GE Renewable Energy and Future Wind have signed an agreement to install the first Haliade-X 12-MW wind turbine prototype in Maasvlakte-Rotterdam during the summer of 2019. The offshore wind turbine will feature a 220-meter rotor, a 107-meter blade designed by LM Wind Power, and digital capabilities. The agreement includes five years of testing and a 15-year full service Operation and Maintenance agreement. Initially, the prototype will be installed onshore at…
Read MoreChina Reports Giant Laser Weapons that Could Cripple U.S. Satellites and Blind Their Fleet if a World War III
CHINA has reportedly developed giant laser weapons that could cripple American satellites and blind the US fleet in the event of World War Three. Multiple Pentagon and intelligence reports warn about the potential of these weapons, and according to some sources, they are already here. Satellites provide communications, navigation, and intelligence to the American war machine, so knocking them out would seriously disrupt – and even render useless – much…
Read MoreRapid 3D Printing Technique Yields New Spinal Cord Treatment
Using new 3D printing technologies, researchers have developed a spinal cord implant that promotes nerve growth in injured sites and restore connections and lost function. A team from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Institute of Engineering in Medicine have for the first time used a rapid 3D printing technique to produce a spinal cord littered with neural stem cells that they successfully implanted into the…
Read MorePing-Pong Playing Robot is Worthy Opponent While Offering Encouragement
Omron’s fourth generation of Forpheus, a ping-pong playing robot, is breaking new standards in robotics by giving us tips on how to play ping pong and stepping in as our opponent. Featured at CES 2019 many individuals stepped up to the plate to play against this worthy opponent, and many lost. Omron focused on having Forpheus pursue the “harmony of humans and machines” by allowing the robot to patiently coach…
Read MoreA Data Superhighway for the Quantum Internet
A team of experts headed by the Australian National University (ANU) is hard at work developing a data superhighway for the quantum internet. They plan to use light particles as data storage devices since they can hoard information in vast quantities, according to ANU Associate Professor Andrey Sukhorukov, leader of the research team at the Nonlinear Physics Center of the ANU Research School of Physics and Engineering. “The light particles…
Read MoreThere’s Trouble with Hubble: Ailing Camera Suspends Operations
Right now, things aren’t looking good for the Hubble Space Telescope. One of the telescope’s cameras, Wide Field Camera 3, automatically suspended operations January 8 due to a hardware issue. NASA is calling the problem “an anomaly,” and says the camera “is equipped with redundant electronics should they be needed to recover the instrument.” While the team tries to figure out what’s wrong, Hubble’s three active instruments will continue their…
Read MoreFox Sports details 5G livestreaming trial with AT&T, Ericsson at U.S. Open
Fox Sports and Fox Innovation Lab, alongside AT&T, Ericsson and Intel, are offering up some details on their 5G livestreaming trial from the U.S. Open in June. To demonstrate how use mmWave 5G cellular technology can be used to stream 4K video for nationwide broadcasts—in this case a golf tournament—AT&T provided the required spectrum; Ericsson provided the 5G network equipment and 4K video encoder and decoder; and Intel supplied its Mobile…
Read MoreA Device That Illuminates the Invisible
If you want to see through objects, you could call Superman — or ask some engineers for help. A team of engineers led by University of Delaware professor Dennis Prather, a recent inductee to the National Academy of Inventors, has developed a camera-like device that generates and detects millimeter waves to “see” through solid objects. These high-frequency waves, which are more energetic than microwaves but less energetic than infrared waves,…
Read MoreThe 2019 Student Rocket Launch Payloads Call Issued by United Launch Alliance
United Launch Alliance (ULA) has issued its request for student teams from kindergarten through 12th grade to create “payloads” for the 2019 ULA and Ball Aerospace Student Rocket Launch. More than 20 K-12 student teams will have a chance to design, build and launch objects, experiments or instruments on the ULA-intern-built Future Heavy Super Sport rocket next summer. Teams can choose to compete for a chance to win up to…
Read MoreNew Type of Low-Energy Nanolaser That Shines in All Directions
Researchers in Eindhoven have developed a new type of low-energy, nanoscale laser that shines in all directions. The key to its omnidirectional light emission is the introduction of something that is usually highly undesirable in nanotechnology: irregularities in the materials. The researchers foresee a vast range of potential applications, but first they hope their fundamental work will inspire others to further improve it and deepen the understanding. The results are…
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