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Nanotech Space Elevator News: Airborne Wind Turbines Lift Off [news.discovery.com]

Sat, 12 Jun 2010 09:36:25 -0600

Alt energy enthusiasts have talked about harnessing powerful winds from the troposphere since the 1970s, but technological limits made it seem like a distant dream. Well, it's 2010, and the future has arrived. Airborne wind turbine prototypes are finally taking flight. WIDE ANGLE: Get all the latest news and information about wind power. At high altitudes, global winds have an estimated potential of 800 terawatts. With an eye on that prize, Santa Cruz, California-based company Joby Energy has been busy testing prototypes of its turbines. The current prototype is a 30-kilowatt system that loo

Nanotech Space Elevator News: Mining the Air for Carbon Dioxide [news.discovery.com]

Fri, 28 May 2010 08:31:36 -0600

When I tell molecular biophysicist Deane Little that I'm extremely skeptical about carbon capture and sequestration, he looks up from the solar-powered chemical reactor he's just set up in the window and responds, "We are, too." For Little and his colleagues at New Sky Energy, successfully capturing carbon from the air doesn't involve a giant fake tree or pumping huge amounts of CO2 into the ground. Instead, they've developed a chemical system that elegantly turns CO2 and salt solution into valuable products.Little, who is New Sky's CEO and chief scientific officer, walks me through their tech

Nanotech Space Elevator News: Brawny Mars Robots Will Launch a New Wave of Exploration [news.discovery.com]

Wed, 26 May 2010 21:46:37 -0600

The frozen death of the perky Mars Phoenix Lander as reported by my colleague Ian O’Neill makes me feel like I've lost a friend. Through 2008 I had fun reporting on the lander’s achievements for Discovery News -- most notably the detection of water ice and perchlorates. Given these two findings, Martian microbes may have been literally inches beneath the lander’s feet. SLIDE SHOW: Phoenix Mars Lander's First Images Unlike the Antarctic expeditions of a century ago, it was only a machine that succumbed to a harsh polar winter, and not humans. But we can't resist anthropomorphizing thes

Nanotech Space Elevator News: Registration Open for 2010 Space Elevator Conference [feedproxy.google.com]

Mon, 17 May 2010 00:58:41 -0600

The 2010 Space Elevator Conference is a three-day conference to be held in once again in Redmond, Washington at the Microsoft Conference Center on August 13-15, 2010. The conference, focusing on all aspects of Space Elevator development, will engage an international audience of scientists, engineers, educators, managers, entrepreneurs, enthusiasts and students. Registration is now open.

Nanotech Space Elevator News: The Artsutanov and Pearson Prizes Entry Deadline Extended to May 31 [feedproxy.google.com]

Mon, 17 May 2010 00:26:37 -0600

Call for Papers for the 2011 Space Elevator Conference The theme of the 2011 Space Elevator Conference is: Developing Stronger, Lighter Tethers - "30 MYuri or Bust" and seems… By Marc Boucher | Comments (0) ISEC Releases its First Position Paper The International Space Elevator Consortium (ISEC) has released its first position paper titled Space Elevator Survivability Space Debris Mitigation in… By Marc Boucher | Comments (0) 61th International Astronautical Congr

Nanotech Space Elevator News: Broadcast 1352 - Guest: Dr. Robert Zubrin [www.marsnews.com]

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 02:15:44 -0600

Nanotech Space Elevator News: The 2010 Annual Freeze Thread [forums.govteen.com]

Thu, 25 Mar 2010 04:33:21 -0600

it's that time of the year again - it's the 2010 annual freeze thread. think of it as an opportunity to get some homework done, go outside and get some fresh air or occupy yourself online doing something else that's useless about 88 people got frozen last year.. let's see if we can beat it this year! maybe those that participate can skype it for 24 hours? (Shadoukun will hook you up). for young players, the way it works is if you post ANYTHING in this thread, you'll be frozen for 24 hours.

Nanotech Space Elevator News: Joint USAF/NOAA Report of Solar and Geophysical Activity 21 March 2010 [www.spaceref.com]

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:20:32 -0600

Nanotech Space Elevator News: International Space Elevator Consortium Announces First Annual Set of Prizes [www.azonano.com]

Mon, 22 Mar 2010 07:19:41 -0600

International Space Elevator Consortium Announces First Annual Set of Prizes [www.azonano.com]

Nanotech Space Elevator News: Catastrophic Event' Halted Star Birth in Early Galaxy [eu.spaceref.com]

Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:18:56 -0600