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Dec 18, 2015
China wants to begin manned deep space missions
Posted by Sean Brazell in categories: economics, energy, engineering, materials, neuroscience, robotics/AI, space
China wants to be the leading force in manned space exploration, and is exploring sending people to the far side of the moon, Mars, asteroids, and further into deep space.
Becoming the second largest economy in the world and an emerging superpower of its own, China wishes to add deep space exploration into its achievement portfolio. Besides the ongoing moon exploration, its scientists are considering going deeper into the solar system, including Mars, asteroids, and even manned deep-space mission. Liu Jizhong, director of the lunar exploration program and space engineering center, pointed out that China has to be more pioneering, tackling problems such as high speed deep space exploration, energy and power generation, space robot development, and more. He also said that China must cooperate with others as space exploration is an undertaking shared by the entire human species.
China currently intends to explore the far side of the moon, something that has never been done before. It would require a relay satellite for communication and navigation on Lagrange point, where the satellite could orbit within the combined gravitational pull of the Earth-moon system, as said by Zhang Lihua of China Spacesat Co. While China believes that robots are critical to the mission, it also believes that these trips must be manned in order to effectively leverage human decision-making. China also says they are designing footed robots to explore asteroids and better understand their material composition.
Dec 18, 2015
Sony plans to boost battery performance 40 percent
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in category: energy
Sony is planning to commercialize lithium-sulfur batteries by 2020, and promising increases of up to 40% over conventional lithium-ion architectures. The devil is in the details, but a battery with 40% more specific energy at the same weight and cost as lithium-ion would enable EVs at lower price points.
Dec 14, 2015
Ultra-fast charging battery
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, mobile phones
These batteries use bio-organic technology, and they can charge phones from flat to full in 30 seconds.
Dec 12, 2015
The Tesla Battery Is Now on Sale
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, habitats
Dec 10, 2015
Tesla unveils a battery to power your home, completely off grid
Posted by Matthew White in categories: energy, habitats
Dec 10, 2015
Can You Own Part of an Asteroid? How Asteroid Mining Is Changing Space Law
Posted by Klaus Baldauf in categories: energy, finance, space
https://youtube.com/watch?v=pIY_fmvFDhM
Coal miners mine coal; diamond miners mine diamonds; gold miners mine gold; space miners (will) mine space—and anything in it that has precious metals or compounds that can be whisked into rocket fuel. But, just like the first three kinds of “resource extraction,” the celestial kind will face more than a few philosophical, financial, and regulatory complications.
Dec 8, 2015
Tiny chip that powers itself from radio waves
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: computing, energy
A tiny chip that uses radio waves to make its energy has been developed by Dutch researchers.
Dec 8, 2015
Laser-Induced Graphene Looks to Displace Batteries With Supercapacitors
Posted by Shailesh Prasad in categories: energy, materials
Researchers continue to refine the process for producing laser-induced graphene that promises big changes in energy storage.
