 Jan 10

Interesting...

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Juxi Leitner on 07 Jan 10

"But there was no direct way to test this. Enter laser beams." ... LOL

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Top 10 Surprising Results of Global Warming | LiveScience - 5 views

www.livescience.com/..._global_warming_results-1.html

climate_change satellite_orbit drag atmosphere

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