Dec
28
An Investment With High Merit to Improve Life on Earth
December 28, 2012 | 5 Comments
Martin Riddiford and Jim Reeves are London based designers who’ve spent 4 years developing the GravityLight as an off-line project. The pair works for therefore.com, which has over 20 years of experience in designing and developing hand held computing and communication products for a host of pioneers including Psion, Toshiba, NEC, TomTom, Inmarsat, ICO, Sepura, […]
Jul
6
Moving Infrared Wave Energy With Wires
July 6, 2011 | 1 Comment
A project of three research groups at nanoGUNE at Donostia in San Sebastian, Spain, reports an innovative method to focus infrared light with tapered transmission lines to nanometer-size dimensions. The key in that announcement is the method of transporting infrared energy by wire. If the physics expressed in the paper work out to larger applications […]
Jul
23
The Endless Supply of Energy Hunt
July 23, 2010 | 11 Comments
It’s out there, or so they say in the cosmic physics community. There is a mysterious “dark energy” believed to constitute nearly three-fourths of the mass and energy of the Universe out there. That’s a lot of power. Dark energy is the label scientists have given to what is causing the Universe to expand at […]